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Is Your Home Cluttered Or Minimalist?

by lanfear63
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So what if we could see inside your home. Do you fill it with possessions to the point of choking it up. Are you organized, do you keep it clean and tidy or can the chores lapse for a few days? If having kids, are there storage places where their toys can go each night?

I suppose I'm a minimalist. I have virtually all I need so my purchases for the home have gone down to a trickle. It's a small space but I generally keep it clean and tidy. It helps that I do not generally crave new stuff all the time. One exception, electronics, I am partial to replacing stuff periododically. But its always out the door with the old as the new comes in.
  • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
    Originally Posted by lanfear63 View Post

    So what if we could see inside your home. Do you fill it with possessions to the point of choking it up. Are you organized, do you keep it clean and tidy or can the chores lapse for a few days? If having kids, are there storage places where their toys can go each night?

    I suppose I'm a minimalist. I have virtually all I need so my purchases for the home have gone down to a trickle. It's a small space but I generally keep it clean and tidy. It helps that I do not generally crave new stuff all the time. One exception, electronics, I am partial to replacing stuff periododically. But its always out the door with the old as the new comes in.
    All because of Cheryl, our home is full of paintings, decorations, really nice furniture...and lots of stuff. It all has a place, and is very neat.

    Me? I'd be very happy with a home that looked like an office. Stark...spartan....my only indulgence would be a huge library.

    My wife has a habit of feeling a need to change the art, make the decorations seasonal, ready to entertain guests...mostly her family.
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    • Profile picture of the author discrat
      Pretty well organized as my wife would not have it any other way.
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    • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
      Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

      All because of Cheryl, our home is full of paintings, decorations, really nice furniture...and lots of stuff. It all has a place, and is very neat.

      Me? I'd be very happy with a home that looked like an office. Stark...spartan....my only indulgence would be a huge library.

      My wife has a habit of feeling a need to change the art, make the decorations seasonal, ready to entertain guests...mostly her family.
      Lets say you suddenly have no books. Would you really want to start buying/collecting them again. Once read, largely they gather dust on your shelves. With easy on the eye Kindles and tablets it's never been easier to read any book you desire instantly. As for reference works, well, the net has a wealth of that.

      I suppose you could look learned and cool sitting and perhaps being photographed in front of a wall of books but that would be just an ego thing.
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      • Profile picture of the author Odahh
        Originally Posted by lanfear63 View Post

        Lets say you suddenly have no books. Would you really want to start buying/collecting them again. Once read, largely they gather dust on your shelves. With easy on the eye Kindles and tablets it's never been easier to read any book you desire instantly. As for reference works, well, the net has a wealth of that.

        I suppose you could look learned and cool sitting and perhaps being photographed in front of a wall of books but that would be just an ego thing.
        Claude probably has pages folded in books to find reference points with the ideas he found interesting in the past highlighted and personal notes written in the margins. Why use technology . If the books are not worth doing the to they are not worth keeping.

        Anyway. As to the thread when I have a place I'm a practical minimalist. But I prefer smaller living spaces because unused rooms or sheds and stuff like that over time would get stuffed with crap.
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        • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
          Originally Posted by Odahh View Post

          Claude probably has pages folded in books to find reference points with the ideas he found interesting in the past highlighted and personal notes written in the margins. Why use technology . If the books are not worth doing the to they are not worth keeping.

          Anyway. As to the thread when I have a place I'm a practical minimalist. But I prefer smaller living spaces because unused rooms or sheds and stuff like that over time would get stuffed with crap.
          Claude reads a lot of non fiction, science books and the like. Scientific discovery advances very fast and books can to some extent go out of date. Plus, folding over corners would be difficult to find if you wanted to re-read or show someone something from a wall full of them, which book was it now?

          Of course most of them are coloring books though.
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  • Profile picture of the author laurencewins
    My home is one room and an en-suite so I had to get rid of 90% of everything I owned.
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  • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
    Originally Posted by lanfear63 View Post

    I suppose I'm a minimalist. I have virtually all I need so my purchases for the home have gone down to a trickle. It's a small space but I generally keep it clean and tidy. It helps that I do not generally crave new stuff all the time. One exception, electronics, I am partial to replacing stuff periododically. But its always out the door with the old as the new comes in.
    Me, minimalist but l haven't really cleaned up anything in the physical sense more along the lines of computer related over the summer break.

    After my OS went belly up l had to update my bookmarks so naturally cleaned them and then saved the bookmarks on my hard drive.

    Then cleaned my hard drives.

    As for where, most likely going with Claudes dream or a Tony Stark type house but with a giant secret lab, (so if the FBI raid my home, they won't find anything other than a full sized Lost in Space robot).

    And no Mark l am not going to recreate the Star Trek Voyager Bridge room, well maybe a full sized replica of the Jupiter Two, but that is it.

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