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Have nothing in your home that you do not
• know to be useful
• believe to be beautiful
• feel unaccountable vague fondness for
• can imagine a hypothetical situation in which you'd *really* need it
• firmly intend to get round to doing something with one of these days
• can't remove because of all the other junk piled on top of it
• feel guilty about not dealing with something more important first
• fear throwing away in case you remember tomorrow why you bought it
• miscellaneous
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in reply to Simon Tatham

When your home is getting too full to move around in, you can always pay a nice storage place by the month for a big box to keep some of it dry.
in reply to Simon Tatham

Guess I’ll be able to store more crap in my home once I’m gone.
in reply to Simon Tatham

My husband thinks I have hoarder "tendencies" Now I can show him this list to prove I'm not! 🥳 Yay!
in reply to Simon Tatham

have the permission of your child, who stuck macaroni to it at school, to throw away.
in reply to Simon Tatham

Sometimes I'll find a very helpful use for some almost-unmistakable-from-garbage thing I'd been holding onto for what any reasonable person would surely see as pathological, and while thrilled to have something to use for whatever the problem was, I often freeze mid-task, thinking "OH NO THIS IS TEACHING ME TO KEEP DOING THIS NOOOOOOO"
in reply to Simon Tatham

I have my own version of the Marie Kondo system - I only keep items that spark anxiety in some form
in reply to Simon Tatham

How about:

● Is too small, but it's nice and you might lose the weight at some point, even though you're 50 and lazy.

in reply to Simon Tatham

Oh thank goodness I persisted, and read past the first 2 items. You have helped reaffirm my world!!
in reply to Simon Tatham

Oh hell's yeah to the 'firmly intend to doing something with...' I'm drawn to objects that will eventually end up in some assemblage - at least, that's the idea, but you can't rush/predict what they'll go with. Hence my partner's slightly despairing question recently 'What /are/ you going to do with that mannequin and those stirrups?'
in reply to pinkdrunkenelephants

@pinkdrunkenelephants huh. It's been interesting, reading the replies to this toot, that some people thought it was pro-hoarding ("thank you for validating") and some anti ("I feel called out"). But you're the first one who's been sure enough of your interpretation to be actually rude about it.
in reply to Simon Tatham

You needed to hear it from someone and maybe, instead of projecting your own rudeness onto others, you ought to start listening when other people reply to you.

Or you can put your ego first and get snippy and defensive like you always do. 🤷 Either way, doesn't matter to me. You're the only one who's gonna suffer thinking that way.

in reply to pinkdrunkenelephants

@pinkdrunkenelephants "like I always do"? Have we interacted before?

In fact, I intended this post as a more or less value-neutral description of how people in practice think about objects in their home that the likes of Marie Kondo or William Morris would insist they throw away. I hadn't really meant it to be pro _or_ anti; just NPOV, "these are some of the reasons people in fact keep things".

But if you say "bullshit" to me, I also think it's NPOV to say you were rude.

in reply to Simon Tatham

@Simon Tatham @pinkdrunkenelephants Got to say I didn't read it as in favour of any particular behaviour but more a whimsical reflection on attitudes.
in reply to Simon Tatham

@ajft
I’ve been calling my home decor style “low-key hoarder” for a while now

I’m not sure when I tick over into full-scale hoarder

The signs are there though

@ajft