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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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tentative existence

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"
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pinkdrunkenelephants

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.

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Simon Tatham

@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.

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