Comments on: She’s got a corpse under her bed . . .

By: Caroline Spector

Caroline Spector — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:05:12 +0000

Yes. I know.

By: Warren Spector

Warren Spector — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:36:03 +0000

I love my clutter–every last dusty bit of it. Big, empty spaces scare me.

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eat our brains » Blog Archive » Zippo — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:30:58 +0000

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By: Morgan J. Locke

Morgan J. Locke — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:53:30 +0000

Well put, ranonymous. Consumption R US.

In the 60s, there was no such thing as a residential rental storage space in the States. Now it’s a booming industry. They have portable units now that you can set outside your home.

By: ranonymous

ranonymous — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:44:36 +0000

multiply above observation by 100,000,000 (rough estimate for # households in english-speaking N. America) and one begins to get an idea of who and what we are

All that culture, all that technology, all that history…

and it all comes down to a sophisticated organism for converting petroleum energy into matter conversion and transport mechanisms

By: Doug Potter

Doug Potter — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:35:52 +0000

Another way to deal with your “clutter” is to find someone worse than you, point and say,”I’m not as bad as…”, like the “Dude” can point at the Collyer brothers and everyone else we know here in town can point at, well, the “Dude”.

By: Casey Hamilton

Casey Hamilton — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 07:19:39 +0000

Ed has the Packrat Gene; I don’t. He’s gotten rid of, well not tons, but lots of stuff over the years. My personal best trick for getting rid of crap: move 2400 miles from a 2200 sq ft house to a 940 sq ft apartment. Only the really good stuff makes the cut.

By: Paula Helm Murray

Paula Helm Murray — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 04:22:22 +0000

We moved in 2001 and I’ve discovered we moved a lot of crap that we’d have been better off renting a 50-cu. yd. dumpster and filling it. Not moving it.

Planning on a garage sale this summer, then getting rid of the rest of the useless crap on pallets in my basement one way or another.

Yikes. At least we’re winning that war in the part of the house we live in.

By: Morgan J. Locke

Morgan J. Locke — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 03:30:14 +0000

*shudder*

I’m not so much a hoarder as too lazy to take the time to sort through and get rid of stuff. But I have reached a point in my life where I’d really rather just throw it all away.

By: Madeleine Robins

Madeleine Robins — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 02:51:02 +0000

I am fine with a certain amount of disorder. No one will ever seriously label me as a neat freak. But there’s a point where the disorder which is charming and functional and a point at which my temper begins to fray and my teeth begin to itch.

100 tons of stuff is just a little too much even for me. Even for my children. Ick.

By: Maureen McHugh

Maureen McHugh — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 01:09:47 +0000

Having recently moved, I do not find it as mind-boggling as Caroline.

By: Caroline Spector

Caroline Spector — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:41:17 +0000

Well, that’s *one* thing to take away.

100+ Tons of stuff. It just boggles me.

By: Steven Gould

Steven Gould — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:30:25 +0000

So, don't, as the Collyer brothers did, convert large amounts of your junk into lethal booby traps that you subsequently trip.