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Thaaank you for saying this! I was scrolling and scrolling and seriously thinking nobody was ever going to call this out. OCD isn't a cute quirk or organizing your meds and keeping a marker in the freezer. It's also not crazy. I know you posted this forever ago and I'm late to the party.

Haha frenchcowgirl, so true. I just got a whole bunch of linens and glass jewelry dishes and random things from my grandmother. So if there are a few 50s/60s touches in my apt that could be why. I'm not the type to embrace pink. My mother painted my room pepto bismol pink when I was a kid...and to this day insists I asked for it...which I didn't. Anyway I've had enough pink for a lifetime. But I agree, I don't think American women are trying to revert to a 50s gender definition. Maybe we just feel comfortable enough to embrace our femininity and our freedom.

why are there no comments on this? It's such a great idea! I could do so much with a resource like this. I wish we had one near here!

I have this furniture. I absolutely love it. I've dressed it up really well, I think, and have added a lot to it by the art I hang on the walls and the colors I use throughout the room. It all moved with me cross country. Everything Assembled, Disassembled, and then Assembled again. The only item that suffered was a bookcase and that was the mover's fault, not the weakness of the furniture. Everything else looks great and is sturdy. And I'm betting that person who's bed collapsed just didn't go to the trouble to get some planks cut to support the mattress. Those metal supports aren't really enough, but they want you to buy their support systems anyway.

Ikea is a base. You add the character with other things.

Yesssssssss.

Yeah if you read the post it says BROKEN radiator. And I'd leave it too, it adds visual interest to a nook that would really just be a vacant hole without it. Love the stool, though it might not be the most comfortable seat for more than a few minutes.

I grew up sleeping in that exact bed. I've never seen another like it, it's crazy. I can't remember who's it was, probably a great grandparent's

I love you Littlemisssunshine! You said what is always on my mind here on AT. This is such a wonderful site with so many great articles but it's so ruined by all these whiny, self-important, *really badwords*.

What is that phrase? If you don't have something nice to say, then don't say anything at all. Constructive criticism is okay but just because something isn't your taste or perfectly suited for you doesn't mean you have to be a jerk about it.

I HATE wearing shoes. Besides that, my husband and roommate managed to turn the carpet in our last apartment gray after only a few months because they thought it was too much of a hassle to take off their shoes before they got on the carpet. I don't know anybody who would be offended at the request (medical situations excepted, obviously it's not THAT big of a deal). I honestly wish more people would ask me to take my shoes off when I visit them. I might forget in someone else's house and I feel like here in America many people feel it would be an imposition to ask. I think it should be common courtesy, though.

My husband and I are moving back home to my parents' house at the end of this month. My parents are truck drivers so we'll have the house to ourselves most of the time, thank goodness. I don't think it would work so well otherwise.

My parents are awesome so we're not even paying rent but we will be paying utilities and keeping the house clean and looked after.

We might even be sharing with my brother if he ends up bunking there for a while too.

My strategy is going to be to keep things as lovely as possible and do small projects around the house so that my parents feel that we are an asset and not a burden.

Also, if you're a married couple moving home, remember to keep all arguments and disagreements in your own private space. Never bring them out to make the family feel awkward or to ruin their day. They don't want to hear your crap and it'll only make them want you gone.