ccrat's Profile

Thank heavens I live in a small building of sane people. We all have a pass key that unlocks the snap lock on all our doors. The other
lock has to be dead-bolted, so we can lock everyone out if someone feels the necessity. I hardly ever do; I have that ad about "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up" on my mind, and I want people I know to be able to get in in case of emergency. One officer of the coop has keys to all apartments in case of flood/fire. Also, I am a notorious key-loser, so neighbors/catsitters/cleaners all have extra keys. I guess I am just a trusting person.

"Corporate" art, the generic kind that looks as if it came out of a catalog, by the pound: line drawings of wine bottles, some kind of plant material in a vase, fuzzy prints of landscapes. (This mostly happens in hotels. Panera Bread shops are another example.

Geometrical objects in a bowl on your coffee table. I know your decorator picked them out.

Rooms with no books. (One friend actually told me it was tacky to have books in the living room. Why? Because someone might think you read?)

No guest towels in the bathroom. Do you really want me to dry my hands on your bath towel? Ugh.

Those silly raised glass sinks in the shape of bowls with nowhere to put the soap.

I agree with the under-the-roll toilet paper, but some people feel just as strongly that it is the only way, so I leave it alone.

I got 15. Surprised I did that well. Have never worked in any area of the visual arts, though I can match my own clothes pretty well.....

Clothes you do not wear for six months are probably seasonal. Are you actually telling people to dump 50 percent of their wardrobes every six months? Dumb.

Five months? Does this idiot buy a new winter coat every year? Draconian. Makes as much a fetish of decluttering as some hoarders do of accumulating in the first place. Let's give de-cluttering a five-month break.

I keep books at home to read, to lend and to look at. Also, in a small apartment with a long shared wall, I use them as soundproofing.

1. Use the dishwasher for dirty dishes, and not just when guests are on the way. Put all the dirty ones in there immediately after use! That is what it's for! The oven is silly if you have a dw.
2. Put out clean towels. In fact, keep guest towels out at all times.
3. Use clumping litter and lots of it and your cat box will never smell bad.
4. I like the removable pet-hair throw idea, but my cat likes to sleep on pillows, so I just remove the pillows.
5. And if you have time, I really like the idea of cleaning the tabletop/toilet. (My TV is in another room.) You should also swipe off the bathroom sink. Just concentrate on the surfaces a guest might actually see/touch.
Confession: In 1994, I had to call a rubbish removal service to clean out my spare room. It held virtually nothing but stacks of paper and magazines I had swept off the table every time company came! For two decades!

Does anybody actually make old-fashioned glass-front secretary desks anymore? With the slanting cover that folded out into a writing surface and a couple of drawers underneath? Suppose you could rewire for a computer. Where else can you display your family pictures? The piano that used to hold them
is already gone.

It is incredible to me how expensive "simplification" is. I think I will keep my old, inefficient, drawer-filled desk.

too prissy and precious, and a hiding place for dirt, hair and germs. also breakable. what is the point? two thumbs down.