Do you live in clutter or are you minimalist?

[lolo]

i am trying to become more minimalist (partly due to the fact my long term relationship might end and i want less stuff to have to move with). Some things are easy to clear out but others just need better and more expensive storage to cope with, i do feel great when i get rid of stuff

 

[Badgers]

Once again, Badgers has let the side down badly...

I require the cut of my cloth to be varied

 

[gentlegreen]

I'm a slave to junk and squalor, but am at heart a minimalist.
I no longer overtly hoard like I once did, but I still have several rooms full of clutter ...
If I put the front bedroom floor back in I would probably fill that room too.

I struggle to adjust myself to the idea of owning more than one bike.

I have pared my wardrobe down to the absolute minimum.

 

[Badgers]

Could/does anyone do the The 100 Thing Challenge?

Just read a review of this:

The whole premise of this book is a bit of a joke. Middle class American guy is going to live with only 100 items BUT books don't count, clothes don't count, toys don't count, the Bible doesn't count etc etc etc.

This so called challenge is about as hard as going without marmite for an hour!

The guys writing style can't make such a trifle entertaining enough to sustain 200 pages.

I reckon I could do the full on Spartan 100 things given the time

 

[EastEnder]

I require the cut of my cloth to be varied

Style over substance...

A real man only needs a stout pair of work boots & a cloth cap.

 

[twentythreedom]

I have nearly no stuff, and the Mr hasn't got all that much (bar the tools and such like), everything has to be pretty tidy with living in a small space, but it can also get *very* cluttered quite fast as two people doing all their living, cooking, etc in a 16ftx7ft box is always going to be a challenge.

Is it a truck or trailer you live in?

 

[twentythreedom]

Style over substance...

A real man only needs a stout pair of work boots & a cloth cap.

And a roll of gaffer tape and a hammer - can fix absolutely anything with that.

 

[cyberfairy]

Yay to surprise bump of old thread! I am discovering how much clutter one small baby can create...

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I am ridiculously sentimental though. I still have my Granny's address book somewhere and she's been dead for over 20 years

I've got all my gran's letters to various politicians from decades ago. Also have my grandfather's masonic dinner menus at various London restaurants during the 40s/50s etc. plus all the new member nominations and fees paid receipts etc.

Have loads of birthday cards and christmas cards that I've kept as well

 

[Geri]

I have a lot of "stuff" but I hate clutter, so everything has a place. Several years ago now I bought a huge merchant's chest with 13 drawers, so most of it lives in there. I also have a Welsh dresser with lots of stuff in.

 

[cyberfairy]

I now have a cellarThat means I can put clutter in it and watch it go damp and mouldy-it's all I've ever dreamed of...

 

[Badgers]

I have a lot of "stuff" but I hate clutter, so everything has a place. Several years ago now I bought a huge merchant's chest with 13 drawers, so most of it lives in there. I also have a Welsh dresser with lots of stuff in.

I want chests and dressers

 

[Geri]

I want chests and dressers

It's like this, but slightly darker wood

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

It's like this, but slightly darker wood

I'd like a huge one of those to put all my junk in

 

[Fingers]

Due to my my mum's carboot fetish, have always lived in houses filled to brim with stuff. Eight tin openers and 17 kettles, that sort of thing. Moved out of home and tried to be minimal but everytime mum comes to visit, she brings random stuff 'as a present' (i.e -she cannot bear to not buy it when it 10p)
So do you live in a clutter free home or do you also have 6 sandwich toasters, all of which are shit?

I have three hoovers which are all shite. People keep giving me shit hoovers for free. I have a TV in the kitchen which Spanglechick kindly donated to me. It is old and weary now and loses it's sound unless you clip it round the side which makes cooking a two handed job when you should only ever need one. It is now part of my kitchen and very welcome despite it's deafness.

I have two irons that do not work and a PVR which has not worked for two months until I got round to spending two minutes fixing it this afternoon. I have three mobile phones that give nary a peep when powered up, six broken computers and four broken laptops, not to mention numerous monitors that sort of work.

In my last flat this was major clutter as it was so small but now I am living in a massive flat for the same price it has become more minimalistic IYSWIM. I don't mind clutter, minimalist bores me so I will probably accumulate a lot more clutter at a faster rate. It is sort of minimalist clutter so I really need to get more cluttered up.

This video is my idea of a minimalistic nightmare and has haunted me since I was a child. Take it away George....

 

[Fingers]

Oh forgot to mention, two years ago my entire possessions fitted into a backpack (apart from a few boxes of books which were left a friend's) so I have made amazing progress in cluttering in two years. Last week I obtained a coffee table from Freecycle and when I got it home it turned out to be a kitchen table so I now have a kitchen table that I do not really need but am gong to keep it as it is sometimes nice to sit in the kitchen for a change of scenery. My kitchen is well cluttered now so I am aiming to work on the rest of the flat.

I am hoping that, by being cluttered I will not get off my tits on weed and plough my car into some granny's coal shed.

 

[weltweit]

Has anyone heard Michael MacIntyre on "The Man Drawer" ?

 

[EastEnder]

Has anyone heard Michael MacIntyre on "The Man Drawer" ?

Yes, but no amount of over effusive, banal, bourgeois pseudo-humour can atone for being a twat.

 

[weltweit]

Yes, but no amount of over effusive, banal, bourgeois pseudo-humour can atone for being a twat.

Its funny how he seems to divide opinion so much, moreso than perhaps other comedians. I love him!!

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

i have recently done a major tidy up of my room and i feel i probably don't have as much stuff as i though i had.

i do have my models and pillows and a few books etc but beyond that it's not like i have tones of stuff.

this is probably partly down to the fact all my stuff has to fit into one room

 

[EastEnder]

Its funny how he seems to divide opinion so much, moreso than perhaps other comedians. I love him!!

As this is still, more or less, a free country you are entitled to your opinion, no matter how misguided. I shall therefore, for the time being, allow your transgression to go unpunished. But make no mistake, come the revolution you will be first against the wall, or if not first, a close second behind MacIntyre.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Due to my my mum's carboot fetish, have always lived in houses filled to brim with stuff. Eight tin openers and 17 kettles, that sort of thing. Moved out of home and tried to be minimal but everytime mum comes to visit, she brings random stuff 'as a present' (i.e -she cannot bear to not buy it when it 10p)
So do you live in a clutter free home or do you also have 6 sandwich toasters, all of which are shit?

I've heard it said that the clutter-free home etc is a sign of limited brain capacity.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

I've heard it said that the clutter-free home etc is a sign of limited brain capacity.

presumably shouted through the letter box as they can't open the door

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

presumably shouted through the letter box as they can't open the door

I think it got read on a screen splattered with emitted coca cola and french fry/catsup puree.

 

[Thimble Queen]

I feels like I've always had lots of stuff, I think it comes from moving so much and wanting to create some kind of continuity in my life... About 3 years ago, I decided that I would start to get rid of my stuff. I think it roughly coincided with the boy moving in. It started very slowly by giving clothes and shoes etc away, but never books. I still can't bare to part with any of my books. Anyway three years later I've still got shit loads of stuff, but a lot less stuff and the stuff I do I have is stuff that I use - well mostly.

 

[moomoo]

I have children. My house is full of clutter and junk. And bits of 'very important' wood.