Survey #253—Full Response from Anita O
| Which of the following statements describe your living situation with respect to a dining room and dining-room furniture? |
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| Please complete the following statement: “Members of my household and I eat most of our meals _____.” | at a small table in the kitchen. The "dining table" is only used when we have guests. |
| Please complete the following statement: “When I want to entertain guests for a meal, we usually eat _____.” | At the dining table (adjacent to living room) |
| What feelings or memories—positive, negative, or in-between—does the phrase “dining room” evoke for you? How have your attitudes, beliefs, or practices around dining and entertaining changed over time? What impact, if any, do dining and entertaining have on the clutter in your space? | Having family and guests around a table has been an important family value - in my childhood, and in raising our children. Most guests are family or long-time friends, and sitting at table together is important. We've never had a formal "dining room" but the function is important, even if the meals & hosting are casual. |
| Future topics | Continued "counseling" on thinning photos... My daughter recently told me, "I don't want you to feel you have to spend your retirement dealing with other people's photos." Lots of photos from prior generations have ended up in my spare closet. Her remark helped counter the weight of my feeling that "I owe it to her" as well as to my parents & grandparents & cousins, to sort /save / share all those photos. I need to get to an emotional place that makes it easier & faster to thin the herd. |
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