Survey #253—Full Response from Kit
| Pronouns | They/them |
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| 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 _____.” | Spouse: Desk in game room Offspring: Bedrooms I: Livingroom couch With guests: Gaming table in game room |
| Please complete the following statement: “When I want to entertain guests for a meal, we usually eat _____.” | Gaming table in game room – an 8-foot folding table left up permanently |
| 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? | Stuffy formality related to socioeconomic aspiration Since accepting that we're not that kind of people, we've abandoned all pretense of a dining room. The issues in that space have been: - Too many heirloom formal dishes to fit in the hutch. Decluttering has been both necessary and relieving. - The folding card table I use for food prep sticks out into the walkway more than I like, but I can't think of a secure way to store it folded under the bar. I feel like a molded strip of rubber to keep it from sliding might be the answer, but haven't looked for such a thing yet. - The large stacking recycling bins are convenient but bulky and unattractive. Would like to replace with smaller narrow ones that line up nicely in the same or less floor space. - The bookcases were overflowing with 3x as many books as actually fit functionally. Again, decluttering was necessary and relieving. |
| Future topics | Book club idea: Cassandra Aarssen: The Clutter Connection: How Your Personality Type Determines Why You Organize the Way You Do |
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