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> I have no idea what people are supposed to do with all of the empty space in a giant house They fill it with shit they don't need. Kudos to you.
by thomk 6y ago
> I have no idea what people are supposed to do with all of the empty space in a giant house
They fill it with shit they don't need. Kudos to you.
- m463 6y agothey're filled with "I might need..." or "maybe I will use..." (eventually becoming "I forgot I had...")
- thomk 6y agoYep I moved into a house that was over double the size of my last house and somehow I'm out of room again.
- blaser-waffle 6y agoHonestly, that's a huge advantage of a house: you can keep the stuff you might use. I'm in a small apartment downtown -- great location -- but if my wife and I both want to keep a bike then we're out of luck. Plus well located apartments aren't so great during COVID.
- m463 6y agothere's a difference there - that's stuff you will use. It doesn't take all your garage to hold that.. unless it's say, a car :)
- faster 6y agoGeorge Carlin did a great routine on 'stuff'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac "a house is ... a pile of stuff with a cover on it".
- thomk 6y agoLOL thank you for this. Watching it now, hilarious and as usual Carlin is spot on.
- kjs3 6y agoIndeed. I had any number of friends who bought the biggest house they could afford, because that was what you were 'supposed to do', only to be buried by the cost of filling a 4000+ sq ft monstrosity with enough 'stuff' that it didn't look empty, then heating/cooling, cleaning, etc. all that 'stuff'. I know some of those folks have rooms that a decade or two down the line that they've opened the door to less that a dozen times, much less ever used for anything more than a place to pile stuff out of the way.