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Old kitchen are beautiful to contemplate but also a pain in the @ss to clean. Primum vivere, deinde philosophare. You can tell the person that spends hours wr
by cracrecry 5y ago
Old kitchen are beautiful to contemplate but also a pain in the @ss to clean.
Primum vivere, deinde philosophare.
You can tell the person that spends hours writing something on a blog that he should spend those hours every single week cleaning the kitchen and the beauty disappears.
I can do things like navigate HN because cleaning my kitchen is easy.
A painter was complaining while talking to me about the ugly tractors and machines being used in rural areas instead of manual scythes and rakes. Again it was obvious he had never actually used those as I did when I was younger.
- majormajor 5y agoI agree, to me this is a whole lot of nostalgia with little of substance to say. My bedroom, dining room, and living room are all much more intimate than my kitchen. My kitchen, on the other hand, is a functional place used in between my time in those living spaces. So organizational tools like cabinets and clean workspaces and bright lighting are all very useful for it. I have the luxury of not having to live out of it, but it's still indoors and connected to the living spaces, so a certain level of cleanliness is much appreciated too (contrast to a garage). I find any claim that aspects of modern life are somehow making us desire practicality in these manners (and that we've lost something as a result) deeply suspicious. We developed all these things in response to desires and pain points. Often quite literal pain points of backbreaking manual domestic labor.