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Re:Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you re... by GoToRO on Monday January 30, 2023 @10:21AM (#34580782)
One way this was said by one lady in a tv show was to not use your home as storage. By home she meant hallways, on top of furniture and so on. It makes your home look more like a storage unit and less like a house.

It helped me to start putting things away in drawers and so on, but also to think about how often I use them, or if I still need them.

The tv show was about "proffesional organizers".

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Re:Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you re... by scotty79 on Monday January 30, 2023 @10:46AM (#34581186)
Living is what you do between kitchen, bed, desk and bath and fron door. The rest is literally the storage unit.
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Re:Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you re... by yamtaddle on Monday January 30, 2023 @11:30AM (#34582068)
IIRC there were some studies on where people in the US spend their waking hours at home and, at the time, for most people, it was overwhelmingly the bathroom and the kitchen/dining-area. The dining area especially was where everyone did their bills and homework and such, and where mail got left when it came in from the mailbox. I think a bad misreading of those results was why builders wasted kitchen space on built-in desks for a bunch of years, before everyone realized how dumb that was and knocked it off.

(this wasn't factoring in WFH, of course—I think most of the important original work was done in like the 70s)

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Re:Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you re... by thatfrenchguy on Monday January 30, 2023 @12:44PM (#34583480)
« Life at Home in the 21st Century » is a good read on the subject
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Re:Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you re... by ilyt on Monday January 30, 2023 @12:13PM (#34582921)
> on top of furniture and so on

Pfff, fancy posh TV lady with her ACTUAL DEDICATED STORAGE SPACE in SPACIOUS HOME.

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