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Post by blossoming on Oct 18, 2010 11:31:23 GMT -5
self squabotage: self sabotaging by putting too many steps or complications between yourself and getting stuff OUT of your home. coming up with seemingly legitimate reasons to hold onto things, sort through them, or finding other ways to keep them around longer
squabotage: unintentionally giving advice to others in the same vein
squinking: thinking that begins with........but i paid so much for xyz or it was given to me by so and so or i'll use it again some day or i need it in case for xyz or it's not green to just throw it out or this is too good to just toss out/give away........pretty much any thought that pops into your head after you get the first inkling you ought to get something the heck out of your home instead of simply just getting rid of it.
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Post by jodiboda on Oct 18, 2010 13:34:13 GMT -5
As a newbie, this thread has made me smile and laugh....and I really appreciate the definitions and explanations as there WERE a few of these words that I wasn't sure what they meant or referred to. Thanx, Ladies!
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Post by peppermint66 on Oct 18, 2010 14:49:53 GMT -5
roominate: traveling from room to room in your home THINKING about all the stuff you intend to do.
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Post by MiSC on Oct 18, 2010 17:58:24 GMT -5
chat challenges - (from the bottom of the chat page) This is a quick challenge between two or more people to get something done within a specified period of time. The time is usually 15 minutes but it can be more or less. When people return triumphant, we give them the praise they deserve.
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Post by BetsyMarie on Oct 19, 2010 10:45:03 GMT -5
"temporarily" ... an adverb relating to time. It can be either of short or long duration.
Use in a sentence: "I am going to put this box here temporarily."
Synonym: till it rots
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Post by shopgirl on Oct 19, 2010 15:17:01 GMT -5
Betsymarie, hahaha! So true.
Go through - Verb describing the lengthy ritual we must participate in before discarding something we own but wish we didn't. Often as a final farewell, an homage to our stuff. As in "I need to go through those boxes before I donate them to Goodwill."
Go through - Adjective describing groups of items in a state of permanent inertia (or temporary, see bestymarie's definition above). Sealed, stacked and awaiting their fate at some unspecified time in the future. As in "I haven't unpacked those boxes in 30 years and 5 different houses; they are to go through."
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Post by jodiboda on Oct 19, 2010 15:19:33 GMT -5
"temporarily" ... an adverb relating to time. It can be either of short or long duration. Use in a sentence: "I am going to put this box here temporarily." Synonym: till it rots
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Post by TML on Oct 19, 2010 15:47:43 GMT -5
The breeding grounds: where socks go to do the nasty & create hundreds of singlet socks with no match (For example: Our socks tend to go completely sterile when they are actually in the laundry room - all socks have one mate & no offspring. Once they hit the couch after drying though, it's a free-for-all sock orgy & I can't tell you how many love-children have appeared after the wild sock festivals that go on in broad daylight on my couch. It's disgusting.) I solved this in the most geekish way possible. For my home socks (cute, fashionable, rarely used) I pin them together before they go in the wash. For my work socks where I was always losing mates I decided to go with black work socks that goes with my black work shoes. I ended up adjusting my work wardrobe so this works well with everthing. In the Spring/Summer when I vere off this a bit I use the pinning method. Since I buy them in bulk and they all look alike it does not matter if they jump ship. They are good to go until the sock pile gets low then I buy in bulk again. I have no clue where the socks go. This happened in my other house too and when I left there was not a closet or etc full of socks. I call my sock problems the " BLACK HOLE". They go somewhere and they never come back. I usually call the dust bunny problem the breeding grounds (i.e. under my bed and furniture). It always look like bunny orgy.
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Post by cando on Oct 21, 2010 17:12:40 GMT -5
The breeding grounds: where socks go to do the nasty & create hundreds of singlet socks with no match (For example: Our socks tend to go completely sterile when they are actually in the laundry room - all socks have one mate & no offspring. Once they hit the couch after drying though, it's a free-for-all sock orgy & I can't tell you how many love-children have appeared after the wild sock festivals that go on in broad daylight on my couch. It's disgusting.) OMG! I just read that!!! Hysterical!!!
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Post by MiSC on Oct 21, 2010 17:17:20 GMT -5
The Dice Game (thanks Cando!) Just make a list either 2-6 or 2-12, then roll the dice. Do that thing & then check back in here & roll, again. Great for those times when you don't know what to do first. If you don't own dice... here is link to on-line dice: www.random.org/dice/, or you can someone else's, too. Check back in after the roll & you can either check that item off of your list or leave it on. Or, you can replace that item with another item.
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Post by cando on Oct 21, 2010 19:15:04 GMT -5
Listzilla -- Little Ninja coined this term many years ago... A list so long that it's scary! (Who knows if it's doable or not as it may never have been done before). Now, that term has spread to mean any list... because as most us folks 'round here know just the idea of a list is scary. So, if you dare... you are welcome to wander into Listzilla Forum. CD
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Post by MiSC on Oct 21, 2010 20:11:02 GMT -5
TetrisThe game you play when you're trying to cram a whole lot of stuff into one space. In "normal" use that might be a moving van with a house full of stuff in it, or a freezer that holds a lot of food. In a hoarding/squaloring life though, it can be applied to just about any room or any space at all. Just STUFF. Cramming as much as you can into a space that's probably not created to hold that much stuff. (I guess, if the freezer door won't close, or if your Doom Room * starts spilling over, that could be known as muffintopping. ) *Doom Room Pretty much all of us have a space that is THE worst place in the house. It's often a spare bedroom. For us, it's the bathroom closet. There are little coated wire shelves screwed into the door and those holds meds, emergency candles, vacuum cleaner bags, etc. -- miscellaneous household stuff that doesn't have another home. That door is the only usable space in the closet, because everything else is just tossed in there. There's everything from lawn tools to paint to pet food to more medicine to extension cords to.... Lord knows what in there. I haven't seen the floor for many years. That's a Doom Room. (The only other Doom Room for us is -- and it's huge -- The Attic. Nuff said.)
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Post by glowworm on Oct 23, 2010 18:00:41 GMT -5
Can I get a definition of "demand resistance" please?
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Post by moggyfan on Oct 23, 2010 18:07:43 GMT -5
I would say it's that part of a human being that is still a six-year-old in pigtails, stomping her little foot and saying, "No. I don't want to and you can't make me!"
The demand can be either internal or external. Either way, there she is.
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Post by MiSC on Oct 23, 2010 19:12:09 GMT -5
Can I get a definition of "demand resistance" please? In the psyche world it's simply called "avoidance." It can come from a million places, including the petulent little brat moggy described. For me, I have a lot of trouble making decisions and/or prioritizing, so approaching some jobs is a huge undertaking, even if the job itself isn't huge. I think it comes from either incompentence, feeling incompetent, or both. (A lot of hot air from me. All bark and very little bite.) I will avoid that job at any cost. I've got a huge number of large jobs that need to be done here right now, but when I do decide to work, what do I choose? The dishes. We've stayed caught up on the dishes for weeks, but that's where I go. I will stand there and hand dry every one of them rather than letting them dry in the rack, as long as it keeps me away from the stuff I really need to be addressing, like Mt. Washedmore. It's a HUGE job, and I'm daunted as all get out. I do actually managing to get things done though, all in an effort to ignore those clothes. That's demand resistance for me. Basic avoidance, with a tad productivity on the side.
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