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Just think, if we didn't have so much stuff, we wouldn't even need houses! 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Or at least smaller ones...
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I heard a definition of a house as follows:
A house is where you keep all your stuff while you are out getting more stuff.
That sums it up for me.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: A house is where you keep all your stuff while you are out getting more stuff.
George Carlin[^].
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Very well said, that's the extra baggage we live with.
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It's amazing how much stuff we accumulate and ususally I move it all and throw out un-needed stuff after I move it?
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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The question is what you don't need. You may not need it now, but maybe later.
Or you might just like to hang on to stuff just because you've had it for so long and you feel good having it.
When I ask my parents why they hang on to stuff they don't need they answer "so you can throw it out after we passed away", I guess that's how it goes...
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and I find as soon as I throw it out I need it. If I would have hung on to stuff from when I was a kid I'd be a rich man today? You never know what has value.
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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Like my partner - a classic hoarder.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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I learned a while ago if I haven't used something in the past 5 years i don't need to carry it around.
Get rid of it, you don't need it. 
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
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Or it might have sentimental value...
For me throwing out stuff is never easy. There's probably a reason I have something and I've kept it up to now. I probably paid for it 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Or it might have sentimental value
That is about the only reason to keep things you don't use, but only keep things that have very real sentimental value, not just old junk from your childhood.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
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I'm on-line therefore I am.
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What amazes me is that you still feel compelled to life with (and therefore off ) your parents.
Given that you must be at least 26, why haven't you moved out before and got your own place?
Ye Gods, I was 18 when I left for university and have never lived with my parents since.
My son was 17 when he left home and moved in with a couple of pals.
(Didn't work out, but he didn't come home, just moved in with his girlfriend).
To still be at home at your age is really odd.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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He does seem to be in the process of creating his own home, but I don't think scrounging off staying at home with the parents is that unusual these days. The era of turn at and leave is long gone.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I live on a seperate floor with two pretty big rooms and a toilet.
My parents leave me alone most of the time.
I don't do (m)any chores at home, I don't pay for stuff, I can use the BMW on the driveway.
I used to play the drums which is easy here since we live in a house detached from others.
When I move out on my own (prior to this that probably would've been a small apartment) I'd lose space, I'd lose the car, I'd lose time doing all those chores, I would have to give up drumming...
The last thing I'd want is to live with some strangers in a big city in a students apartment. Yikes!
I guess I'm just really spoiled.
Since about a year I don't want to live here anymore.
My dad has been picking up on piano playing, so I get to listen to that every night for a few hours. I've been living with it for about one to two years and decided I really needed to get out.
Plus something has been missing here since my cat died at the age of almost twenty over a year ago.
That's when I bought a house (I could get a girlfriend and two kids there and I'd still have enough rooms, not that I don't want any kids).
I still really don't feel like moving out on my own though... Because that's just what it'll be; on my own. At least I'll get a new cat.
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Dalek Dave wrote: To still be at home at your age is really odd
This a typical "old fart" comment, really 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Middle aged fart!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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It's much harder and more expensive to set up on your own these days, particularly if you're on your own. You need a pretty well paying job to support it and those are not common.
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Quote: there have been lots of problems with the build.
Just fix the errors, ignore the warnings. You'll be fine for a while. 
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The error was that my house is apparently being build in a swamp... The whole block sank a few millimeters into the ground cracking some walls etc.
They fixed it, but then it happened again 
Don't know much about that though. I'll be hearing more next week.
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Why would you build in a swamp 
Sometimes you have to sink pilings down until you hit something solid, or build the whole thing on a big raft, to provide a stable base to build on. I'd prefer just building in the right place to start with 
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Well, it isn't literally a swamp. Except for the fact that the new row of houses sunk in the ground. Maybe it's quicksand. And of course we're talking about millimeters...
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I recently moved and, although I was just in a rented flat with really hardly any stuff, it's still amazing how much accumulates in three years. Moving was difficult enough and I ended up throwing away a lot of things that I never quite got around to doing that with before. I'm sure next time (I bought my current place so I'm getting furniture and plan to be there a while) it will be much worse. So I can imagine how much stuff you have over 25 years.
Actually I can do more than imagine as I know how much stuff there was to sort out from my grandparents' houses when they died (after about 25 years there in both cases).
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I dream of a house with a huge basement (that's not common in the Netherlands, we already live below sea level as it is!) or attic where I can store stuff indefinitly
And of course I'd never need to move.
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Most houses here have a pretty big space in the roof to stash stuff and forget about it for 30 years. That's dangerous if you ever do move though, it's a pain to clear out.
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