Friday five

[low_delta]

1. What is your most prized material possession?
My concert ticket stub collection.

2. What item, that you currently own, have you had the longest?
Probably a few things, but I have a stuffed Winnie the Pooh that plays Brahm's Lullaby, that I got when I was born.

3. Are you a packrat?
I can't bear to get rid of anything thing that might possibly have a use to someone, somewhere in the universe. Or anything that just looks cool.

4. Do you prefer a spic-and-span clean house?
I prefer it fairly clean. That would be in violation of all known physics.

5. Do the rooms in your house have a theme?
My living room is decorated in eclectic. My kitchen is decorated in piles of miscellaneous crap. The bathroom, of course, is under construction.

Comments

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

Good answers :-D

[zonal.livejournal.com]

Awesome - my concert ticket stubs would probably come in third after my hard drive and my photographs.

[ravengirl.livejournal.com]

*giggle*
this is all good~
you're funny. *grin*

My answers

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

1. Prized possession: Photo albums from my early childhood on (with a couple of my parents as teenagers), plus The Kid's smaller photo albums (roughly one per year for her first 4-5 years).

2. Owned the longest: Baby blanket that was my older sister's (and maybe even older brother's) before me. It could be 50 years old.

3. Packrat?: Nope! I feel free when I rid myself of material objects.

4. Clean house: Neatness is more important to me than cleanliness, although I probably keep it cleaner than many people. I love cleared off counter tops and *space*. Kind of like the space in Japanese art and haiku.

5. I aim for eclectic simplicity and comfort. I like teak and oak, (although my favorite piece of furniture is my Scandinavian walnut dining room table) with Japanese, Chinese, Native American, and southwestern patterns/art. Mostly, though, my home is really just California suburban tractness.

Re: My answers

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

1. Photos are a close number two.
3. I feel free too, but I still can't bring myself to do it.
4. Cleanliness is very important to me.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

The photos are a close second. They'd probably rate first if the negatives were included in the package. ;-)

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

...she says, smiling through gritted teeth.

;-)

Re:

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

The way you choose to live now isn't necessarily your recipe for the rest of your life, right? Right?
*L*

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Absolutely right. Every time I get a good opportunity to improve, I take it.

Re:

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

:-)

Re: My answers

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

My housecleaners now clean my house once a month. It used to be every other week, but monthly seems to be enough. I should probably clean more between their visits, but mostly only get around to cleaning the kitchen floor.

My mom's house, on the other hand, is immaculate. I've been picking up my fallen long hair from her floors all week!

immaculate

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Wow, it's probably a good thing that you're a little more down-to-earth than your mother.

Re: immaculate

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

She was mostly a stay-at-home mom of three kids and she needed to maintain her high cleanliness/neatness standards to maintain her sanity. She passed this particular neurosis down to her first-born son and partly to her last-born daughter. My sister (in the middle) is more relaxed about neatness than her sibs.

My mom has been preparing all morning for our relatives who arrive at 12:30pm. She also has a tendency to turn it all into martyrdom, which has always driven me crazy. Sometimes I find myself behaving similarly, but I hate it.

Now it's time for me to clean the guest bathroom!

questions

[emschin.livejournal.com]

I guess my favorite possession would be my photographs but I had to think awhile. There are other things I own that are very precious.

2. I have two things that meet the "longest held" criteria. One is a toy train that used to wind up and shoot sparks (pre deisel) as it chugged around the track. The other is a scrapbook I made with pictures of all the people in my "pretend family" in the "prestend town" that my (real) sisters and I made up and loved.

3. I am a fluctuating pack rat. I accumulate a lot of stuff and then feel good throwing out some and then feel good accumulating again.

4. Spic and span? I prefer a generally tidy house. I would like to live in a clean house if I could afford to hire a cleaning person but I don't want it enough to put in the labor myself. It means a lot more to me to be pretty neat than very clean.

5. I guess the them of my home is ME. I have a variety of things around and I think you could come in, look at my apartment, and say "Yes, that's the kind of person she is"