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PaperclipPerfector  4mo ago (text post)   2134 thread views

Wellness Wednesday for January 24, 2024

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Wtf, I have never gone anything worse than a 2. And I am a dirty pig who rolls in the mud according to everyone I know.

I think 3 isn't that much worse than 2 except for the stuff on the floor. That's what really makes it bad. If the clutter was just limited to things on tables/counters, it would be messy but not beyond the pale.

Yeah, the stuff on the floor throws the whole thing off. Who throws jackets on the floor in the kitchen?

Yeah 3 is already most of the way to being a hoarder house. The floor is mostly covered by stuff. Walk around in that kitchen and you'll be walking on stuff more than floor.

My scale of dirtiness would start cleaner than this one and end at 4. After 4 it's not really more dirty per se, you're just better at hoarding.

That image just starts at bad and then goes through eight stages of worse.

Come on, the first image is a perfectly tidy (though depressing) house.

There are pots and boxes out in the open and the rug and whatever you call that little piece of cloth on the little table aren't aligned with anything.

By all means, it's not terrible, certainly better than my place, but it doesn't live up to the standards that I was raised to see as baseline.

and the rug and whatever you call that little piece of cloth on the little table aren't aligned with anything

I thought Stackenblocken was a joke, but apparently not.

I just watched a 1-minute youtube video (https://youtube.com/watch?v=QEN5-_93gQg) about it. Here's my thorough critique: It's fake.

  1. Real Germans may be furious about disorder and happy about order, but they will not embarrass themselves by jumping and clapping and screaming in delight upon restoring the natural order of the nightstand.

  2. Stackenblocken is not a real German word, and not even a reasonable portmanteau. Inexcusable. It's almost as if that show had been made to amuse Americans rather than to accurately represent Germans.

  3. The policemen cudgeling the woman for her failure are entirely unrealistic. In real Germany, she would be fined until she had to be imprisoned for her failure to pay.

You mean, the food on the fridge and the pots above the cabinets? That's ordinary storage space and everything is nearly arranged. Where are you supposed to put the pots if the cupboards are full?

The rug looks like carpet to me and thus can't be adjusted.

The tablecloth is rumpled, you got me there. 2/10 would not bang.

Where are you supposed to put the pots if the cupboards are full?

Into additional cupboards. Or into storage where no mortal eyes are ever again laid on them.

Dunno about German houses, but American houses typically have finite cupboards rather than a Hilbert Hotel type of setup.

Can American houses not stand to have new ones installed? If not, then there are too many pots.

Pfft, and you call yourselves a developed country?

I think that says more about you being raised with unreasonable standards than anything. I agree with @sarker that #1 is quite tidy.

He’s German. If there’s anything I’d expect from a German, it’s a meticulously tidy and organized home. I used to know a German lady who even swept her front porch and sidewalk on a daily basis.

Dunno, many family members of mine seem to have no trouble at all maintaining those standards.

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