{"id":14337,"date":"2015-02-22T13:43:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T19:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14337"},"modified":"2015-02-22T18:28:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T00:28:44","slug":"i-scored-5-out-of-6-on-this-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/22\/i-scored-5-out-of-6-on-this-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"I Scored 5 Out Of 6 On This Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An eight month old article in the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;rct=j&#038;q=&#038;esrc=s&#038;source=web&#038;cd=1&#038;cad=rja&#038;uact=8&#038;sqi=2&#038;ved=0CB4QFjAA&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fthe-psychology-of-clutter-1404772636&#038;ei=EnTqVKiICNCHgwTN9IGoBw&#038;usg=AFQjCNHu_gaBsQTJl4ahMhP7zNB8chf9aQ&#038;bvm=bv.86475890,d.eXY\" target=\"_blank\">The Psychology of Clutter<\/a> included this graphic which looked enough like a quiz that I took it, and I got 5 out of 6:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/clutterquiz.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/clutterquiz.jpg\" width=\"450\" alt=\"A clutter quiz that I passed\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how I did; the ones in bold are the ones I got right (although my beautiful wife might disagree with my characterization of having these traits as &#8220;right&#8221;):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Way Things Were<\/b>:  As you know, gentle reader, I am a hoarder of personal relics.  I don&#8217;t like to get rid of things I got from different eras in my life, things that my family gave to me, or things that belonged to members of my family.  (<em>Cue violin.<\/em>)  So many of the people, of my family, who knew me when I was younger have passed away, so I don&#8217;t have anyone to share memories with, to confirm that things happened as I remember them.  So I hold onto the physical manifestations.(<em>&lt;\/violin&gt;<\/em>)<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>Three Sizes Ago<\/b>:  Also true, although I&#8217;ve not ballooned three sizes, thank you very much.  I do have a lot of pants with 34&#8243; waists, which are just uncomfortable, thank you very much, and I <em>might<\/em> get down there again.  I&#8217;m pretty sure I have a couple of adult medium things that I&#8217;ll never fit in again, but I&#8217;m saving them, for in a couple of weeks (or so it will seem), I will have boys that will grow into them (briefly).\n<p>On the other hand, I have piles and piles of clothing that I&#8217;ve gotten and inherited that are not in the current heavy rotation that I&#8217;ll continue to hold onto just in case my current crop of clothing fails <em>and<\/em> I can&#8217;t afford to replace it with similar Walmart apparel for ten bucks a throw.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ll continue to hold onto the scraps of things that have worn out in case I become crafty or civilization collapses and I need the material to patch the remnants of our clothing to hold us on until one more failed growing season leads us to die of starvation.  Or maybe we&#8217;ll eat the clothes.<\/p>\n<p>One more thing: As to this last, I have been eternally justified in holding onto these scraps of worn out things as just this very weekend, my beautiful wife hand-washed some tunics that bled dye badly, and she needed a couple of old towels to use in drying them.  &#8220;Do we have any old towels?&#8221; she asked.  &#8220;My darling wife, dawn of the Ozarks, <em>of course<\/em> we have old towels.  We have every old towel we have ever had during our marriage and some from even before we wed,&#8221; I said (or words to that effect).  And if I hadn&#8217;t saved everything like that, where would we have been in our time of need?<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Buy Then, Pay Later<\/em>:  No, sir, this is not an issue for me; I am not a woman.  I do not buy outfits because I might need them later.  I buy things to wear now.\n<p>And to prove my point, I did buy a black button-up shirt a couple months ago (like $10 at Walmart, thank you, George), but I haven&#8217;t worn it because most of the slacks and khakis I own (and the ones I wear) are black.  So I bought it, and it hadn&#8217;t gotten worn yet.  So I put it on with a pair of blue jeans <em>just so I could avoid any semblance of this sort of clothes-horse based hoarding.<\/em><br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>ADHD Storage<\/b>: This is my garage and part of my office in a nutshell.  Partially complete crafts, craft supplies (and note some of this &#8220;craft&#8221; stuff involves power tools).  I also pick up raw materials at garage sales that sits around waiting for usage for years.  Also, then there are the completed projects that I don&#8217;t know what to do with once I&#8217;m done with them, like this:\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/keyhanger.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/keyhanger.jpg\" width=\"300\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know anyone who likes chickens, but I had a piece of wood from a garage sale to use the chicken template I had, so I did this and used a couple of hanging hooks to cover a couple holes in it and a woodburned drawer pull at the bottom.  So I don&#8217;t know who to give it to as a gift, I don&#8217;t have enough to fill out a full booth at a craft fair, and I haven&#8217;t tried Etsy yet.  So I&#8217;m hoarding them until I do, I guess.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>I&#8217;ve Got It Here Somewhere<\/b>:  Indeed I do.  Fortunately, we have a big enough house with adequate storage that I can generally lay my hands on things as soon as I want them.  My twelfth grade elf D&#038;D characters?  Got &#8217;em.  1984 Milwaukee Brewers cards distributed by the Milwaukee Police Department?  Got &#8217;em.  A Commodore 64?  You bet.  I&#8217;m a little less organized with my books&#8217; to-read shelves, though.  So I might have a copy of Jane Austen&#8217;s <em>Middlemarch<\/em>.  Or I might have two.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>An 8-Track Mind<\/b>:  Come on, you know me.  Although to be honest, I did get rid of our only eight track player last year.  But I&#8217;ve got spare cassette decks, old computers, videocassette players, DVD players, and so on.  Although, in most of these cases, I still use the technologies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I got a five out of a possible six (and possibly six out of six).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very proud of my score.<\/p>\n<p>How did you do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An eight month old article in the Wall Street Journal called The Psychology of Clutter included this graphic which looked enough like a quiz that I took it, and I got 5 out of 6: Here&#8217;s how I did; the ones in bold are the ones I got right (although my beautiful wife might disagree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14337"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14346,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14337\/revisions\/14346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}