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I am a right cabinet person forced to have a left cabinet because I am too poor to throw away perfectly good mugs and usable glasses just to have a matching set.
I just kinda accumulated pints and whiskey glasses and one day I realized I have no “regular” glassware. Then my girlfriend moved in with like 30 mismatched mugs and we are now almost exactly left cabinet.
I’m both and I think most people are both, having several of some and also random ones.
cabinet door opens to the left, so I can reach in with my right hand
Por que no los dos?
yeah sometimes the cabinet layout makes sense to have them opening both to the left and to the right
Yeah honestly. My kitchen looks exactly like this. I have all the same glasses and my cups are a wild mess, together with a bunch of random glasses i collected over the years
Same. The matching fancy side collects dust. The silly side gets used til things break.
For me too . One cabinet with fancy glassware and one cabinet with a wild collection of everything.
Left bottom shelve here too. How do right shelvers even do anything while keeping the whole thing neat???
They don’t actually use most of them.
I was not made to have matching sets of anything.
I’m a left. I need these things, store them in a cabinet behind an opaque door. Function over form, but always keep things clean & new, and periodically re-evaluate my belongings, to prevent clutter buildup & hoarding, sort things into four categories: trash-donate-recycle-keep.
Unless you’re 8 feet tall most cupboards are like this, no?
You forgot the cup hooks underneath, and the large drinking steins/tankards/catfood on top
Other way around. The nice sets on top, the regularly used collection of oddities below.
Which absolute psychopath has the one on the right?
Someone who just moved out on their own and can afford new kitchen items
That would be me.
My walls are painted white, and are bare of any paintings, posters or decorations.
I rent, and don’t own anything.
I don’t have any fingerprints.
In the freezer, is a mould containing the exact shape of NATO standard ca—
I’m just messing with you lmfao
I have near crippling ADHD and prior to moving in with my spouse, my kitchen looked like this, as well as my towels, sheets, cleaners, and spice rack. Having everything ordered took away the mental load, 8 identical towels is one load a week on Sunday plus a spare if something interrupts the schedule. I never had to consider a sensory issue because they’re all the exact same towel. Same for dishes, all my cups held the same amount and felt the same in hand. All my plates and bowls were identical so I couldn’t have a preferred one. All of them were dishwashers safe and dishwasher design friendly so I never needed to consider if they needed special treatment.
Taking away that thing to think about made a huge difference in clarity of mind because I could then use that energy for other things.
I also have ADHD and I remember that my towels should be switched out every 2-3 weeks. I know this will gross some people out, so sorry if it does, but this is just how my brain functions. in school my teachers frequently told me I’d lose my head if it wasn’t attached.
I always find it odd that people use a new towel every day but don’t change their bed sheets every day.
While I suggest changing them regularly, I have a different reasoning behind sheets and towels. I shower when I get up and frequently before bed if I feel icky or my spouse invites me. So frequency of sheets goes down because anything it transfers gets washed off in the shower. The towel is used after the shower so anything it transfers lasts all day. That said, after the move in I adopted my spouse’s routine which is much more lax and changes towels every few days. On one hand I now have to track towel wash cycles consciously, on the other hand I’m not doing 3 times the towels so it equals out.
Though now that you have me thinking about it, I would absolutely change sheets daily if it were easier to do so…
You shower twice a day?
Pretty common practice in places that are humid or close to the equator.
I don’t have ADHD (I know enough people who do that I can say that quite confidently) and I still find this extremely helpful. Decision fatigue is real, and eliminating trivial decisions is great.
Yes! Absolutely the same for me. I also have ADHD and when living alone I had only one type of everything. Since my now wife and me live together, this it not the case anymore and, if I’m being honest, it sometimes stresses me out. It leads to so much distraction for me, that it makes cleaning and tidying up even harder for me than it already is.
100% this is my struggle.
I want things to be orderly because walking into a chaotic place is mentally stressing for me. I feel overwhelmed by things in the way, I am stressed when trying to find things, and I feel like all the things left out are just more things that need to be done when I already have a lot of things to do. This overstimulation causes my brain to just short circuit and shutdown…
For me I respond to stress with object blindness. If I can’t immediately fix something my mind Will literally redact it away to the point that inconveniently places boxes on the floor will be stepped over for weeks until I eventually trip on it and it becomes relevant again.
Absolutely the same. I grew up in a messy and unregulated environment and the first coping skill I learned was object blindness. If it causes distress and I can’t fix it immediately, my mind simply refuses to acknowledge it from that point on which is a point of contention in the house because it leads to me simply ignoring a lot of things.
Only IKEA and Pottery Barn photographers I think.
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In no uncertain terms: how dangerous are you?
I have extensive knowledge of state forests
It’s worse than I imagined.
Is that a special case of state spaces?
When I first met my wife her cutlery drawer was so organised that the cutting edge of all the knives faced the same direction and the forks were all lined up on top of each other.
I nearly ran.
There are dozens of us
My parents and my partner’s parents are BOTH! Regular stuff cupboards are the left image, and fancy stuff that never gets used goes in clear glass displays sorted like the right image.
Go to big lots, buy sets. No more thinking. If get fun mugs, they live up high. Da end
Big Lots went out of business 😞
I WAS the right side, the gf has made it the left side but the image is too organized to truly represent how it looks
This just looks like my shelves. One side has the store bought glasses; the other has all the novelty/gas station refillable cups.
Am I the only person who puts glasses in the cabinet upside down?
Also: left side, but flipped.
I enjoy my water with extra dust
I put them in an alternating pattern, they take less space that way
Normal human and hotel
4th type … cupboard empty. Everything on the counters! ADHD ftw!!!
Everything on the counters dirty
Ah, my old roommate is in the chat
Me: Guess I have to wash a glass if I want to get a drink.
My kids: Guess we’re drinking out of flower vases this week!
Of course dirty, I never emptied the dish washer from last time. Once it’s empty from pulling the only clean dishes left out of it, I will be forced to do the dishes again…
The dishwasher never fills up as quickly as when you’ve finally worked up the motivation to properly empty it.
Thats actually fine, even preferred, if you cannot be arsed to stack the dishes according to size in the sink where I will wash them in no more than 2 days. But no, bowl -> bread plate -> bowl -> dinner plate etc. 8 dishes could either be a small pile or stack higher than the faucet
I want to be the one on the right, but my wife and kids say I have to be the one on the left.
Came here to say this. It’s homey though.
Having diverse cups/mugs makes it easier to tell whose is whose when company comes over.
“when company comes over” look at you and your sociable characteristics.
we don’t do that here. we don’t have “company” “over” 🤣
Why not both, exactly like in the picture?
