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Welcome to #checkin for Sunday, August 3, 2025!


Good evening/afternoon/morning everyone and welcome to today's #checkin. Back home in Paderborn after having a nice ice cream for lunch with our friends. Very yummy!
We had a very nice weekend together and talked about this and that and of course the daily struggles with work and keeping order in the household and the definition of untidy...

For those who are living/have lived with a person together, who would you consider to be more "chaotic" or untidier? You or the other person?

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in reply to Christoph S

My husband wins the untidier/chaotic awards hands down...I sometimes suspect he has Hoarder tendencies...
in reply to Christoph S

I tend to be more tidy, in that it upsets me to be in an aesthetically uncomfortable environment. Certainly, I entertain quite a lot of chaos.
in reply to Christoph S

slate.com/life/2012/06/chaos-t…

I am a Chaos Muppet. Jill is an Order Muppet.

in reply to Christoph S

Olympia has a lotttttt of "free boxes" or places where people leave things out for others.

way more than Seattle.

in reply to Christoph S

I think my patron goddess is Eris -- goddess of strife and discord. I create piles of stuff, piles of clothes, stacks of papers. When we travel I wander randomly (my wife plans every step far in advance.) Anyone want this golden apple that bears the words "For the fairest"?
in reply to Christoph S

Chaotic Good is the only worthwhile alignment. The rest all tend towards evil.
in reply to Christoph S

Strangely in many things I am the one that is tidier (even though mentally I align more with non-conformity and chaos of a sort) when it comes to our living space. Probably because I am the one with less mobility and have to make things work for my limits rather than that of those around me. My ability to move around and function in the space safely and find what I need without too much bending or climbing. My wife on the other hand tends to be a stacker rather than a filer and often misplaces her things in her workspace.
in reply to Christoph S

Other person is more chaotic but…maybe it's just because it's their need instead of mine😄
in reply to Christoph S

I attempt often to go thru stuff and toss. Grimm refers to it as 'nesting' which is an infuriating term to be used as I'm NOT 'nesting' but 'throwing away!!'

He doesn't throw away. He has a bloody garbage bag with mail in it he claims he has to go thru. For the last 7months. It's not been gone thru.

I might just make it disappear.

in reply to Christoph S

He could "go through" it by spilling it on the floor and rolling around in it, like the Scrooge mcDuck of unsorted mail.
in reply to Christoph S

We are both what our society would consider slobs—which is probably good for our marriage (no neat one nagging the messy one), but not so great for our living situation. We will never know how much better that might have been with proper medication.
in reply to Christoph S

I live alone and I'm rather tidy. But my ex-boyfriend is staying for the summer holidays and has invaded my house with hundreds of shampoo and alike bottles, gadgets, clothes and shoes everywhere... He never closes closet and cabinet doors. It used to drive me nuts, but this year I'm getting used to that chaos, he's a nice guy and good company 🙄
in reply to Christoph S

In comparison with my gf I am tidier than her, but this is relative... I would not consider myself the tidiest person until I reach a certain point where I no longer can tolerate the "chaos"
in reply to Christoph S

@Lisa Stranger

not closing cabinet doors is probably ADHD—same thing we both have


I won't tell him. He'll get mad.😄

in reply to Christoph S

clarification: by "we" I meant myself and Mr. Stranger

need more sleep

in reply to Christoph S

The computer minded people I hang out with oftentimes are, in their entirety, called The Chaos. The term is used as a term of honour. No particular sense of order or orderliness is implied. When mingling, chaos is less suit and tie and more cargo pants and t-shirts. And fishnet see through and all the rainbow too.

A hacker called sushee summarized that nicely in a blog post ca. 2005. if you're a hacker and use chaos as the reason to be unorganized you're holding it wrong.

Me, Id be the more chaotic person in this relationship, in an episodic way. . When recently transitioning from one job to the next, getting an IT equipment zoo in order and sent back was due.
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Boxes, filling material and laptops everywhere. This mildly infuriating state was temporary, fortunately, but too good to not share