Welcome to My Messy Room

[bolson]

There's this thing about naming households around here. I never really got that where I grew up and didn't encounter it seriously until I met queen_of_wands. Despite long discussion and thinking about it, nothing quite fit for my current household (of one) until recently. It is "My Messy Room". Never mind that it's a whole 1bd apartment with kitchen/living/dining/bath. That's what it is. I've welcomed several people to it with that opening line, to me it just works. I have too much stuff and too little space and don't spend enough time organizing it to make it too much better. On the down side, it is a little embarrassing when I think about a girl I like coming over and I suddenly realize what chaos I live in. One of those things to work on, but it's a ways down on the list after diet and exercise and the other things I need to work on. So, for the time being, it will remain my messy room.

Comments

[mangosteen]

The primary reason for the naming of households is the prevalence of group houses where most (if not all) of the residents were renters. Given that, there was no one person whose house it was... even if there was an owner, they didn't encompass everyone who lived in the house (i.e. "Who cares if Alice owns the house? Bob is the one who throws the parties.").

Given that the easiest shorthand was to just add a layer of abstraction. :)