<p>Bark!</p>
<p>Really. It’s a magazine for obsessive dog people.</p>
<p>or maybe
Clean Run</p>
<p>a magazine for obsessive dog agility people.</p>
<p>Not-so-Handy-Man
Wishful Thinking
Clutterer’s Digest
Booklover’s Illustrated</p>
<p>But my wife is neat and keeps most of the house that way, and me too when she can. And our house really is neat, thogh full of books, records and assorted gewgaws, except for my office, which is a mess. But if we ever put it up for sale we’ll have to move just about everything out, even though it’s neat.</p>
<p>Beige, Bland and Boring </p>
<p>I love bright colors but hubby and I are afraid to decorate with them. So our whole house ends up beige. Even the exterior is beige.</p>
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<p>When WashMom and I married she was much neater than me. Over the years, I’ve gotten better and her standards have slipped a little. Hence, we subscribe to both Clutterer’s Digest and Booklover’s Illustrated.</p>
<p>(Where do people in those home decorating shows keep their books, anyway? Even our bedroom has a pair of 6-foot bookcases.)</p>
<p>Waste Disposal Quarterly</p>
<p>I want to get a dumpster - W says no.</p>
<p>WashDad—I’ve often wondered about the books in the decorator houses, too. I was always amused by the displays of furniture that show books of all one color on a shelf. Yeah, this is the red book shelf…that one over there is the all-white cover shelf… I daresay, I’ve never bought a book based on its color!!! We started out planning for all hardcover in the shelves on either side of the fireplace in the living room (where the decorator mags have, like, 3 things on the shelves), and softcover on the shelves in the library/study. We’ve not got a mixture, with stacks of books beside the shelves, too. I go back to the plaque I have hanging up that says, “A house without books is like a room without windows”.</p>
<p>Family Handyman—it was a handyman’s special when we bought it, and it hasn’t changed much! (People who come to our house ask us “You’ve lived here 20 years? Oh…”)</p>
<p>Yeah, we have a bookcase (albeit a small one) in our bathroom. Would love to hang more of my fabric art and photography on the walls, but the darned bookcases keep getting in the way…not that we would EVER get rid of a bookcase!</p>
<p>DS1 had to tally the number of children’s books we had in our house for a third grade math assignment. The teacher did not believe him – we lost track after 675…</p>
<p>I did manage to get rid of one bookcase (well, we have built more since I bought it…) by weeding out the old bestseller paperbacks that turned out to be not so great and by donating all the HS required reading back to the school. Nobody at my house will ever sit down and think “Gee, I’m in the mood to re-read “My Antonia” tonight.”</p>
<p>Oh…my house is definitely “Mad Magazine”…and at times I feel like Alfred E. Newman.</p>
<p>Empty Nest – (Nice and Neat but Nothing New)</p>
<p>I will re read ‘My Antonia’ Something about Willa Cather makes me very happy about life, and I love to find her books at yard sales.</p>
<p>Obviously I’m still buying bookshelves. And trying to go through the old ones.</p>
<p>Archaeology Magazine</p>
<p>Everything is findable in layers of time.</p>
<p>If I want to find anything, I ask myself WHEN was I dealing with it, and dig downwards past things pertaining to last June, last April…</p>
<p>Wait… there are people who don’t have books in their bathrooms? Really?</p>
<p>That, I think, is WEIRD.</p>
<p>^^Not even an old Sears catalogue?</p>
<p>LOL, people!</p>
<p>Mathmom–your grandmother had clawed feet? :D</p>
<p>Not a magazine, but a book–The Old Curiosity Shop. Between the almost-antique furniture (cheaper than new and better made), the musical instruments, the books, and the knick-nacks, that’s about what we have. Oh, add a thin veneer of bills, newspapers, and magazines, and layers of clothes & school papers on the bedroom floors.</p>
<p>And my kids, when they are home, would like to turn it into PC User or Wired magazine.</p>
<p>I love Willa Cather! </p>
<p>Mad Magazine — Good one, Thumper!</p>
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<p>Well, I never saw her with her shoes off… ;)</p>
<p>Mrs. Fixit (for the woman married to Mr. Breakit)</p>
<p>For the home that is paying tuition and falling apart at the same time…</p>
<p>Books, magazines, newspapers, gameboy and occasionally laptop are all standard in our bathroom. We do squeeze in a few extra rolls of TP too.</p>