BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr

Subject: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 12:11 PM

...rangers?

Well? Are they? I think so. I've seen evidence of it. Every now and then, maybe once or twice a year, maybe once every two or three years, they get a desperate urge to rearrange all the furniture in the house or apartment. This requires a lot of unnecessary work (mostly done by unwilling men!), exposes a lot of gross dust and crap that must be cleaned up, and results in an arrangement that is worse than the former one.

Why do they do it?

Discuss... (grin)

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: GUEST,tars
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 12:12 PM

yES ! mY SISTER AND MY AUNT HAVE GOT THAT ( FEMALE ONLY !!) GENE !

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: GUEST,zIGZ
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 12:16 PM

I had a good laugh there, seeing as how I am responsible for the initial" are all men... " thread ! Sorry !

Right, anyway, that's a good question because I have read that women's brains need more variety of colour and styles to keep them happy. E.G. we benefit from changing our clothes styles more often and we benefit from wearing different colours.


If you don't believe me, ask yourself how many sane women would happily CHOOSE to go to work in a dark suit every day for years and years.

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 12:21 PM

Micca would say I have that problem....I would call it sorting out the mess!

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 12:26 PM

So true. If a man finds one jacket, one shirt, one pair of shoes, and one pair of pants that he is basically really satisfied with ("I mean, they fit okay, eh?"), then he would be perfectly happy to wear nothing else but those for months at a time...only he's worried that other people (like women for instance) might notice, and they might complain about it, so he grudgingly changes his clothing now and then to avoid that.

I personally think women have it all over men when it comes to this.... (despite being a man) Let's face it, they're more imaginative.

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:53 PM

I read about a study some years back that said moving furniture is healthy, whoever does it. It is exercise, for one thing, but the creative process combined with exercise releases endorphins. The reporter said the researchers speculated that those who moved furniture often did it because they felt better afterward.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 02:09 PM

Sounds reasonable.

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: Peace
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 02:11 PM

Tell that to Stevie Wonder.

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: gnomad
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 02:23 PM

I've rearranged the furniture from time to time all through my life, don't know why but it always seemed right at the time.

When I lived with my parents my mother didn't understand it, and my father didn't notice it. As I have lived alone since then it doesn't matter to anyone but me.

I wouldn't say it was compulsive, though, but then neither am I a woman.

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: gnu
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 02:37 PM

I wear my blue workpants a few days or until they get dirty. Then, I wear my green workpants, unless I have a messy job to do, in which case I change into the already dirty blue workpants. Same for my workshirts. Blue, green, blue, green.... six pairs of pants and a dozen shirts, in various stages of wear. And, I don't buy the cheap workpants, either. I spend as much as $21.95 on a pair of pants and get the Kodiak stuff. You can change pants without taking off your boots.

For solemn occasions, such as funerals and weddings, I have one pair of black dress pants, one grey sweater and one red golf shirt. For stepping out, I have NFL logo t-shirts. The quantity varies from year to year, depending how long Budweiser gives away a free one with every two-four.

I have two pairs of black, heavy duty work shoes. Nobody looks at your shoes on solemn occasions. Even if they did, they haven't said anything to my face yet.

As for outerwear, I am a Canuck, so, I have two sets of rain gear, eight jackets and parkas, six toques, a dozen pairs of various types of winter and work gloves, gum rubber boots, heavy duty felt lined rubber boots, two pairs of snow boots, a pair of snowshoes, and, of course, more than six hundred peaked caps... all worn with the peak in the front.

Now, that's one dapper Canuck eh?

P.S. I moved the furniture for whatshername three times in one week. Since the divorce, I have moved the furniture once... into my new house. Hmmm... I wonder what five years of dust bunnies looks like. No matter, nobody looks under the furniture anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 02:40 PM

A classic Canadian male. Little more need be said on that subject. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: Amos
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 02:44 PM

This mass-generalizations as a substitute for saying anything interesting has to cease, now, LH. Stop it this minute. You know better.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 02:51 PM

IMHO, it's a good idea to rearrange furniture a couple of times. You might need to experiment a bit before you find the perfect arrangement. Once you find it, you want to leave it that way the rest of your life.

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 03:05 PM

It's a joke. This whole thread was intended as a joke. Do you really think I'm making a serious statement about Canadian males here, Amos?

If I was, I'd be writing for MacLeans magazine or something like that, and getting paid a decent wage for it.

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 03:07 PM

I agree that there are perfectly valid reasons for rearranging furniture now and then. Just not compulsively, that's all.

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: Micca
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 03:07 PM

It also reminds me of the Question
" Why do women dislike Bathrooms"?



Its the ONLY room they can not move the Furniture around in at whim!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: Peace
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 03:09 PM

What's furniture?

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: number 6
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 03:18 PM

Good thread ... I'm married to a compulsive furniture arranger .. this is the first house where I have been allowed to have a room just to my likings ... ancient stereo equipment, guitars, photography equipment on shelves, yes, more than 1 parka hanging on wall hooks, various hats, cuckoo clocks, 2 hounds laying around, numerous cd racks, book shelves mainly holding historical and war books, a pirate flag, and this room is my sanctuary. Every time Ann enters it she always makes some remark about how it must be arranged as it is disgusting.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: Cluin
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 03:24 PM

No.

My girlfriend ia a case in point. She hates that kind of change.

She said when she was a kid, her mother moved them around a lot. Six months in one place was a long time. And the old lady always (and still does) moved the furniture around in every room several times a month. Must have been a gypsy in the family tree somewhere in her past...

Anyway, my gf says she had enough fiddling things around that way in her past and now she craves stability. The furniture stays put.

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 04:47 PM

The best thing to do to prevent it is nail or glue all your furniture to the floor when it first arrives. Carpets should also be glued down.

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: LilyFestre
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 05:58 PM

I can't speak with for any other woman about this, but I get bored with the way rooms are after a bit. I probably change the furniture around every six months or so while my husband is at work. He never seems to mind. He too has his own room and I stay out of it. The door stays shut and it's his. I don't care how he keeps it as long as there aren't bugs and the window is closed when it rains or is cold. With that said, I have a room of my own too...sometimes it's downright dangerous to be in there! It's nice to have a space where I can leave a work in progress out until I'm ready to work on it again!

So anyway, compulsive? Nah. Just bored.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: Peace
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 06:01 PM

Now I feel guilty. I'll move the chair then.

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: Cluin
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 06:03 PM

The one with the compulsive furniture rear is the couch potato with the TV remote in hand.

Who wears the pants?

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: Peace
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 06:05 PM

"I may wear the pants, but she controls the zipper."

Little bit of wisdom for you guys out there.

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: Cluin
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 06:05 PM

Who stands to gain?

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: Cluin
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 06:06 PM

Who stands to pee?

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: Cluin
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 06:10 PM

Back and to the left.
Back and to the left.
Back and to the left.

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: Peace
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 06:10 PM

One doesn't stand a to pee, one wears a to pee.

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: Cluin
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 06:14 PM

My friend Pasquale stands-a to pee.

Or so he tells me.

Subject: RE: BS: Are all women compulsive furniture rearr
From: LilyFestre
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 08:34 PM

LOLOLOL