Home flea market

Robert Golding
3 min read2 days ago
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“I live with my parents. There are plans to move to my permanent residence. But while the new apartment is being renovated, I’m temporarily living with them. Recently I began to pay attention to the fact that the house is literally cluttered with all sorts of figures, figurines, large vases, and candles. If it used to be beautiful, now it’s simply out of place, since there are too many of them. The floor of the apartment is filled with this nonsense. Either I bought it myself or a friend gave it to me. Everything is memorable and dear to the heart. But it’s impossible to live among this bad taste.”

Let’s start with the fact that you are leaving soon. This begs the question: why do you need these extra worries? Moreover, such conversations can serve as a reason for disagreements to arise between your mother and you, which smoothly flow into emotional battles. If, nevertheless, this is important to you, and you deny the fact that a conflict has arisen, then it’s time to move on to action.

It is difficult to work with such “collectors”, so you need to take their strength with cunning.

I remember you are planning to move soon. Choose the most annoying decorative objects for yourself and ask your mother for them in order to supposedly decorate your home with them. When things come to you, give them away or slowly destroy them. If mom asks where her “gifts” went, say…

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Robert Golding

Those who live twice as fast can enjoy double the opportunities in life.