Stuff... and Things!!!

People who totally gut the interior of homes when there is no structural or safety reason to do so.

People who paint over natural wood window casements.

People who paint over any natural wood details, really.

People who paint over the panes of transom windows.

People who want to “modernize” the interior of historical homes instead of restoring it with historic integrity.

Furthermore, anyone who remodeled and “modernized” a historic house from the 70s to early 2000s and now the interior looks extremely dated to the time it was remodeled while the exterior retains its historic charm.

Anyone who has covered up a fireplace. I know maintenance can be a pain in the ass, I don’t care. Argue with the wall you have created.

Anyone who has greyified or beigeified an interior.

People who gutted a house (that would have been livable in its previous state) and then gave up on remodeling and relisted it on the market. Fuck you. Go to hell.

People who painted the exterior of Victorian, Queen Anne, Craftsman style houses etc. bland and historically incorrect colors like plain white and grey.

If you have ever put in a popcorn ceiling (where there was not a popcorn ceiling before), death penalty, actually.

*This is a hyperbolic turn of phrase, I disagree with the carceral punishment system, especially in the United States. I don’t actually believe in incarcerating people who poorly remodel and flip houses, even if they are contributing to the current housing crisis and destroying architectural and aesthetic value.

if you've never had a major Life Changing Move in Together Get a Joint Bank Account relationship people treat you as though you are some manner of lost puppy or over grown twelve year old. If you've had that type of relationship and it ended, for any number of reasons, people insist on knowing all the gritty details so they may judge whether you were the hapless victim of a crazy ex or you were the crazy ex. The concept that things can end amicably or even neutrally is bafflingly foreign to people.

Single people don't typically go around offering unsolicited relationship advice but they are expected to put up with every manner of unhinged advice on How to Get a Man/Girl/Whoever. When we do offer our advice it is met with absolute ire and dismissed as though we are a child that spoke out of turn.

(Link above screencap of stuff.co.nz headline “Kiwi pukupuku/little spotted kiwi rediscovered on mainland Aotearoa after 50 years.”)

(And yes, one of our main, reputable national news sites is just called “Stuff.”)

Her storage unit was just robbed and vandalized, and they lost almost everything, right before the back-to-school rush. So they're starting from scratch, with less than two weeks to go.

Flint is one of the poorest cities in the US and a lot of these kids depend on the clothes and supplies they receive through programs like these.