If I walked into your room or house, or apt..what could I tell about you right away?

I might appear more wealthy than I actually am. I.e. I have 3 televisions, a computer, a playstation2, a wii, 2 dvd players, and a stereo. I'm not really wealthy.

You might get a false impression that I don't clean up very much. :-s Also that someone in the house really likes to read. BTW, it's not me. :)

We pretty much have all that also, you have an family member that runs thier own comptuer/fix it store also?  I don't have three tv's but we have one in most every room these days, small ones. Kids use them for "night lights" I think...but we have an diversified group of people in this house also...plus we always have had an lot of overnighter types also, esp "kids" and it helps to calm them down if they can see them going to bed on weekends. All we ask is the volume is down after 10 pm...so as to not wake others. As for during the week, they start off to bed at 8 pm..and we shut down by 10 pm. True, if you know the right people, you dont' have to be wealthy to have these things. When I buy the kids things as electronics, I do so to let them take them with them some day also. We still beleive in attemping to provide "Hope chests" for the future days, when one's on your own.  At least enough to cook and meal and eat it off dishes, and take an bath, and clean bedding to sleep with, and maybe to get one through their first Chriistmas. I also toss in candles and books that can teach them things as well.  I still have to get them each their own blow up air mattresses. but they do have their own twin sized beds they could use also. Hope I'm around then, but I never know...this way I know, I tried to help them with the basic's of living,.....dishes, pot and pans/bakeware, silverware, towels, blankets and bedding/comforters, cookbooks/survival books, candle holders, small table top christmas trees and trimmings... even my hubby and I never married until we had an few things together for the living part of life. I've seen many kids these days refuse to get married until they each have an car, and an furnished house bought and partically paid for.  

One of three choices or all three of them combined!!!

1. I have ADD

2. A tornado hit inside the house

3. Overwhelmed and stressed out 

Lyn,.... I use to like the "glow in the night" lego blocks when my son was little because we could see them at night and avoid the pain of walking on them getting through the house for an drink of water. they don't make them any more that I'm aware of these days.

Marianne,... my part wolf/part dog use to molt..he had to be kept outside back then on the back porch as his hair would litterally come off in slabs of fur. great big "mats"..in some ways I use to feel sorry for the animal. when they loosened up enough I could go out an comb some of them out, with an wire brush..one time getting half an garbage bag full of these mats.  He was an beautiful animal after the molting season though...very majestic looking.

Stephanie,..... I've had well over 148 kids now in the last 30 years here most the time, and to tell you the truth, they have worn me out. That does not include the some 23 kids yearly in Scouts...though many of the things I use to do... I've had to give up because of my own health. I spent yesterday for instance, in one hour's time cleaning the house over three times just to be able to vacuum, I never did get it accomplished. We had 6 outside yesterday playing Basketball and two more on bicycles...and another visiting his grandparents next door...talking to the bicycle riders. But being outside isn't the problem of being inside. I dont' know about where you live, but despie the size of this house, it was never made for the kids to do anything in their rooms but sleep and watch TV..you have the room full with an bed, desk, and chest of drawers. If I put in an roll away bed for their friends to stay overnight, you have to walk in the room down the side of the bed sideways as it's wall to wall furniture by then. for them to do craft projects or the like, means they have to be done somewhere in the house and it adds to the messy looking house, but I'm not the only one, many of the new houses are like this, and many of them look like an bomb went off inside of it if they have little kids. I have always liked having my garage "thier" room..with an screen over the garage and two side doors, that hook shut.. also with screens at both of the ends...where they can be seen if they are in the garage and the computer out there, and an place to sit an watch Tv and their own little private room so as to speak to do what they want, where all I have to do is shut the door...and tables to do thier craft work also. Listen to thier music.  I have an bathroom off the garage inside the house also. it has saved me an lot of flooring over the years. I have still been through 8 sofa's though. I tend to buy used ones...nice but not so expensive if they get ruined...several fo them have been sleeper sofas also. You'd be surprised what an glass of Cherry Kool-aide can do to an sofa when it gets spilled. Imove as much stuff as I can outside in containers. Balls of all sorts, football, baseball, basketball, soccer, golf, you name it, and shoes, baseball shoes, skates, rubber boots,hiking boots for instance. Next comes the helmets, ATV (all terrain vehicle), batter hats, bicycle helmets. I also do it with extra fabric I store. Cans of paint. I get those lock top type large constainers. If you ever try this get the type that are on rollers also, so you can roll it right to where you need it.  

1st: Neat freak; TOTALLY organized.

2nd: Sailing family; sailing pictures and America's Cup memorabilia everywhere

3rd: That ther must be at least four people living there but it's just two.