[ SECRET POST #4399 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4399 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Cassandra Clare & her books: TMI/TID/TDA]


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[Doctor Who]


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[Canadian ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir]


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[Charmed]


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[Criminal Minds - season 4, episode 8 "Masterpiece"]


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[Tidying Up with Marie Kondo]











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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I love watching this show because I love when they start in on how 'small' everything is. Or 'why is there a washer/dryer in the kitchen?!'. SO I CAN MULTITASK, KAREN. THAT'S WHY!

Though the funniest thing I ever heard on one of these shows was someone (I don't remember if it was the husband or wife), asking if the carpet came with the house. Bitch, it is installed wall-to-wall carpets, not a fucking area rug. Do you think they're going to rip it up and hope the new house has identical dimensions?

[(Anonymous)]

Not just multitasking, but the rooms most likely to have the fitting plumbing for washers is the bathroom or the kitchen. It's not rocket science!

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair, she might be asking because that is not a given in all European countries. There are countries where it's not unheard of to remove stuff like the stove and oven when you're moving out.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, appliances make sense to me if you spent a lot of money on them and didn't want to buy new ones, but installed carpet seems weird because of the way it's cut to fit specific room sizes.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it would. But people are weird...

[(Anonymous)]

People we bought from in England ripped out the fitted living room carpet when they moved out, without telling us they were going to. Weird as the room is a very odd shape [extended cottage, still live there 22 years later and still love it, but it is not at all a standard layout]. Also we all had very grubby feet for a couple of weeks.

[(Anonymous)]

I've heard that in some parts of Europe, all the kitchen stuff in an apartment, including CABINETS, belongs with the renter and travels with them, which strikes me as A) a lot of unnecessary work to dismantle, move, and install, and B) a pretty chancy a thing to invest in when your next place might be too different in size or configuration for your old kitchen stuff to work and you need to get rid of it to go spend money on new stuff.

I know taking kitchen appliances with you when you sell your housr is not uncommon in some parts of the US, though not where I've lived, but even that still seems nuts as American kitchens tend to be made so that the major appliances and cabinets/counters fit close together. Your stove might be too big for the stove-space in your new house, so you either have to leave it (but what if the buyers want to bring their own stove?) or partially re-do the kitchen, or else it might be too small and look weird. Refrigerators are a real doozy because they vary so much in size.

[akacat]

For the carpet one, I wonder if the buyers were deliberately poking fun at the producers? As I understand it, the “buyers” have already bought one house, and if even they love it to death, they’re still required to come up with X number of complaints about each house they look at. I could see a creative person thinking up a few absurd concerns/complaints to try to slip into the show.

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't know that about the show! But that actually makes it funny.

[(Anonymous)]

You often see them complaining about easily fixed problems (paint color, lighting fixtures) to dredge up something to complain about. I think they also try to make it look like the one they chose has some other problem, like being too expense or something, to make it harder for the audience to guess, but then magically they have more money or whatever the problem was went away.