mildly satisfying and infuriating at the same time!
Wildly Satisfuriating.
My life IRL
Nothing like drinking a hot tea on a stormy afternoon and curling up with a good book of orange!
A nice blue book on a hot days is quite refreshing
Wait until your mood turns dark.
Perhaps a forbidden and zesty dark purple tome.
Interior design suppliers let you place orders like “6 feet of purple books.”
Booksbythefoot
One of the last renovation shows I watched just put the books backwards for a “clean look”
Wait what? Can you even do that? A clean look? What!?
Most designers are from over function.
I just looked at that books by the foot website and their example of reversed books is really gross looking. I’d rather have all white books than have them reversed. It just looks closer and gross.
“Meh, who ‘reads’ books? It’s pretty!”
Store shelver probably.
“The books are all broken, none of them connect to social media.”
One of my favorite stories is from 2011:
“A magazine is an iPad that does not work.”
That baby is now 13, maybe 14 years old.
At least 14, maybe 15 - because it was 1 just a bit over 13 years ago (I’m sure if the baby was nearly 2, it would’ve been labeled as such)
They just focus on the dollar value
Reminds me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMGJLZDLpUg
I’m in the mood to read something orange today.
My mum used to do this to my books in my room and I hated it
I did this to all my parents’ bookshelves when I was about 8. For the next 45 years they blamed me every time they couldn’t find a book.
What’s an Op Shop?
It looks like a charity shop that I would see around here. They also organise clothes by colour which makes more sense but still, I’m only looking for my size and in a charity shop the clothes are all random so availability is more important.
It’s apparently what they call a thrift store in Australia and New Zealand. They sell used goods for charity.
An Op Shop is Australasian slang for a thrift store/charity shop. Not to be confused with Opshop, a New Zealand rock band formed in 2002.
It’s a shortening of opportunity shop
This is a far more rational order than the chaos that is our bookshelves:
And that is after significant weeding.
We did try with the paperbacks, but we decided “fuck it” after a while.
I might be weird, but I like the look of a full but chaotic bookshelf.
Putting the wooden doll up one shelf with the other humanoid figures would be a good start.
It took me a while to figure out what you were talking about. That’s not even supposed to be there. That’s my daughter’s. I have no idea why she decided to put it there apart from the aforementioned “fuck it.”
I think that is mildly satisfying. To be fair: I haven’t seen a single book shop sorting the books alphabetical. A book shop isn’t a library.
My wife does this to our books and it drives me nuts.
- “Where’s The Art of War?”
- “It’s in the black section”
One year her mom and I reordered them by author last name while she was away on a work trip. Took her 5 seconds upon returning home to notice it was different and she was furious.
“I’d like to buy a book, please” “What are you interested in?” “A blue one!”
Maybe they’ll further alphabetize it after sorting by color… hahah right. What a mess
First color, then size, THEN alphabetical.
Ah there is a logic within the madness. Does this make me mad too, or was I crazy to begin with. He cries because he does not know.
True story: a temp worker once moved into the desk next to mine, but they couldn’t get their computer monintor just the right height. I told them to go to the library and ask for a book about this size, about so thick. And to pick a color they liked. (they didn’t do it.)
Finally! Something mildly infuriating!
Could it be… Aesthetics?
