- golf scores
- crying babies
- mosquitoes
- clutter
- nuclear waste
- credit card statements
- amusment park lines
- armpit hair
- speeding tickets
- dress sizes
- john and kate
- nuclear weapons
- gas prices
- cats
- prescriptions
- reality television shows
- back pain
- poverty
- blood-alcohol level
- enemies
- pink slips
- pollen
- homework
- red lights
- pollution
- yankee wins
- spelling errors
got anything to add?
{ 18 comments… read them below or add one }
My five cats and I have to disagree!
(But fyi, they are all fixed and strays/rescues. Fewer UNWANTED pets, is definitely better!)
@Meg, :)
Less noise. I can’t remember my last experience with total silence
Wind (especially when having a picnic). Or if it’s coming from your husband! : )
Weeds
Telemarketers
billboards…we loved that about Vermont!!! No eye pollution!
@tina, telemarketers, that’s a funny one!
fleas!
old-people-with-strollers-who-decided-to-go-to-the-grocery-store-when-you-have-too
Ehmm.. yes, that may be based on a trauma ;)
greetings from the netherlands!
How about less…
acne
calories
tv
Junk Mail
Fun list! Thanks for including Jon & Kate on it.
Just found your website today (from Zen Habits where I lurk) and I’ve already bookmarked you. I look forward to reading your archives.
I’ve been decluttering for the past 7 yrs and now am pretty much down to the last layer. My goal is to pare down to “everything I own fits in the car,” and for the first time, looking at what I have left vs. what I really need/love/use, I actually think it’s a do-able goal.
The biggest hurdle I have in achieving my goal, however, is how to provide a proper home for my 3 cats (also all 3 rescues, and “fixed”); my own comfort and safety I’m not as worried about as I am theirs.
Oh well didn’t mean to hijack your post; back to lurking.
Attendees to a 5 year olds birthday party.
It’s my current trauma, coming up in a couple of days. My son invited so many!
Love this place – I too found it through Zen Habits and I’ve been feeling the urge for a while, but I do love my *things* – I’m an obsessive knitter so have too much yarn, I’m into Japanese culture so love having little japanese knick-knacks to show off the things I’m into. I’m a photographer and have the most stunningly beautiful child so there’s photos of him everywhere…you get the idea. We’re also becoming self-sufficient-ish so there’s a whole lot of home-brewing equipment, stuff we need for the allotment, etc scattered about – it’s hard to balance the minimalism with the self-sufficiency and get the levels perfect, but I’m trying my best. Thank you for being inspirational!
Plastic
Things to do.
Yankee wins. Love it!
My two cats and I disagree too! (So long as you don’t go overboard and hoard cats!) :) They, too, are rescues and I am an advocate for spaying and neutering to try and have fewer cats who need homes! Great blog!
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