They Always Ask Where All of My Furniture Is....

I feel your pain. I too have only enough furniture to hold our things. I too put all clothing into drawers and in closets. I have only one couch and recliner oh, and 1 table. My dining room table no one even eats on. home is what you make of it sweetie.

Well, I move a lot as well (or I have in the past) and I find that I always get rid of bigger furniture with each move. I try to be a minimalist, I don't like things like end tables, coffee tables, cabinets, etc.
BUT...I have a very...hmmm....sentimental side and I tend to keep things that others probably think are strange...and because of that, I am prone to clutter. I have been working on it and I'm getting better about not keeping things that I really don't need, but I'm not quite there yet.
I don't even have a bed...I HAD one, but I preferred the idea of having that extra space at the time, and junked it... a perfectly good bed in great condition. I sleep on the couch, and the floor.
My preference is minimalism, but I tend to be just the opposite.=P

We've got kind of a simular problem. First off, I get complaints b/c ppl say there isn't enough seating in the Living Room. There are 2 chairs, one for Hubby-one for me, and a love seat for my Nephew to sleep on when he comes over.

We also don't have a kitchen table and chairs. We haven't needed one. We generally eat in the Living Room or at our desks in the office. I have decided that I want to get one but haven't found one that I like yet.

I'm more of a minimalist...mostly getting only the things I need. Rather than alot of extra furniture.

**AT PEACE WITHIN**

~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~

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with how many times that you have moved in the last year i dont blame you for not having tons and tons of furniture.. nothing worse than having to lug all of it around... its awful... well in our house we are not planning on moving for a long time... we live on a farm and my fiance took over the house that his grandparents lived in and wants to have it in the family which is totally fine with me.. but we did have to upgrade the house and add on etc etc stuff like that... we do have lots of furniture i will admit that maybe too much... but that is just us its not for everyone... i just dred the day if we ever moved HAHA

I'm so jealous. I have moved about four times in the last three years and everytime there is more stuff. The first time around wasn't so bad because I didn't have much, but then I moved in with my boyfriend and now we have a house full of stuff.

I would love not to have tons of stuff. My first apt., was so bare but I didn't care because it was just me, my couch and my bed.

Your friends may ask where your furniture is, but they're the ones with bad backs they day after moving.

I know I'm too much of a clutterer to have lots of furniture. Table tops,shelves and stands are just more places to keep things I don't need. I'm not exactly a minimalist but I do try to be careful about what I have. If it has a function then it's alright, like a kitchen table or Computer Desk, but if it's just a decorative stand then I avoid it.

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Well, I can definitely understand that kind of lifestyle. Both of my parents were in the Navy, and we were constantly moving! Furniture was kept at an absolute minimum. Now they are both retired, so moving has been somewhat minimized. However, we recently made a decision to make a short move into a neighboring city, since my family inherited a large portion of land there. Because of concerns about making the house look cluttered to buyers, we moved much of our furniture to a storage unit. Now, in a family of seven, we only have seating for three in our family room!

All in all though, I really think I do prefer having a somewhat minimalistic mindset towards household furnishings. There seems to be more space to move around, and it feels like a more open environment.

I think you're smart to be minimalist in that regard. I'm always glad when I find a new friend, though, and discover they can't scale down their books! When I moved in with my folks, I gave away a lot of my books and I thought my heart would break. It didn't, though. I kept all the poetry and the special things such as my Jane Austens and Edgar Allan Poes and such. Those were able to fit in my combo coffeetable/bookshelf piece I have here in the puter room. There is also a box of books in storage, but I didn't really keep a lot.

I don't like to keep a lot of shelves and cabinets because the more shelves I have the more I am tempted to fill them with a lot of superfluous stuff. Where I live now I have my Computer Desk, where I have my art glass and family pictures and Beatles figurines.

When I leave this house, I doubt I'll collect a lot of furniture again. I got rid of most because it was old and getting shabby. As long as visitors have a place to sit and it's comfy that will be enough for me. I have one big bookcase in storage and it should do fine for refilling.

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I wouldnt say we have HEAPS of furniture etc... but we dont just have a few things either, so I guess we are somewhere in between.
I never get anyone asking us any questions about our furniture etc... I guess if we did it would be when are you getting a new one?? As most of our furniture was second hand when we moved in together and we have not seen the need to upgrade yet.

We are military too and have very little furniture. In our bedroom we have one small dresser, our bed and my husband's 42 inch TV that he had when we married. We lost all of our furniture and pretty much everything else in Hurricane Katrina. The TV happened to be at my parents at the time which is why it survived. But, even before the hurricane we had very little.
We are hardly ever home because of his work, so I have minimal decoration on the walls as well. We will move again soon, so I don't really plan on decorating any more than I have.