What is one thing that you could live without? My dining room. Only use twice a year-Christmas and Thanksgiving. Wasted

[debm55]

space. How about you?

[ZDU]

1. Trump

Seems reasonable, yes?

[debm55]

2. HAHAHHAHAHAHAH. Thank you ZDU

[biophile]

6. My first thought as well!

[debm55]

17. HAHAHHAHA. Thank you biophile. Happy Thanksgiving.

[biophile]

20. Back at you, deb55

Peace and joy for your holiday weekend!

[debm55]

24. you are welcome, biophile.

[in2herbs]

3. Have no intention of having parties again so I turned my dining room into a TV/conversation/reading room. This room

flows into an enclosed patio which has 2 wicker rockers. The view is incredible. When friends come over we eat out.

[debm55]

4. Very good idea. Thank you very much, in2herbs and have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

[Walleye]

5. My oven, I've gotten so I don't cook anything unless I can do it in the microwave or the toaster

[debm55]

7. That is a very great idea. Thank you Walleye. Have a wonderful thanksgiving.

[Walleye]

8. Thank you I will be visiting my brother. My sister-in-law cooks a full turkey dinner.

Happy Thanksgiving to you!!

[mike_c]

9. guest rooms plus

Our house is small, with two bedrooms, a dining room, and an "Arizona room" added in the back, along with the usual living room, kitchen, laundry/pantry, etc. The rooms are small-- it's a retirement home, all on one level. My wife and I sleep in the smaller bedroom, I use the master bedroom for an office, lab, and studio. She has her office in the AZ room and my workbench is in there too, along with her puzzle table and my drawing table. It has lots of windows and we often eat dinner in there too. We use the dining room as an ancillary work room because it already has a nice big table to stack things on.

At our age, stuff is only important if it helps us do things we enjoy. If a room or furniture gets little use we convert it for something else! I can honestly say we use every room in our house, everyday.

[debm55]

10. Thank you very much, mike_c. My Dining is stacked with all kinds of stuff. Have a great Thanksgiving.

[FakeNoose]

11. I'm a boomer who grew up in a large family - I'm oldest of 9 kids

My parents used their large dining table often, since it was the only room where we could seat everyone comfortably. The interesting thing is that each of us kids grew up and pursued our dreams, eventually moving out of our parents' house. Most of us got married and we now have small families - one or two kids - and eventually some of us became grandparents ourselves. But none of the original nine siblings have big dining rooms with tables like our parents had. I think it must be a generational thing....

We try to get together once in a while, but none of my sibs has room to seat the entire family at one table. Those days are over. My sibs and their extended families are spread out all over the country anyway, it's hard to imagine getting everyone together at the same time for anything. That includes weddings and funerals too.

[debm55]

12. Thank you very much for sharing with us, FakeNoose. I do believe it is generational, also. Same with special ocassion

china and dishware. Have a great Thanksgiving my friend.

[underpants]

13. Living rooms are useless. I used to think the front coat closets were too

I’ve never known anyone who actually uses their front room. Years ago we put our Christmas tree up in our front room just because we were never in there. Once. We put it up in our tv room/ den that was really one big room with the kitchen.

When we were looking at houses to buy 6 years ago, I had a running joke about always checking out the coat closet near the front door. Seems a terribly antiquated idea. Usually they weee just used as storage as we did everywhere we lived. Then in this one house I opened it up to find an electronic mainframe. This house was wired.

We actually use our coat closet for our everyday coats, shoes,….and storage.

I haven’t rooms in my house I haven’t been in in months. The spare bedroom and the “office” which is just another bedroom really.

[debm55]

14. Thank you very much, underpants. I have an 8 room house and most of the rooms are not used. In fact, Dolly , my dog has

her own room. The other bedrooms are storage areas. Have a great Thanksgiving, friend.

[OldBaldy1701E]

19. That is interesting.

Where I am from, we call the area where the TV, as well as other things that the dwellers usually use every day as the 'living room', and the front room where the 'good' furniture and pictures are as the 'parlor'.

As kids, we were not allowed to play in the parlor because it had to be ready for guests. Now, we seldom had guests, but it was the norm around my house anyway. We did put the tree in that room (mainly because it was in the front and we had to show our 'Christmas spirit'), but other than Christmas and maybe Thanksgiving, we seldom used it.

[Nittersing]

33. We had a coat closet in the house I grew up in.

All our coats, gloves, hats, boots and whatever were there. I can't imagine NOT using it.

We (3 kids) *did* add a door bell button to the closet. It rang in my brother's bedroom in the attic and gave us enough time to ditch the pot and try to air things out.

[ms liberty]

15. I turned mine into the exercise room

[debm55]

16. Thank you very much for that idea. ms liberty. Have a great Thanksgiving.

[ms liberty]

18. You too, deb!

[chouchou]

21. My Dear husband's "Shop" in our separate garage.

Have you seen those news clips when "the next day" after tornados have destroyed most of the town?
Yeah...that's my husbands "Shop".

[debm55]

22. Thank you very much, chouchou. Yes, I have seen them

Happy Thanksgiving, my friend.

[chouchou]

23. Always a pleasure! Have a great day and tomorrow

[yellowdogintexas]

25. a couple thousand things in my house. Really need decluttering

Our house has a room at the front which could be a 'formal'room or parlor or dining room or a combo of the two.
WHen we first moved here we had gatherings from time to time but it has become a sort of catch all, right by the front door. Behind it and through a pair of French doors is a long kitchen/tv room which we are in all the time.

One of these days maybe I will get the catchall out of the front room and its rightful furniture back into it.

[debm55]

27. I will join your job of declutters, yellowdogintexas , Oh , I always say that.

[Ziggysmom]

26. My goodness I have a lot of old crap. Dropped off tons of my husband's old clothes

at Goodwill. He lost weight, and hanging onto clothes that don’t fit is silly.

[debm55]

28. Thank you very much, Ziggysmom. Get this, my husband still has his polyester suit from the disco days and will not throw

it out because it "might come back in style"

[Diamond_Dog]

29. I have many useless things!

But one of them is a whole set of fine china, Mikasa, and crystal drinking goblets. Back in the 80s when we got married, almost every couple had to have “fine china” and “everyday china”. I never use the fine china because it is not dishwasher safe. I think I used it for maybe 2 holiday dinners in over 30 years. It’s really pretty, but what a waste of money! And people aren’t buying it, either.

My kitchen was tiny when we moved into this house. I had 2 and 1/2 feet of counter space on either side of the sink. We enclosed a breezeway and made that into our everyday dining room and enlarge the kitchen and got rid of the table and chairs in there since it was too cramped for me, my husband, and three big boys.

Happy Thanksgiving, Deb!

[LoisB]

30. Property tax bills, people who make turns without signaling, people who don't return

shopping carts to the trolley but most of all, IT and his cabal of evil misfits.

[debm55]

31. Thank you LoisB,

[LoisB]

32. Sorry, you said ONE thing.