Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).
What kind of system is your favorite?
Is it true that you can tell a woman's relationship with her husband by looking in her refrigerator?
How come everyone in the world heard me make this statement? But all said in jest -- or parable -- has fate, so here goes . . .
I'm a firm believer in a principle called carryover. In plainer words, the personal characteristics you exhibit in any situation are essentially the same ones you show in other, totally unrelated situations. A person who's sloppy in appearance will generally be sloppy in speech, promise-keeping, and gardening. If you are an aggressive competitor on the tennis court, you generally will be that way in PTA meetings, fruit canning, and style of dress.
Your refrigerator is probably the most personal of all your furniture and appliances -- behind its door (and often in front of it!) is a composite picture of your organization, judgment, decisions, hopes, failures, and successes. It's not open to the world (Remember how upset you are when anyone outside the family looks in your fridge?) but you can tell a lot by taking a hard look in it.
Are you the type who lets the refrigerator go and go and go, cramming in more amid more and finally going to two-story stacking, ignoring spills and vegetables that have shrivelled beyond identification -- then suddenly in a dedicated attack of repentance you wip into it, leaving it gleaming and immaculate? You are probably also letting marriage or living strains and irritation go, go, go, until they are intolerable -- then in a big weeping, soul-cleansing trauma, you sweep your cowering family into a confrontation, followed by a tearful kissy-pie all-is-well. But then you start stacking the fridge again, putting lids on the problems that you'd rather delay making decisions on. You do this until the fridge (or family situation) stinks and is ready to explode -- and then you dive in again and make peace, love, apologies, promises, etc.
Those who keep their refrigerators bare (I mean not a morsel to snack on -- not a saucer of cold peaches or a peeled boiled egg in there) often have empty, cold relationships with family and associates.
The person who can't manage to put a lid on a smelly container in the refrigerator probably can't keep the lid on a neighborhood secret.
If you have disguised or hidden "no-nos" (fattening chocolates) stashed in secret places in your fridge, you'll probably have other hidden things (gifts, rash purchases, damaged things, spare money) the rest of the family doesn't know about.
If a fridge is dominated by processed foodstuffs, it generally signifies the time the family spends together is limited.
If the fridge is dominated by the husband's "habit" residue (liquor, fish bait, film), that generally means the woman of the house is far from liberated (equal).
Before any of you gentlemen and children sit back and feel too smug, the same diagnoses can be made from a man's toolbox, a kid's locker at school, scout knapsacks, etc.
-- Don Aslett, "Do I Dust or Vacuum First," pp 134 - 5.
I once had a friend who did readings at psychic fairs. She would tell people about themselves based on what they had on their key rings. If their keys were all facing the same direction (orderly life) or strung on every which way (confused life) and then she would note what sort of charm they carried. It was uncanny how significant the charm turned out to be, even to the untrained eye. For example I remember one lady who was morbidly obese who had more charm's than keys. Another who's issue was a chronic lack of funds had a tiny coin purse for her charm, but she never put any money in it, thus her archetypal purse was always empty! -- Rosada
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).