{"id":32161,"date":"2016-10-29T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-we-live-today-is-neatly-defined-by-our-take-on-mess-gaby-hinsliff\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T13:11:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T06:11:26","slug":"how-we-live-today-is-neatly-defined-by-our-take-on-mess-gaby-hinsliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-we-live-today-is-neatly-defined-by-our-take-on-mess-gaby-hinsliff\/","title":{"rendered":"How we live today is neatly defined by our take on mess | Gaby Hinsliff"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nDecluttering makes unnecessary work for women but can be undeniably reassuring in a chaotic worldThree coffee cups jostle with a pile of unread books, a tangle of chargers and a small avalanche of paper perilously close to sliding\u00a0on to the floor. Somewhere beneath all this junk is my desk, and somewhere on that \u2013 maybe behind one of those dried-up tester pots of paint, or underneath yesterday\u2019s newspaper? \u2013 is a letter that\u00a0needs signing. Somewhere.But it\u2019s fine because, according to the economist Tim Harford, a tidy desk genuinely is a sign of a wasted life. Well, sort of. In his new book, Messy, he explores the eternal cliche that creativity springs from chaos and concludes that tidying up too much \u2013 either literally, or figuratively by creating overly rigid systems or ways of thinking \u2013 really is counterproductive. Take that, so-called decluttering experts, with your endless guff about the right way to fold T-shirts! Continue reading…
\n
\nSource : theguardian.com
\nRead more…How we live today is neatly defined by our take on mess | Gaby Hinsliff<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Decluttering makes unnecessary work for women but can be undeniably reassuring in a chaotic worldThree...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-8mJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53255,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/update-your-home-in-a-weekend\/","url_meta":{"origin":32161,"position":0},"title":"Update your home in a weekend","date":"April 29, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r From DIY desks to hidden wardrobes, these easy updates will transform your pad. Plus, five jobs for the bank holidayIf you don\u2019t have room for an office, but need somewhere to put a slim desk, scour your home for \u201cdead\u201d space like this, by a bedroom window. Attach a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":39863,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-durham-county-durham\/","url_meta":{"origin":32161,"position":1},"title":"Let\u2019s move to Durham, County Durham","date":"January 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r As buildings go, Durham Cathedral is as good as it gets What\u2019s going for it? Is it silly to move somewhere just because of one building? I think I could, you know. I\u2019m an archi-geek, so perhaps more predisposed to being intoxicated by a smashing guildhall or a stately\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":142304,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/i-gave-up-renting-in-london-to-live-nomadically-its-dramatically-enriched-my-life-lydia-swinscoe\/","url_meta":{"origin":32161,"position":2},"title":"I gave up renting in London to live nomadically \u2013 it's dramatically enriched my life | Lydia Swinscoe","date":"February 12, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Short-term lodgings, pet-sitting \u2026 it\u2019s taken me everywhere from Dorset to Tbilisi, and I\u2019ve (mostly) enjoyed itI\u2019m typing this while sitting at a very nifty, handmade foldaway desk in a compact, one-bedroom flat in Kentish Town. The cosy apartment\u2019s dark wooden floorboards are overlaid with thick, Bhutanese woven rugs\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":96399,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/heals-failed-to-refund-me-for-my-faulty-1250-ercol-desk\/","url_meta":{"origin":32161,"position":3},"title":"Heal\u2019s failed to refund me for my faulty \u00a31,250 Ercol desk","date":"August 21, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r I was sent a damaged product and there were parts missing on the replacementI ordered and paid for an \u00a31,251 Ercol Pero desk from Heal\u2019s in October last year (reduced from the full price of \u00a31,390). It was delivered on 9 December. The \u201ccable management tray\u201d was faulty and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":65208,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/banks-alarm-staff-with-sensors-that-track-desk-use\/","url_meta":{"origin":32161,"position":4},"title":"Banks alarm staff with sensors that track desk use","date":"September 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r City firms use devices to monitor property needs but face backlash from workers\r \r Source : ft.com\r Read more...Banks alarm staff with sensors that track desk use","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":66032,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/desk-life-why-the-office-group-is-trying-to-change-the-way-businesses-work\/","url_meta":{"origin":32161,"position":5},"title":"Desk life: why The Office Group is trying to change the way businesses work","date":"September 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r \r \r Source : telegraph.co.uk\r Read more...Desk life: why The Office Group is trying to change the way businesses work","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}