CHAOS
n.— «don’t need the stuff filling boxes and crevices throughout my home. It’s like the material equivalent of fatty deposits over muscles or lining the walls of blood vessels. It looks gross and inhibits my ability to do everything I might wish. For those who’ve encountered the Flylady crowd, they refer to it as CHAOS (can’t have anyone over syndrome).» —“The Freedom of Freecycling” by Meg Stout Meg Stout – writer (Virginia) Jan. 9, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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