Last thought before bed

[unixronin]

And it's more than half rhetorical, inspired by a mention on a mailing list of selling your house yourself, and advice on preparing to do so.  Right there on the list of to-do's, sure enough, was"de-personalization".

I've always wondered about that.

Why is it that, when endeavoring to convince some person that your house is a place they want to live in, the first thing a realtor will advise you to do is to remove all personal touches and turn the house into a bland, sterile, cookie-cutter place that you wouldn't want to live in?

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I think that's the explanation usually given, yes. Most people I've actually talked to about it think it's creepy. You walk into a house that you know six people live in, and it seems like some kind of Stepford house that has no-one and nothing actually alive in it.