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Furniture (Score:3)
My guess is anybody with any furniture is going to vote for the under 50 option.
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My furniture came with the apartment I'm renting - it doesn't belong to me.
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Same here. I mean I have my computer desk and... and... hmm, nothing else really.
Oh yeah, a washing machine which I haven't used anymore because the apartment has one already.
So way less than 5 cubic meters.
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Hell, anyone who owns a car probably can't pick the "under 5 m^3" option, unless it's a really small car.
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I imagine if you're living in a small apartment that comes furnished in an area where you can either rent a car, use public transit or take a bike, it's not that hard to get under a cubic meter. Even a motorbike could get you under the m^3.
On the other hand, if you own a house, it's probably over 100m^3. And if it comes with a lot of land, it's not too hard to get over 500m^3 since you technically own a portion of land above and below the ground. Depending on how much, it could come out to a lot.
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Well, owning a house with trees tends to blow out the cubic metres quite a lot, although the rainbow lorikeets http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lories_and_lorikeets [wikipedia.org] that raid those fruit trees would likely dispute ownership of them and, the fights over ownership between them when the figs, apricots, plums, pomegranates and loquats reach low levels, further diffuses who owns what.
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What are you talking about? My is 3.8L. That's less than a cubic metre.
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How big is your car that it won't fit in a cube 50 metres to side ?
A cube 50 metres to a side is 50×50×50 = 12 500 m^3.
I don't care to find a third root right now, so 5m^3 may as well be a cuboid 1m×1m×5m.
Re:Furniture (Score:5, Interesting)
If you own land, even a little, you have over 5000 cubic meters, unless your deed specifically denies mineral rights, then you need about 1/4 acre to have your "empire" not fit in 5000 cubic meters.
Phil
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And here I was wondering how to fit the oak trees, pine trees and various other vegetation.
But, even not counting land, vehicles, people and animals, I don't think I could fit all the stuff in 50 m^3. At least not if padded well enough to survive transportation. Last time I moved, I needed a semi and dozens of trips with an SUV and the amassment hasn't stopped since then.
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Here, you own as deep as you dug. In my case, that would amount to around 822 000 cubic meters, not counting any of the trees or house.. I guess there's not enough resolution on the poll =)
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My guess is anybody with any furniture is going to vote for the under 50 option.
Where did this start - Steve Jobs? He had like almost zero possessions, lived like a monk - spare and spotless rooms. For a billionaire he could have had buckets of toys, but keeping his living simple was his style - no more than he needed.
Me, on the other hand, I'd make a rotten communist - my needs for Stuff are almost extreme. Been doing some house cleaning and amazed how much stuff I had in storage - much of which is gone now, but still more to go.
Re:Furniture (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm prepared to accept that my definition of "belongings" is not the same as everyone else's, but I would not consider a home nor a vehicle to be "belongings". Those are property, yes, but belongings feels more like the stuff you put in those homes or vehicles, not the homes or vehicles themselves.
Anyway, if you can fit all your stuff in one of those 26 foot long U-Haul trucks, you're in the under 50 category. Considering U-Haul says that truck is good for moving 4 bedroom houses, that should just about cover most people.
The only real question is, would all your stuff fit into the under 5? For a college student, probably. A stereotypical slashdotter living in their parents' basement, probably. An apartment or condo dweller, unlikely, unless it's a really small place with no room for furniture.
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Our stuff fit in one of those trucks with about an inch to spare (that is, the door did not scrape on the way down). That's really a metric shitload of stuff—I'd like to get rid of at least half of it.
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I just can't picture in my head how much would be in cubic meters.
This is a US centric site, why didn't they go with what most normal people measure in over here and go for cubic feet?
You measure your house in square feet....would be easier to picture that and add another dimension.
I'm too lazy to look up on google for the conversion...but if it was in feet, I could likely picture what an good estimate would be since I generally know my houses square footage.
Re:Furniture (Score:5, Insightful)
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Actually, around where I live lakes & bodies of water are still measured in acre-feet.
Not that that would necessarily be Wyoming, Mississippi or Utah (which was my first admittedly biased guess). See:
"An energy intensive part of the California water project is pumping water to an elevation of 2000 feet to cross
the Tehachapi Mountains near Los Angeles.
Assume that an average household in Southern California uses 0.5 acre-foot of water per year,
0.5 acre = 21780 ft
0.5 acre-foot = 21,780 cubic feet.
C
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He is just pissy the french make cars that don't leak oil. Unlike all British things. You know why the British dont have a computer manufacturer? They cant figure out how to make them leak oil.
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You measure your house in square feet....would be easier to picture that and add another dimension.
One square foot packed from floor to ceiling is about one cubic meter. One medium-sized bedroom is about 100 square feet (maybe 120, but close enough for this purpose). So if you packed your stuff from floor to ceiling with no packing materials and no waste of space, could you fit it in half of a bedroom? If so, you've got under 50 cubic meters of stuff. If not, you've got more.
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/. don't seem to want to discuss the demographics (the FAQ is very out of date, the company placing the ads doesn't say), but there are lots of non-US comments made while the US is asleep.
If I open an interesting, few-hours-old story in the morning it's often got lots of comments from Australia and New Zealand (judging by the slang). Until about midday the comments are mostly from Europe. If I happen to look in the evening (as I am now) it's noticeably American. Language is often a giveaway, but so are s
Re:Furniture (Score:5, Insightful)
>This is a US centric site, why didn't they go with what most normal people measure
US centric, maybe. Normal centric, probably not.
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> This is a US centric site, why didn't they go with what most normal people measure in over here and go for cubic feet?
Because the rest of the world does not use retarded measurements. You should not either.
Using measurements based upon the length of a king's nose or foot is one of the great gifts royalty have left us. If it weren't for them we'd probably have all been run down by flying cars by now.
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Dividing down one person's measurement of an arbitrary planet's circumference by an arbitrary power of 10 is hardly more logical than a length picked at random. Trying to work out a subsequent system of weights and measures based on that distance and a material that doesn't exist most places in the universe but still conveniently measures things found in daily life hasn't left us that much better off than the Imperial system (what's a liter? one cubic decimeter?! what's a gram? the mass of one milliliter o
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Lazily, reflexively, I answered 5, but then realized that if I left behind the folding table used as a computer desk, vacuum packed bedding and clothes, and discarded consumables, I'd probably be able to pack everything in a one meter cube.
With the books, tools, legacy computers, furniture and beer-brewing stuff now gone by the wayside, 5 would've been a tight fit, but likely doable.
I found it an interesting exercise to have to visualize my stuff and how to pack it.
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I'm 31 years old, and when I moved in July, I just had the entirety of my apartment in a 5x10x8 storage unit, excepting a recliner that was approaching its last days that I decided to donate to the dumpster-divers. So not counting my car, motorcycle, and cat, I was at 11 cubic meters. Honestly, I was kind of surprised it all got in there. I tetrised the hell out of it, and it was definitely a danger to my friends helping me unpack it in September, but I was pretty impressed with what I achieved, consider
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Re:Furniture (Score:5, Funny)
If you stop paying taxes, "your" property reverts back to the true owners.
Are you talking about Native Americans, dinosaurs, or what?
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You don't even own your body!
This will come as a surprise to most people, but you have to feed the silly thing or it dies! How unfair is that? You have to give it resources or you don't get to keep it anymore. Ridiculous.
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Houses aren't 'belongings'.
Belongings are things you can take with you, or have with you. Buildings don't count, unless they're portable.
I voted 50mÂ, but it's close. Not long ago 5m would have been sufficient, but I own a few bits of furniture, some kitchen stuff, a bicycle... less than 10mÂ, but probably more than 5.
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I guess the answer depends whether the stuff needs to be usable afterwards. I'm pretty sure I could fit everything into 5m^3 if it was suitably crushed.
Smallest space my belongings could fit (unbroken):
How much is that in Gigabytes? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:How much is that in Gigabytes? (Score:5, Funny)
Depends on storage media. (Now, this wasn't really too hard to figure out, wasn't it?)
But as i can see that you're completely lost here and don't have the faintest idea how to do this simple arithmetic task for yourself - i will tell you how it would work with SDXC memory cards as an example.
1 SDXC memory card has a volume of 32mm x 24mm x 2.1 mm = 32e-3m x 24e-3m x 2.1e-3m = 1.6128e-6 m^3
So, in 1 cubic meter (m^3) fit 1m^3/(1.6128e-6m^3/1card) = 6.2e5 card(s)
SDXC cards come in various capacities: 64GB to 2048GB
So 1 cubic meter would hold from
6.2e5card x 64GB/1card =~ 3.97e7GB
up to
6.25e5card x 2048GB/1card =~ 1.27e9GB
What can we learn from this result?
Since it spans 2 orders of magnitude, measuring a spacial volume with this unit of measurement isn't advisable.
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I'm sorry, I just can't understand unless it's quoted in Libraries of Congress.
People underestimating? (Score:2)
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Yes, but it's not a 50m^3 cube. All my stuff fitted quite nicely in my previous 50m^2 apartment, so 7x7x1m cube is perfectly adequate - not much stuff higher than 1m apart from bookshelf :).
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Re:People underestimating? (Score:5, Interesting)
My car is around 20 cubic meters, and that's if I leave it empty for some reason. If I can use the internal space and strap stuff to the hood, it's probably about 12 for itself. It's by far my biggest posession. My mattress plus frame is less than 2/3 of a cubic meter. My beanbag chair is about 1.5. My desk is probably also 1.5, and that's again assuming I'm not using its internal space. My various computers (laptops and a gaming console) probably fit into one cubic meter. My books fit into about the same space, maybe a bit more. My clothes take up perhaps as much as two, when you factor in things like ski boots (a full laundry hamper is about 1/4 of a cubic meter). Other outdoor gear (camping/skiing/diving) is probably another cubic meter. Random boxes of "stuff" (kitchen things, games, toiletries, non-computer electronics, physical documents, and so forth) add up to possibly 5 m3, and that's being generous.
All together, I might hit 30 m3. Moving took three car-loads, and I've acquired a little bit of stuff since then, but not terribly much. I live in an apartment, and have relatively little furniture. I'm not a university student anymore (and could probably afford to live a lot better than I do) but this is comfortable and I don't really need more. I suspect there's quite a few people who live similarly here, although until the options were laid out in front of me I couldn't have given you a number of fthe top of my head.
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The room all of my posessions right now fit in has a floor space of 22 m^2. Since i live in a flat share, there's more of course - in the living room, kitchen and bathroom. But that's not my property.
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The moving van that moved us last time was not that big. About 2.2x2.5x6m for a total of 33 m3. About the size of a 20' shipping container. Such containers are used as complete offices for 2-3 people, or even as simple home.
It is hard to imagine people that need more than 50 m3 to store all their belongings, that would be a huge amount of furniture. This is almost as much as a 40' shipping container: they are about 67 m3. They're really big, and fit really a lot of stuff.
To come back to your example: a doub
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Ah, but you can stuff the voids with books, clothing and other small items, so it's not so bad. They are also useful for protecting fragile items if you line them up back to back.
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Motorbike, tools, clothes, computer, bedding, kitchenware, a computer desk, two nice chairs, and a couple boxes of random gadgets, books/etc.
That's all I own. I think I can fit all that in a 3.6x3.6x3.6 cube.
The office desk/chairs are my only furniture. All the places I've lived in included furniture, and since it only costs about $10/week I don't plan to take out any personal loans to buy my own stuff (at least not in the foreseeable future).
Re:People underestimating? (Score:5, Funny)
It took her 4 hours of trying to unpack before she called me up begging for help. I told her that the "keystone" chair had to be removed first, and to do so required moving both front seats all the way forward and tilted. Without that chair out, none of the other furniture could be removed. I wish I had taken pictures.
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50 cubic meters could also be expressed as a room a little more than 16 feet on a side and a little more than 6.5 feet high. That's actually quite a lot of space, especially if you pack it all in well. I'd guess that most Americans could probably fit everything except their cars into such a room, and some might even be able to squeeze the car into there.
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I suffer from the "gonna do that" and "might be useful" syndromes.
Not that I go hunt stuff down but rather that I don't trash stuff I likely should trash.
-nB
some perspective (Score:5, Informative)
A huge SUV would have a cargo capacity of about 4 cubic meters. The largest truck that uhaul rents [uhaul.com] is about 45 cubic meters. A tractor trailer holds about 110 cubic meters.
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Yep, I'm actually surprised at the distribution here. 5 cubic meters is basically the furniture/no furniture limit, for a small apartment they consider 10-15m^3 normal. Even if you include a car, assuming you will stuff the car full of goods on the inside and put clothes and other soft light stuff on top it wouldn't add that horribly much. I would think a lot more people would fit within 50m^3, it's pretty huge when solidly packed. When I last moved I all the "hard" things were in packing crates of about 0.
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When I last moved I all the "hard" things were in packing crates of about 0.08 m^3 and I used around 15 or so, that's 1.2 m^3
That's about where my wife and I are at. We moved from the US to Switzerland for graduate school, so our possessions were basically clothes, computers, and dishes/silverware/kitchen stuff. Most electrical appliances aren't compatible, so we didn't bring them (note: many things were wedding gifts, so we left them with family back in the US). We ended up moving essentially the same amount of stuff you did. The personal possessions I actually care about can basically fit in the back of a car.
Our apartment in B
Re:some perspective (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:some perspective (Score:5, Funny)
Is your wife that fat??
Re:some perspective (Score:4, Insightful)
Also, for those people who own houses, or plots of land, that would substantially increase the size of their belongings.
Point being that when interpreting the spread of answers, you have to account for the variation in how people interpret the question. (Note that I'm not complaining about "lack of options" or "lack of precision" in a Slashdot poll. Actually, one of the things I like about Slashdot polls is the analysis that goes on in the comments about how fundamentally unclear the question is. Slashdotters are probably more pedantic and detail-oriented than most people, but it's still a useful exercise... reminding us to be weary of the results of surveys, for instance, since how the question is worded, and interpreted by respondents, can massively affect the distribution of answers, and thus the analysis of the data.)
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I'm all for packing things inside each other ... but I'm not sure if real property counts. I mean, I "own" a house ... but if there's a mortgage, can I really own it? (my car, on the other hand, is paid for.)
As for the land itself .. does that really have a volume, and would I consider it to be "belongings"? I'd have to take the more 'you can't own the land' view of things, and say that no, the land part shouldn't count ... I'm going to have to go no with the house itself due to the mortgage, but I'm not
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I mean, I "own" a house ... but if there's a mortgage, can I really own it?
Yes. The bank just has a lien against it. If they decide to call your loan and make you pay it in full, you can still write them a check or get someone else to finance the balance. They can't just take it because they feel like it, like a landlord can (with proper notice).
That said, I wouldn't call the house "stuff". I would call it the place you put your stuff. Even a car is hard to call stuff, at least by how an American defi
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640k ought to be enough for anybody!
a lot of dirt! (Score:4, Interesting)
So if I own the land my house sits on, how much dirt and rock should I figure if the surface area is 1000 square meters? :P
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It depends if you own mineral and water right for the land. Or, in some places, you might have or not have rights to rain water.
So this poll works fine for:
Where it doesn't work:
Re:a lot of dirt! (Score:5, Interesting)
Turtles (Score:5, Funny)
Just go until you hit the first turtle, after that you know its just turtles all the way down.
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Just go until you hit the first turtle, after that you know its just turtles all the way down.
But are the turtles yours?
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Don't worry, there's a layer of bedrock at the bottom.
How many cubic metres is a house? (Score:2)
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Suddenly 5,000 m is looking too small
there was a "cubed" symbol in the line above - where'd it go?
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Well, go as high as you can without violating the airspace above you - that would vary by jurisdiction.
After a metre or so down you'll likely hit gas lines/water lines/sewer lines that aren't yours, so you could count that metre or so.
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Unlikely. The parts of those you don't own typically are out in the street, which you also don't own. If they're running under your house, they're probably running *into* your house, and you definitely own them—nobody else is going to repair them for you if they fail. However, this isn't what people generally mean when they talk about "belongings." By your standard, just my house would be over 600 cubic meters, including the insulation.
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Depends on your local laws and building practices at the time your property was built (though sometimes the ownership of things like shared services can be changed retroactively by legal changes*). Afaict it is not that unusual to have services that serve other people running across your property and even with things that serve you the demarcation point (the place where the supplier's equipment ends and your's begins) may be inside your property.
Still for the most part you are right especially with modern d
bah (Score:5, Insightful)
As I expected, there is at least one comment about how "Not everyone is obsessed with amassing property."
That comment was, of course, made in response to someone talking about how large their bed is. Yes, owning a bed is now considered "amassing property" by some nutjobs.
Regardless, my whole point is different than that. Property size can correlate directly to where you live.
As an example, merely by living in a colder climate -- one requires an entire array of winter gear that someone without ice, snow, and -40C temperatures does. This expands to more than merely coats, boots, and portable heaters. It also includes things such as snowblowers or snow shovels, skis and snow shoes (instead of just a bicycle for summer exercise).
I can think of many tools I own, merely because of the climate I live in. Tools such as booster cables, battery booster packs, extension cords with lights (to show that they are working, when you plug them into your block heater for your car).
This sort of logic expands to what type of dwelling you live in. If you live in a house, instead of an apartment -- well then, you're going to likely want some form of lawn mowing device. Rakes, shovels, work gloves. Soon, the list expands, a variety of tools to repair your dwelling -- unless you want to throw money at contractors merely to paint your house and the like.
My point? Well, clearly the comment I mocked at the starting of this post was thrown by someone that doesn't comprehend these things.. and likely there are others as silly as well.
Don't even get me started on what is required if you own a farm. Or your own business. Such things are your "belongings" as well, but to be inane enough to pull the "greed" card -- well, small minded indeed.
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I think the notion that people are obsessed with amassing property is wrong, as you say, but there is a kernel of truth in it: most people have a lot of stuff they never use. I certainly do. When our house is complete enough to move into, I'm really looking forward to sorting through it and getting rid of at least half. But like you, we will still have a snowblower and skis. I have three bicycles; I'm thinking of getting rid of one of them, but the other one, even though I only use it rarely, is a f
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Or one could say that living in such climates where one has to amass these extra belongings is irresponsible. You have to consume (in the environmental sense) much more simply to stay alive than someone who lives in a more mild climate.
The same is true for rural living vs city living. I have an apartment in San Francisco and a farm in Iowa. My SF belongings are probably 1/10th my IA belongings (land aside) yet I live much better in SF than IA. I have one set of clothes in SF where I have three in IA (Winte
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Largest U-Haul is about 45 cubic meters (Score:2)
According to U-Haul's specs, their 26-foot truck has about 45 cubic meters of internal space: http://www.uhaul.com/Reservations/EquipmentDetail.aspx?model=JH [uhaul.com]. They say it's sufficient to move the belongings of a 4-bedroom home. I suspect a lot of people answering this survey had trouble visualizing what 50 cubic meters looks like, maybe this will help.
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Actually I voted 500 because I think that truck would be just too small. two cars plus furnitures that can not be "unmounted" easily. I am afraid that won't fit...
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We moved from a 3 bedroom apartment to a 3 bedroom house about 5-6 years ago. We used the largest U-Haul and had 1 pickup and about 3-4 small SUV trips to get everything moved. Our basement is completely furnished, so I figure our belongings have doubled. I chose less than 500, since the that seemed more what I thought the poll was asking (not including cars and house).
I have kids.... (Score:3)
I have kids, sooooo.....last option.
Unbroken (Score:2)
I keep you all in my Klein Bottle. (Score:3)
Everything that's outside is also inside, so it's all mine! mine! Muahahahaha!
And you can get your own made by Cliff Stoll (author of The Cuckoo's Egg) too...
http://www.kleinbottle.com/ [kleinbottle.com]
G.
My recent move (Score:3)
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I Have A Large Library (Score:2)
...of science fiction first editions [lawrenceperson.com], so I choose less than 500. In fact, I bought my house so I'd have a place to store my library. What good is having a first edition of 1984 or Childhood's End unless you can take it down from the shelf to show off to your friends?
Uh oh (Score:2)
We own our house, and it sits on an acre and a half of land - I guess we're screwed, unless we can vary the z dimension of this theoretical storage space as needed. I'd be happy to exclude the blackberry vines out back...
Biased Wording (Score:5, Funny)
What is with this metric crap? This is an American site, use American measurements, dammit! For the record, my belongings fill approximately 120 hogsheads.
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Believe it or not, but slashdot is actually reachable all over the world thanks to this Internet-thingie!
Metric? (Score:2)
This is Slashdot! These measurements should be in easily identifiable equivalents such as library's of congress or football fields.
Missing option (Score:2)
homeowner married with children (Score:2)
Land (Score:2)
One of my possessions is a 2.3 hectare lot with, amongst others, a 53 metre tall tree on it. If I needed it to fit in a conventionally shaped box, that would be 12,200 m3.
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duh. I mean 1.2 million m3
Try living in Australia :/ (Score:3)
The vast, vast majority of rental properties in Australia come with no furniture. So at 18 if you move out, you need to purchase a wash machine, fridge, bed, cupboards, basic kitchen appliances, cleaning goods, television, towels - everything.
The only thing provided for you as legally required is
Cooking device - generally oven / stovetop / hotplates
Hot water unit
Heating of some kind
Curtains / carpet
You have to put everything else in there, it's expensive, you wind up either owning a lot of cheap shit furniture you replace when you have more money / better taste and it also ties you down significantly more, moving is a nightmare.
You're "free" I guess to choose your items of course, so if you like a nice 65" plasma and a big, high quality bed but it's certainly restrictive.
I wouldn't say it's the only reason but it's certainly a contributing factor in me not travelling the world all carefree. I have an entire "home" to pack up and put somewhere or lose tens of thousands of dollars worth of stuff. - it's a bad excuse for me just being lazy / too scared to travel - but damn I wish I could easily store the stuff cheaply. Also it really sucks for tourists visiting Australia on work Visas, they need to purchase beds / fridges / desks and so on - unless they go into share houses.
Anyhow - long story short, I only live in a fairly small 1 bedroom apartment and at a rough guess, I would say I own at least 15 cubic metres of stuff :/ Would love to own significantly less but it's not easy.
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That's something I found really odd when I first moved to the US from Spain. In Spain, apartments are generally fully furnished, and only bedding and personal items need to be brought over. It makes it much easier to change places if you want to be light. On the other hand, most people own or aim to own their place (this might be changing due to the size of the housing bubble that's still deflating way too slow to make things affordable), so in general college students are the bulk of the market, which expl
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I see benefits to providing and not providing a fridge - but as a rental property, I absoloutely understand the carpet and curtains concept - people change houses yearly, every 6 months, every 3 or 4 years - people don't normally rent very long term.
Why should a tenant have to purchase and re-purchase carpet when renting a place? It's extremely expensive and it's extremely wasteful - furthermore, based on floor layouts, rarely would it be re-usable.
I have heard of countries in Europe where even the carpet a
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Sorry I didn't make that clear.
There has to be "flooring" - it could be polished floorboards or lino (?) etc - but you can't have raw concrete. In European rentals, I've heard you literally get nothing but the shell of the house. Carpet isn't necessary but decent, habitable flooring is.
Don't own much but.. (Score:2)
What if my stuff owns me? I don't own much, I'm just a servant to my things.
#homeowner
Comparative Estimates (Score:2)
Replaceable "shit": several cubic metres.
The irreplaceable: an 8GB microSD card.
Re:Odd choice of options, and top 10 choices (Score:5, Funny)
fail #5 - thinking nerds can count. Not everyone is a rocket scientist, and if NASA can't do the conversion math ...
Missing options:
1. I'm Divorced Ken - Divorced Barbie got all my sh*t, you insensitive clod!
2. I'm Divorced Barbie - ask Ken, he'll know.
3. I've been watching ToolTime re-runs. Fire up the Binford Crusher, Al!
4. I didn't pay off the exorcist, so my possessions possess ME!
5. I distributed my possessions under the GPL - who knows how much cruft other people have grafted onto them?
6. I distributed my possessions under the BSD license - I don't have to tell you, but you're free to work it out yourself any way you want, honey!
7. I work for Apple. I keep forgetting all my possessions in bars.
8. I work for Microsoft. The EULA says I don't own any possessions, I just license them, and if they spontaneously catch fire and kill someone, it's not their problem.
9. I run slashdot. I'd tell you, but every time I try to post it, I get a "Guru Meditation Error". (seriously, what's wrong with slashdot today)???
10. I'm Sarah Palin. You'll have to read my lastest book. Then you can tell me, because I sure as h*ll don't waste time reading books!
Edit: #4 - for the OCD-afflicted counting nazis.
Edit: Hey - editing comments WORKS! I'm impressed!
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I wasn't really sure how big all my stuff would be, but 5000 cubic metres sounded like a lot, so I chose less than 5000 cubic metres as the safe option.
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Even so, if the smallest space is 497.56 cubic meters, it is less than 5000 cubic meters and less than 500 cubic meters as well.