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24 October 2005

Home What makes a place 'home' for you? →[More:]Assuming Maslow's conditions have been met, what are the specific qualities that make a place or environment feel like home for you?

post by: Frisbee Girl at: 18:15 | 27 comments

My loved ones are close to me.

posted by matteo 24 October | 18:18

For real? Nothing. Maybe... maybe my photo albums.

I've managed to uproot myself and live in a few places around the world carrying only the clothes on my back, a few books and photos. As long as I can keep in touch with my friends, I'm happy. a broadband connection?

Although I guess now I also better say mr. gaspode should be there, too.

posted by gaspode 24 October | 18:24

An empty nook on the carpet in front of the fireplace for me to take a nap on.

posted by AlexReynolds 24 October | 18:25

a textbox, a post button, and a banhammer in the corner.

posted by quonsar 24 October | 18:27

That's a good question, Fris. I think it's having my oldest cat and all my books around me.

posted by puddinghead 24 October | 18:33

Wherever I hang my hat.

Or where the ones I love most are.

posted by dg 24 October | 18:34

Where the books are.

posted by Marxchivist 24 October | 18:36

My bed with my sheets and my pillows and my woobie.

posted by Specklet 24 October | 18:37

I'm a packrat. I like my stuff. My house verges perilously close to clutter overload, but I've moved a lot and whenever I get everything - from books to furniture to shells and rocks and the clay dinosaurs the kids made in kindergarten - unpacked I'm always just so happy.

posted by mygothlaundry 24 October | 18:44

Specklet, I've got my woobie around me now and a fire blazing. Aahhhh...home.

posted by jrossi4r 24 October | 19:01

I googled woobie and saw that it is a pet-saliva saturated chew toy. Freaks.

Home is anywhere warm and quiet.

posted by sciurus 24 October | 19:08

My toilet. There's just nothing like using my own toilet. Can't be duplicated. Of course, I'm kind of a toilet snob.

posted by puke & cry 24 October | 19:12

My cats and unfettered nakedtime.

posted by zerokey 24 October | 19:23

My computer and my cat. My books help, but aren't necessary.

posted by goatdog 24 October | 19:24

I googled woobie and saw that it is a pet-saliva saturated chew toy. Freaks.

Trying to get Kenny to give up his security blanket

Jack Butler: I understand that you little guys start out with your woobies and you think they're great... and they are, they are terrific. But pretty soon, a woobie isn't enough. You're out on the street trying to score an electric blanket, or maybe a quilt. And the next thing you know, you're strung out on bedspreads Ken. That's serious.

posted by Specklet 24 October | 19:34

Loved ones. Minimally, Mrs Nomis.

Ideally, I'd like my home to be Karekare, but career circumstances make that something for the future.

posted by nomis 24 October | 19:37

nomis, can I come visit?

posted by Specklet 24 October | 19:44

Hookers.

In the trunk.

posted by orthogonality 24 October | 20:06

I spend way too much time on the road. Home is where my honey is.

Everything else is disposable. (except my puppy)

posted by mosch 24 October | 20:17

Where my husband and cats are.

posted by deborah 24 October | 21:06

Where I can get a glass of water on a moonless night without turning on a light.

posted by pliskie 24 October | 21:10

Specklet, I'll be there over Christmas/New Year. Come on down. I might even cook up a dish of karekare...
≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by nomis 24 October | 21:17

I might even cook up a dish of karekare...
and if he burns it, he'll commit hari-kari..

*rimshot, tip your waitress*

posted by jonmc 24 October | 21:24

home is where my heart is

yet i am usagi yojimbo
a masterless nomad

or more a kirin
who flies the world and does what it must

as by the impertitives of a shaman
we must battle evil in our path
despite our peacable ways

part of why i like the internet
it makes me mobile
with my homies at hand

*does the shaolin shuffle*

posted by ethylene 24 October | 22:28

Flying the world and doing what you must...
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posted by nomis 25 October | 00:18

Holy Christ on a Cracker, what is up with everyone and their mother talking about Maslow these days? I think in the five years I've been studying psych, he's been given 15 minutes total but in the past month I have heard him mentioned half a dozen times. Did someone dig up his research and put it in the latest Chicken Soup/GTD/Dan Brown book?

posted by Eideteker 25 October | 01:15

it was my maslow's aztec heck shack comic
which is weird because it's mostly still unpublished

and it's an easily accesible diagrammatical way for people to understand

up top with ms. elandor!

posted by ethylene 25 October | 01:27

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