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Terri's avatar

Sometimes I feel like when I gave up diet culture, I just put all those feelings into my home. This captures why that is so well.

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Emily F. Popek's avatar

I find optimization culture fascinating because it does NOT resonate with me very much. I am extremely a "good enough" sort of person (maybe to a fault?) and do not feel that I am skilled at decorating, organizing, etc. I've been trying ever since the pandemic to actually have a cute Zoom background and I still sort of don't! It's like a language I just don't speak. But I live with two people who are more attuned to optimization culture, which makes it very hard to just, like, buy a rug or a coffee maker or whatever. I recently just BOUGHT A CONSUMER GOOD that I had not researched AT ALL, and my husband joked, "How will you know if it was the best one??" and I said, "I don't actually care if it is!"

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