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My Least Favourite Thing

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Roget’s Thesaurus

There is literally a word for the chaos of my desk. If I could just find the Roget’s

My collection of books, newspapers and other stuff has been growing very satisfactorily, despite the hopes of executives who introduced hot-desking.

  • Tony Wright

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My orphan earrings project an  optimism.

My parents feared earrings would corrupt me – I didn’t listen

Each orphan earring I own is a relic in my personal museum - the aftermath of an attempt at a micro-reinvention or a relationship breakup.

  • Lily Chan
The pants that were once magic.

I have a pair of magic pants. They once transformed me, now they haunt me

Each time I buttoned them up I felt transformed from a twenty-something aspiring writer to a fully-fledged adult who knew things.

  • Nova Weetman
A box of CDs sit in our attic.

For years, I’ve asked my husband to ditch his CD collection. Then I sifted through it

I gave away my own CD collection when we moved into our house 12 years ago. My hoarder husband was having none of it.

  • Cara Waters
My least favourite thing.

I’ve never been able to wink, and Nonna’s creepy rabbit never let me forget it

No one in my family remembers where the porcelain rabbit money box came from, only that it has always been there.

  • Hannah Kennelly
Kitchen mixer artwork

My impossible choice: A kitchen Ferrari versus a retro model leaking motor oil

“Is it from a packet?” was my grandmother’s grandest insult upon tasting a cake baked by her progeny.

  • Melissa Singer
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Orange objects I can’t bear to touch.

A beanie, a bottle and a chair. The three orange things in my house I can’t touch

There are three immovable orange objects in my house. One is very soft, one is very comfortable, and the third is a cheap piece of plastic that no one else would give a second thought.

  • Maher Mughrabi
A classic gamer’s must-have - a CRT TV.

My hobby’s not the same without my huge, heavy, ugly wingman

It can be a massive hassle, but I’ve never gone without at least one CRT TV in my house. The hardest part is choosing which one to keep.

  • Tim Biggs

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