It welcomes everything that goes under the nose without flinching. She is the famous chair left at the bottom of your room, which turns into a daily furniture on a daily basis. A visually, but very practical object, that can be difficult to abandon. Amélie Boukhobza, clinical psychologist, tells us more about it.
“Clothing chair”: why don’t we get rid of it?
We all know her, this famous clothing chair. The one where jeans, sweaters and shirts pile up “Not dirty enough to be washed, not clean enough to be stored “Note Amélie Boukhobza. “CHez some, it disappears squarely under the battery, to the point of becoming a furniture in its own right. I also have this chair, don’t believe it! “, Confess the expert.
A bunch of rather banal clothes therefore, but which nevertheless deserves to dwell on it: the clothing chair does not only designate a lack of organization – it is revealing of our way of dealing with everyday life.
“This is an in-between. Neither really disorder, nor really order. A SAS, while waiting to decide: washing or putting away? And for many, this in-between surely has something reassuring”, confirms the psychologist.
A reassuring space more than a sign of laziness, according to the shrink
Thus, this intermediate space says a lot about us. “”Behind, there are certainly several springs. The habit, of course. But also not to make a choice, the small postponement of the task, or even a resistance to too strict standards of the perfect order. The chair becomes a compromise: we do not put away, but we do not dirty either “, Note Amélie Boukhobza.
But it can sometimes invade space, to the point of becoming disturbing – for oneself and for your/your spouse.
Should we banish it from our interiors?
Faced with this question, Amélie Boukhobza is not categorical.
“We must not Not necessarily delete this chair from our interiors. If she overflows toIt is not to stifle, maybe it’s time to question what it represents. But if it remains a small comfort zone, and that it does not bother anyone, after all … why not? “, she says.
A little disorder that can also bring us comfort
The essential is therefore not so much to eliminate it as to understand what it symbolizes in our daily life. The clothing chair can be a precious indicator: it signals our relationship to order, to procrastination … and can even make us more peaceful.
A small compromise between disorder and comfort … which sometimes deserves to be tolerated!