If You Want a Tidy Apartment, Buy a Crap Computer

Or, how I learned to stop stressing and do the chores

Joseph Yossarian
5 min readFeb 23

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An open laptop seen from behind. A man is looking at the screen and ‘‘tearing his hair out’ in frustration
Responding to ‘not responding’ (Image by ACWells from Pixabay)

The home in which I grew up was generally a tidy place. The living room was always spotless, and my mother was a stickler for washing the pots right after a meal. Her assiduousness, however, doesn’t appear to have rubbed off onto her offspring. The bedroom I shared with one of my two…

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Joseph Yossarian

Freelance writer and blogger from the north-east coast of England, specialising in true crime, childhood memories and whatever takes my fancy.