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‘Take features like home theaters, formal dining rooms and game rooms. These often turn into expensive dead zones — pricey square footage that is very rarely used. Rather than social hubs, they serve as glorified storage for our stuff.’

More thunderingly obvious truths are offered about McMansion Melancholia, this time in the Washington Post… Study after study demonstrates that, if your pointless excess rooms function to hold your pointless excess purchases, you are likely to be unhappy about it.

Gazing at the shit-stashes all about you, you may find yourself toppling over into larger terrains of sadness… As in … ah, the pointlessness of it all!

UD has already described the nothingness of her aunt and uncle’s Potomac MD McMansion, a house intended mostly for status display.

Which display certainly worked, because they were robbed of their jewelry more than once.

Margaret Soltan, January 14, 2026 1:33AM
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