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How vanillaized is your house? - 7/6/2009 3:49:15 PM   
LadyPact


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Status: offline 		Today, the packers came.  This is the stage in the part of our move where people (bless their hearts) literally show up and put everything in boxes that we intend to put on the moving truck.  That is basically everything that we can live without for a month.  The boxes will then be loaded tomorrow, along with the furniture, to be shipped off.

Now, I thought I had done a pretty good job of sterilizing the place.  The toy bags (which are coming across the country with us) were secured in another room.  I don't play at home often, so there was no cross set up in the bedroom.  The corsets and leather goods were stashed away.  I felt confident that the vanilla packers would not be exposed to items related to an alternative lifestyle.

Well, I was wrong.  When the packers arrived, little by little as I was instructing them on what they would pack and what I would take care of Myself, I realized that I wasn't as good at this as I had thought. 

Pack up everything on and inside the dresser.  Except I forgot about a little figurine bondage bear with a pet on a leash.  Yep, everybody has one of those laying around.

All of the books on the shelf are to be shipped.  With titles such as "The Loving Dominant", "BDSM 101" and probably at least a dozen others, that probably turned an eye.

A crockpot sounds innocent enough.  Unless said crockpot still contains wax.

How odd do you think it is for a person to have several boxes of latex gloves stored under the sink?

What the heck is that funny looking, padded bench that's on the porch that we forgot to cover?

If that wasn't enough, a kinky friend popped up on chat to send a message entirely BDSM related.  Screen as big as day.

Plus, a phone call from My submissive, during which I absent-mindedly closed the conversation with "I miss you, lil one."

I could give various other examples of things that I missed.  Needless to say, I'm sure the packers will have interesting stories to tell after their work day.

Now, it isn't every day that strangers are going to come into your house and have access to your dresser drawers.  Most likely, nobody is going to be inside your bathroom cabinets.  Still, are there copies of titles on your bookshelf that could turn a head or is that interesting candle on your end table really made of paraffin wax?

Just how prepared is your home for vanilla folks?


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RE: How vanillaized is your house? - 7/6/2009 4:29:59 PM   
RumpusParable


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Status: offline 		I close the lid on my sex toy case during the day in case the maintenance staff comes through the house for something unexpected... Otherwise, my house is sprinkled with kink when friends and such come by.

I've a one-bedroom apartment.  My house is "quietly sexual/kinky"... 

Livingroom:  (looking around here to see what I can see)  I have, along with other non-sexual books, Madonna's Sex book decorating one of my bookshelf tops.  My reference section has a shelf devoted to sex books (Joy of.., Kama Sutra..., etc) of various sorts.  I've a poster of Klimt's The Kiss kiddy-corner from Flament's Une Baiser Entre Mille.  And my two toy bags are shut and next to the door for easy grabbing to take out or to play in.  Story of O dvds mixed in with the rest of my collection.  Oh, and there's a sharps container on the counter between my livingroom and kitchen.

Bedroom:  I've my lovely A-frame suspension rack made by Wickid's Pet set up and also corner devoted to my autoclave, ultrasonic, and general sharps gear set up for cleaning and use.  Floggers and ruffled panties and such hanging in my walk-in closet.

Bathroom:  At the moment there is a surgical stapler on my bathroom counter because I used it the other day to put a pretty bow on my chest when I wore a tanktop.

Except the suspension rig and my autoclave none of this particularly stands out... I've multiple prints and posters on my walls, several bookcases of books, a bunch of containers and items for regular and professional makeup on my counter, etc.  So it mixes in and the common areas where visitors get to go are generally what they expect of my home:  stuff from all over gotten from my travels, geek artifacts and some sex in a tidy mishmash.

Edited to add:  forgot the singletail that's sitting on top of my wine fridge in the livingroom

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RE: How vanillaized is your house? - 7/6/2009 4:31:34 PM   
poeticfreak


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Status: offline 		i don't think public rooms need to be sterilized just subtle or understated,  and if the nilla folk notice things then perhaps they're not as nilla as thought

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RE: How vanillaized is your house? - 7/6/2009 4:54:16 PM   
justme1980


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quote:

ORIGINAL: LadyPact

Today, the packers came.  This is the stage in the part of our move where people (bless their hearts) literally show up and put everything in boxes that we intend to put on the moving truck.  That is basically everything that we can live without for a month.  The boxes will then be loaded tomorrow, along with the furniture, to be shipped off.

Now, I thought I had done a pretty good job of sterilizing the place.  The toy bags (which are coming across the country with us) were secured in another room.  I don't play at home often, so there was no cross set up in the bedroom.  The corsets and leather goods were stashed away.  I felt confident that the vanilla packers would not be exposed to items related to an alternative lifestyle.

Well, I was wrong.  When the packers arrived, little by little as I was instructing them on what they would pack and what I would take care of Myself, I realized that I wasn't as good at this as I had thought. 

Pack up everything on and inside the dresser.  Except I forgot about a little figurine bondage bear with a pet on a leash.  Yep, everybody has one of those laying around.

All of the books on the shelf are to be shipped.  With titles such as "The Loving Dominant", "BDSM 101" and probably at least a dozen others, that probably turned an eye.

A crockpot sounds innocent enough.  Unless said crockpot still contains wax.

How odd do you think it is for a person to have several boxes of latex gloves stored under the sink?

What the heck is that funny looking, padded bench that's on the porch that we forgot to cover?

If that wasn't enough, a kinky friend popped up on chat to send a message entirely BDSM related.  Screen as big as day.

Plus, a phone call from My submissive, during which I absent-mindedly closed the conversation with "I miss you, lil one."

I could give various other examples of things that I missed.  Needless to say, I'm sure the packers will have interesting stories to tell after their work day.

Now, it isn't every day that strangers are going to come into your house and have access to your dresser drawers.  Most likely, nobody is going to be inside your bathroom cabinets.  Still, are there copies of titles on your bookshelf that could turn a head or is that interesting candle on your end table really made of paraffin wax?

Just how prepared is your home for vanilla folks?



Well with the exception of a couple of "little people" I don't change a thing, If they can't deal with it "there is the door don't let it hit you in the A**"
I have shocked a few pizza deliverly boys from time to time ;)

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RE: How vanillaized is your house? - 7/6/2009 5:00:18 PM   
WestBaySlave


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Status: offline 		 Totally vanilla here ... you'd have to be some sort of psychic to know an extremely kinky person lived here! But all that might change if I was given a reason for it to. 

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RE: How vanillaized is your house? - 7/6/2009 5:15:30 PM   
CatdeMedici


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Status: offline 		I remember the movers taking away the dresser with the vibrator rolling around in the drawer---Me, the movers and the Ex had a laugh about that one.

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RE: How vanillaized is your house? - 7/6/2009 5:22:20 PM   
kuriouswitch


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Status: offline 		well nothing too kinky here but my parents came over unexpectedly one weekend and my stepdad used teh bathroom before i could finish hiding everything quickly and found my remote egg and my dildo where I had set them on teh counter after washing them. he didn't say anything he just quietly put them on my bed under my sheets. Sometimes you'll find an odd bit of rope laying around but it's a pretty vanilla house otherwise

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RE: How vanillaized is your house? - 7/6/2009 5:31:24 PM   
kitastrophe33


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Status: offline 		Totally with you on the moving truck experience, lol. Every item got tagged with a number. Every number had a description written on another piece of paper with numbered lines. They tagged my spreader bar (I should have stuck it in a drawer but forgot it was under the bed until after the drawers were all on the truck already). Moving guy says, "what should I call this, hun?" Absolutely nothing came to my head. Zero. So I shrugged and said "I dunno, a spreader bar I guess."

My living room is g rated. Mostly because I haven't found any artwork for my walls yet. I really want something that is sensual...semi erotic, but not pornographic. You know how asparagus is supposedly an aphrodisiac because of its shape, but no one is offended by asparagus? Sort of like that, but wall art. And not of asparagus.

My bedroom is a little less G...Conspicuously positioned mirror...I have books on my book shelf...some specifically BDSM, others about sex in general. "A Mind of Its Own" is one of my favorite books...a history of society's attitudes and beliefs about the penis... Right now the KY is on the dresser... Most of my toys are at the BF's though. We save our BDSM play for there, because I have a little one at my house.

When I have time and money, I'd like to do some decorating. Subtle, but sexy... The kind of stuff that if you weren't in the know, you wouldn't know that you were looking at anything the slightest bit risque... Or just stuff that is right on the edge... I don't want to offend people. But I'm a super sexual person. And it is MY house, after all.

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RE: How vanillaized is your house? - 7/6/2009 5:32:27 PM   
sweetsub1957


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Status: offline 		Hmmm.  my place is mostly vanilla, except for the bedroom. 
Kitchen:  totally vanilla.
Living Room:  two BDSM books along w/ vanillas on the bookshelf.
Bathroom:  vanilla.
Bedroom:  hahaha  this is the goldmine.  all my toys are in a big box in a corner, BUT.....there are obvious bondage ropes at all four corners of my bed and the riding crop is too long-handled to hide in the box. 
Otherwise, only infrequently is the ponytack out on the couch to saddlesoap (there's a lot of it).  I feel if someone is going to go out of their way to look into my private bedroom and they get shocked, they brought it on themselves.

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RE: How vanillaized is your house? - 7/6/2009 5:55:43 PM   
RumpusParable


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Status: offline 		Oh, and a funny in the other direction (something non-sexual that others would mistake it for being) I just noticed:

I have a bottle of KY gel out on my bathroom counter almost always... because it's used for putting my earrings in and out.

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RE: How vanillaized is your house? - 7/6/2009 6:22:34 PM   
OnlyMaster4u


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You may be making more out of what yo left out or what these vanillas even cared enough to notice.
The lil one comment and bench probably never even caught and eye or ear!
hope it all worked out for you.



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RE: How vanillaized is your house? - 7/6/2009 6:57:42 PM   
slaveluci


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Status: offline 		The majority of the house is totally vanilla. However, our bedroom is not at all. Fortunately for us, we very rarely invite anyone over so no one is ever here to snoop around. When the guy came to hook up DirecTV, Master took down several framed photos of me from the walls (as I was nude in all of them and beaten/marked in most of them) and took all the hanging things down (canes, crops, etc.) until he was finished then we put everything back. Our bookshelves are loaded with titles that would make straight folks blush but, as I said, we don't invite anyone over who isn't already aware of who/what we are

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RE: How vanillaized is your house? - 7/6/2009 7:19:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		Ours is just WEIRD.

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RE: How vanillaized is your house? - 7/6/2009 7:24:34 PM   
LovingMistress45


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Status: offline 		Mine is pretty vanilla.  All my toys and such are in my bedroom closet.  Comes from having had children and then niece and nephew living with me as well as taking care of my mother when she was terminal.  I would like to have a kink room, but I don't at the moment.

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RE: How vanillaized is your house? - 7/6/2009 7:46:24 PM   
Cuffkinks


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Status: offline 		I live in a one-bedroom condo. I and my little girl do our playing here, so here is where our "things" are kept.
All of my books are kept together, so there are some "lifestyle" titles on the bookshelf. I did once leave a book on shibari in the bathroom, but it was mostly covered by a magazine so company didn't notice it.
I keep a little "bag of tricks" and a cabinet that contains my collection of "Variations" magazine in my bedroom closet and a few things in the night table. My little girl keeps some of her lingerie and shoes under my bed. The majority of our toys stays in a drawer in the dining area.
I don't have that many people over, but the thing I get asked about the most is the inversion table in my living room. That has to stay where it is due to it's size and weight, and that's fine. If they do ask I just tell them how well it works for my back, (Which really is the reason I got it.) then maybe make a joke about tying someone to it. If they only knew I was putting it right in front of them to overlook. LOL!
So...for a small condo, I guess I do have things scattered about the place. Pretty much out of sight, but never too far out of reach.
I so need a warehouse!

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RE: How vanillaized is your house? - 7/6/2009 8:21:58 PM   
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Just how prepared is your home for vanilla folks?

Movers have seen it all before. I have (during my corporate moves) always simply let them pack up the house, and unpack and arrange the other end, that's what they do. Never any problem. Can't imagine that you would think the packers are vanilla. They could be anything. You seem a bit self-conscious, like these guys would invent a story behind "I miss you, lil one". Probably the midget next door. C'mon.

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RE: How vanillaized is your house? - 7/6/2009 8:41:20 PM   
LadyPact


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Status: offline 		I appreciate all comments.  Special thanks to those who found the humor in this. 

On the more serious side, I do happen to be of the mindset who believes that those who do not wish to be exposed to kink should be left out of it.  Granted, there are certain occupations where something unintentional may happen.  Movers are one.  Clerks in the lingerie store could be another.  ER personnel I am absolutely sure.  (Talk about those who have seen everything!)

This makes Me think of the range of how people hold their beliefs and what can happen when lines are unintentionally crossed.  The difference in being blatantly in the face of those who do not wish to be exposed to kinky people and those of us who try to honor such possible wishes, but may slip up.  While I sincerely attempted to err on the side of caution, I was not infallible.

The other part of this was about how kink seems to creep into the woodwork of some people's daily lives.  The big stuff I remembered.  The little stuff I was so accustomed to that I never thought about it.  A figurine three inches high made Me realize that I goofed.  It actually was a spanking bench made by Wicked's pet that made Me see how I could look over big things as well.


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RE: How vanillaized is your house? - 7/6/2009 8:48:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		Don't look under (or would it be over?) the drop ceiling panels and pay no mind to the shackles bolted to the closet wall.

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RE: How vanillaized is your house? - 7/6/2009 9:50:54 PM   
DavanKael


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Status: offline 		Not very; I made that choice as part of reclaiming my sexuality when my ex- and I separated, though truly, being dark, creative people, we always had things that could have been construed as kinky around.  I recently turned my very vanilla ex-'s gaming room (When I say gaming in this instance, I mean D&D, Battletech, etc.) into a gorgeous sanctuary of kink including a mahogany-stained St. Andrew's cross as one of the main pieces of furniture. 
I have a collar and cuffs on my bedside table.  My godkids play dress-ups when they come over; they're used to me having lots of 'weird' costumes (I make them costumes each year for Ren Faire...or, sometimes cheese and buy them something cool). 
My vanilla ex- used to brag to people about the spreader bars I made myself. 
Oh, and I have woven hammock swings in the basement suspended from the ceiling (They're from Faire, they're not intentionally sex swings) but there's some serious hardware sunk into the structural beams that the guys who finished the basement for me giggled over. 
And, gack, if people looked in drawers and closets: sex toys, porn magazines, DVD's, VHS tapes. 
Now, could I limit a person seeing most truly 'kinky' stuff, sure. 
As for things like books: human sexuality is a major interest of mine and I've studied it extensively academically, so I'd be likely to proudly point out my 1st edition Kinsey reports or a Victorian sex manual, etc. 
I don't care if people think I'm weird.  Now, if they think I'm easy...well, that's what the weapon collection is for.  < evil grin > 
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RE: How vanillaized is your house? - 7/6/2009 10:06:28 PM   
Danemora


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Status: offline 		   Completely vanilla here as well.  I have a child still living at home, so I keep my BDSM related paraphrenalia in a locking cabinet that only I have the key to.  Im not ashamed of what I do, but feel that adult business is adult business.  That and I hate having to go on those frenzied sprees of having to shove all the stuff I dont want those not "in the know" to see into every hiding place I can hurriedly find. 

Until I finish grad school and am in a position to purchase a home with a basement space with a locking door...play for me is extremely limited.

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