@ingrid That trinket box article is full of good sentences. I liked “When you're policing your trinket box like an HOA policing the size of people's garage door windows, you've lost the plot altogether.”

cc: @ranjit

Is it your sense that people are generally more uptight and controlling about this sort of thing than they were twenty or forty years ago? I remember that when I was a child in the 1970s it was considered desirable to be “mellow”. But perhaps that was aspirational and people were actually just as strident and uptight as they are now. What do you think?