Reply #18: OK, I fit several of the criteria, but this might be interesting to some of you.

[Jonathan50]

The Myers Briggs Type Indicator or MBTI is a test which determines which of sixteen basic personality types one fits into.

http://www.personalitypathways.com/type_inventory.html

On the MBTI I'm an Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceptor or INTP

Here is a quote from the most comprehensive description of the INTP on the web:

http://www.intp.org/intprofile.html

When an INTP lives alone, his home is usually spartan and utility-oriented. There will be little or no decorative objects, electronic equipement will be in abundance and the importance of any object will depend only on its usefulness. The general style of the home is largely irrelevant. When an object is put aside, not to be returned to for a while, it will lie fully ignored until used again. Objects which lie unmoved for more than about 48 hours usually become invisible to the INTP, until such time as he has a use for them again. For other temperaments whose need for tidiness and order in a house is strong, this lack of concern in this area may seem despairing. For the INTP, however, no problem exists. Corners of rooms, table tops and cupboards may become cluttered with objects, but while they don't move they remain effectively invisible and are unimportant. Indeed, less mature INTPs have a reluctance to move objects at all, for the desire to remain detached and not physically interact with the world can be strong. The one thing that will force an INTP to tidy his home radically, even when alone, is when the clutter eventually gets in his way and hinders some activity. Often, however, the offending objects will merely be moved into another corner where they can spend some more weeks being invisible. When an INTP lives with a partner and perhaps has a family, he learns the necessity of focussing on the details of tidiness. This is not usually difficult, since tidying a house is an activity which can be clearly defined and, hence, the INTP can focus on it by treating it as systematic work.

This describes me almost perfectly. And BTW, I do have a family.

I guess that makes me a liberal. :)