Welcome to this inaugural blog post. Thank you for taking a look.

The blog will cover one aspect of keeping the metro away form one's style and creativity each post. The topic of this blog relates to men while the purpose is more to amuse and delight you girls. So, please feel included in, if not the target of, the discussion.

The blogs will be kept short and frequent rather than long - so none of us need huge chunks of time.

Our first lesson relates to stuff: the stuff around us and how we arrange it. My hope is that we can start with the external and see the topics move towards the self, the personal and psychological aspects of style.

If you are a guy that is particularly metro-sexual, or full on fem for that matter, the blog isn't trying to talk you out of being who you are. The blog offers advanced concepts for out styling the world - for killin' it with cool without being a total "metro-sexual" in the process. Those that wish to be girlish have every right to be; so if that's you, please don't take the topic as an offense upon your style; but, while the techniques covered in the blog may not relate to your goals, perhaps you'll enjoy observing as I hope the girls will too.

Okay, got that out of the way. That all the disclaimer this blog will come with.

Guys, there are a couple main rules to having stuff and organizing stuff. The same rules apply for any kind of stuff.  Stuff on you and the stuff around you and the things that make up your surroundings and environment.

Rule 1
less is always more. Notice the top of this post. I included one photo. Not a scrolling slideshow; not a collage of things; no flowers or call outs on either side; and, as you can see - I don't care who you are, it looks stylish but more importantly, it's toe nails aren't polished.

Rule 2
Rule two flows right from where rule one leaves off; with your stuff, and in the process of applying and arranging your stuff, never embellish. Never decorate the decoration. Words like tassels, ribbons, rosettes, crafts, antique, decorative, faux, trim, finish; molding, touches, and the like should be avoided. Similarly, with your outfits, cars, backpacks - whatever you've got, don't accessorize. Accessorize will let the metro flow right in for two reasons, First, when you accessorize your stuff, it either means that the thing wasn't good enough to begin with; or, if it was good enough, accessorizing will only cheapen it. Secondly, accessorize things is pretty much like decorating, or doling up, for the sake of delighting in the adornment. Non metro-sexual, non feminine guys will put their energy and effort towards something that has some sort of practical necessity. When you find that you are decorating stuff for the joy of decorating, you've probably passed metro-sexual and already begun to sprout some breasts.

There is nothing wrong with nice things. And, having nice surroundings doesn't make one girlish. Being cheap and hap-hazard makes you less masculine. It conveys a lack of clarity and decisiveness. You couldn't think of a few solid items that looked awesome and quality, so you go out and buy a variety of crap that might work and set about to "accessorize, highlight, and touch up" the half backed, fragile, and obscure plan you started with.

In summary, focus on minimizing the quantity of anything you acquire and arrange, while maximizing quality, utility and value.