Dear Amy: When she is stressed, she “purges” objects and sometimes buys others, only to return or donate them. Some things I treasure have “disappeared.”
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.My family had hoarding issues for generations. Long before Marie Kondo and hoarding intervention TV came along, I was in therapy and successfully dealing with this.I’ve disposed of multiple dumpster loads of my ancestors’ stuff, in order to have room to live in my inherited home.
While visiting a friend who was downsizing I realized how anxious stuff, boxes and clutter made my fiancée. We had to end the visit early because she was so anxious! I make space for her in our home and she leaves the space empty, but then complains there is no room for her things. Several years ago, I sardonically suggested that decluttering expert Marie Kondo had a compulsive disorder . And then earlier this year, Ms. Kondo announced that the quest for tidy perfection had taken up too much space in her own life, and that she was now rearranging her priorities in a quest for more balance.
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