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Dan MacNee stands among towering piles of boxes, papers, and creative projects that engulf his Edinburgh home. Walls, doors, are covered with paintings, drawings and maps. "It's grim," he says ...
I'm so glad you held on to it for so many years!" I used to love hearing my friends tell me any variation of this sentence. It was a glowing affirmation that holding on to my 6TB iCloud storage ...
I'm not using “hoarder” as a way to exaggerate. This is not the clutter equivalent of a size-four woman saying, “I'm so fat.” My hoarding interfered with my everyday activities.
Dr. David Tolin, a clinical psychologist featured on the A&E series "Hoarders" — Season 15 premiered last week — is sharing three ways to tell if you are secretly a hoarder.
My wife is an aggressive minimalist. We no sooner buy something than she's decided we don't need it and throws it in the trash. This is not how I want to live my life, and it's not a cheap way to ...
Dear Amy: I’m a middle-aged man. My fiancee recently moved in with me. My family had hoarding issues for generations. Long before Marie Kondo and hoarding intervention TV came along, I was in ...
There's no good reason to have a basement full of empty boxes. If and when it comes time to move, I can buy cheap, new boxes to pack my stuff.
Not because I'm a greedy, horrible spot-hoarder (I hope!). It's because what I value most about my living situation -- living alone, owning instead of renting -- is a sense of autonomy.
Dear Amy: I’m a middle-aged man. My fiancée recently moved in with me. My family had hoarding issues for generations. Long before Marie Kondo and hoarding intervention TV came along, I was in ...