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Are you a hoarder?

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The Mary Kondo Decluttering Phenomenon

We have this obsession don't we with cleaning things up as a spectator sport almost there's lots of TV programs about how clean is your house or you know super cleaners where someone comes in and transforms the hoard into something recognizably more domestic. I suppose the Mary Kondo decluttering phenomenon is part of that impulse to this this idea of of your sort of emotional and psychic well-being being tied up with the amount of stuff you have  I think is a I don't know what it means for us but I am slightly disturbed by that by it becoming a spectator sport.

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