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Originally Posted by Tart Cherry Jam
I wish I could send that video your way for you brother but it is in Russian. The woman narrating it went deep into the psychology underlying going overboard and offered convincingly simple steps for how to curb it. She also started her narration reviewing the Japanese esthetic that inderlies Marie Kondo's approach and argued that the approach is not for everyone and only makes sense against the backdrop of that esthetic.
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My brother is married to a hoarder (my sister in law got better last few years though because her hoarding became major issue in their marriage), so his overboard decluttering was related to that. “Stuff had to go” because he reached high level of frustration.
He in general likes minimalist style of decor. We grew up with messy hoarding parents so we never wanted to live like this so we are both clean freaks. I don’t like minimalist style though, I like to have stuff and more decor but it all has to have a place and be neat and organized
It’s weird how growing up effects us one way or the other, like being opposite of the parents. My daughter is very messy (not hoarding though), she has to have cleaning service regularly or she’ll drown. Go figure