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Ep. 269: The Emotional Burden Of Your Clutter
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- Relationships & psychology
Send us Fan Mail There's a plastic bin in my basement that I have moved thirty-seven times. At least. I'm not exaggerating for effect. I could probably prove it if I tracked the number of times I've picked it up, looked at it, said "I need to deal with this," and then set it right back down in the exact same spot. Inside that bin are baby clothes. Not from my youngest, most are actually from my oldest. The onesies. The going-home outfit. A little hat that used to fit a...
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Well, there's a plastic bin in my basement that I have moved probably 37 times, at least. I'm not exaggerating, either. I could probably prove it. I could probably track the number of times that I have picked it up and I've looked
at it and I've said, you know, I need to do something with this. And then I put it right back down in the exact same spot. Now let me tell you about what's in that bin. that bin are baby clothes and they're not baby clothes from my youngest either. Most
of the baby clothes that are in there are from my oldest. That's where they originated from. There's the onesies and there's the going home from the hospital outfit and there's the little hat, right? The one that used to fit on the, on a head that was the size of a grapefruit. And now it belongs to a person who is off with her own home and her own
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