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I'm Amanda Knox, and you're listening to Hard Knocks.

Music Amanda Knox, and you're listening to Hard Knocks.

All right, gents, ladies and gents, welcome to yet another Ask Amanda anything.

I'm hiding in my shirt.

This is getting weird.

I'm a little turtle now.

This is Ask Amanda Anything, where you can ask me literally anything because why not?

I've been asked at all.

Just ask.

And we'll see if I'll answer. We take, obviously, we, we value our

subscribers. And so we prioritize your questions. But of course, you can always just throw it out

there. But probably you should subscribe. So just subscribe. Meanwhile, Chris is going to,

as he say, playfully prod and question my answers for some reason. To quote, draw out the best

answers. Ah, is that why? Okay, cool. Let's do it. Okay, so our first question today comes from

Jerry, who says, here's an odd one. It's always good. It's always good to start with an odd one.

I'm 74, retired, all great. However, I like to purge things, clothes, kitchen furniture, etc. Just get to the essentials.

I just have difficulty. I've looked for people who do this, but to no avail. What are your thoughts

on how to lean out your life? I love this because I actually was just talking with a cousin of mine about how one of the

intergenerational trauma responses of my family is hoarding.

Like, not like, you know, we're not on the show hoarders, but there is this feeling, this

vibe of like not wanting to let go of things because it feels both wasteful

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