Mini Edit: How to Handle Family Decluttering Guilt
Edit Your Life | Simplify + Declutter Your Home, Time, and Mental Space
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4.6 • 530 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:34.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome to the Mini Edit from Edit Your Life. |
| 0:42.3 | In these snack-sized mini episodes, I answer your questions about everything from self-care to parenting, to relationships, to home, and more. |
| 0:45.7 | Think of me like that friend you text or call when you need a quick piece of compassionate |
| 0:49.9 | and candid advice. |
| 0:51.4 | Send me your questions. |
| 0:53.7 | Today's Mini is in response to a listener letter. |
| 0:57.2 | Here's the letter read with permission from the writer. I listened to one of the episodes from |
| 1:03.1 | earlier this year. I think it was doable decluttering with Deanna Yates. In it, there was a joke |
| 1:08.8 | about how it's okay to declutter gifts because nobody ever comes |
| 1:12.1 | to your house and asks to see that thing they gave you for Christmas. I laughed a little, |
| 1:17.2 | but cried a lot. You haven't met my family. When they come over, they expect the plates, |
| 1:22.8 | napkins, whatever, that they gifted me for my wedding to be used and ask about them if I don't. I've been |
| 1:28.7 | married over 30 years. For example, a relative gave me a piece of furniture when I was a child, |
| 1:34.9 | over 40 years ago, and expects to see it in my house when they come over. If it's not where it was |
| 1:40.4 | last time, they ask where it is. I feel like I'm a prisoner of my family's generosity. |
| 1:46.5 | Obviously, my taste is very different in my 50s than it was in my 20s, but I feel like I'm not |
| 1:51.9 | allowed to get rid of anything. My husband and his family are just as bad, insisting that |
| 1:56.9 | everything be saved because, quote, it will be worth a lot of money someday. |
| 2:03.0 | Wow, what a letter, and thank you to the listener who sent it for trusting me with this letter. |
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