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My daughter is somewhat of a hoarder.

What are some of the scientific theories regarding hoarding?

How can I get her to see that she doesn't need all that stuff?

She sees everything as a sentimental treasure.

Our things have sentimental value only because we have imparted sentimentality onto them.

There's a reason that Ryan, so I have a hat box of my mother's.

I think it's the one sentimental item I still have of hers besides photographs, which

are being stored digitally now.

I have this hat box of hers and that is a sentimental item to me.

Sentimentality is highly perspectival.

So much so that that box is not sentimental to anyone else.

Unless I were to give it to a hoarder, then it might be sentimental to them because

it's easy for a hoarder to impart sentiment onto anything.

Our things have no meaning other than the meaning we give to them.

There's no inherent meaning, no intrinsic meaning to any object.

So back to what Axel Vervort was saying, I'm not the collector who wants to possess.

I want to give things a better place.

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