What YOU Keep, Why and How to Stop!
Decorating Tips and Tricks
Bespoke FM
4.6 • 828 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
What are you keeping and why? Let's discuss what's in your house, and why letting go feels so hard. It certainly helped us to understand ourselves and our family members. And maybe it will help you sort through your things and make some hard decisions.
The things we keep represent
- memories
- identity
- hopes for the future
- guilt
- obligation
- comfort
- and even fear
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| 0:00.0 | Do you own your stuff or does your stuff own you? |
| 0:12.7 | Hi, I'm Anita Joyce here with Kelly Wilkins, and this is decorating tips and tricks. |
| 0:18.1 | Today we are talking about the stuff we keep and why. And this is a little |
| 0:22.2 | different take. It's not a decluttering episode, Kelly. It is an episode where we're talking |
| 0:28.3 | about the psychology about why we have certain things in our house or maybe you have a spouse |
| 0:34.6 | that just cannot get rid of something and you do not understand why. That's what we're talking about today. Are you doing a spouse that just cannot get rid of something, and you do not understand why. |
| 0:38.3 | That's what we're talking about today. |
| 0:40.5 | Are you doing a little self-talk in there? |
| 0:43.4 | Well, it does explain because I'm married to someone who can't let go of sentimental things. |
| 0:49.1 | And then my mother, I mean, she kind of borders on a hoarder. |
| 0:53.2 | You can tell what color her floor is, but she's not sentimental at all. |
| 0:57.1 | So why does she keep stuff? |
| 0:58.7 | Because she's not sentimental. |
| 1:00.0 | So, I mean, there's a lot that goes into why people are this way. |
| 1:04.4 | I thought this was such a wonderful topic. |
| 1:07.6 | Thank you, Anita, for adding it to our list. |
| 1:09.7 | And as I was researching and getting |
| 1:11.7 | ready, I just kept getting deeper and deeper into it. There's so much going on here. And we want to |
| 1:19.8 | talk about the psychology, the emotion, and the habits behind what we keep in our homes, |
| 1:24.9 | and why letting go can feel so much harder than it really should be. |
| 1:29.3 | So this is not about checking your spices for expiration dates. This is, which I just did |
| 1:35.8 | yesterday, actually, this is not about making piles to give away and to trash and all of that. All those organizational tips. This is not buying |
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