I dunno. Taking a child from it’s family for no reason they can fathom and then giving it to some other (potentially! we have no idea!) family seems pretty on-brand for these people.

There was one episode, where the couple who moved to the smaller apartment, where the woman was crying because she felt like she was letting down her family as a homemaker. At the end, her husband realized that “maybe I should be helping out more”. So I think the process is positive to help those clueless dudes who…

I can see this day coming with my parents. I keep begging them to clean out the house and I’ve offered to help by collecting and selling old books and magazines, donating unused clothing, but they freak out at the thought. The first floor is tidy as hell but the bedrooms and basement are museums of crap.

That dude was...I want to say like, on his way to domestic abuse. I could see him being the type to murder his family, a la that guy in Colorado. Am I reading him wrong? He seemed like the worst type of person.

Yes, anyone who’s happened upon Hoarders knows all you need to have a mass of possessions is a keen eye, delusion, and denial, denial, denial.

I work with a lot of low income families in their homes. You definitely do not need to be wealthy to have clutter. In fact, I would say being neat takes more money, because it’s fucking exhausting to be poor and who the fuck wants to clean and organize your house when you’re exhausted from working a double shift.

As someone who recently had to “tidy up” my 89-year old mother’s 2 bedroom home when she passed last year, I urge everyone to tidy up their own shit now and not leave the task to your kids.

Hilarious! I feel like I’m back in the South and you are a youth pastor! Good shit.

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa WHOA. Nobody said burqa. Hahahahahaha, of course that’s not necessary.  That’s a heathen muslim garment. Jesus loves you and wants you to have greater freedoms than those terrorists. But just, like, one or two more freedoms. Don’t go crazy with the freedom, young lady.

Yes. And even if you follow all these rules, if something does not go according to plan, then it must have been something you did. They cannot accept that sometimes bad things happen to women through no fault of their own. Oh no, you must have broken SOME rule and are a sinner and should be ashamed.

The implied causation presented with those statistics makes me want to gouge my eyeballs out. Maybe her failed committed relationships taught her valuable life lessons that contributed to the success of her marriage. Maybe her abortion allowed her to finish college and achieve her dreams.

Yes, the belly and the navel are used in sexual play.  You know what else is--everything.  Lips, ears, neck, hands....  wearing a burqa won’t make men respect you.

It sounds like Average Anna has a pretty good time until she gets married and has kids.  That was obviously her mistake.

I was subject to this trope for years. To say it has warped my psyche and held me back in self-development is an understatement. None of these “scriptural teachings” they drown you in are arguable to them, so if you don’t conform or agree to all of them, you are a devil-worshiping whore who is going straight to hell.…

I watched part of an episode and picked up 2 things:

Moving is a tremendous motivator to declutter.  I’ve moved a few times over the last decade, and it’s really helped me to keep things streamlined.  Well, relatively, at least.  The only thing worse than taking the effort to box up stuff you don’t need is then having to unpack and figure out what to do with it on the…

Agreed! I appreciate how friendly and non-judgmental she is. She also sets realistic expectations— a lot of the people on her show will never be minimalists, but she shows them how living with less stuff can lighten their emotional workload. 

I’m kind of pissed at all the recent naysayers regarding Marie Kondo (and her new show). Interestingly most of the gripers seem to be male.

I work at a not for profit that relies on a resale shop to fund most of our programs. We are absolutely fucking THRILLED about this.

It’s strange—when I read this, it’s like I know that there should be so many indignant feminist impulses sparking, or, as a historian, that I should undertake some sort of contextual or thematic analysis of this topic, because sheesh, there is a lot here.