RE: #TalkAbout n°4 - Let's talk about: hoarders. / Hablemos de: acumuladores. ⚠️
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As you mentioned, there's a psychological side to hoarding. I was exploring this topic about three years ago when I started my minimalism journey and attempting to convert my family. Even to this day, it's still a tough job as often I find people and even my family attaching emotion and memories to things. These days, with the rising of essentialism lifestyle, I think people are more open and conscious about it especially the younger generation . But yes, it's also a guilty pleasure of mine to watch TV shows about hoarders because not only showing how to clean it, the shows gives you a hint about the people living in it and their emotional problem that they have yet solve.
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It is very difficult to convince someone to convert to minimalism. Sounds like an excellent idea to me! But for example I think my mom could never do it. As you say, I think she has many things that bring back memories and that is why he does not want to get rid of them. On the contrary, I try to have what is just and necessary.
Oh yeah, that is also because unlike us who grow during technology adaption, the way the store memories is through possession and objects while for us, it's easy to store the memories in a form of pictures, storing via blockchain, etc. Everything that we have is easily replaceable meanwhile from what I gather, my parents generation grow up with a scarcity mindset. Hence, the difference.