For our 12th anniversary, I gave my boyfriend an empty box, his most-wanted anti-gift. He’s a minimalist; I’m a hoarder. That difference has been the source of our most epic and ongoing arguments.

Hoarding Hoarding Is Everywhere; Beyond the United States Though Japan is minimalist, hoarding is widespread there as well. Updated January 21, 2025 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk ...

I'll tell you, if a hoarder is a 10 and a minimalist is a one, I'm a 3.5. I'd like to be a three. I don't like clutter. I battle it daily.

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How to be a minimalist without throwing everything away 1. ... Growing up the child of a hoarder, Tracy is an esteemed expert ...

A conversation with a hoarding consultant. By Eve M. Kahn Brigador Stamback, the founder of NYC Hoards, a company started in 2018 that carts away unsalvageable household possessions by the ton ...

Both Marie Kondo and Hoarders ask: how much of the stuff surrounding us do we really need? In an age of consumer culture, fast fashion and single-use plastics, this is a valuable question. We have ...