Growing up Living with Hoarders. Now I’m a minimalist
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Kristina Marinelli is a is just beginning her blogging adventure. Her goal is to start writing about her own personal finance journey.
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This expedition started in an unlikely place – a household full of hoarders. Here’s her origin story, and how living with hoarders turned her into a minimalist.
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Over the years, the house was filled with more useless junk accumulated from my grandparents and my mom.
Accumulating Stuff
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Their hoarding was contained to their bedrooms at first, then slowly trickled into the kitchen and various parts of our house.
Living with Hoarders
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Upon moving away to college, I only took a large suitcase. At the time, I wished I could have taken more stuff with me.
Learning to Live with Less
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It took about a year and half, but I purged everything except for my driver’s license and social security card.
Becoming a Minimalist
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I became an extreme minimalist, and I thought I was weird because I didn’t know others lived like this.
Becoming a Minimalist
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