In case you missed it, the new fad of decluttering has been accused of being elitist.
Marie Kondo’s best-seller “The Life Changing Magic of Cleaning up”, and guide to tidying, sparked a minimalist revolution. But Arielle Bernstein wrote for ‘The Atlantic‘ that the minimalist life is a luxury, and it’s easy to see items as oppressive when we can so easily buy new ones.
Monique Bowley, Kate de Brito and Mia Freedman discuss whether this cultural trend is really just a way of us complaining about our privilege.
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I so hate the "first world problem" saying. Of course it is a first world problem we live in the first world.
I'm decluttering as I have too much stuff that someone else could be using. Most of the stuff I have been donating to local charity shops or the local women's refuge. Surely passing things on to others who will use them is a better option that it just sitting in my house.
Heaps of poor/disadvantaged people on the "Hoarders" program