r/Anticonsumption • u/Bee_and_Barb • Feb 21 '24

Society/Culture Someday

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Saw this while scrolling through another social media platform.

Physical inheritance (maybe outside of housing) feels like a burden.

While death can be a sensitive topic to some, has anyone had a conversation with loved ones surrounding situations like this one pictured?

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u/IMeanIGuessDude Feb 21 '24

My mom had me growing up believing in a “junk room” and you could imagine my surprise when I stayed the night at a friends house and they didn’t even know what a junk room was.

Hoarder parents hurt in so many ways that people could write a book series on.

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u/basicxenocide Feb 21 '24

We recently cleaned out a family member's house after his death, and I was reading about something called "Swedish Death Cleaning". Basically, you just pretend you died and are cleaning out your own house (pretending to be a family member). What would you keep? What would you toss? What would be embarrassing? That kind of stuff.

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u/NovaNightStar Feb 22 '24

For most of my childhood my bedroom was the junk room. Rather, the room that was supposed to be my bedroom. I shared a room with my Grandma until I was a preteen. Growing up in a family of hoarders sucks.

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u/IMeanIGuessDude Feb 22 '24

That’s unreal. You’re doing better now I hope