My Minimal Hoarding Life - The Mother Of All Clean Outs

While I talk about hoarding and getting rid of stuff, I don`t talk to much about the mental parts of hoarding or minimalism. For one I am not a doctor, but being a minimalist, a hoarder and back to minimalism, I do have some experience in some form of the why part. 

Some people have labeled this as a serious mental illness, in some cases it is, from trauma one has endured in life.

Some have labeled this as being nothing more than lazy, in some cases it is.

The mind is tricky, we do things to protect or to be in charge.

In my opinion/experience its about control. Being in control of what will be in the home. Sometimes we feel trapped with no way out of a situation and hoarding or being extremely minimal is the way to have some type of control.

Past

I was raised minimal, but nothing extreme, when we got new toys we sold or gave away the old toys. That was how my parents did things to keep a small house filled with children clean.

Fast forward.

I did go through a rough time in life when I did not have any control, over anything, so I tended to hoard what I got, I used things as a cover to make life look like I had more, I did but not mentally. Mentally I was abused, mix in some physical abuse that no one seen, but knew about, that was my reason for that type of control. Stuff. I had stuff. Everything looked okay from the outside.

Now 2019

Its been ten years of healing. The hoard is gone. The minimalism is not extreme, I have just the right amount. I did not go to a doctor, instead I walked away from all of it, the hoard and the people. 

Clearing It All

A new cleaning of my home.

I allow a few of the people from my past around me, a few to chat in passing, others for a short visit.

I have learned that these people leave behind negative energy, polluting my home in a different way than with stuff. Many still try to give me "stuff" and I really don`t want it, I refuse to take it, even things have the wrong feel.

I know this may sound OCD but believe me its not something I enjoy having to do, I do a clearing of my home, getting rid of negative energy left behind from the visitors.  I use salt and prayer. It`s traditional to use burning sage but I have someone with lung problems in the home and I cannot use sage. 

I have learned to do this properly, following the wall line I place a thin layer of salt, making sure to get the corners of the room as well, even closet.  In each room as I apply the salt I say my own prayer of  "Only good can live here, in the name of Jesus," in each room and closet. When I get to a back door, or front I open the door and toss a little salt out the door and then I make a line across the door opening to seal it so no negative can come back in. 

I now have a "clean" home. Cleaned of unwanted things and energy. And Yes I began to do this energy clearing before I got all my junk to the trash can or donation box, but the house feels better and I can work better in a positive space.

It is a wonderful feeling to have peace and control of your own life.

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By Andria Perry

Photos by Andria Perry and Brenda Fluharty