You're Not the Only One.
Listener confessions, submitted anonymously. Every one of them is someone's Tuesday morning.
"I kept my ex's sweaters for four years. I told myself they were for cold weather. They were never for cold weather."
"I own eleven spatulas. I have counted them twice."
"Boxes that never got unpacked when I moved in 2022. Still sitting in the corner of the second bedroom. I've started calling that room "the closet" to feel better about it."
Items I found under my bed that I forgot I owned.
"After the divorce I kept the couch. The couch is from IKEA. I don't even like the couch. I just couldn't stand the thought of him keeping it."
"My "junk drawer" is now three drawers and a cabinet."
"I am a graphic designer. I own forty-three notebooks. I have written in six of them. The rest are "for when inspiration strikes." Inspiration has not struck in eighteen months."
Gym equipment purchased: 1 treadmill, 1 rowing machine, 2 sets of dumbbells. Times used: fewer than the fingers on one hand.
"Somewhere between the third storage unit and the new apartment, I lost track of what I actually needed versus what I was just afraid to let go."
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Hosted by Nadia Osei — former art director, recovering hoarder, and the person who once paid to store a couch she'd never sat on. New episodes every Tuesday.
Every object has a cost beyond its price tag.
Attention. Space. The mental weight of remembering you own it. We talk about that cost honestly.
Decluttering is grief work.
Letting go of things means letting go of the version of yourself who bought them. That deserves more than a listicle.
The goal isn't a minimalist aesthetic.
The goal is a life where your possessions don't speak louder than your thoughts. What that looks like is yours to define.
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Episode 01: The Pilot
"What would you keep if you could only keep thirty things?"
"Your inbox is just a to-do list written by everyone except you."
of storage space added per American home since 1980
"The things you own end up owning you. We've been workshopping that sentence for three years and we still can't improve on it."
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