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WORKING MOM Amy Hughes was overwhelmed with
the chaos of life. At the end of a long day, things
seemed so daunting: toys, laundry, clothes.
“After the workday was over, I was preoccupied
with cleaning up the mess rather than spending time
with my children,” she says.
The kids’ clothes and toy piles forced Hughes to take stock of everything she
was accumulating. Her personal vice was clothes. She realized she was hanging
onto a lot of her pre-baby outfits hoping, like many moms, that she would one
day fit back into them. Instead, seeing them in her closet just made her feel bad.
In today’s materialistic society, we can be insatiable hoarders of stuff. Statistics
suggest the average American household contains more than 300,000 things.
Because modern culture places value on having a lot, self-storage facilities are a
$38 billion business nationwide.
Left: Leigh Robertson (right) helps Beth Jaskolka decide what to keep, what to throw
away, and what to donate. Above: A closet belonging to a client of Melissa Capps
awaiting organization.
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