Fete Lifestyle Magazine March 2022 - Entertainment Issue | Page 42

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Get Rid of the

BY HEATHER REID

know many people who

severely purged their homes

of stuff during the

pandemic’s peak: I am not one of them.

If anything, I doubled down on my hoarding tendencies. I squirreled away non-perishable foods, school supplies, plastic bags, books, and bottles of cooking oil. It soothed my anxiety a little to think that no matter what, I was ready. The world may be ending, but damn it, I can still cook rice and beans, and we’ll be fine.

Late this winter, I looked around and realized: I was drowning in stuff.

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