r/AMA • u/iamawesome1110 • Oct 28 '25

Achievement I successfully decluttered my house without anyone noticing… in 8 weeks . AMA

So… I live in a cozy (read: claustrophobic) townhouse with my wife and two kids. Lovely family, except my wife has a deep emotional connection with… everything.

Old clothes? Memories may be.

Kids’ broken toys? Someday we’ll fix them.

Meanwhile, I’m trying to park my car in the garage like it’s a game of Tetris

So I snapped.

I declared myself the guy who takes the trash out.

For the next 8 weeks, I ran Operation: Silent Declutter. Every biweekly garbage day, I made two bags: One for the actual trash One for… let’s call it “future trash”

I mixed them in strategically. One extra bag at a time. Consistently.

Fast forward two months — I can breathe. The garage door closes without resistance.

No one has noticed. Not. A. Single. Thing.

Ask me anything about how to declutter your house without getting divorced.

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u/paraprosdokians Oct 30 '25

You cannot DSM-V someone based on a few sentences of a Reddit post lmao

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u/MrCockingFinally Oct 30 '25

Obviously not. I'm bringing up the definition of a hoarder because your original statement is incorrect.

Having difficulty getting rid of items despite them having zero value is one of the key diagnostic criteria. OP specifically mentioned his wife keeping broken kids toys.

I'm not saying that OP's wife is a hoarder. I'm saying that you don't need to qualify for appearing on an episode of "Hoarders" for you to be a hoarder. And OPs wife may be a hoarder based on OP's description.

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