{"id":59,"date":"2023-09-23T15:38:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T19:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/?p=59"},"modified":"2023-10-02T09:04:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T13:04:41","slug":"hoarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/2023\/09\/23\/hoarding\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have PRODUCTS! Soaps, shampoos, conditioners, lotions, creams, ointments, serums, gels, man i\u2019m insane. I have beauty and hygiene products I don\u2019t even use, that I haven&#8217;t used in months. And I&#8217;m always buying more. This must be hoarding, this is definitely hoarding. The thought of parting with them makes me anxious. And some of them aren&#8217;t even good for me. The macadamia-nut body butter gave me hives! But I buy them because they&#8217;re all so pretty, they smell so good, and they make ME feel all pretty. I know their dirty little liars, and I know beauty is a made up idea rooted in white supremacy, so why do I still have them!? Because I want what they promise. They promise me they&#8217;ll make me healthy, and pretty, and acceptable, lovable even. And it\u2019s harder to stand all alone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I would say I have a cleaning routine but it can\u2019t be all that efficient if I still have all these damn products. My routine doesn&#8217;t often extend to my things: my products, my clothes, my books, my papers. I take it for granted that they belong. That\u2019s something I can change! Every couple of months I can go through my belongings and clear out what I&#8217;m not consistently using. But the things I can\u2019t donate, or repurpose, or gift, will be thrown in the trash. And there&#8217;s gotta be something else I can do! Something other than that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have PRODUCTS! Soaps, shampoos, conditioners, lotions, creams, ointments, serums, gels, man i\u2019m insane. I have beauty and hygiene products I don\u2019t even use, that I haven&#8217;t used in months. And I&#8217;m always buying more. This must be hoarding, this is definitely hoarding. The thought of parting with them makes me anxious. And some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hoarding-and-cleaning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}