> His response was: "that feeling is a luxury of having grown up with a plentitude of stuff". This is definitely untrue. That may be the case for _some_ peopl

> His response was: "that feeling is a luxury of having grown up with a plentitude of stuff". This is definitely untrue. That may be the case for _some_ people, but to reduce that feeling to only growing up with plenty is overly reductive. I didn't grow up in a family with much money, and I make a very comfortable living now. My early 20s definitely had a bit of a hoarder tendency from my childhood, but much more importantly, I never got in the habit of _acquiring_ things the way my friends seem to have. I've managed to get over the instinct to keep things unnecessarily and I'm a more comfortable selling/donating (or rarely, disposing of) things I don't need anymore. It's far easier to believe that there's a generational cultural difference regarding attitudes towards decluttering than it is to make the facile assumption that wanting less stuff is a consequence of living in abundance.