Allison Young standing in the rubble of her home after a house fire.
Allison Young's childhood home burned down in a house fire.
  • I've always been a bit of a pack rat and had a hard time decluttering.
  • When my childhood home burned down, all my stuff went with it.
  • I learned a hard lesson about letting go.

As the quintessential pack rat, I perpetuated the cycle of accumulating without decluttering. It's been going on for about as long as I can remember.