I used to watch Katie pretty heavily when she was with Andrew and I loved her. I actually wish those vlogs were still up in her channel. I had to stop watching her at some point because her shopping/ hoarding habits were just too much for me. Just for reference, I live in a third world country (in a pandemic). I don’t even remember the last time we bought Christmas presents. My phone turns 5 years next week. I haven’t taken a holiday in 5 years (when I bought my phone actually). So to see her constant cycle of hauls and PO boxes followed by declutters was too much for me at some point. I would skip those parts but it got to a point where she was just acummulating everything: plants, food, clothes, make up, shoes, cameras, books.
But now, I’m pregnant, throwing up all day long, so I’ve come back to her for a bit of escapism.
I just don’t understand how someone can have so much. There’s a vlog where she shows her candles, and she opens this box and has like 50 new candles that she proceeds to declutter. Imagine decluttering unused candles! I bought one a while ago and it was such a treat as she would say. The idea of having 50 candles and at the same time, keep buying candles, seems so odd to me. I can’t imagine having the money to do that. She shows her perfums and she has 100 of them and she even asks “how do you guys store your perfums?” I don’t know Katie, I got one as a present a while ago and I keep it in the closet. The other day I saw her tea and coffee cabinet. She had 30 types of tea, 10 types of coffee, creamers, syrups, so many options! In my house we buy a box of teabags, and when it’s finished, we buy another one.
As someone who used to watch her in 2014/2015 when she discovered minimalism, I have seen her declutter her make up and clothes 20 times (there were actually a lot more videos on this that she had to delete). My makeup fits into a small cosmetic bag and honestly that is all I need.
Is this how people on the first world live? Because if it is, it makes me jealous but also sad. No one needs that much stuff. I may not have much but at least my bedroom doesn’t look like this. (Taken from a very old vlog I was just rewatching)