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Coming clean by kimberly rae miller5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() However, it wasn’t at all a depressing tale. Kimberly’s story was at times hard to read because of the graphic imagines of her family’s hoard and the repercussions it had on their lives. ![]() ![]() Kimberly and her family went through some pretty terrible times together, from visits from Child Protective Services, to having no running water, and a fire burning down an entire house, but through it all they remained a family. What I didn’t expect, however, and what was to me the most powerful part of the story was the overriding theme of love keeping everything together. This memoir has everything that one might expect from a book about hoarding – clutter, dirt, insects, arguments, struggle, shame, and despair. Kimberly describes the stages of awareness and her first introduction to the term ‘hoarding’ in a beautifully honest way. Her dad keeps too much stuff and it’s really quite important that the neighbors not know what the inside of the home look like. As Kimberly’s past self grows up, both she and us start to see that something isn’t quite right with her family. As she relates her story to us, we find out with her that her home has more clutter than the typical family and that her parent’s relationship with ‘stuff’ is both intense and the focus of the household.Ĭoming Clean begins with Kimberly as a young child and takes the reader all the way through to her present day self. Kimberly grew up in a house full of love, laughter, tears, and also clutter. ![]() This month the Organizing Maniacs team read Coming Clean, a memoir by Kimberly Rae Miller. ![]()
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