Hello! I need some advice on how to handle this situation. My husband and I (mostly me) are upset because we’re not seeing eye to eye on home stuff. He is being opinionated about home decor and furniture, which is fine as long as we come to an agreement, which we have. Here’s the current issue: I am very much like “no purpose-don’t want it”, so I am constantly cleaning out the closets, donating stuff and being intentional to not create clutter and accumulate stuff we don’t need. He is the opposite. He likes extravagant furniture and likes to have a lot of things that we don’t need. Like he accepted shoes for our son that are definitely too small, which he knew before taking them. He also accepted a TV from his mom that we don’t need. We already have 2 and barely use those. My fear with that is that he will put it in his game room and then spend more time there instead of with his family. He also likes to keep screws for the TV that we don’t need. I tell him that we can afford to buy screws when we need them. Anyways, idk how to handle this without making him feel bad. We just downsized from a house to an apartment, for context, and we had to repurchase a lot of furniture and reorganize lots of things in the process. Any advice welcome! 🙏
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This sounds like he's coming from a place of overpreparing. I grew up in poverty for a large chunk of my childhood and my parents did as well, so I have a habit of accepting things I don't need and saving things "just in case." Or keeping things I want because I'm not sure when I can get that thing again. Idk your husband's story ofc, but it sounds similar. One thing I personally try to do is every time I bring something into the house I try to get rid of something as well. Likewise, I would ask him why he feels the need to accept and keep things all the time.