Do You Know Anyone That Hoarders ?

[Zakk]

Okay here it is, my sister in law has an huge problem, she is an big time hoarders her house is so full of stuff that she has since she was an teenager, there been many times were some my family members had actually go and talk to her about getting rid of stuff but she stubborn as hell dose anyone know any other people that are big time Hoarders.

 

[Canadave]

You might want to see if she has any punctuation marks stashed away that you can steal.

 

[Miss Chicken]

My aunt (wife of my father's brother) who passed away last year used to hoard toilet paper. At the time of her death she had about 300 rolls stored in her house just in case of a toilet paper shortage.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I'm not a "hoarder." I'm a "collector."

 

[Rii]

I'm an anti-hoarder. Stuff just gets in the way.

 

[jamestyler]

I'm not a "hoarder." I'm a "collector."

Exactly

My GF has had to put up with this since I moved in. It's othing major, no huge collection of newspapers or toilet rolls - I just tent to keep things of no value just in case I need them.

Until I moved I had an old laptop that I'd taken apart. The bits and pieces were lying around just in case I could use them for something. Even last week when I chucked out an old pair of boots, I ripped off the buckles in case they became useful.

 

[Scout101]

Horders isn't an activity, it's a group of people. HoardING (or Hoards, in this case) is the activity.

And no, don't know anyone as bad as on the show. Have a few packrats in the family, but nothing that bad...

 

[Venardhi]

My old room mate was a trash hoarder. I was only there for 6 months just because I was new in town and it was all I could afford, but even for that short time it was a serious trial. Drawers full of used disposable razors, cabinets of empty potato chip bags and half-drank 2-liters. When he left for a week and I finally got a chance to do some serious cleaning I threw away 5 enormous bags of disgusting dirty trash that had been stored about (and that was just out of the communal areas like the kitchen and bathroom).

 

[John Picard]

You might want to see if she has any punctuation marks stashed away that you can steal.

Those, and diction. "Anyone that hoarders" is not a proper question. "Hoarders" is not a verb, but "hoards" is. Also, "who" rather than "that". People who, things that...

 

[Jadzia]

The western world does harbor a throwaway mentality, which does create a stigma against those who don't share that mentality, and they can be labeled as hoarders.

I feel that I am in that minority which prefers to hold onto tried and trusted things that I've accumulated through my life, rather than find replacements for things every couple of years.

One example, I have enough clocks in my house. I don't need anymore, and I like the ones I have. If someone bought me a new clock -- even if it were an expensive and special gift -- I wouldn't really need it, and I wouldn't have any intention of discarding one of the clocks I like just to accommodate the gift.

 

[nacelle]

I dont hoard; i recycle
Although from an article i read recently i apparently have Compulsive Hoarding Disorder
I do collect things though for later use and something that i cant use immediately becomes useful sometimes years later.
It is hard to keep track of it all though and i have so much stuff i just dont know what to do with it!
I dont even know where it all comes from. I just seem to attract it!

 

[Crusher Disciple]

My aunt (wife of my father's brother) who passed away last year used to hoard toilet paper. At the time of her death she had about 300 rolls stored in her house just in case of a toilet paper shortage.

This is the first time I've heard of someone hoarding a particular thing. Usually when I see these shows, people have trouble throwing anything away, and it's just hoarding across the board.

Anyone know how common it is for people to focus on a particular object to hoard?

 

[Miss Chicken]

I knew one man who hoarded books.

He didn't just collect books, he most certainly hoarded them. He didn't seem to care what the books were about orwhether he was interested in the subject. He would go to a garage sale and simply buy every book on offer and bring it home. He couldn't throw out a book. He had wall to wall bookcases, some of which he had constructed himself (and he wasn't a good carpenter), some of the bookcases blocked the windows, he had books piled up in boxes and other books piled up on the kitchen table and on other pieces of furniture. The books were not organised in any way and he would not have been able to locate any particular book easily.

It would seem to me that he was quite a slow reader because he seemed to take forever to read a book.

In the end he moved away to a larger house.

 

[Star Wolf]

In 15 years of carrying mail in South-Central and West LA I have seen about one in a hundred as hoarders. The most visible object is the car or two rusting away in the driveway. The garage has other stuff in it.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

The show Hoarders focuses on people i personally would not consider to be "hoarders". I would consider them to be mentally ill (mind you, I'm not a doctor, I only play one on t.v.)...Those people have houses full of garbage.

I was once in a house of a woman that i would consider a true hoarder. She was a 'doll hoarder'. She had every doll ever made, from like, every era. There were boxes and boxes of unopened dolls throughout the house. There was, literally a narrow pathway that you could use to walk though the house. The pathway was about a foot and a half wide. The rest of the floor was covered with boxes of dolls. Dolls lined the walls. There were thousands of dolls in that house. I went up to the attic and it was more of the same. Every inch of space was covered with a stack of dolls. Now THAT woman was a hoarder.

 

[Holdfast]

My mother used to hoard, in a very mild way: plastic containers, old newspapers, that sort of thing, stashed away in the cupboard under the stairs "just in case it's needed". I try not to do this, and clear out the house every couple of years or so to get rid of stuff I haven't used in that timeframe. I don't necessarily chuck out absolutely everything that would fall under that criterion, but it helps me largely keep on top of things.

 

[KimMH]

My grandparents were born during the Great Depression and couldn't throw anything away. When we cleared out the house we found gobs of completely mundane and sometimes inexplicable things; e.g., a garbage sack full of used twisty ties. Whenever we would ask them if they wanted help cleaning up/throwing things out they would reply that you never knew when you would need (Fill-in-the-blank ____________).

They didn't hoard any one thing - they just kept everything.

 

[T'Bonz]

Yes, I do, and yes, it was bad. I recognized that in extreme cases, hoarders are mentally ill.

 

[Starbreaker]

I had a roommate that suddenly began collecting cigarette boxes for no reason that he could describe. Very odd.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I'm an anti-hoarder. Stuff just gets in the way.

Me too. I'm the opposite of a packrat. I get rid of things at the slightest provocation.

Which is weird, really, since no one else in my family is like that. My dad, for example, is a doctor and is very conscientious about keeping stuff. He's got records of everything. But since he raised me, I guess that would make him...doctors without hoarders.