Hoaders... share your experience.

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First off I love that show. I watch it somewhat frequently, especially when I'm in a cleaning mode. But that's been the extent of my exposure until this past weekend.

Now I've been thinking about what drives a person to cling to their hoard and let it bury their lives.



Do you have a hoarder in your family?

Were they always that way? If not, what happened where they started to change?

Tell me about your experience/s.
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Posted by Gem_from_Venus
My grandmother is a hoarder. She has been since I've been alive, but it got worse after her husband died. Their bedroom is the cleanest room, as it is a monument to him, and he died in 1983.

It always gave me a sinking, heavy feeling to enter one of her hoard rooms as a child. Now the whole house is like that, and she's old, and I worry.
Your right to worry. It's a fire hazard.

Do you ever feel like it's hereditary? Do you find yourself gravitating towards collecting and keeping stuff.

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I collect games, music, movies...

Mostly stuff that has some value to me personally or money (Taurus)

Other than that no.


I collect sea shells, shot glasses, my birth date year any coin, and old papers and receipt.

How many years back do your papers/receipts go?

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Fewww more than 5-7 years ago. There old bills and school papers. Mostly now.
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Posted by MIIeFisk
My Leo aunt is a hoarder, and I mean by its purest definition. She could be in that show. The last time I was at her house was maybe a decade ago. Old newspapers and magazines from the 70s, clothes both dirty and some with tags still attached, knick knacks, and boxes... lots and lots of fucking boxes that God-knows-what they contain.

She's had at least 2 interventions where a group of family members showed up at her house to clean and they rented a dumpster. Even then they couldnt completely clean and toss out the garbage overflowing in her house because she would fight them and her anxiety would heighten. Any empty space would fill back up shortly.

She's a widow and has one son who lives a couple of hours away with his wife. I don't think he ever brought her to his childhood home.
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Posted by LadyNeptune
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Posted by TheCanBull
I collect games, music, movies...

Mostly stuff that has some value to me personally or money (Taurus)

Other than that no.


I collect sea shells, shot glasses, my birth date year any coin, and old papers and receipt.

How many years back do your papers/receipts go?


Fewww more than 5-7 years ago. There old bills and school papers. Mostly now.
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You only need to keep 3 years worth. I think that's the recommended amount...

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Posted by LadyNeptune
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Posted by LadyNeptune
Posted by FirstDecanTaurianWomen0428
Posted by TheCanBull
I collect games, music, movies...

Mostly stuff that has some value to me personally or money (Taurus)

Other than that no.


I collect sea shells, shot glasses, my birth date year any coin, and old papers and receipt.

How many years back do your papers/receipts go?


Fewww more than 5-7 years ago. There old bills and school papers. Mostly now.
You only need to keep 3 years worth. I think that's the recommended amount...

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Okay come over and I'll bake you something for your troubles in helping me. Thanks.
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Posted by FirstDecanTaurianWomen0428
Posted by LadyNeptune
Posted by FirstDecanTaurianWomen0428
Posted by LadyNeptune
Posted by FirstDecanTaurianWomen0428
Posted by TheCanBull
I collect games, music, movies...

Mostly stuff that has some value to me personally or money (Taurus)

Other than that no.


I collect sea shells, shot glasses, my birth date year any coin, and old papers and receipt.

How many years back do your papers/receipts go?


Fewww more than 5-7 years ago. There old bills and school papers. Mostly now.
You only need to keep 3 years worth. I think that's the recommended amount...


Okay come over and I'll bake you something for your troubles in helping me. Thanks.
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Give me a quick moment to throw my commercial size shredder in the trunk and I'm on my way!!