Hoarders.......

[mrvette]

Got mentioned in another thread.....and reminded me of this......

Many years ago Oprah W. did a show on hoarders, and that show featured the sick wife of an old friend, one of 3 brothers I knew, so Sharon and her house full of shit was spread out over this KRAZY big warehouse....like 10,000' worth.....on tables on floor.....

and so Marvin finally got to escape tripping all over junk in the house.....


I had a next door neighbor that was almost as bad in that time frame, she had a whole damn kitchen full of old Wash Post papers stacked to the point there was not room to fix a sandwich.....serious.....

Then there is my next door neighbor here, house so full of junk if he held a yard sale would run the price of everything in town to nothing....can't walk the halls, let along into any room, house is SO littered he can't have anyone over but couple of friends.....

anyone else know of or maybe YOU?????



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[Yamma]

Certainly not me, but my best friend growing up did. She lived with her brother and dad, she was always competing in speed skating. Her living room was literally packed from one end to the other with trophies - you couldn't walk through there if you tried - whole house had nothing but a path going through it. Been years since I've been in there - she's my age now and out on her own.....in a clean house.

[wwomanC6]

My grandmother was a closet hoarder. My mom is too. Sister is becoming one.

I'm going through and boxing up stuff today to give away to charity and good will. Tired off having stuff in the closet I hardly ever use!

[lspencer534]

I guess my Mom qualified as a hoarder, although she limited her "collection" to her spare bedrooms and closets. In those places she kept the oddest crap: Fabric she had bought and never sewed anything out of (hundreds of pieces), grocery receipts (all kept in empty candy boxes), and Mardi Gras type trinkets and necklaces.

[ConstantChange]

I'm definitely not. I had a guy come to my house awhile back to do some work and he asked me if I just moved in. I told him I'd been here about 5 years. My guest bedroom is almost empty.

My mom hoarded things. It wasn't to the point you couldn't get around the house, but she had crap stacked high on the dining room table, in closets, in the spare bedroom, etc... In my tiny bedroom I had 3 dressers. I think I was allowed to use 3 drawers. The rest were full of crap.

When my parents passed, I rented a huge dumpster. It felt good throwing all that shit away.

[Bucwheat]

When I lived at home in the 60's we had a neighbor that was an extreme hoarder,I was friends with his son ,we were about 14 yo,we would never play at his house and I always wondered why until one day an ambulance arrived at his house on a call for his father and being a kid you ALWAYS followed an ambulance on you bike,well they had a path through that house with junk covering everything to the roof.It scared me to look at that mess.:leaving:

[mrvette]

Just watched Hoarders on the A&E channel this evening.....

first one up was the krazy kat lady.....frozen and refrigerated cats in her freezer/fridge, cat a other animal carcasses in zip lock baggies.....

every door they opened up in that 'house' was another terror....most of which they could not show.....'

then we get to the other more 'normal' folks with a house SO full of shit, it's just a joke......

I setting there laughing my ASS off......


and yes, I have been in similar CUSTOMER'S houses like that......


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[Aerovette]

I have a bit of it in me. I have a hard time getting rid of things. I can't tell you how many times I have had something laying around for years and within a month of deciding to toss it, I'll be damned if I don't need it and have to go BUY one.

All of my childhood we moved from city to city or state to state and it meant getting rid of toys and starting over. As an adult, it haunted me and I discovered ebay and began buying toys from my youth. I have a room in the house that is dedicated to my stash. the rest of the house is very normal and uncluttered.


For the record, I have a SMALL amount of sympathy for the people that have a lot of "stuff'. I have ZERO sympathy for the people who can't get the trash to the curb, take a dump in shoebaxes, and live with rats and dead animals. They need to be institutionalized.

[MEANZ06]

All of my childhood we moved from city to city or state to state and it meant getting rid of toys and starting over. As an adult, it haunted me and I discovered ebay and began buying toys from my youth. I have a room in the house that is dedicated to my stash. the rest of the house is very normal and uncluttered.



Spence to the white courtesy phone, Spence to the white courtesy phone.... :leaving: