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Curb alert, guys!!! Come get some trash! or maybe a urine stained mattress!!! This is a photo I just found in craigslist free section... a hoarders paradise

 

One time i threw away a boombox because the cd stopped working. I had ugly stickers all over it. Any sticker i had i put on it.
Next day i saw it playing in my neighbors window. I was mad that they went through my garbage but sad that they didnt have a radio(thats all it was good for) and to have one that ugly. But i am glad it could help them out.

 

Nothing wrong with hoarders. Big time believer of "one persons trash is anothers treasure".

 

Idk, I would say there is something wrong with living in filth and clutter and hoarding things, but whatever people wanna do is their choice, unless city ordinance or health department decides to step in. Sure, one person's trash could be someone elses treasure, but it doesn't change the fact that it's still trash.

 

Dont get confused. There is a huge difference between clutter and dirty. I really cant imagine there ever being a city ordinance for someone that likes to collect tons of newspapers. And keeps them in thier livingroom.

 

Just because someone has a lot of stuff doesn't mean they live in filth... I can see an actual hoarder living in filth. We have a shed full of stuff but our house isn't filth... some of that stuff is sell stuff but its good stuff... I posted some of it on CL today and atleast one of the items will be sold tomorrow... Also, just because someone says something is trash... doesn't mean its really trash. Theres rich people here that throw away tons of really good useful stuff...

Also, if someone wants something someone doesn't want anymore.. why can't they recycle it and use it? Just like we had this little ugly mirror and some gift wrap and I didn't want it anymore and instead of throwing it away I went to my neighbor and asked him if he wanted it... It was trash to me but he was happy to have that little mirror and the gift wrap to use it.

 

I think that's actually a fire hazard.

 

Maybe a bad example i could have said someone that likes to collect fire extinguishers.
Personally i dont see that as much of a hazard as people that light candles in their house.

 

It must smell nice though, assuming old newspaper smells like old paperback books.

 

I light candles and incense and I've never come close to burning anything down.
A friend was burning incense once and left the house and it burned down to his wooden tray and caught fire and fire police had to come and he got in big trouble from the landlord people lol.

 

... and hoarding

 

Wow that's kind of sucky. I mean, it's just stupid 5 dollars.

 

Isn't hoarding some sort of disease caused by mental trauma and stuff?

One of our professors (well, I call him a professor - he was actually demoted to "postboy") used to hoard a mass of shit (papers) in his office. He was a brilliant, brilliant academic and good lecturer. But had just lost it, in some way.

Is anyone here a hoarder? I mean keeps stuff. Not someone who collects old dogshit, "incase it comes in useful someday".

 

my partner was - after she died I found we had 3 sets of pots & pans in storage in addition to the ones we used, 4 sets of dishes and flatware, clothes no one ever wore, games that were never used - the list went on.

funny though, when any average person stacks stuff up it is a disease - when a wealthy person stacks up more money than anyone can use in a lifetime , we call them heroic

 

Had she experienced any mental trauma?

You are right about the "normal people = mad, rich ones = eccentric/heroic" comments.

I must admit, I've not "hoarded" but probably kept an excess of stuff.
Old documents, retro clothes that "will come back into fashion some day",
other stuff.

But I also bin a lot of stuff, brutally sometimes.

I think some people infuse objects with their own "energy". Which makes it difficult to get shot of stuff.

 

her parents split up when she was six that is about it - I suffered far worse (had been raped twice by then, been forced through reparative therapy, bullied horrifically in school)

 

It's a psychological issue that I think should never be encouraged. Many people who hoard do so because they may have lost someone in their life so they hoard things because of absence. Hoarding isn't healthy and people who hoard need to seek help by therapy or medication. My father is a hoarder and growing up, my family and I suffered because of this. We had to live in a not so great environment. He wouldn't and still hasn't gotten help. Of course I have empathy for hoarders but also tough love, they need to seek help. I've had a lot of trauma in my life and it actually didn't cause me to hoard. I'm actually the opposite where I like to have very minimal possesions, I don't like clutter. Trauma has caused me many issues though and I've gotten and still am getting help for these issues.

 

my wife thinks i keep too much stuff. i have lots of clothes that i don't wear...but that i could. eh, there's not too many other things that i "hoard"

did you gloss over the first part? he was a dick when emailing me. told me that my asking price was too high, and tried to set his own price. i didn't owe him anything. i was gonna sell my car on my terms. he can fuck off

and actually, it was 20 stupid dollars now that i think about it.