Hoarders!!!
- ScubaSteve
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Watching hoarders on A&E. I am speechless!! How do people get that way!! Unbelievable!
- Richard S.
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I think the difference between them and someone that would be considered thrifty is lack of space, really poor organizational skills and they are slobs n some cases. You even notice on Mythbusters all the shelves with boxes and boxes on the side. It's all filled with stuff, the difference between him and a hoarder is he has it organized and the space for it.
My Aunt was somewhat afflicted with this, she passed away a few years ago and the house had a lot of junk but it was organized and lot of it did have value. She used to make doll clothes and she had boxes and boxes of fabric from scraps to whole big sheets all of which someone took. I know I have tendencies to want to hold onto things for practical reasons but every couple of years you just get that time to clean the crap out and most of it goes out AND inevitably as soon as I throw something out that I've been holding onto for five years I need it. If I had the space to organize it I'd probably keep a lot of "junk".
My Aunt was somewhat afflicted with this, she passed away a few years ago and the house had a lot of junk but it was organized and lot of it did have value. She used to make doll clothes and she had boxes and boxes of fabric from scraps to whole big sheets all of which someone took. I know I have tendencies to want to hold onto things for practical reasons but every couple of years you just get that time to clean the crap out and most of it goes out AND inevitably as soon as I throw something out that I've been holding onto for five years I need it. If I had the space to organize it I'd probably keep a lot of "junk".
That's an early symptom of the Collectus Junkitis disease!Richard S. wrote: inevitably as soon as I throw something out that I've been holding onto for five years I need it.
Heck, I've got a pair of mint (never cut!) '71 Cutlass door panels stashed behind the couch in the living room for safe keeping.
- CoalHeat
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- coaledsweat
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When I saw the thread title, I thought it was another one about Freddy Mountain in Maine.
- stovepipemike
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Heck,I've still got the glass bottle of Turtle Wax I used to wax my '35 Ford hot rod 49 years ago.Hoarding,me? never- it is simply being sentimental,that's how I see it anyhow. I only wish I had the car back that the wax fits.
- WNY
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We have people living behind us that are this...they only use the house to store JUNK. They live elsewhere. Their Barn burned down a few months ago and it was packed with old junk (Some antique stuff). We have may several complaints about it. especially with them being in the historic district, looks really bad.
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You know the old saying whats one mans junk is anothers treasure. A round here, more so in Ohio people just run things till they die then add them to the line in the yard. I just can`t figure out why they didn`t get rid of it when the price of scrap was high.
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I know the feeling. I have a 80+ old dutchman who will never throw away anything living near me. I watched him one day stow away a short piece of a 2x4 behind one of 3 or 4 sheds which by the way is so full, it's unsafe.WNY wrote:We have people living behind us that are this...they only use the house to store JUNK. They live elsewhere. Their Barn burned down a few months ago and it was packed with old junk (Some antique stuff). We have may several complaints about it. especially with them being in the historic district, looks really bad.
He actually told me he was planning on refinishing an old station wagon which hasn't seen the asphalt in 25 yrs. ( He's 80+ old ) Who is he fooling? The man is sick and his land is of less value cause it is so cluttered. When he dies, half his estate will be paid to the team of workers and the dumpster fees to clean up the junk, piles of it including a lifetime of cars & mowers, wash machines & dryers. Really sad. It's not right a single individual can lower property values for everyone.
- Uglysquirrel
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But Hoarding coal is a problem we can all deal with !!!!! :>
I helped clean out an apartment once that took 3 30 yard dumpsters to clear it. The lady ,who was a nurse, had lived there for years. The landlord had decided to put siding on the duplex and as soon as the contractor came around, the lady got spooked and took off. The lady had paid her rent for years and the landlord hadn't been around in years. Two feet deep inside, newspapers, trash, junk. I refinished the floors after all was said and done. The people who actually emptied the place made $90 in change just picking up coins.
I have my 95 gmc jimmy sitting outside -- when I think it's time to let it go; I think about the motor with only 15k on it and the new trans-- and the countless hours I spent on those repairs--both useless since I don't know why it's running so rough.
It's a great feeling to clear out junk, but it is so true, throw out a jimcrack or doodad you haven't used in 20 years, and you will surely need it within two weeks time!!!
I just helped a buddy work on his truck, and he helped me put my shop in order. I was thinking if I put tools and stuff high up on shelves, I wouldn't be able to get to them. That thinking prevented me from putting stuff up, and I couldn't even walk in there anymore!!! Now I have room to put a ladder up to the shelves! I had to let him tell me, I was jammed by my own thinking.
I have my 95 gmc jimmy sitting outside -- when I think it's time to let it go; I think about the motor with only 15k on it and the new trans-- and the countless hours I spent on those repairs--both useless since I don't know why it's running so rough.
It's a great feeling to clear out junk, but it is so true, throw out a jimcrack or doodad you haven't used in 20 years, and you will surely need it within two weeks time!!!
I just helped a buddy work on his truck, and he helped me put my shop in order. I was thinking if I put tools and stuff high up on shelves, I wouldn't be able to get to them. That thinking prevented me from putting stuff up, and I couldn't even walk in there anymore!!! Now I have room to put a ladder up to the shelves! I had to let him tell me, I was jammed by my own thinking.