I’ve known one compulsive hoarder and have been in their house. Interesting to say the least. There’s another who lives a block away from me, the local paper has actually done an article on her.
There is an old woman down the road who’s whole house is stacked with news paper and magazines that she thinks are special for on reason or another.
The entire place is piled high in neat stacks with a path down the middle.
Very!
I worked with a man who carried two wallets, each stuffed with hundred dollar bills. I went to his house once, a nice house but every room was packed wall to ceiling with all sorts of things. Motor oil by the cases, paper towells, cartons of tooth paste, toilet papaer etc. Just unbelivable.
He was a widower and I have wondered if perhaps he had his wife stuffed and packed away somewhere.
I have been through the garages and sheds of a hoarder. I had to take my belt off to keep from scratching paint of the rare cars crammed together...
Is this “hoarding”?
I’m gonna look in my dictionary for this one. What does that word mean?
Hoarding is very sad.
An old man who lived a few blocks away was a hoarder. His house had to be torn down because the trash, rot and vermin had made it structurally unsound. When they tore it down, the smell was noticeable for blocks.
I had a compulsive hoarder neighbor once, and it's amazing QVC survived after her death.
She bought literally tons of things while watching the home shopping network, but she never opened the boxes. Boxes were piled from the floor to near the ceiling of her 4 bedroom home. There were narrow trails leading through all the boxes, and it's a good thing for her that she didn't have claustrophobia.
Everyone tried to help her, but she wasn't legally insane, she just liked it that way.
After her death from a heart attack, her relatives held the mother of all lawn sales for 3 days.