Hoarding

[StressedEric]

Do you live with a hoarder? Or a border-line hoarder?

How did you resolve this?

My attic and spare room are overflowing with useless junk and it keeps piling up.

[StressedEric]

HarryFlatters said:

My wife is a hoarder, and it annoys the hell out of me.

Unfortunately, there's no apparent way to persuade her to throw things out.

So basically hoarders are selfish bds, they have no cares for the opinions of other people in their house who find clutter stressful.

I think I am going to have to resort to subterfuge and plan clandestine visits to the council dump.

How can hoarders possibly remember what stuff they have and have not, right?

[StressedEric]

NinjaPower said:

StressedEric said:

So basically hoarders are selfish bds, they have no cares for the opinions of other people in their house who find clutter stressful.

Erm no.... They are mentally ill, not selfish bds.

Right so they are mentally ill for keeping stuff, what if the person they live with is mentally ill for chucking stuff out? How come the hoarder gets to win? Does their mental illness rank higher?

And anyway, I'm not talking about TV show level of hoarding but just a bit of 'mild' hoarding, like open a kitchen cupboard and 20 plastic take-away containers fall out.

[StressedEric]

Rude-boy said:

Those and my stash of Evos, although there is method in my madness there as I rationalise this by knowing that we will own a number of the cars that were featured in there new over the next few years and it is always nice to have some paper to add when selling on in due course.

I have absolutely no clue what this sentence means.

[StressedEric]

8Ace said:

......or a windscreen wiper motor for a car that neither of you owns.

Or ever will again.