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12-03-2009, 07:09 PM | #1 |
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I think my Father in Law is a hoarder. He likes to call himself a pack rat, but it's definitely much more than that. He was just down visiting for the last 11 days or so (he lives in Indiana) and so much of the stuff that he bought while he was here, he took back with him and trust me they're not souvenir type things. For example over the years whenever he comes down he always buys a couple boxes of wine and when he finishes them he takes the plastic bag/pouch out, rinses it out and then puts it in his suitcase to take back with him.
He said he has over 50 of them in his garage that he keeps saving, insisting that at some point he will wind up using them for something. Also he saves every cork from any bottle that we open, every ticket or pass...really just about any useless thing you can imagine. He found a button one time on the sidewalk and picked it up and put it in his pocket and his reasoning is always the same, which is he thinks it will all be needed at some point down the road. Finally as luck would have it, while he was here an episode of Hoarders came on A&E and at first he just kept saying "Thats not me, I'm not that bad" and we both were telling him it doesn't start off that bad, but eventually it gets that way. The only good thing out of all of this is that towards the last day of his trip, he admitted he might have some cleaning to do when he gets back home. I seriously hope he does
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12-03-2009, 07:23 PM | #2 |
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I feel for you man. I'm pretty sure my mom is a hoarder. It can be a serious emotional problem. I know it's problematic enough that it's made me think twice about even collecting Joes. I don't want to start down that path. Even now, I've thinned down my collection and am trying to keep it slow-growing. It all starts with the plastic crack addiction.
But seriously, we've resorted to only giving her food presents because otherwise she holds onto every little thing. But now she will just store that stuff away too. It really sucks. |
12-03-2009, 07:34 PM | #3 |
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man i wish i never deleted them pics out my phone, i was gonna actually show you guys a house i been working on periodically through out the year. but i fig it not right withouit their consent. but wow let me tell you, things that have no value what so ever. loads of shit upon loads, at first i thought i figured it out, and she shopped at good will, but then i seen the lady on ebay..
i have to actually go there monday to finish finally, she needs time in advance so she can make room..whole house packed, my boy was putting plastic over the furniture, and he broke some nasty ass perfume lol.. and it wasn't his fault.... nutss Last edited by Unclassified; 12-03-2009 at 07:37 PM.. |
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12-03-2009, 07:35 PM | #4 |
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I probably have these tendencies. Most if the time though I never seem to find the time to clear things out. The thing that perpetuates it is that once in a while something will actually come into use, and it justifies all the other crap that I save. Most of it is things like old telephone cables or outdated electonics or crap that I might pick up from conventions for work.
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12-03-2009, 07:36 PM | #5 |
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My mother is a packrat...she gets all her glorious free junk from the thrift store she works at now....
It's all over the damned house...what house? you mean storage area for junk that people just toss out that they think a thrift store would take? Oh someone could use this! Oh someone could use that.... The typical responses my mother gives when I tell her we got too much shit. Kitchen is half piled with clothes and stuff in liquor boxes. If you looked at our house and any day when I'm moving boxes from the house to the shop you'd think I'm hauling out tons of Crown Royal and Carlo Rossi out to the shop... Oh forgot to mention she goes and digs in some piles of junk every now and then and goes to the post office looking for coupons in the trash..... I know my mother is a hoarder and ratpacker...and there is nothing I can do about it except go crazy. Last edited by TyjosAzari; 12-03-2009 at 07:38 PM.. |
12-03-2009, 07:40 PM | #6 |
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When I was managing an apartment complex I had a tenant that was a hoarder. The apartment was only 550 sq/ft. Well, I had to evict her for non-payment of rent. She had left the place abandoned and my maintenance staff and I needed to get the place ready for renting. Well, needless to say I could barely open the door. The smell was absolutely a punch in the face. We figured something had died in there. There was boxes of junk piled high to the ceiling. There was no way anyone could possibly live there. Upon trying to get to the kitchen I noticed little plastic tuperware containers all over the place filled with liquid. I mean literally a hundred of these containers were scattered throughout the place. Well I knew right then and there it was urine. This woman had her fridge full of tuperware containers full of urine. The only clean area in that whole place was her bathroom. The worst part about it was it was during the summer and the humidity was horrible!!
I just hope she was able to get help for her problem. |
12-03-2009, 07:41 PM | #7 |
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my boys pops is bad too.. he got mechanic books from when he was a teen? them shits are obsolete lol.. he's bad, the outside and inside BAD...
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12-03-2009, 07:42 PM | #8 |
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my girlfriend's mom is a hoarder.
we've been watching that hoarders show on tv. the material world has a way of grafting onto people emotionally.
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When I was managing an apartment complex I had a tenant that was a hoarder. The apartment was only 550 sq/ft. Well, I had to evict her for non-payment of rent. She had left the place abandoned and my maintenance staff and I needed to get the place ready for renting. Well, needless to say I could barely open the door. The smell was absolutely a punch in the face. We figured something had died in there. There was boxes of junk piled high to the ceiling. There was no way anyone could possibly live there. Upon trying to get to the kitchen I noticed little plastic tuperware containers all over the place filled with liquid. I mean literally a hundred of these containers were scattered throughout the place. Well I knew right then and there it was urine. This woman had her fridge full of tuperware containers full of urine. The only clean area in that whole place was her bathroom. The worst part about it was it was during the summer and the humidity was horrible!!
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12-03-2009, 07:46 PM | #10 |
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i was gonna make that point earlier cause tat said his father in law saves wine bottles, but that may be a memory for him, that time he went to cali..
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