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HOARDING.....what kind of things do we keep
Katie77:
Hahahaaa.....I can see this is going to bring out some really funny stories......
Have you seen the shows on TV, Jess, about compulsive hoarders......i saw one the other day, where there was so much rubbish in the house that the husband had collected, that he and his wife bought a trailer to park beside the house to live in........NOW........the trailer is getting full of stuff and they are running out of room in that.
Talk about an understanding wife........she deserves a medal. (which no doubt her hubby has plenty of somewhere in his collection)
Oh, and just on a serious note, I am not laughing at the particular mental illness associated with these extreme cases, it is no laughing matter, and the "illness" is just as devastating as any other illness....but it is quite an eye opener and amazing just how it affects someone and to what extremes they get to.
brokeplex:
coupons, old radios, flower pots
injest:
--- Quote from: Katie77 on July 16, 2008, 08:28:34 pm ---Hahahaaa.....I can see this is going to bring out some really funny stories......
Have you seen the shows on TV, Jess, about compulsive hoarders......i saw one the other day, where there was so much rubbish in the house that the husband had collected, that he and his wife bought a trailer to park beside the house to live in........NOW........the trailer is getting full of stuff and they are running out of room in that.
Talk about an understanding wife........she deserves a medal. (which no doubt her hubby has plenty of somewhere in his collection)
Oh, and just on a serious note, I am not laughing at the particular mental illness associated with these extreme cases, it is no laughing matter, and the "illness" is just as devastating as any other illness....but it is quite an eye opener and amazing just how it affects someone and to what extremes they get to.
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no, mental illness is nothing to laugh at but people's little idiosyncries are! My husband is not mentally ill....just string addicted!
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Katie77:
We may laugh, I guess at these hubbys who save string, but I wonder what those hubbys would think if they saw all the stuff us girls have stashed away, just about things to do with our beloved Brokeback Mountain......(now tell the truth, we all have them) ::) ::)
I have fan fic stories I have printed out and bound with covers, an enormous collection of printed fan art, curtesy of Lucise's thread, not to mention the postcards that Brokies have sent me and little trinkets like cowboy hats on chains and little tents hanging on string. Not to mention 3 copies of the short story, and 2 copies of the dvd.
Now those things I will never throw out.....
optom3:
My hoarding is so sad. I keep all the slippers you get at hotels.I never wear them and must have about 50 plus pairs.They fill a whole drawer in a big chest.
I also keep those paper umbrellas you get in cocktail drinks.
I have several hundred plus free match packets from round the world.
The rest I think is common, first lock of hair, first tooth,ultrasound scan photos,from when I was pregnant,I have even kept the one from the baby I miscarried.
First everything from the kids.
One of the saddest things when we moved here, was the only carton that went missing from shipping was all the kids homemade Xmas tree decorations.I cried for ages our 1st xmas here when I realised they had gone.
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