What I keep hoping is for someone to point out an addiction to bargain shopping. This is the price of capitalism: that someone fills up their house with shit he doesn't need or will never use because it was cheap to buy. And then he feels terrible for having to throw it away. Or he fells terrible about all the shit everyone else throws away so he keeps broken shit. There are extreme issues of poverty, loneliness, and self-esteem that are hardly addressed. What a loss--to have such an interesting topic for a show and to completely make an empty half-hour around it. They should just call the show Police Chase or something. Hoarders become that way after many, many years, and they can't possibly clean their houses in two days. My dad sometimes visits the homes of hoarders because he's a caseworker for the elderly. He says there are clients' houses that are so terrible he has to throw away the clothes he wore during the visit. He says the stink never comes out.
Would hoarders be hoarders if everything they bought was super-expensive? Do you know any hoarders? I know some and after I watch the show, I maniacally clean something. Last time I dusted a lamp, threw away three broken chopsticks, and did a load of laundry. My mom jokingly called me a Paper Hoarder because I keep wrapping paper from various Christmases. Also I like to collect trash such as the packaging from electronics because I like to craft with them. From now on I think I should stick with Buffy reruns.
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My entire apartment is spotless except for the second bedroom which is full of old Amazon boxes, paper to be recycled, a mattress I can't give away and books that need a bookshelf. I'm a compartmentalized hoarder. Hm. I do feel bad about throwing stuff away and get bogged down in the process of trying to get everything to its best upcycle.
I like Eddie Izzard at Wembley on Insta-Netflix.
What's funny is that I actually like to keep empty boxes. Never know when you're going to need one! My father does the same thing and when I asked him about it, he said his grandmother kept boxes too. He also said my great-grandmother held onto old jars and turns out I also have quite the jar collection...
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