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blackburn_stevie · ‎04-09-2013

Am I wrong? It happened once before in the 1980's so it is theoretically possible.

I thought that a Hoarder was a person that kept everything that they found, whether it was any actual use to them or not.

According to the TV listings, a hoarding person would amass a huge amount of stuff in their house and it would be nigh-on impossible for them to get rid of it all.

OK, here's the bit that I don't get. Where does it say that a Hoarder has to be a dirty person with scraps of food laying around all over the ship? Where does it say that a Hoarder's house needs to be knee deep in cat litter trays that have spilled over? How come that there is never a spare inch of clean space in a hoarder's house and they need to bring in a team of men and women to clear all of the mess into skips and wagons.

That's not a hoarder. That's what is known in the trade (to me) as a skank.

millielilac · ‎04-09-2013

You may or may not be wrong....

However some of the people who " hoard " whether it be things or in some case animals are actually people who have mental health issues....

Once watched a TV documentary about an old Polish gentleman who had absolutely nothing during the war years. As a result he could not bear to part with anything at all...and collected anything he could get his hands on too.

Every few months the council came round and there was a battle on as he struggled to keep his possessions...the council would clear away the rubbish and he would start again. It was in fact all terribly sad...not only for the old guy but od course for his neighbours too..

lhasa.two · ‎04-09-2013

The "old gentleman" was Mr Trebus.

Here's his obit:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1409049/Edmund-Trebus.html

There's hoarding and there's hoarding and when it all gets too much, as in the case of Mr Trebus, I think it's a sign of mental illness, often about "loss", not necessarily about material things, more emotional.

A lot of the older generation do save things because they were brought up not to waste anything. You see it in Third world countries too because everything has a use so it's frequently recycled.