Hoarders

same. Add people who spend everything they get to that. I can't deal with that kind of stress.

R1 Agreed. The person doesn’t even have to be a hoarder. If I walk into someone’s house and feel suffocated ie.. collections of crap everywhere - I run.

Is there a picture or link?

Hoarding is an emotional disorder. They apply love and endearment to objects. It is a bizarre mental health issue.

I get stressed out when I leave a pile of junk mail on the counter for a few days.

Being surrounded by crap makes me feel like I have ants crawling all over my body.

I'm not an obsessive Sheldon Cooper or Felix Unger and don't constantly clean. But, I don't let days of crap pile up either.

Great! I love people who self select themselves out of my life. Make one comment about the books, and you are history.

My house is literally a museum. The first time I went to Europe with my partner (his first time), he kept exclaiming, "You have that!" every time we went to a museum. The hardest thing for him to understand from his Midwest sensibility was, if it is valuable, why don't I sell it. I am interested in history and art. My home reflects that. If someone feels suffocated, they are free to leave.

I have a friend with this problem. She's morbidly obese, and she's had horrible luck throughout her life. She just kept getting kicked by the world over and over again. I think that when you buy something online, you get a feeling of excitement waiting for the package to arrive; it's something to look forward to. Many times she never even opens the box, just stacks it in a room. She likes knowing that it will be there if she everneeds it. She's embarrassed about the state of her house, and she never has visitors, making her feel even more isolated.

Ever if the hoarder had a butt like this?

The face that goes with the butt in R8.

[quote] I think that when you buy something online, you get a feeling of excitement waiting for the package to arrive; it's something to look forward to. Many times she never even opens the box, just stacks it in a room.

The excitement is pretty much over right after you hit the "place order" button. I don't even think there's any excitement waiting for the package. After you hit "place order," it's on to the next purchase.

Op I don’t like whores either

R5 This is exactly how I feel.

- OP

[quote] Is there a picture or link?

Or a point?

I grew up in an old single wide trailer (It's a stereotype, but it applies), and while it was nowhere near anything featured on the show "Hoarders", my parents were packrats. It was embarrassing to the point that I never had anyone over.

As a result, clutter makes me extremely anxious. I have a pathelogical hatred of clutter, and an almost obsessive need to keep things "just so" in my home. If it isn't, I get anxious. I get depressed if things are out of order for any length of time (when I had roommates in college, it was especially bad).

After my father died, I spent time cleaning my mother's kitchen one Christmas. She had Parkinson's and wasn't always able to finish things she'd started. After two hours, I said "Well, it finally looks like I'm making progress!" "For you, but not for me." she replied. "It doesn't look like anyone lives here." I put the bottle of dish soap in the cabinet under the kitchen sink, because that's where I keep it at home. Finally, I responded: "You only have yourself to blame."

So, I'm all too familiar with what clutter can do. If I REALLY liked a guy, and he didn't full-on hoard, it wouldn't be a deal breaker, but I couldn't live with him if he didn't make it a point to improve that part of his life.

R14 I swear I could’ve written this post. Clutter makes me very anxious.

My favorite episode of one of those hoarding shows was where the wife was the hoarder. Her husband and her adult children all new about all the crap in their home and the three off-site storage lockers. But the husband didn't know the wife had rented an entire downtown store of about 10,000 sq. ft. and was working as hard as she could to fill that up with crap.

That guy at R9 had a girlfriend who ran screaming out of there after she saw his hoard for the first time.

Previously minimalist in interior design taste, when too many family, friend then relationship loses stacked up I found myself picking up a lot of quirky furniture and decorative curios from auctions and online. In no time my living space was filled. During lockdown I watched a bit of a Hoarders show each day and used the revulsion I felt to help clear an item, a box, a small space in my storage unit. Didn’t see this change in behaviour coming and still working on it.

What r18 said. I’m in the same boat.,