I had trapping permission from an elderly couple that lived about 3 miles from me .They spent a good bit of time attending flea markets on weekends Their house was full of all kinds of things They kept it clean somehow but there was not much room to move around he house In their living room it was floor to ceiling Winross trucks All .neatly displayed on shelves that had sliding glass doors on them It had to be at least 300 to 400 of them . About 7 seven years ago they decided to move to a retirement village and began to pack and or sell things .He also had a 20 x 30 pole building full of every sort of thing you could image I had been trapping there since the 1990's and as time went by I made it a point to stop in from time to time to see if there was anything they might nee. When the moving came up he offered to pay me to help them prepare I refused his offer and just told him if I saw items I might want to buy to keep me in mind The pole shed was so full it was like a maize He would ask me to go to the shed and bring whatever item he was in need of .He had no written paperwork as far as his inventory BUT HE KNEW WHAT HE HAD AND WHERETO FIND IT . We would work on clearing out a few hours as we where inclined to do it .Along the way they did locate some items he had lost track of And at the same time I was offered some pretty good deals of things I ask about buying . He was indeed a hoarder but the thought of selling alot of what he had meant he would have some money to show for it And he liked the wheeling and delaing part of it so in went well.

I'm not a hoarder by any means but more of a pack rat. On a 160 acres a guy can fit alot of junk.

Here's the stressful thing about having all that stuff....the minute you finally decide enough is enough and throw a bunch of stuff away a few days will go by and bingo: you find that you need something for a project and just last week threw it away!

When you grow up with "nothing" it's hard to get rid of anything because you may need it tomorrow.

I own stuff I need to take to the dump.
Every year I take a load to the dump but wind up moving more stuff around from one shed to another.Everything looks neat and tidy for a while and I know where everything is again.

Yes! I saw somewhere it added officially sometime in the last few years. I'm ok, though, I've been hoarding for much longer.

As an update:
I managed to clean out a small corner today, as well as completing a few small unfinished projects. I found a few missing, almost forgotten tools in the process. Life ain't so bad.

Interesting!!! So, where are you moving too staying in state or moving out of state? Take it with you, problem solved.

I have a 2 car garage packed full of hoardings which I can't seem to see any reason whatsoever to part with much of it at all.
It got bad several years ago and a couple that I know offered to come over and at least help me sort and collate everything and throw away what I could.
I hated every minute of that day. Bless their hearts for trying.
I about had a full blown panic attack when the Mrs. suggested that we make the empty spot in the middle of the garage a "trash pile"!!!
Well we made a lot of progress that day and it was much more organized.
I waited for after they had left and scoured through the "trash pile" and retrieved some 'must haves' out of it.
If i didn't know by then that I had a serious problem, the clincher was that from that point forward, when I couldn't find something that I knew that I had, I silently blamed those fine people for throwing it away! They didn't throw anything away. They just put it in the center of the garage floor.
Yes I have a problem, but it has never made its way inside of the house. So is it really a problem.

Where am I going?....No idea yet. I only know I have a closing date of May 2024. With all the contingencies It may not happen, but nevertheless I need to be ready.

Anything you get rid of you'll need in a couple days. Happens everytime.

I have this problem too. I literally have a small lumberyard in my back shed, and a hardware store in the other garage. My next house will have a big shop so I can actually use the tools I have.

I believe hoarding started after people went through the Great Depression. Eons ago, humans didn't have room or knowledge about storing mass items. But I've known several people over the years that grew up during the depression and they kept EVERYTHING. I've always heard, "you better keep that, you might need it someday." I go through my junk and get rid of SOME things I haven't used in a while. Yard sale buyers are the worst. "Can't pass up a god deal."

Hoarding is just another symptom of the Greed problem in the USA.

I learned on here that Greed is good and natural but I learned in Sunday school it was one of the 7 deadly sins...I have a friend who has a second house so he can hoard and when it got full he bought a 20' box truck to put in the driveway..he has other issues also but really is not a bad guy at all.

A dog licks it's hind end because it doesn't have hands to clean it. Words of wisdom by a guy who is a "globalist", extremely over educated, due to a silver spoon life, with no worldly experience or knowledge and manufacturers things that will likely end humanity, not 120 year old food products. Sorry Marty, I couldn't help it and that is being honest.

The above is all sarcasm outside of a dog licking it's hind end and 120 years of food products. Just didn't want to be unclear since sarcasm can be hard to read in text.

And tossing away perfectly good stuff is a symptom of willful waste.

Glad to see you figured out the 'term' is silver spoon and not gold spoon as you thought it was the other evening...your making progress but have a ways to go yet...imo.

Most farmers and ranchers never get rid of stuff never know what your going to need. Other grind is out where we are hour to town and back and half the time dont have what ya need.

Gold spoon would indicate an even higher status than silver spoon. It would be for the ultra elite. Glad I could teach you something new Marty.

Gold spoon was never a common saying. Silver spoon referred to people having been fed as babies with silver spoons. The wealthy usef silver utensils not gold utensils

You could do some reading on this if you wanted to learn up. I'm Off to do some WILD liberal things that will bring America to it's knees.

AKA- I have card night tonight, so won't be able to offer you any more wisdom. Enjoy your night Marty!