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Typo Lad
05-24-2005, 10:24 AM
The Mother of All Packrats (http://www.randomthink.net/misc/ebay/)

I am showing this to Suzannah when I get home so that she will feel better about the two computers I left on the living room table.
noodleboy
05-24-2005, 10:51 AM
DAMN!!!!


That is awful, I am so glad that I get that urge every 4 months or so to "Get Rid" of crap that I no longer or will ever use. Whether it eBay (probably going to that ladies house) or just throwing it away. That is just messed up though.
GremlinClr
05-24-2005, 11:01 AM
Holy Carp! Or any fish for that matter. How do people live like that? I mean I have a hard time throwing things away myself and I have plastic totes full of magazines and stuff but that is just insane! Why buy things just to leave them in the box stacked around your house?

Thank God my mom is terrified of technology and only uses her computer for e-mail. She has trouble throwing things away as well. She has boxes of clothes from her youth as well as my grandparents clothes and they are both dead.
Dr. Hfuhruhurr
05-24-2005, 11:33 AM
I guess I can stop bitching to my wife about our messy bedroom. We just went through a couple weeks of house guests and throwing parties, so all the crap that accumulates in the rest of the house gets moved to our bedroom so she can "sort through it." Unfortunately, she never quite gets to it, so when I go to bed, I have to navigate through mounds of laundry, books, children's clothes that don't fit our kids, toys they've outgrown and whatever the latest knicknacks that she's purchased but not gotten around to unpacking.

But at least I take solace in the fact that I don't have to sleep on 2/3rds of the couch.
heretic
05-24-2005, 11:34 AM
Dang, and I thought I was bad about that....

HTG
DarkBlade
05-24-2005, 08:09 PM
Dear gods, if there was ever a house that qualified as a canidate for the Clean Sweep tv show...
Karl J. Barnes
05-24-2005, 08:28 PM
The Mother of All Packrats (http://www.randomthink.net/misc/ebay/)

I am showing this to Suzannah when I get home so that she will feel better about the two computers I left on the living room table.

This is a lie. You know that this is your house and trying to pass it off as someone else's!!! Mort,Morts....why have you gone to such lengths to foist this mess as someone else's??Well, it's sad, really.
MacQuarrie
05-25-2005, 12:15 AM
Sure, she's a packrat. If he doesn't like it, he doesn't have to stay there.

I prefer packrats to whiners.
ragnarok_2012
05-25-2005, 12:26 AM
Hmmm, so that's where Hoffa is buried....
howyadoin
05-25-2005, 12:49 AM
Sure, she's a packrat. If he doesn't like it, he doesn't have to stay there.

I prefer packrats to whiners.There's a world of difference between being a packrat and being clinically insane, though.
MacQuarrie
05-25-2005, 10:34 AM
There's a world of difference between being a packrat and being clinically insane, though.
True, and this woman needs help.

But that wasn't this guy's tone. He was griping about having to live like this. He doesn't have to. He can move.
howyadoin
05-25-2005, 10:42 AM
True, and this woman needs help.

But that wasn't this guy's tone. He was griping about having to live like this. He doesn't have to. He can move.Maybe he can't find his way to the door.
Petersen
05-25-2005, 10:54 AM
There is a clynical term for this called 'hoarding'

It is a part of an OCD complex. Desicions about discarding things that "could be used" or once had meaning become so overwhelming that nothing gets done.

Unfortunately, My mother has this problem. Not quite to the degree of the photos (no pets and not as much stacked). It is hard for her (she can't have people over because she is embarrased) It's hard to stop by and see her, It's hard to have somone come over to do work on her home (plumber, carpender, etc.) still, it is too dibilitating for her to do something about it that having the lack of guests is more bareable

my heart goes out to this person & their family