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I will say that I am certain I have hoarder tendencies - my house is not cluttered at ALL - BUT I have a really hard time making decisions on organizing and throwing things away. I also find it difficult to figure out what to do with things once I decide to get rid of them. Our local garbage/recycling laws are hard to deal with and I'm too busy to list everything I need to get rid of on ebay or craigslist. For instance, I have 3 tv's I don't need - 2 are broken and one has a messed up picture. They are all 10+ yrs old. People figure because I'm a single mom they can give me their crappy tv's that don't work, LOL. Anyway I have to make a trip into the city, which costs me $10 in gas, to get rid of these things! First I have to find the time...then load the tv's into my vehicle (one is huge, I'm not sure I can do it) and take them there. I haven't found the time yet as I've been in school full time since Sept. I have August off though, and it WILL get done then. I'm just illustrating that I can sometimes see the same thought processes I have. It scares the bejeezus out of me and gets me cleaning! The ones I really don't get are those who hoard boxes, or have piles of feces or rotting food. EW! I have a holy horror of pests and that probably gets me cleaning too. I can tell the difference between my mom and I - it takes her a few minutes to declutter a room. I take half a day at least. My brain is just wired differently. Thankfully, even though it takes me longer, I love the feeling of getting rid of things and love a decluttered house, I hate 'collecting' and I hate 'decorations' for the house, so no danger of me being on that show anytime soon.
BTW, I know hoarding is a mental illness, but some of those people on the show have other issues too. There has been more than one person who seemed abusive towards their family - separate from the whole hoarding thing - and acted like total narcissists. Some of those people I wanted to yell at the family and crew to just leave them alone - soon enough they will lose their hoard anyway by some other means and then at least in the meantime you won't have to put up with the abuse they are heaping on you. Some of those people are just plain NASTY.
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