Not sure that's really a deciding factor I think, at least not in the majority. Not all hoarders buy all the stuff they get. They just sweep up stuff that's fr

Not sure that's really a deciding factor I think, at least not in the majority. Not all hoarders buy all the stuff they get. They just sweep up stuff that's free or some of them just keep candy wrappers or old newspapers. Sure, if someone is easily wooed by marketing and likes (or feels pressed to) buy stuff, this can exacerbate the problem, but from all hoarding stories the only thing that matches this was "Oh, this mustard is really cheap, better buy the whole case of 48 glasses" which was then discovered years later in the basement...