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I feel like my grandpa was a hoarder because of what he went through during the great depression as a kid.

• WillAdams 2y ago
  The field of psychology has gone back and forth on that, but the bottom line is it's a socio-economic divide: >Only the rich can afford to have nothing, because if they want something, they will just buy it. but for folks on the other side of that divide, as my father often said: >Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it. and the calculus of kept object vs. potential storage space is far different.
• throwup238 2y ago
  My parents bought a house from a woman that survived the Depression and they found decades worth of stored food under the house. Grains, sugar, fruit preserves - pretty much anything that could be saved was. They bought the house a decade ago and still haven’t gone through everything. I feel it’s a rather common response from the trauma of the Great Depression.