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My grandfather had a hoarding tendency as a consequence of growing up in the Great Depression. As a response to this, my father has a tendency to be too eager t
by cjs_ac 1y ago
My grandfather had a hoarding tendency as a consequence of growing up in the Great Depression. As a response to this, my father has a tendency to be too eager to throw things away. As a response to this, I have a hoarding tendency.
- fn-mote 1y ago> too eager to throw things away Curious about this. Does it mean he is throwing away things with sentimental value? Just wanted to probe the idea of a self-proclaimed hoarder evaluating someone else’s tendency as “too eager”… by asking how you know.
- pjc50 1y agoMy own family moved a couple of notches on the hoarder/junker scale after a few incidents of discovering that a document had been thrown away that turned out to be important.
- ghaff 1y agoThere's no hard line. But there are some types of documents I've tossed in the fire box and other documents I put in a pile and figure after a year or two they probably don't matter.
- _dain_ 1y agoSounds like the anorexia-bulimia axis but for possessions instead of food