My grandfather was a hoarder. It's impossible to exaggerate how much stuff was in the house, garden and outbuildings when he died. I can say with confidence tha

My grandfather was a hoarder. It's impossible to exaggerate how much stuff was in the house, garden and outbuildings when he died. I can say with confidence that most people have never seen anything like it. It took weeks and weeks of daily trips to the dump to clean everything out, and countless fires. A small fraction of the stuff was sold or kept, but not many people want a thousand milk bottle tops. I was a teenager when he died and it's had quite an affect on me and I think my siblings too. For most of my adult life I've been extremely reluctant to accumulate any "stuff" at all. I've moved 10 times in 10 years and the only way you can do that is having not much stuff. But I think I went too far. I have a slightly more healthy attitude to stuff now. I have things like pictures on the walls, books, just things I like that aren't necessarily useful or necessary. My partner, though, I think she tends to hoard stuff. But it's hard to know whether she's actually normal and this is just my latent fear of stuff kicking in.