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Post by traveler63 on Nov 30, 2009 21:02:40 GMT
I have also seen the ad for Hoarders on A & E. There is a huge difference in my opinion on "planning for a rainy day" and Hoarding.
Hoarding is in my opinion is a sickness. We have seen some pretty bad examples here in Tucson. It is mostly animals. I have seen and read of instances where there are hundreds and hundreds of magazines, papers, etc.
So, I don't hoard anything, I just collect for a rainy day.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2009 21:48:35 GMT
I don't understand what you mean T63,"it is mostly animals". As in squirrels? Am confused by your post.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 30, 2009 22:04:23 GMT
I think T-63 is referring to those cases where the humane society, social services, etc. have to be called in because someone has taken in so many animals.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2009 15:05:41 GMT
Ah, now I see. For a second I thought that meant people who hoard magazines and newspapers were animals. A little paranoid there for a sec. I'm not like those whose homes one can't even get into but I do "save" magazines that have something in them for "a rainy day",(more like a rainy year... !) Yes,the people with animals. I had one horrible case in my immediate neighborhood,broke my heart. Essentially,these people mean well but... Some friends of mine moved into the house after this poor woman was evicted and whatever else happened. No matter what they did they could not rid the house of the animal urine smell. The owner had to replace all the wood floors throughout.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 3, 2009 17:11:38 GMT
I wonder what causes that particular psychosis. People who accumulate animals in that way must start out wanting to rescue and help them. But it seems to always end in their being unable to care for either the animals or themselves.
As far as magazines go ........... I am completely incapable of throwing away a New Yorker because I've found they always do have something for a rainy day.
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Post by lagatta on Dec 3, 2009 17:18:04 GMT
Where you live, that is possibly justified as you can't easily find them at a local library and not all their content is available online.
But after pleading with our hoarder friend overy every box or bundle of hoarded publications to be discarded (we could not get into his kitchen - there was a very narrow tunnel down the central hallway in his flat (this is how most Montréal flats, from elegant Outremont and Westmount ones to the most humble are laid out), due to the boxes and boxes piled up on both sides.
If you google hoarding, you'll find not only a wikipedia article and many others, but also some scary images!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2009 17:31:04 GMT
As previously stated,I don't have walk down pathways in my house to avoid the magazines BUT, I can't seem to throw away until I have read it in it's entirety which realistically is not going to happen. I had a subscription to New Yorker for many years that I just let lapse this summer,but I have a friend who gives me his. I have stacks...neat stacks.And,I take other journals too.
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Post by hwinpp on Dec 4, 2009 4:07:06 GMT
I used to collect Nat. Geo. Then one day I just took out all the maps and gave the magazines away. Now I don't know where the maps are.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2009 4:37:01 GMT
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Post by cristina on Dec 4, 2009 4:53:17 GMT
Since moving/downsizing earlier this year, after 16 years in the same house I can say that I now do not appear to be a hoarder. But sometimes, I fall off the wagon. I do have trouble with certain magazines. But my worst offense is fabric. I like to sew, but I like to collect fabric even more. Sometimes, the fabric is just too pretty to cut into. I have, however, instituted a new rule with myself that for every one yard of fabric that I wish to buy, I must first sew 3 yards from my existing collection into something that will get it out of my sewing room. This is very hard. Fortunately, I have now contained my hoarding to just the sewing room.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2009 13:35:13 GMT
I save fabric too. . Would you like some Cristina?
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Post by lagatta on Dec 4, 2009 16:46:04 GMT
I save fabric too, and I don't even sew. Gave almost all of it away - a friend was organising a charity sale - but kept one very nice woven stripey piece in earthy tones as I'd love to have a sort of caftan made from it. Will this ever happen?
casimira, at least we can sell some of yours when we organise our charity cookoff for our Any Port scholarship fund. How about half to a needy and promising young person in NOLA and half to an equally promising and even needier young person in some other low-lying land in the Global South hit by a flood, tsunami or similar disaster? In the latter case we could also opt to help a village school somewhere.
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Post by imec on Dec 4, 2009 16:54:28 GMT
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Post by cristina on Dec 4, 2009 21:34:02 GMT
I save fabric too. . Would you like some Cristina? No! And I don't want you to describe any of it either! I'm serious! ;D
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2009 2:05:40 GMT
Great idea Lagatta. I would maybe like to see a portion go to Spindrift's young friend in Nepal since he was one of our very first guests to grace these pages. What do you think?
(Cristina,1940's vintage Bark Cloth!)
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Post by cristina on Dec 5, 2009 3:13:05 GMT
(Cristina,1940's vintage Bark Cloth!) Noooo! So. Not. fair!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2009 3:19:20 GMT
I don't have a sewing room either... I do have a great machine,haven't used in a good while. Need to get on it really.I do really like to sew particularly in the winter time.
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Post by cristina on Dec 5, 2009 3:24:44 GMT
I don't have a sewing room either... I do have a great machine,haven't used in a good while. Need to get on it really.I do really like to sew particularly in the winter time. I have 4 machines, I am sorry to say. My weakness, perhaps. Aside from the fabric collecting issue....
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2009 3:33:34 GMT
Well,you are not alone it seems although, four sewing machines is pretty hard core... I have boxes of fabric tucked away I know you would love. I get into making costumes right around this time of year going into Carnival season and have a bunch of friends who do the same so it's really a matter of disciplining myself to get going doing it. I feel the itch though.There's a marvelous seamstress who moved into the house next door and I'm hoping I can entice her to help me with this period costume I've been wanting to replicate for a long time.Maybe barter some of this fabric for her services.
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Post by hwinpp on Dec 5, 2009 5:19:45 GMT
This is about hoarding, not sewing...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2009 11:03:26 GMT
This is about hoarding, not sewing... But,I'm hoarding the thread
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 7, 2009 2:55:32 GMT
I'm sorry, miss. I believe you have to make a bogarting thread now.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2009 7:21:47 GMT
Without actually be a hoarder, I have so many drawers and cupboards in my apartment that the contents of the least recently visited ones are always a source of amazement.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2009 15:47:38 GMT
New Orleans houses are infamous for having little to no closets. Apparently,at one time were considered a separate room so were taxed as such.Therefore,lots of armoires. Hoarders have to get creative to hide. :-/Nice neat piles
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Post by Kimby on Dec 21, 2009 18:54:57 GMT
www.childrenofhoarders.com/reasons_OCD.phpWhat Are The Reasons Why People Hoard?... Information-processing deficits: including deficits in decision making, deficits in organizational skills, and difficulties with memory functions;
Problems in forming emotional attachments: compulsive hoarders believe that their belongings are a part of them, so discarding an item is like discarding a part of themselves; (See also: Anthropomorphism)
Behavioral avoidance: the net result of poor decision-making skills and the need for perfection. Compulsive hoarders avoid not only the decision to discard an object, but also what to do with the object once they have it; and,
Erroneous beliefs: about the nature of possessions: such as beliefs about the necessity of maintaining control over possessions, beliefs about responsibility for possessions, and beliefs about the necessity of perfection.2
OCD is often described as "a disease of doubt." Sufferers experience "pathological doubt" because they are unable to distinguish between what is possible, what is probable, and what is unlikely to happen.And reasons sent in by visitors to the site are found here, 107 of them
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 3, 2010 3:07:38 GMT
When I was in the States I was amazed to find there is a tv series called Hoarders. I didn't get to see it, but it's documentary/news-type reports on various hoarders. My mother wanted to see it, too, but was getting annoyed because every time the commercial came on, someone would glance at her and murmur something about the basement.
Has anyone seen it?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2010 11:08:48 GMT
No, I haven't seen it as I don't get that cable station and watch so little TV. But,there was a great story about it in either NY magazine or the NY Times Magazine, I will have to go through my piles of magazines to find it! One thing I do remember from the article is that the season premiere of it attracted more viewers than the last season premiere of "Mad Men",which was I believe the previous record.
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Post by bjd on Jan 3, 2010 13:11:37 GMT
I never thought of my mother as a hoarder because she used to throw everything out -- even photographs and useful things. But just this week, my sister went to pack my mother's stuff because she is moving into a senior's residence and found boxes and boxes of knee-his -- those short nylon sock things for those who don't know. Weird.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 3, 2010 17:57:20 GMT
I haven't watched the show, but caught a moment when I was checking this link: tvshack.net/tv/Hoarders/ , which contains four full episodes. Don't worry about the sewing machines, Cristiana, nor should you find the knee-hi boxes too worrisome, Bjd. The people profiled in the tv show are hard-core loonies.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2010 4:04:05 GMT
Six boxes of magazines went out the door today during mass purge ....somewhat painful but not too.(they are not totally of the premises yet ).
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