Hoarders

[crokett]

Hoarders is on A&E. Looking at the time I posted this thread, it must be 10:00 PM and I guess it is Monday nights.

[radhak]

When / what channel does this come on?

I need to turn it on for LOML. She's not as far gone to call the doctor, but she seems to have some paranoia about letting go. eg - If I throw away older magazines (12 month or older), she gets worried that she's missing something because she might not have read it all and gets upset with me .

Of course she says I have the problem - because I have 'so many tools in the garage that the cars don't fit'! The fact that she has the 2000 sqft of the house to fill and I get just the 300 sqft of garage seems to be besides the point... !

[jackellis]

My shop has a little more in it than I would like but I can move around. My wife's playroom is so crowded the only free spaces is a path to her desk. However she finally does realize shes going to have to downsize. In her free time. Of which there is NONE.

[pelligrini]

My wife started whatching that show and has developed a fear that we will end up like that. She even started throwing out some of her s**t and said I ought to do the same to mine.

I said my stuff is off limits. I just might need that box of 386 mobos, or my old notes from a college History of Architecture class someday.

[natausch]

Last night
Me: I'll be late for dinner, going to go look at a new drill press
LOML: Okay, do you have room for it?
Me: Yeah, no problem

Later when I got home
Me: Do I really need to keep these 12' boards that length? I hardly ever use 12' stock, and using most of one wall for lumber IS a bit excessive...

I didn't do it, but tablesaw, band saw, jointer, planer, miter saw, dust collector, and now drill press are starting to fight with the snow thrower, garbage cans, ladders and lumber in our two car.

[Uncle Cracker]

My mother, rest her soul, was a hoarder. Eventually, her large 4-BR home was packed to the ceiling with practically every item she'd ever encountered, from carefully-sorted junk mail to washed and sorted-for-size plastic butter containers. There were neatly maintained corridors through the "inventory" to allow movement, but the house was otherwise unrecognizable from the inside. This was no doubt a compulsive mental disorder, but gave her later life purpose (to her) and did not hurt anyone else, so we kids resigned ourselves to let her do what she wanted (as if we had any alternative - she was one stubborn old lady!). Then, after she passed, LOML and I spent the better part of 6 months cleaning out the house (my brother decided to be elsewhere). The trash men must have thought we were importing garbage from some foreign country... Sad testimony to the way the human mind sometimes works (or doesn't).

[sscherin]

My wife thinks I'm a tool Hoarder..

She mocks me for hunting CL for bandsaws while watching the show.

[cabinetman]

Haven't seen that show yet. Hope it's not about me.
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[crokett]

Fixed. Hit the post button one too many times.

[crokett]

Watching this show and it is amazing the amount of stuff people collect. The clutter bothers me a lot less than some who live in filth.