How much of a hoarder are you?

I'm a nightmare!! My system for clothes is: Move items I never wear from my wardrobes into suitcases. Every few 3 or 4 months I have a clear out again and if I haven't touched the stuff in the cases then they get thrown to make room for the new set of unworn items. Sounds logical right?? I'm now up to 3 suitcases!

Also say a problem with paperwork. I have years of utility bills even though you can now get all copies online! You never know when you might need to know who you phoned in 2006

I'm far too OCD to hoard stuff.. I chuck stuff sometimes then wish I kept it lol

I am the same! I throw stuff out and then think where did I put that? Oh right! I tossed it! Oops!

I hoard health and beauty products....I keep my almost empty bottles of shampoo, conditioner, lotion etc. You know just in case I am ever so poor I can't buy more LOL

Pens... I have 5 coffee cups of pens on my desk right now, and I am pretty sure 70% of them are too dried up to use...

Stickers... greeting cards (although I can't really afford to buy many of them any more at $4+ each!!)

Photo frames.... And photos I intend to frame and they never quite get there.....

I am also a shoe box saver... and the boxes that copier/printer paper comes in - with the nice lids?! My Dad used to work for Xerox and those became the preferred storage box for every member of my family... I still grab them whenever one is emptied at the office!!

I have nearly every letter and card ever sent to me by my sister and my mother, but I don't consider keeping them hoarding. They are precious to me. Mom can't write so much any more, every note I get from her is gold. (And they store nicely in those paper boxes...) I nearly always save my birthday and Christmas cards... at the end of the year, I bundle up that year's and put them away in one of those boxes....

Every once in a while I have to do a purge of shoes... at one point I could have made Imelda Marcos proud of all the black shoes I owned. Now I try to only keep the ones I actually wear, and a handful of "special occasion" ones.

On a recent trip to visit my family I was shocked by how bad my parents' hoarding has gotten, you can barely move through the house, and I realized that my sister and I are going to have to deal with all that... ever since I came home I have been working on my own tendency to stash, and have actually made a few hundred $$$ selling items I no longer use!

I think I am just more of a procrastinator than hoarder, and stuff accumulates because I set it aside to deal with "later"....

I dont hoard...I board...all aboard

Ohhhhhh NOT a hoader at all.... I dejunk all the time. I need my house to be clean and junk free...

I do save gift bags, especially at Christmas. Everyone knows that Terry wants the gift bags. :laugh:

I have a tshirt from 1995 from a softball tournament when I was 10.

I know that this is an extreme example of hoarding, but it's true. A Pekin, IL. couple died from hoarding just last week.

Sadly, the couple died here because they were hoarders. They had told their daughter that all of their 'stuff' was valuable and that it would make them rich someday. A neighbor said that the husband came home from the store with a space heater and told him that he needed it, but wasn't sure where he would be able to plug it in at. They had so much stuff that they were living in the basement and it was too cold down there. He plugged it in and of course it was too close to their 'valuables' and it caught on fire while they were sleeping. They were found dead at the bottom of the stairs, apparently trying to escape. It took the fire department nearly 24 hours to retrieve their bodies because the upstairs was so full of stuff, it collapsed onto the lower floor and covered them. I think it's sad that they didn't receive help for their 'addiction' before it killed them.

If you seriously have a hoarding issue, get help for it.

It's funny, because I actually have diagnosed OCD, but I am not a hoarder at ALL. I watch those shows and just shudder. About twice a year, I'll have a day where I take all my old magazines to the recycling place and haul old clothes to Goodwill. Feels good to declutter.

I'm kinda bad about this when it comes to my projects... I tend to get all fired up about doing something and about half the time don't finish : / then I can't toss the stuff or give it away, cuz I just KNOW I'm going to get to it and finish it. It makes my hubby crazy, cuz he's a total neat freak.... His nieces say when they were little the house was like a museum, everything in its place and always perfect. It sooooo not that now! Guess that shows how much he loves me....

I'll just leave this here...

I helped my mom move this weekend. Her and her four dining room tables.

I have a leather jacket that my Grandfather used to wear when he was racing motorcycles back in the 20's and 30's. You can still see the numbers that were hand painted on the back.
He passed it down to my Father who wore it for a while and then he passed it down to me.
I wore it all around Europe and now, in a few more years (once I get a new liner sewn in), I will pass it down to my son.

My husband is 54 and will not part with any of his clothing from his college days or his navy uniforms.

My wife always tries to get me to part with my USAF uniforms too... I don't understand this.