Hoarders

This week I watched about four episodes of the show Hoarders. In addition to making me want to throw away everything I own and set fire to it, I discovered three very important truths about hoarding.

1. There are two kinds of hoarders. People who have bought or collected too much stuff and feel too overwhelmed to start cleaning it up AND people who are batshit insane.

2. Underneath all that crap, Hoarders have EXTREMELY ugly homes. The general decor is usually straight out of 1980 and would have been considered totally fugly even back then.

2. Hoarders tend to have very seasonal items in their personal hoard. Halloween dish towels, santa cookie jars, extra flags for Flag Day etc.

Now I am obsessed with NEVER owning anything that indicates a holiday or time of year. If it has to go in the basement for 11 months out of the year, only to be brought upstairs to replace an identical-but-not-season-specific-item, then I do NOT want it!

Hoarders is the absolute most terrifying show in the world, huh? I have nightmares about it almost constantly.

Posted by Caroline