Posted on 02/12/2007 3:14:14 PM PST by stainlessbanner
Compulsive hoarding?
Has anyone heard of the Collyer brothers of New York City.....so interesting....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyer_brothers
Well you're probably not relying on your car for action.
I wonder if there are any used depends
in there some where?
A clean car is a happy car!
I was thinking there were probably rats in there but the cats would have taken care of them.
I checked them out per your link. From the picture it looks like the only thing that 'ol Langley Collyer wasn't hoarding was teeth. LOL!
I've seen cars like this with newspapers and other stuff piled up to the windows. I've also seen people (mostly elderly) with newspapers piled up inside their houses so high you had to walk around them. I think it is a mental condition and it is not as rare as you might think.
I don't know for sure, but I'll bet older people are unsure about their future and keep things to make them feel better...nothing but a guess.
I figure litterers probably have pretty clean cars. No personal offense intended.
HA! Nope....I just looked under "House Contents," and there were no teeth!
Did you see the "House Contents?"
And I thought I was a pack-rat!
Or were there?
"I heard that used to describe Zsa Zsa Gabors husband."
Which one?
Now that was funny!!!
Did you see the "House Contents?"
I was commenting on the teeth in his mouth. I only see two in the picture. I did read the contents. It's interesting that they were from an upper middle class family (father a doctor) and were both very well educated. Very strange.
I actually have some experience with this. In the 80s a guy I worked with said he'd pay me $20 an hour to help clean out his recently deceased aunt's house in Federal Hill, Baltimore. I thought that was pretty good money so I agreed. Unfortunately, I quickly realized I shouldn't have agreed. Every floor of the house was stacked floor to ceiling with junk of every imaginable kind. There were narrow pathways through the junk that allowed some semblance of movement from room to room. The stench was overpowering. Fortunately we found no bodies.
This hoarding disorder seems to mostly afflict those who were in their impressionable years when the depression hit.
She will be just fine after a big cheeseburger, an order of fries and a milkshake:)
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LOL! I know you were referring to his picture.
Unbelievable story about the house you agreed to help clean!
My mom was a pack-rat, but some the things in her house we cleaned were four sets china (12 place settings each), numerous sets of crystal, glassware, many sets of cooking utensils, etc., still packed in their original boxes....some purchased 30 years prior to her passing. Not that she didn't offer to give them to us, her children,...she did. It's just that she had already given us similar items already.
Several years ago I befriended an elderly lady and agreed to attend a meeting with her at a church. I offered to pick her up at her townhouse. I couldn't believe her house when I entered...there were newspapers tied in bundles and stacked about four feet high in every room I could see. The house reeked of cat urine, and drapes on the windows were missing every other hook. Her furniture was worn and dirty, etc....
I really felt sorry for her and was honestly thinking of helping her until she looked at me and said, "Now, I hope you don't steal from me like some other people have. Just ask, and I'll give you what you want."
More on the Collyer brothers:
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1008564/posts
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