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I have hoarding tendencies.
When I was young (under ten) my family lost our house and put many of our belongings in storage. We then became behind on the storage rental and 80 percent of my entire childhood was sold at auction.
We lived in a rooming house for a few years where, occasionally, people would open my mail and eat my food.
I know that my hoarding tendencies are learned through several generations in my family, but I hold myself accountable for:
1) Being somewhat of a compulsive shopper when it comes to entertainment (books, music, DVDs). Those are the things my family lost.
2) Being loathe to throw away or give away any of those things, because I mentally have this thing where they are MINE and nobody else can have them. Again, the loss/trauma of losing these things as a child.
I am a messy person and always have been, but I do know how to clean and stay neat. And my apartment is big enough for six Billy bookcases from Ikea and a big old shelving unit for all of my DVDs. As for my CDs, I learned in college to just throw away the cases and use the Case Logic thingies to store them.
I watch Hoarders and Buried Alive to remind myself that I am not that much different from those folks.
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