Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Hoarding
After watching the video on hoarding in class the other day I was surprised to see people who hoard things so much that it actually becomes a problem in their life. They tend to be messier and the things they would keep could actually be a danger to them. Such as keeping leftover meat in the back of the freezer which collects mold and goes so bad it attracts maggots etc. However, humans tend to be hoarding beings as it is. We all to some extent, collect things that we find of value to us but are worth really nothing to anyone else. We keep collections of things, all of the things within our homes, believe it or not that is basically hoarding to some extent. It was just surprising to realize that people almost had a fear of throwing things away, it was pretty interesting to see, but unfortunate for those who have it.
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I too find it interesting that people can be overcome with fear at the thought of throwing away garbage. the extent to which some hoarders reach is borderline unsanitary. I worked with someone at Subway who would always save the boxes we were supposed to throw out. It got to the point where his car had to have 30 boxes in the back because he would have a panic attack if any where thrown out.
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