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Originally Posted by Parthon  Zwynd: Hahaha! "Village dump." - perfect description! 
My mum's house is exactly that! She has an entire room and a shed full of junk that she's "going to sort out soon" and it's been almost 4 years since she moved in there. She's even still got my boxes of toys and I moved out almost 10 years ago. I told her to throw them but she said "Oh, but someone might want to play with them some day." |
Are you sure you don't have the same mother as me?
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I know my mum's source of the issue, she really likes security, mainly due to not having any growing up. She loves property and stuff, but also has a fair amount of the scarcity mindset going on too and spends much of her time trying to find the cheapest deals around and keeping anything she thinks is valuable even though it could be worthless.
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That's definitely my mother, only she doesn't go and buy cheap stuff; she actually picks it up from the city dump instead or has people give her hand-me-down broken furniture/soiled carpet scraps that really should be thrown out/burned.
I recall many times in my childhood where our family events were garbage-bin hunting in back alleys. Not that there's anything wrong with it as sometimes people throw away nearly perfect things, but it really shouldn't be a weekly thing when we don't really need anything...
She very much reminded me of that weird old lady in the Labyrinth movie who had tons of junk on her back.
What saddens me when I think about her now is that I tried helping her so many times with her hoarding issue as well as other things in her life but she could not see how she was living and unfortunately it nearly killed me in the process to continue to aid her, so I had to let go and move on.
I can only wish that I'll never get to her extreme, nor anywhere even close to it. The thought of such an attachment to 'things' scares the hell out of me.