The Fine Line Between Having Stuff, And Hoarding
LatestA 76-year-old-woman and 79-year-old man from Chicago who’d been missing for three weeks were found. At home. Buried alive in under heaps of crap. A police spokesman described the couple as “hoarders.” Ever worry it could be you?
Sometimes, it’s just so hard to throw things away. Once when my mother called me a pack rat, I explained that I was actually an archivist. Fulfilling the desire to acquire is an American past-time; our TVs, magazines and roads are filled with commercials, ads and billboards. We’re a consumer culture, yet we love to gawk when it goes too far: Hence the shows, from Lifestyles Of The Rich & Famous to Hoarders, Clean House and Hoarding: Buried Alive.