My grandfather had a hoarding tendency as a consequence of growing up in the Great Depression. As a response to this, my father has a tendency to be too eager to throw things away. As a response to this, I have a hoarding tendency.

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fn-mote 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

> too eager to throw things away

Curious about this. Does it mean he is throwing away things with sentimental value?

Just wanted to probe the idea of a self-proclaimed hoarder evaluating someone else’s tendency as “too eager”… by asking how you know.

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pjc50 2 days ago | parent [-]

My own family moved a couple of notches on the hoarder/junker scale after a few incidents of discovering that a document had been thrown away that turned out to be important.

	▲	ghaff 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		There's no hard line. But there are some types of documents I've tossed in the fire box and other documents I put in a pile and figure after a year or two they probably don't matter.

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_dain_ 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Sounds like the anorexia-bulimia axis but for possessions instead of food