When we moved into our current house in late 2015, I swore it would be the LAST time I'd move! The previous two homes were simply overcome with my wife's messiness and hoarding, and were a total nightmare to get moved. When moving from our last house into this one, she promised it would never get like the last two. Well, it only took about a year before this place became unbearable!

Honestly, some days I just want to pack my shit and leave for good, and let her live out her days in this pile of rubbish!

Speaking of moving, I really want to get out of this small city I live in (Madison, AL; a "suburb" of Huntsville) as the traffic and everything has become unbearable the past few years. There is a lovely little (and I do mean little) country town called Elkmont, AL about 30 minutes or so from here that I really want to move to. The other day the wifey mentioned selling this place and moving there; I was almost excited about the prospect, except that the hoarding and messiness would just follow me to the country!

My wife is a hoarder.
I will leave in a couple of years and it will be her problem then .

Lucky for me my wifes the opposite, doesn't like clutter, doesn't pack stuff away, I do tend to keep boxes for some things I've bought longer than I should. Eventually though they get scrapped.


Older I get the less shidt I want around...

My Mom wasn’t a hoarder, but wouldn’t throw anything away because ‘you might find a use for it someday’.

When she couldn’t live on her own anymore, we rented a dumpster, took the glass out of her big front picture window, and just threw all that crap away.

I used to watch Hoarders, it was really sad. It was obvious that the problem was mental illness, everyone can see that except the hoarder. We're all probably guilty of hanging onto too much stuff, me included. What I couldn't understand is why they wouldn't throw away trash. Then their mental illness would cause them to lose their job. Then no money for trash pickup, or home repairs. Then things would really snowball.

I moved in '87, no problem had a pickup with clothes, guns, tools, fishing equip. She kept everything else, piece of cake. Glad I did.

Lots of folks from the depression had hard times giving things up, throwing things away, since it was so hard to get anything at all.

Dempanic is going to create a shitton more of these folks, only we'll find Amazon boxes filled with crap vs Sears and Roebuck...

You are correct, and if you have to move a hoarders stash it’s probably quite the hell-show.

I have move 7 times in my adult life and it never went smoothly (mostly due to my poor planning and procrastinating). Last time I moved was in 2008, if I ever do it again professional movers will be utilized.

My FIL was a borderline hoarder, as in on the low-end of the spectrum (if there is one). He died suddenly in Dec 2019. But he had a big house with 3 floors and a semi-basement. Being 1.5 miles away, my wife (and thus me) put in the lions share of going through shit and tossing and shredding.

He had about 100 bankers boxes of papers going back into the 50s (e.g., car repair receipts for cars they owned in the 70s). Had to go through ALL of them... Maybe 20 of the boxes needed to be shredded as they can personal/financial info. In the end, there was maybe 3-4 boxes of papers kept. Oh yeah, MOST of the boxes were in the attic and had to be hauled down 3 flights of steps. Ugh. And that's just one example. My wife TRIED and failed hard to get FIL to deal with any of it, he said, in effect (or literally), "you can deal with it when I'm gone." Well guess what, that's a sucky task that took hundreds of hours when it should have been dozens.

My Mon passed in Sept 2019 and my Dad in late 2015. They had maybe 10 boxes of papers, probably less. Much less STUFF.

It has inspired my wife and I to not stick our kids with a lifetime of accumulated stuff, most of which goes to the landfill.

If given the choice I would rather move clear across the country to the opposite coast than across town. ..................... drill sgt.

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Originally posted by HRK:
Lots of folks from the depression had hard times giving things up, throwing things away, since it was so hard to get anything at all.

Dempanic is going to create a shitton more of these folks, only we'll find Amazon boxes filled with crap vs Sears and Roebuck...

Wife came home from Costco yesterday. Said they’ve put a toilet paper limit back in place. She said we didn’t need it, but got two cases because of the new restrictions. We will need a semi trailer to move our toilet paper stash if we ever move again. Ammo on the bottom, TP on top. Gotta ballast the load properly.

Yea, the scamdemic is making hoarders out of normally sane people, just like the 1930s.

I was helping to move a GF several years ago. She had several boxes of assorted paperwork dating back some 40 years.

So, she and I began shredding paperwork. At first, we broke two small shredders, then we jammed a large cross cut machine which was replaced under warranty. It took us three weeks of shredding and bagging.

Then, she tells me, she can't find her Divorce papers or her second marriage papers.

All I could say to her was, oops.