whatnot3
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posted on August 25, 2004 10:58:11 AM new
This person must have run out of room to put it.
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=830487&perpage=40&pagenumber=1#posttop
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bunnicula
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posted on August 25, 2004 11:03:15 AM new
Becasue a lot of people take their vacations at this time.
I find that things pick up again after the Labor Day weekend.
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"Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim." --Charles Buxton
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toasted36
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posted on August 25, 2004 11:27:04 AM new
OMG a must read lol ....make sure you click on whatnot3 Link to see a very over buyer of ebay stuff. Cool read whatnot3 Thanks !
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kiara
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posted on August 25, 2004 11:30:00 AM new
YIKES!!
Thanks for posting that, whatnot. Now I don't feel nearly so bad about all my stuff. 
Hiya, toasted! Hope you're having a good summer.
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iareateacher
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posted on August 25, 2004 11:31:10 AM new
THAT is the scariest thing I've seen in a year of Sundays.
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neglus
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posted on August 25, 2004 11:37:59 AM new
SCARY because it's a little too close to home!! Made me feel good tho' - I could say "well our house isn't bad at all compared to THAT" (hope my daughters don't take to photographing MY boxes of postcards stashed here, there and everywhere)!
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Sig files are too much trouble!
http://stores.ebay.com/Moody-Mommys-Marvelous-Postcards
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toasted36
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posted on August 25, 2004 12:21:11 PM new
lol I had just cleaned the ebay room right before I read this, this makes my one room look harmless .If I had not just clean it,I sure would have gotten up and did it 
Hiya Kiara ! My Summer has been great but ohhh the heat !! I'll be glad when winter gets here . Hope yours has been great also !
[ edited by toasted36 on Aug 25, 2004 12:36 PM ]
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aintrichyet
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posted on August 25, 2004 12:33:49 PM new
oh Lord ... I am just Sure that lady must have been one of our customers!!! ... i recognize alot of that stuff!
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tomwiii
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posted on August 25, 2004 12:36:51 PM new
At least NOW we know where D.B. Cooper & Judge Bean are!
"I'm the master of low expectations." ~ GWBush
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rozrr
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posted on August 26, 2004 07:58:30 AM new
It's called compulsive collecting, and it's an illness, very much like compulsive gambling. It doesn't mean that someone is insane - it's a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
There's someone in my apartment building who's elderly now. Earlier in life, she collected newsprint and aluminum foil. By the late 80's, she had switched to bottles and cans, allegedly for the 5-cent deposit, but she brings them home and stores them like a squirrel gathering nuts - fills the apartment completely, end to end, wall to wall, with no path or tunnel. She's been trapped both inside and outside the apartment. Repeated episodes where 911 has been called to rescue her, and the apartment's been completely cleaned out - then she fills it right up again like you wouldn't believe.
The social workers and the fire department say it's a very common phenomenon in NYC.
I feel sorry for this kid. Notice that the mother is working and making money to buy all this stuff on eBay. So, probably, if you met her, she wouldn't strike you as mentally ill.
That's what makes it a very tough problem to deal with. Compulsive collectors can come across as being perfectly normal otherwise.
And it's not a joke. There are a lot of famous examples of compulsive collectors who got trapped by all of their stuff and either suffocated or starved to death.
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buyhigh
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posted on August 26, 2004 01:29:25 PM new
I know someone like the above and she does not even buy on e-bay. Would not know how to turn on a computer much less use one. All items have come from 30 years of garage sales. Never pays very much for anything and never did. Likes freebies mostly and uses store coupons to amass massive amounts of items (some wind up being free) The 3 bedroom house with double garage is stacked with boxes and stuff halfway up the walls and in places there are only narrow aisles to walk through. NO one -not even her immediate family is allowed to enter. Impossible to clean ofcourse. One car parked in the driveway is in the same condition with only the driver's seat empty. She drives it a couple times a week, I might add. She appears perfectly normal and does not even recognize that she has a severe problem. There was a program on TV not too long ago and I think they called this disorder hoarding.
buyhigh
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AintRichYet
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posted on August 26, 2004 01:41:05 PM new
we too used to have an elderly neighbor lady, Hazel VanOsdell was her name, that was a pack rat ... every room in her house had things piled high to the ceilings, with only a very narrow walkway left for her to get around ... she used to give my children candy at easter time, and she didnt' even notice the packaged candy was 1/8th eaten through from critters .... ugh. ... when she needed to be taken out of her house, it took the city workers at least 4 dumptruck loads to clean out her house, then they needed to fumigate it and exterminate it. .... wow, she was something else!
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ebayauctionguy
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posted on August 26, 2004 01:57:41 PM new
Damn, you can probably grow potatos on that floor! (kettle calling the pot black)
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buyhigh
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posted on August 26, 2004 02:17:30 PM new
The woman I know who does the hoarding leaves the front door open to air it out because the musty smell is overpowering at first. That is how I got in because I walked in one day by mistake. Never did see the 2 extra bedrooms which were closed off but she said they were stacked to the ceiling with stuff and furniture.
Understand that some older women collect cats in the same way and frequently do not dispose of the dead bodies. You hear of reports where police and ASPC's enter houses where they find hundreds of cats ( many sick and diseased) living under horrible conditions.
buyhigh
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getkicksonrte66
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posted on August 27, 2004 09:21:59 AM new
Whats that song???
I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell
A good tune for this gal to sing while she slithers through her house looking for her mind.
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tomwiii
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posted on August 27, 2004 09:53:57 AM new
amazing...
"I'm the master of low expectations." ~ GWBush
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stonecold613
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posted on August 27, 2004 09:14:14 PM new
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tomwiii
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posted on August 27, 2004 09:26:53 PM new
"I'm the master of low expectations." ~ GWBush
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