Frank and Ernest by Thaves for July 26, 2020

He’s been preparing for lockdowns since always.

H-e-e-y. Somebody’s snooped my garage.

‘Where’s Waldo,’ the cat version! >^.^<

He looks so content there.

OMG! A member of one my quilting groups was a hoarder. I kid you not. . .she had a very tiny path open in her house from room to room, you could hardly get into the bed in the bedroom. . .she proudly showed off all her treasures and I just got more and more claustrophobic. . .

Or maybe he needs to put things away.

One of Isaac Asimov’s short stories, “The Acquisitive Chuckle,” concerned a hoarder. When someone stole something from him, he couldn’t figure out what had been taken, because he had so much and to no rhyme or reason. Worrying about the question drove him into a decline.

The spoiler can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Acquisitive_Chuckle

My wife is in training.

Interesting..no empty pizza box.

I wonder if “Promise Keepers” is still a thing.

I opine, often, that billionaires and multi-millionaires are hoarders.

Hoarding disorder is a persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions because of a perceived need to save them. A person with hoarding disorder experiences distress at the thought of getting rid of the items. Excessive accumulation of items, regardless of actual value, occurs. – Mayo Clinic

Got any toilet paper?

If a hoarder makes a frank and earnest effort and gets rid of a quarter or even half of his/her Stuff…a non-hoarder will come into the house and tell the hoarder, “There’s too much stuff in here. You need to declutter.”

Thus the hoarder has gotten zero positive reinforcement for all his/her effort. Why bother putting in the work?

It’s like keeping kosher — you’re never so neat that some people won’t think you’re messy.

I wouldn’t have called my parents hoarders, but they sure had a hard time getting rid of stuff; the house was kept clean, but cluttered because there was just too much stuff and not enough places to put it. I think it came from growing up during the Depression (but then why were their parents [my grandparents] all so neat with uncluttered homes?). My mother even had several books on how to get rid of clutter, but those just ended up adding to the clutter!

Attila the Hun was a horder.