• AA5B@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      That’s how many of us start in the direction of hoarding: “this can be fixed, it would be a shame to just throw it away”.

      You could argue it’s just too cheap and easy to buy a new thing, so old things are no longer worth fixing, and guilt at throwing out is vestigial

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        8 months ago

        I will hoard things but not to the point that some Americans hoard too that even pay for extra storage because they don’t have more space at their house. That’s excessive hoarding.

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          8 months ago

          Yeah, storage units have become a huge industry. While they serve legitimate needs, such as people temporarily between homes, I do have to wonder if most of their business should go to therapists

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            8 months ago

            Yes. My parents run a storage place. Can confirm a LOT of the units are full of junk. The price of storage very quickly exceeds the value of the stuff in the units and then the people just keep paying for them for years, never actually accessing them a lot of times.

            Plenty are businesses storing records, or a lawn company storing equipment, plenty between houses, or homeless people renting a small unit to keep their stuff safe. Some are like an extra garage to store vehicles.

            Lots are just junk, maybe with one or two things of legitimate value, and then 10 feet of junk. Some piled to the ceiling. One lady had 7 units piled to the ceiling, stuff just shoved in there. She was paying for this storage for like a decade. In the end it’s like she paid off a small house just in storage fees. My mom felt so bad, and constantly tried to convince the lady to just let the stuff go. She just needed an actual therapist :(

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      8 months ago

      I’m a condo superintendent and I’ve made so much money on the good stuff that these upper middle class people throw away.

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      8 months ago

      I’ve thrown things away that I know I could fix because I simply didn’t have time. Working long hours to get by, and investing time in family and friends was more important, so it would take so long to get the thing fixed that something else about it would have broken just from waiting around. Eventually, I decided I can live without the thing or it’s too important to daily life to go without is as long as it would take me to get it going.