not enough nothingness
Jul. 27th, 2005 11:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ciroccojSo I'm a packrat. Chris teases/ridicules me about this. But this link I followed from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sugarkane_59's entry...
http://www.auctions-registration.com/ebay/
... this is just unreal.
sugarkane_59's entry...http://www.auctions-registration.com/ebay/
... this is just unreal.
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Date: 2005-07-28 12:15 pm (UTC)There are no words.
I've known some packrats--my great-grandmother, my grandfather, and the mother of one of my friends all live(d) in houses that had rooms with absolutely no purpose other than junk storage. But I have NEVER seen ANYTHING like that...except that time
Collecting like that is a sign of mental illness...but I can't remember which one.
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Date: 2005-07-28 09:01 pm (UTC)It's a form of OCD - hoarding disorder. I know 'way much more about it than I wish I did.
This has one up on my horror story for sheer *volume*, and, interestingly, it appears that at one time things were actually pretty tidy. The place may be packed full of crap, but most of it seems to be boxed up. Thank deity for that. With Dipshit it wasn't just the volume of stuff, but squalor, a combination that is a lot more common in hoarding disorder.
What gets me - and practically makes me dizzy to think of it - is how much all of that shit must have *cost*. Buying stuff on EBay is not cheap. I like retro/vintage household linens, but I have a very strict limit on what I'll pay. Also, since none of the packages visible here seem to have ever been opened, it's pretty clear that the woman's compulsion is buying and storing rather than interest in the items themselves.
In any case - whoever the executors end up hiring to do the estate sale is going to make a fucking mint on this - not because anything in particular seems particularly valuable but rather from the volume. There may be a few good items in there, but the woman in question doesn't appear to differentiate between milleflori glass that may be worth hundreds to a blob of glass with a Thomas Kinkade print glued to it.
Just one word: OMFG.