Crazy ebay mom

Shewolf, yer scarin' me! So first I'm thinking, oh, I used to collect glass insulators, oh and I love those blue bottles...and after a room or two I'm breaking out into a sweat, by mid-way through, I'm thinking of taking everything in the house and burning it.

Ehhh, I think you should pick a room, get an ebay account and start selling everything she buys. I don't think she'd even notice! It's the fun of the chase! wow. You'd have money to retire on!

it isnt MY mom.!!!!!!!! hahahha

If it WERE I would have done just that. Sold everything! Trashed what wasnt sold and refurbished her house for her.

horrible isnt it???

whew. I'm so glad--I was going to tell you she needed major therapy!!
Now, I'm a collector, and I've drifted now and again to this and that...but I am humbled and horrified!
Can you imagine trying to live like that??
Wow, where'd you find this article or whatever?

Oh my lord!! I have never seen anything like that. Imagine being the person who will eventually have to clean all that crap out. I did date some one before whose parents were almost like that. Not that they ordered from ebay, but they would buy anything that was a good price even if they would never use it.

I remember when they finally sold their house, they had so much sh*t. They had old tires in the basement and in the backyard. They had clothes, clothes, clothes. They had to have 100 suit cases of old clothes. Some were from old dead relatives. Instead of giving them away they kept it. They had all these papers from an old business from decades ago. They did not throw away a thing - it was quite disgusting really and they were wealthy people.

She likes to hoard!

That woman is an OCD poster child. Looks like she can't control herself.
I think hoarding is like being a glutton, which is also a fear of not having enough.

As I was reading this story, I thought the daughter could slowly and quietly start to get rid of some of the junk with out mama finding out, but it isn't the daughters house now is it.

It would behoove mama to learn detachment.

It would behoove the daughter to commit the mama! Just for about a month! Hire a squad of 50, deliver everything to that service that sells things for you on eBay, and let 'er rip!

whew. THat is sooo scary.

Hoarding is bad enough; I've read of people who have stacks of newspapers in their homes. But buying junk just to hoard it? Now that's spooky.

Let me attempt some unlicensed armchair psychiatry: The woman is trying to fill a psychic emptiness by filling her house with stuff. Alas, the more she buys, the less content she will be.

That will be $75, please.