14 hours
You must log in or register to comment.
- 9 days
i see sometimes some solid examples of hoarding. (as a firefighter). we used to call them “Collyer mansions”.
rarely is it poop or animals and whatnot. most often it’s books and newspapers. sometimes it’s “i run an ebay store” and i have to remind them their house is bulging and gonna fall in. always there are bugs. lots of bugs.
sad mental illness for sure.
it makes it very hard to get in and search or rescue or sadly recover when rescue won’t happen.
- SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.worksEnglish10 days
I’m no hoarder but I can see where cartoon lady comes from, it’s still a perfectly good lid and straw. Maybe the problem is our society making so many useful things that are meant to be single use disposable trash thrown out rather than reused
10 daysI think pathological hoarding behavior stems from anxiety rooted in trauma (loss of a loved one, neglect, etc), or something like that. A hoarder might say they’re just being frugal or environmentally conscious but that’s a surface level rationalization.
Being desperately poor in childhood or adult life can lead to this also.
- 9 days
Real my parents were hoarders and it was all poverty. Thankfully only 1 room was the dedicated junk room, but it was a combo of saving things that would be useful (which did happen), things that were no longer used but functional, and broken stuff. Broken stuff either wasn’t discarded because it was large and involved a trip to the dump or because there was an intent to repair.
It’s just sad that I remember how it was before it got to that point. 08 really changed everything
- 9 days
It’s a funny joke, but plz remember that hoarding is actually a serious mental illness
not if you do it properly – little acrylic containers sorted by use and function on the immediate shelves. The larger stuff (e.g boilers) can be tricky, but as long as you stack them properly and have at 2-3 of the same type instead of 10 different ones, then you’re doing alright
- 9 days
I’m a hoarder for “useful” things. I control it by using containers as well. Those really cheap shoeboxe totes are great.
I had a giant box of cables. Used those boxes to sort types. Decide I don’t need 10 extra component cables, PC power cables, headphone, odd USB, etc.
I pick a threshold for each type and toss/strip for wire.
Also. Please throw away any ethernet cables with the clip snapped off…
- 9 days
You don’t want to crimp store bought cables. Thin ass wire coatings. If I want to crimp a cable I got a box of ethernet to make custom length.
That said I only crimp when I need to do a run and always keystone a wall jack where I can. It helps I’ve got loads of premade.
I used to worry about the quality of the cables until I realised just how forgiving copper really is – which is very, and that it’s not 1’s and 0’s going down the wire, but timed analog voltages and a PHY on the end that does a ton of guesswork
Now I just slap one jack onto another without fretting. I treat Cat8 cables with the some lack of reverance I treat Cat6 with
- Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
I love how this is formatted so you get engaged before it becomes a thought bubble. Brilliant.
- 9 days
If all old stuff eventually became valuable, we would have picked Monte Testaccio clean by now.
Me with my box of cables. You never know when I might need that Parallel or PS/2 cable, and then won’t you be glad I saved it
The way to find if you’ll ever need that cable is to throw it out. I call this Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Cable.
Every. Single. Time. Clean out the box? Inevitably “oh I have a cable for this, let me go get it.” “Oh right, I tossed it”
