Comments on: Lordy, lordy, look who’s hoardy

By: Kathy

Kathy — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:18:53 +0000

It would be funny if it wasn’t so close to my toes.

By: Gina E

Gina E — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:28:19 +0000

I have just discovered your blog and am giggling my way through it – you do have a way with words!! I’ve been culling my hoarded stuff (50 years worth) lately, but looking at what this person has collected, I may as well have saved all my stuff! But our house isn’t as big as this one, so my extra stuff had to go…sob..

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:21:27 +0000

Nope, haven’t read it … but I did read “Ghosty Men: The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers” by Franz Lidz a while back. That wikipedia page talks a little about what happened to their stuff … a lot was trashed, some was sold. And this: “Today, the Collyer Death Chair is maintained in the holdings of a collector of oddities named Babette Bombshell of Orlando, Florida.” !!!

By: Zombek

Zombek — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:46:12 +0000

Love the blog just found it, speaking of hoarders have you guys read the new E.L. Doctorow novel about the Collyer Brothers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyer_brothers

Truthfully I am just fascinated with what kind of “junk” they collected off the streets of New York City in the thirties and forties. I wish someone took inventory or at least pictures.

By: Michel

Michel — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:49:29 +0000

Thanks for the interesting post! You and the Hoarders show do make us think about our own “collections.” Great to have you back, by the way.

By: cindy

cindy — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:44:43 +0000

holy calamity!!

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:56:18 +0000

OMG! I’ve totally been watching that show. It’s so sad!! That one lady with all the food issues? So Ka-Razy!!!! I wish they’d show the whole place all nice and cleaned up. I need that before and after fix.

By: barbara

barbara — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:20:46 +0000

I watched that show once and conveniently forgot when it was on, and what channel it was on, and even that it existed, kind of like the way I forget dentist appointments. I really was worried for a minute that all of those bottles belonged to you. Phew!

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:20:08 +0000

Meghan-that would be HILARIOUS!!!

That was very interesting, including the pictures of the organized chaos. I think that people who have lost someone or something (i.e. childhood) at a young age have a tendency to do that. My Mom was a hoarder. If she had 1 of something she had 20 of them. She was an only child to a couple who never intended on having children. I don’t think she received the love or nurturing as a child that she should have. She spent her whole life trying to fill that vacancy in her life with things. She passed 5 years ago and we are STILL going through things!! God bless her and I hope she’s found the peace she never found here!!!
On the upside, I haven’t had to buy trash bags (and many other things) in 5 years =)

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:12:08 +0000

Like someone above said, it was probably someone who lived through the depression. My grandmother was like that. Thanks goodness we lived with her and cleaned stuff out every once in awhile. Her big weakness was card-christmas, birthday, you name it. We found cards written to us from about 10 years previous when we cleaned out her house for the final time.