Have you ever watched the TV reality show called Hoarder? I haven\u2019t, but I don\u2019t really need to, because I\u2019ve seen hoardiness in person.<\/p>\n
During the Broke Era of my life, i.e. my twenties and thirties, I lived for a year in a sort of …. rind of a boarding house … where I shared a single room with only my pet frog, Bert — but wait, that\u2019s a-whole-nother story. You\u2019ll have to read my book for that. This is only my blog.<\/p>\n
Getting back to my point, in a similar room across the hall from me lived a hirsute, pungent, and corpulent young male with a hefty repertoire of eccentricities. I didn\u2019t know anything about hoarding until after he\u2019d gone missing — rent-less-ly — for about three months and the building owner hired a friend of mine in search of odd jobs to clean out his room.<\/p>\n
My pal reported back what he found: peach pitts…. pizza….. banana peels…. half eaten cans of soup…… tuna…… Chinese takeout seeping through its cardboard boxes. Potato vines holding hostage the building-issue chrome vinyl dinette set…<\/p>\n
(This next part is super gross, so if you are squeamish, you might want to stop here.)<\/p>\n
Ultimately, but not lastly, he found: dudu. (Yes. Go ahead, say it. It\u2019s phonetic.)<\/p>\n
And I don\u2019t mean mouse poop. I mean of human origin. In other words, not left behind by unwitting rodent passersby, or a spiteful cat, but tucked away intentionally. In shoe boxes, in drawers, in flower pots…<\/p>\n
To summarize, the difference between a Packrat and a Hoarder is as follows.<\/p>\n
Packrat: Potentially Useful Stuff.
\nHoarder: True Garbage.<\/p>\n
Ew.<\/p>\n
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