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Hoarders must have really good room acoustics. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

yeah, but if it's hoarders - it's EVERYTHING.

Trust me on this. We've tried to intervention some relatives repeatedly, their house is a terrifying example of fire hazards X man-trap stacks of:

national geographics 1910-2007
rare glassware
collectable books
TINS! Tin signs, tin trays, tin toys, tins with sewing shit and tins which held sewing shit in the triassic
radium! ?!?!?!??!?!? specifically clocks that are known to have been painted with radium that no longer glow, but apparently the glow - came from the overpaint, and the radium is still chugging. no shit.
newspapers, specifically, about easily tens of thousands of the dallas morning news 1990-1998 (!?)
multiple stacks of other newspapers (old stuff) one of them paid to purchase.
multiple layers of unopened ebay and amazon orders in the fucking boxes
CREEPY FUCKING DOLLS A ROOM ENTIRELY FUCKING FULL OF CREEPY PORCELAIN FUCKING DOLLS I swear, their eyes just swiveled to look in my direction from 12 states away.....

I can't even begin to fucking deal with this shit from across the country, and their relations in-town have so far failed to get through to them.

I'd say the acoustics would be pretty fucking bad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Oh, I totally get you. My late father was a hoarder, and a fairly messy one at that ☹️

My late grandparents on his side were antique collectors, fairly well organized at that. It was almost like walking through a mini museum when I'd visit them. But still, they had a lot of shit!

And yes, my late grandmother did have one really creepy room with over 200 porcelain baby dolls!

Very creepy!

I've had to lighten my load by like 95% since they passed away, just way too much stuff!