A lot of people think of hoarding as something extreme — a home crammed to the ceiling with possessions. However, it tends to start gradually, and research has found that it can begin in adolescence ...

Artists are natural hoarders. To us, everything has potential, everything has possibility. Add to that the word “free” and resistance is futile, I’m afraid. Though I’ve tried to be incredibly ...

At what point does a collection become hoarding? All of us at one time or another had collections whether of stamps, books or plates. “People collect and save objects as a hobby in virtually all ...

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My dad’s tendency to hold onto items until they piled up in the house has been something that has always been in the background of my life, but something I pushed aside during my childhood and ...

The habit crept up on Kim. She would arrive at garage sales as they were ending to pick up what remained. “I’d load my car full of the free stuff on the side of the road: clothes, things that needed ...

Recent TV shows have drawn attention to the heretofore little-noticed issue of hoarding. While serious cases get more attention, hoarding is really an age-old problem that's just recently gotten the ...

For the past decade, psychologists Randy Frost and Gail Steketee have studied hoarders: people who compulsively acquire a lot of stuff, and then have difficulty discarding the objects they obtain. In ...