Comic Strips

There's a really good YT channel called Midwest Magic Cleaning, who cleans hoarder houses for free. He talks a lot about the "potential" of an item vs it's current value.

Hoarders will keep an item because it has potential, but the item will never "actualize" that potential. Thus the current "value" of the item is just taking up space

He also talks a lot about the emotional attachment, as well as the actual panic disorders that can be triggered by someone attempting a cleanup.

The comic is funny, but it's not really a good representation

we still have grandpa in a box in the garage because my mother refuses to get him an urn or go sprinkle him over the lake he liked. he's followed us through three houses and I'm concerned I'm going to inherit grandpa.

That much ?

Real thought process for this when it's ADHD:

"I'll take care of this when I get up."

Forgets to take care of it when he gets up

Hoarders.

But it's a joke

I save things expecting to reuse them, but then I am disorganized and often can't find them. Often with little computer accessories. So, even if I do need to reuse a dongle or cable, I can't find it and order a new one anyway.

I am glad that I am not the type of person who collects items thinking they'll increase in value, or I'd probably become a full blown hoarder.

My pops would keep all his old underwears because to him, they made great rags to clean off the stove and dry the car after a wash.

The first time my friend helped me wash my dad's car, he just stared at the underwear like he was on some alien planet.

Get to drying, dum dum.

A modern example of an exception is Smart Water. The value in the product is almost entirely the lightweight, durable bottle with a common threading.

how does it work? ive only ever seen the really bad scenarios on those sensationalist tv shows and i think thats what most people are exposed to tbh.

Homie that's just the art style, look at how fucked up the professor dude looks. No one is saying hoarders are Neanderthals but you

That's not what I read here at all - it says "I should keep this." Many of us have an urge to keep things, and in many cases we're justified in doing so. Every person has had the experience of evaluating whether or not to keep an object, and I would guess most people have come up with specious reasons to tell themselves they should keep a thing. Hoarding is just taking that to the extreme. Because this comic is recognizing a tendency in one's self it seems completely misplaced to say it's punching down.

If the people who need this kind of help see the comic and get upset maybe it will spur them to get the help.