tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244600836796663551.post7140907629450573578..comments2023-06-14T04:22:50.940-04:00Comments on The Maine Page Turner: Are ALL Americans at risk of hoarding?ThePageTurnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14459485491984096186noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244600836796663551.post-78165352555708579862013-01-31T13:12:44.456-05:002013-01-31T13:12:44.456-05:00I am very much looking forward to reading Homer &a...I am very much looking forward to reading Homer & Langley but I disagree with a couple of commenters above. Hoarding is definitely not ok when it becomes filth. Just hanging onto items or having multiple collections of meaningless items seems harmless enough. But when people become 'slobs' and never clean up it creates a haven for rats, pests & diseases. In these cases, hoarding is a big problem and requires intervention. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05639852719860317887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244600836796663551.post-31905615327497323342012-11-09T10:50:11.350-05:002012-11-09T10:50:11.350-05:00Thanks for your remarks, Debbie! I'm glad tha...Thanks for your remarks, Debbie! I'm glad that you have been able to avoid the urge to hoard. I wish the best for you and for those in your life for whom this is a difficulty.ThePageTurnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14459485491984096186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244600836796663551.post-32647474123406465862012-11-06T07:59:24.233-05:002012-11-06T07:59:24.233-05:00We could get a few sitcoms going on the subject of...We could get a few sitcoms going on the subject of 'Big Toes and their Dissimilarity" or "Let Us compare Ear Sizes." Those subjects make about as much sense as this fixation on hoarding. I am not a hoarder, but I could have been. It was my choice to stop my tendencies in their tracks, and it took many years. But if I were, it seems to me that it doesn't matter, and shouldn't matter, to other people. <br /> I just sent an answer that was almost 300 words long, and submitted it, but it disappeared. Do you see it? Happily, I copied it into my documents.<br /> Cordially, Debbie Caldwell.Debbie Caldwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05741478860384086612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244600836796663551.post-92218771852731298462012-11-06T07:51:24.321-05:002012-11-06T07:51:24.321-05:00No. Not all Americans are hoarders. I do know sev...No. Not all Americans are hoarders. I do know seven individuals who are hoarders, five of whom are family members. Of these seven, four will no longer allow anyone into their homes, as collectors would. Collectors are different in that they are proud of their acquisitions and like to show them off.<br /> Because I know so many serious hoarders, i have studied the issue with a variety of inspection tools, not the least of which is the plethora of articles on the subject. I find it interesting that none of my hoarding acquaintances have a thing in common. Their backgrounds and ages are different. Their incomes range from $500,000.00 a year to pitiful pittances. Their levels of education are extremely varied, as are their interests, hobbies, employments, successes and social lives. All of them seem to have deep psychoses, but none of them are dangerous unless you touch their stuff.<br /> I had hoarding tendencies at one time in my life, when i was trying to practice the art of homemaking and was not good at it. After my mother died and we found things we had never dreamed of in her closets, I decided to hoe out. It took almost a decade, but i was determined not to fall into the habits of the hoarder, and i succeeded. I did not even become a minimalist, as some people do. I feel quite normal now. <br /> My conclusion is that it is none of anyone's business when it comes to another person's living style behind closed doors, and there is nothing wrong with a hoarding lifestyle. If the stuff is there for them to hide under, then the stuff is there, and it is theirs. <br /><br /><br /> Not all Americans are hoarders, but in the attempt to include the bottom feeders of society into the porpoise section, all Americans are obsessed with each other, and examine each other's lifestyles in ways that were never done before. There is a difference between one person and another, and between one group or layer of society than another. Debbie Caldwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05741478860384086612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244600836796663551.post-16006056693415579292012-07-31T23:43:07.617-04:002012-07-31T23:43:07.617-04:00Let the Great World Spin is on my list! I think I...Let the Great World Spin is on my list! I think I've been reticent to start it because I know it's about the World Trade Center, and it will make me very sad - as I was with Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. I'll just need to brace myself and dive in ;-)ThePageTurnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14459485491984096186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244600836796663551.post-31042789317179460802012-07-31T20:34:08.065-04:002012-07-31T20:34:08.065-04:00Doctrow's book was an excellent book club read...Doctrow's book was an excellent book club read. There was so much to discuss - the writing, how he wove fact and fiction together, and, of course, the lives of the Collyer brothers. A similar type of story is "Let the Great World Spin." Again, a great meld of fact and fiction. No wonder it won the National Book Award. Highly recommended, very highly recommended.Mamiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18343369883895623146noreply@blogger.com