Never again will I allow my stuff to control my heart, body, and soul. Yet, let God control your movements and manage your assets from a heavenly perspective. Many things will get accomplished when you get out of the way and allow God to deliver you from your self-righteous control over your wasteful, hoarding lifestyle.…
Hoarding is an extreme case of having difficulty parting with possessions, regardless of their value. Hoarding can be related to compulsive buying, the compulsive gain of free items, or the compulsive search for unique items. Not only does the disorder have social, emotional, physical and financial effects on the hoarder, but on the hoarders family as well. In episode 11, Season 6 of the tv show "Hoarders" it tells about a woman named Merlene. Merlene had it all, former super model, married to her one true love while settling down. Things took a turn in her life and Merlene found herself as a depressed, single mother. In her loneliness and despair, Merlene turned…
3. My best friend, Lilian Martinez, is the type of girl to fill her room with many objects that remind her of a time or place that brought her happiness. In her room, her walls are filled with an annoying amount of pictures and the shelves are saturated with souvenirs and memorabilia. She says that her hoarding began when she realized that her parents did not have things they could share with her from their younger days. She vowed that her children would know the type of person she was growing up…
When the average person think of the word hoarding, they think of a house filled with trash, newspapers, and canned foods or of a yard filled with junk and/or animals. What the average person does not automatically think of are corporations stockpiling their cash. Corporate cash hoarding is real and it is a common practice of some of the top corporations in the United States. As the focus shifts to corporate hoarding, the images shift in the mind of the average person as well. Images such as, CEOs stashing cash under their mattresses, offshore bank vaults filled with millions of dollars or a barge carrying gold bars on its way to a foreign country.…
Is it socially acceptable behaviour for people to dedicate their lives to an object? Sure, one might say. People have passions and hobbies; these “objects” are worked hard for and should be enjoyed. Although most would say that this type of behaviour is not how normal people should live and that life’s fruition lies in the hands of social interaction; we can only truly enjoy life in the company of other humans, not objects. Where is the line drawn? Is it possible to cling on to a possession so much that it starts to detrimentally affect the person involved? W.D. Valgardson’s short story The Novice demonstrates that this is certainly a possibility. The protagonist undergoes a similar situation; he gets caught up in idealism (glamorizing his boat – his prized possession (named Sally Anne) – to nearly abnormal proportions) which skews his perception of “truth”. The reason he acts this way is due to his lonely, one dimensional, and peculiar lifestyle. Readers of Valgardson’s short story should learn that people are prone to romanticizing their material possessions, and that such behavior is caused by isolation and the refusal to live in accordance to societal norms, which is likely to result consequences such as irrational thoughts and the inability to face the truth.…
Who throws away the best stuff? Is dumpster diving really necessary to people living on the streets? In the text book, Lars Eighner, “On Dumpster Diving”, tells about when he was homeless out on the streets. He told that students usually had the best things because they threw out whatever they did not want because they have their parents to buy everything for them. He had two rules while living out on the street. Rule number one was, take only what is of use. The second rule was, material things that are not required are not necessary.…
Rubbish is also a part of consumption. There has been a definite increase in household rubbish. There is more demand for consumption, more need for packaging material and it leads to more waste. In 2006/07 the average household rubbish was 508kg/person, whereas in 1983/84 it was 397kg/ person. (Defra 2007).…
In 2013, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) was re-written to classify hoarding as a mental disorder in its own right. While Hoarding is an “apparent” disability, a landlord may still requests a letter from a doctor- although courts have accepted a letter from a tenant’s attorney as sufficient to request an RA (Douglas v. Kriegsfeld Corp, 884 A.2d 1109 (D.C. App. 2005). (Douglas, an important case for recognizing the rights afforded to the disabled as extending to hoarders, is the most relevant case I could find of Hoarding being afforded legal protections, and is cited in a 2011 Rutgers Law Review article discussing the legal framework for RA’s for…
1. Compulsive Hoarding is considered to be a clinical syndrome reported to affect approximately 3 million Americans across the United States. We believe however, that these statistics are highly underrepresented due to the difficulty that those who experience this condition have in asking for help.(www.compulsivehoardingcenter.com)…
Among the seven types of shoplifters, addictive compulsive shoplifters accumulate seventy five percent of those who are apprehended by loss prevention officers. An addictive compulsive shoplifter has no true personal gain in their actions and portraits an obligated persona to steal inexpensive items, and then later give the stolen item(s) to friends or family members. The majority of these types of shoplifters suffer from gambling problems, compulsive overeating or various mental health disorders. Their techniques used to steal are commonly known and easily recognized, which automatically invites them in the category of amateur shoplifters due to the result of which is seventy five percent of shoplifters apprehended are addictive compulsive…
Compulsive hoarding is the impulse to hold onto unnecessary items due to the idea that they hold some sort of emotional value. It is a severe problem that affects the United States and it can lead people to awful and unfortunate situations such as illness and even homelessness. Studies have shown that one in four people are hoarders with the leading causes being depression or loss of a loved one. It is also apparent that a large amount of the homeless population was evicted from their housing due to it being condemned from hoarding. For instance, my neighbor Sheila was evicted from her house due to her unfortunate hoarding problem and is now what society considers as homeless.…
Thrifting lures a variety of different audiences. Two most commonly come to mind: 1) People who have no economic choice but to buy secondhand, 2) Bargain or treasure hunters. There is an emerging third audience and chances are it far outnumbers the first two. Simply put, this is an audience of smart shoppers consisting largely of families with a stay at home parent and young professionals. Their reasons for thrifting are a combination of the first two. Overall, these three groups thrift to save money because they have to or want to.…
Smokers find it difficult to quit because the environment is full of signals associated with smoking cigarettes. Sarah Horrigan…
I was raised in a house hold where the use of profanity was more common than family dinners; I’ve adopted my family’s potty mouths and I would like to stop because it drives me crazy and my boyfriend says its un-lady like. When I’m in a professional setting, around my parents and other elders like a light switch I can turn the profanity off. When I’m interacting with my peers it’s almost like I don’t have a filter, unless I say the sentence in my head a few times before I actually verbalize it. My New Year’s resolution for the last three years has been to stop using profanity and I’ve failed miserably each year, this year I told myself that I’m a work in progress and I’ll try my best to work on it. During my baseline period I noticed the I used profanity once while in front of my mom and I quickly apologized; however, while with peers and my boyfriend in an course of an hour I used profanity more than forty times like twenty times per half hour. I’m going to give it my all to reduce the amount of profanity that I use each day, by reducing the amount of profanity that I use each day the less dependent that I will become on the bad behavior (bad language).…
3. Turn a critical eye to your “collections.”Most people collect something – what do you collect? Is it something that consistently brings you joy? Or is it something that you just do out…