Thursday, 5 June 2014

Blog #3 - Why Do Hoarders Hoard?


After I think about it a while, tons of unanswerable questions pop up. Something like; why do hoarders hoard?
It may sound like an easy question, but in actual truth, it isn’t.
Try and ask a person that hoards, why they do it. They won’t be able to tell you.
It really is quite hard, because everything in their possession has some form of connection to their life, or to other people. Maybe a strong relationship they once had or a good feeling that a specific object brought upon them. So whatever the connection was, it was special. And now they have another something to add to their collection of stuff. Stuff they can’t get rid of because it holds that feeling or reminder of why it is there in the first place.
There are so many reasons why hoarders do what they do. Mainly it is something to do with the brain. It is a physiological way of thinking that mentally brainwashes them into thinking everything can be used for more then it’s original purpose. They desire to keep things that may be useful in the future, or maybe it’s because they want to preserve the memories that come with keeping something of little or no value.

So to think rationally; hoarders hoard because they find it pleasant to take things and store them for either later use, or simply just because they like to accumulate things.




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