The brothers lived in adjoining identical pent house apartments in a hotel, each with an 800 square foot great room with double height ceilings. They had no pathways between all their stuff. One of the brothers would come home for lunch nearly every day, just to be among his things, not to organize, but to enjoy. Frost began to study hoarding behaviors with the assumption that they sprang from the same place as obsessive compulsive disorders. But the more he worked with hoarders, the more he became convinced that description didn't fit.