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Selects: How Hoarding Works

Stuff You Should Know

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The Inability to Stop Acquiring Stuff

Just because you want warehouses full of stuff doesn't necessarily mean your hoarder. The key points about not getting rid of stuff is they're holding on to things with no value at all. They imbue importance into objects that from the outside are junk. And apparently there's a correlation between faulty recall or an inaccurate memory or a lack of trust in one's own memory and hoarding.

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