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Originally Posted by glatt
You hear about hoarders with houses filled with crap.
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I read about this in Popular Science, or Discover, or Scientific American, can't remember which. It's a specific type of behavior, it doesn't respond to the medications prescribed for Obsessive/Compulsive behavior. It appears to be a product of the resource-hoarding instinct we have evolved to be programmed with. Just like a squirell hoarding nuts for the winter, only these people lack the ability to make a distinction between useful and non-useful objects. Something in the way their brains are wired inappropriately attaches value to these items.
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Originally Posted by glatt
You could use a plastic snow shovel to shovel them outside and into a dumpster. Then recycle them.
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No! I want those cans! I want to make suits of armor out of them! (Once, while camping out and tubing on the Guadalupe River, I made a suit of armor out of the boxes from 8 18-packs)