Post by bunnymendelbaum on Mar 26, 2013 13:26:49 GMT -5
My DH is a closet hoarder. I found 700 CDs in a trunk yesterday. He's long since digitized them.
He also has 3 drawers packed with 45 tshirts each. He has not opened those drawers in forever. I wash his tshirts and stack them on top of his dresser, he just picks from that stack to wear. He already has a bin on the basement full of tshirts. My mom had the funny idea to empty all 3 drawers and see how long it takes him to notice. I might do it this afternoon. Hee hee
Post by stephm0188 on Mar 26, 2013 13:30:17 GMT -5
My husband hoards DVDs. I wouldn't mind if he actually watched them, but no. He buys them, sticks them in the cabinet, watches the same movie on Netflix, and then refuses to part with any of them. It makes my head want to explode. Same with books. He reads the digital copies and refuses to part with the paperbacks.
My husband hoards DVDs. I wouldn't mind if he actually watched them, but no. He buys them, sticks them in the cabinet, watches the same movie on Netflix, and then refuses to part with any of them. It makes my head want to explode. Same with books. He reads the digital copies and refuses to part with the paperbacks.
We are married to the same man.
My H also saves all of those cheap plastic planters that come with Home Depot plants. Last year I tossed a huge bunch of them that had been sitting in our basement for years and years, and he had the nerve to be irritated with me. I wish he started traveling more for work again so I could cull his stash. Odds are he'd never notice.
Post by emoflamingo on Mar 26, 2013 13:44:14 GMT -5
I'm trying to convince my H I am not staging an intervention while asking him to send me a picture of his video game collection (YES ugh) but I'm failing miserably. Homeboy has like 100 SNES games, way too many NES and N64 games. I'm drowning in video games! Thankfully they are in the basement and I only see them when I am doing laundry.
You guys have DVDs that are really not very big. We have record ALBUMS, in their covers. Lots of 'em. We don't even own a turntable to play them on but if I mention getting rid of them H throws a hissy like a two-year old. When he used to travel more for work and would be gone, I'd clean out his closet and dresser drawers, etc. He NEVER, not once, noticed.
You guys have DVDs that are really not very big. We have record ALBUMS, in their covers. Lots of 'em. We don't even own a turntable to play them on but if I mention getting rid of them H throws a hissy like a two-year old. When he used to travel more for work and would be gone, I'd clean out his closet and dresser drawers, etc. He NEVER, not once, noticed.
Oh we have vinyl and THREE turntables. You know, for when you need to listen to 3 records at once.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Mar 26, 2013 17:47:59 GMT -5
We have vinyl too. When we moved out here, R culled his collection by about 3,000 albums. (!!!!!) We're down to about a thousand now. I'm fortunate, though, in that because his job is in the audio industry (radio), it's cool for him to plop his giant collection of radios (literally, 50+ antique radios and other audio gear) in his office. In Ohio, they were all over our house. Thank goodness for a private office.
Bunny, my H has the same shirt problem. Drives me nuts. I cull old shirts out as they go through the laundry but I think they come into our house at the same rate I can sneak old ones out. (thanks, fd and race shirts!)
His mom keeps sending over stuff that she doesn't want to toss (apparently he comes by the hoarding honestly? Lol). The latest was 20 year old puzzles that are missing pieces and feature characters like the gremlins.
I hoard clothes, I really think I will wear them again sometime. There is currently a size 0 dress I wore when I was 18 in my closet. It's a great dress and would look great, if I were a 0. I have jeans from size 6 up, I finally gave my niece my size 0 - 2 jeans and Ts sister the 4s.
TJ keeps boxes. For everything. We have the iPhone cases for all our phones, boxes for all video games, boxes for rc car stuff. He finally let me at least pack stuff in them.
His mom keeps sending over stuff that she doesn't want to toss (apparently he comes by the hoarding honestly? Lol). The latest was 20 year old puzzles that are missing pieces and feature characters like the gremlins.
This is one of the worst parts of living so close to my ILs. Random, ancient garbage keeps being brought to us as though it had meaning simply by virtue of the fact that it is from H's childhood.
Post by emoflamingo on Mar 27, 2013 14:04:29 GMT -5
Oh mrs.jacinthe. I forgot about those. I think we have 9 Arc amps? Yeah, we don't have a single vehicle worth having a "ballin' system" in, yet we have enough amps for like 5 systems.
Post by sawyerthedestroyer on Mar 27, 2013 14:09:53 GMT -5
H hoards cables and wires from every electronic he has ever owned. He has a huge rubbermaid box full of them. He goes through these phases where we NEED to purge everything RIGHT NOW and will randomly just start throwing things he doesn't find useful (mostly things I like) away. But heaven forbid we touch those cables - We might need one someday, but when someday comes he doesn't feel like digging through the box and just buys a new cable anyway.
My DH is a closet hoarder. I found 700 CDs in a trunk yesterday. He's long since digitized them.
He also has 3 drawers packed with 45 tshirts each. He has not opened those drawers in forever. I wash his tshirts and stack them on top of his dresser, he just picks from that stack to wear. He already has a bin on the basement full of tshirts. My mom had the funny idea to empty all 3 drawers and see how long it takes him to notice. I might do it this afternoon. Hee hee
Leave a note in the drawer with the date/time you cleared out the t-shirts. If it goes over 3 months, let him know he needs to donate the t-shirts!
H hoards cables and wires from every electronic he has ever owned. He has a huge rubbermaid box full of them. He goes through these phases where we NEED to purge everything RIGHT NOW and will randomly just start throwing things he doesn't find useful (mostly things I like) away. But heaven forbid we touch those cables - We might need one someday, but when someday comes he doesn't feel like digging through the box and just buys a new cable anyway.
My husband is a cable hoarder too. It drives me crazy.
Post by gnomesweetgnome on Mar 28, 2013 10:40:44 GMT -5
Luckily my DH doesn't really hoard stuff. He does have an unusually large number of socks, undershirts, and boxer shorts, but they all fit in one dresser drawer (barely), so I don't care. I start throwing away boxers when they get holes in them.