“I throw away stacks of newspaper and catalogs, bills that probably went unpaid for years, plastic bags of hangers and wires, and the hockey stick.”
Source: White Cat
“I knew then that the fewer items I was acquiring, dusting, packing, moving, and lugging around in life would free up my energy and time to create...”
“I've always believed that a hoarder house is a house full of quitting. To make a change, the hoarder has to stop quitting and start trying. The hoarder has to want to change...
When hoarders quit, they are cheating their potential. Every time they quit, they are taking a shortcut and they know it. The guilt builds, which is why hoarders can't allow themselves to quit again, not even once. Quitting on small actions eventually leads to completely giving up.”
Source: The Secret Lives of Hoarders: True Stories of Tackling Extreme Clutter
“For a hoarder, staying clean isn't really about bins and labels; it's about processing items that come into the house. A good organizer can help a hoarder develop methods for sorting mail, for staying on top of recycling, and for making sure donated items get to their destinations... The repetition of bad cleaning skills is usually what got the hoarder into trouble in the first place, so an organizer works on repetition of new, positive cleaning skills.”
Source: The Secret Lives of Hoarders: True Stories of Tackling Extreme Clutter
“If I’m owed anything, it would be all of the consequences that come with believing that I’m owed.”
“There's a difference between a blessed increase and greedy oversolicitous hoarding.”
Source: Vocation of a Gadfly
“I keep wondering what would have happened if his unquiet mother had hoarded books instead of semiautomatic weapons.”
Source: American Audacity: In Defense of Literary Daring
“This is the restless cardboard box I carry from room to room, house to house filled with papers I do not know how to sort. How do you separate trash from trash? Everything looks like something else-something I just might need. Someday right?”
Source: I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood
“Hoarding isn't about how much stuff someone has, it's about how they process those things.”
Source: The Secret Lives of Hoarders: True Stories of Tackling Extreme Clutter
“It is not good to hoard money and it is
equally unsanitary to hoard knowledge; the
more you hoard the less you think and the
lesser you know. - On Greed and Knowledge”
Source: To Life from the Shadows