tfw compulsive hoarding

[Anonymous No.49636692]

I have lots of shit, carpets, chairs, food, old books... and my quality of life is declining. How could I unironically either profit or manage to get in control of this?

How can I manage to sell this on the Internet?

[Anonymous No.49636780]

>>49636692
Facebook marketplace

[Anonymous No.49636815]

>>49636692
Just throw it all away. It'll take months to sell your junk, no one will want it. By the time you get rid of it, you'll have a lot more useless shit you've collected by then.

[Anonymous No.49636827]

>>49636692
Based third worlder mexishit. Post tummy

[Anonymous No.49636947]

>>49636692
don't bother selling it unless you need the money to live. just throw it out, donate it to charities, leave it on the street corner with "free" signs, whatever it takes. you need to teach yourself that it's okay to rid yourself of stuff that "should" be valuable but isn't valuablein practice for you.

[Anonymous No.49637037]

>>49636815
This

[Anonymous No.49637041]

>>49636815
I just cant. It would be like selling valable goods. Imagine you have 1000 eth, you dont need thosez but they have some value. I have mental disorder

[Anonymous No.49637083]

>>49637041
based hoarderbro, my gf says she won't move in with me until i get help. don't have any pictures really available but my house looks the same.

[Anonymous No.49637117]

>>49636692
>>49637041
pls post more stuff OP

[Anonymous No.49637278]

This is the toilet. I got two cushions today. I cannot use it. I hate living like this

[Anonymous No.49637411]

>>49636692
>sell
Loan them out and charge interest

[Anonymous No.49637439]

>>49636692
Pick one room in your house to be the "storage room" and shove everything into that room. Personally, I collect perfectly usable refridgerators, stoves, and microwaves off of the side of the road for free and put them into a shed on my property so they don't all have to be in my house. I will literally never have to buy another appliance ever again.

Its better to sacrifice one room in your house as a junk room then to have the whole house be junk. Looking at your pics you really dont have as much junk as ive seen in other houses, and your ceilings look pretty tall, so you probably could stack all of that in one room. Chairs, rugs, and books are actually useful to have, just get them out of the way is all.

[Anonymous No.49637494]

>>49637041
based rug hoarder
w-where do you even find those fuckers?
tell me, you werent collecting them from the roadside or whatever. You proably got a moth collection worth selling by now.

[Anonymous No.49637506]

>>49637041
>>49637278
But they're not valuable, they're junk. How did you get them in the first place? Probably someone else recognized (correctly) that they're junk and gave them away.

Start small. Just throw away 1 thing today. You don't have to throw away everything you have. Tell yourself you aren't losing all of your stuff, just some of the junk you don't need and aren't using. Start small and begin getting rid of things. And of course stop bringing new things into your home.

At least you realize it's a problem. That's a good first step.

[Anonymous No.49637524]

YOU DONT UNDERSTAND PAIN!

[Anonymous No.49637566]

No one understands the pain.

[Anonymous No.49637587]

>>49637524
slightly worrying bleach tick, but pretty organised.
nice collapsible ladders btw.
>>49637566
ah ok. ignore above.

[Anonymous No.49637654]

>>49637494
this, i hoard a lot of shit as stated but even i don't hoarde rugs. however i do have rugs in rooms they aren't really truly needed, so , perhaps i actually do

[Anonymous No.49637655]

>>49636692
dont sell, throw it away. please get help.
>t. a person with a hoarder for a neighbor who has seen her alienate her family, friends, and become a cat shit covered old crazy woman surrounded by 20 year old news papers and expired food even though she's only 60.

[Anonymous No.49637705]

epic thread, pls post more hoarderbros. i am waging and don't have any pics on phone or would contribute.

[Anonymous No.49637706]

>>49637041
Not a single thing in this picture except for the water is of value, it's all old fucking junk,

[Anonymous No.49637708]

>>49636692
Learn to understand the source of your trauma, address and accept it, then let it go. No longer attach yourself to that trauma, and heal. Where is the origin of your hoarding? Did you grow up poor? Did you not have any positive experiences in life, so you attempt to fill the void with the excitement of new objects? How long has this been occurring for? And if you truly wished to let go, why not do it now? Do not attach monetary value to things you have hoarded, as it will be harder to let them go. Simply dispose of them.

[Anonymous No.49637709]

>>49637041
>>49636780
>>49636692


Disorder, but try to lsit it, if no interest, reduce price, if nothing / no interest sub $50 and it's a good photo then it's worthless.

I know the feeling, it sucks - minimalism is the best. sEparation anxiety is real.

[Anonymous No.49637730]

>>49636692
>lots of shit, carpets, chairs, food, old books...
But a few of them up on ebay and etsy.
You could ask a couple hundred for the carpet and chairs, no idea about the books.

[Anonymous No.49637775]

>>49637655
such is the future for feminism

[Anonymous No.49637783]

>>49637041
>>49637083
Pathetic.

[Anonymous No.49638427]

>>49636692
Why are there empty bottles? Clean your room anon. And throw away that 40 year old furniture

[Anonymous No.49638839]

>>49636692
Most of that looks like pure junk desu...you could conceivably refinish and reupholster the chairs but it isn't a very in demand style. If they are actually fine wood and well made it might be worth the effort, but you'll not be getting rid of them in a hurry unless you practically give it away.

[Anonymous No.49638864]

>>49637041

Here's the thing, useful shit is abundant. If an asset is useful and necessary people will make more of it; it will always be available for repurchase, and there will always be someone trying to get rid of it.

I'm a strong supporter of hoarding, but I only support the hoarding of useless cultural garbage. Everyone falls into the same trap of keeping "useful" stuff, when it's actually the useless stuff that disappears from circulation and becomes valuable. Anything useful gets reprinted and is always available.

Stop thinking about things in terms of how useful they are, start thinking about things in terms of how easy they are to replace, and if the item has cultural or historical significance that makes it irreplaceable.

>>49636815

Is right. Fact of the matter is that you can make $10 doing an UberEats delivery. Arranging to buy or sell something on Marketplace would require at least two deliveries worth of effort. Any item worth less than $20 is functionally unsellable, unless it can be sold online and shipped for less than $5.

[Anonymous No.49639265]

>>49638839

If you can't identify exactly what an item is, who made it, what year it was made, and why that makes the item special it's "junk". It doesn't matter how valuable the base item is if you do not have this information, you will never be able to sell it for what it's worth.

Pic related. If you have this chair and see it as an "Old wooden chair" it's worth $50 at best. If you can correctly identify that this is a 1740-1750 era Queen Anne walnut side chair you're looking at about $1,000.

I don't keep anything that I can't identify in such a fashion.

[Anonymous No.49639275]

Just clean up, you fucking slob. Don't blame being a lazy lard ass on some "compulsive" disorder.

[Anonymous No.49640178]

>>49639265
That's my point, I was dragged to antique stores, auctions, estate sales for years and years as a kid, know enough to have made money on this shit. Not enough to retire it's a literally gay market and I have better things to do with my time.

[Anonymous No.49640348]

>>49636692
>>49637041
You need some IV Anafranil my mentally ill boi

[Anonymous No.49640478]

>>49640178
You don't need to know what something is. I buy a lot from auctions, often have no idea what something is but I have an eye for quality and design. I buy things hen research them later. Never bought anything that didn't turn out to have value.

[Anonymous No.49640845]

>>49640178

Yeah, I wasn't disagreeing. Just adding additional context. Identification above all else. A "nice old chair" means a 50% premium over an Walmart/Home Depot POS. A properly identified chair can have value, but if you don't have the ability to do so it will only be a "nice old chair" (Junk). If you can't or won't identify it then just get rid of it and use your time better.

Just about everything in the images posted are unidentifiable, mass produced garbage. It will always be available for repurchase, and it will always be available cheap.

The best part about hoarding cultural goods is that you don't feel the need to have them strewn about cluttering your living space. I have all sorts of cultural garbage that I was able to identify and pick up cheap. It's all tucked away and properly stored. If the items were "useful" I would be inclined to keep them where I can access them easily, even if I never end up actually using them.

[Anonymous No.49640926]

>>49640478

You still end up identifying it to get your value. Of course you can sell anything at a profit if your cost basis is low enough.

[Anonymous No.49640943]

>>49636692
sell? Just throw most of it to the trash and be free.
Hoarding is a real problem, it accomulates and then it's just way too much.

[Anonymous No.49641017]

>>49640926
True. I don't resell really. I'm stacking value for when I die so the kids can have some inheritence.

[Anonymous No.49641116]

>>49640178
you hoarded the wrong stuff

t. hobbyist who is slowly selling his hoard online, $1k per quarter

[Anonymous No.49641187]

>>49636692
you need to realize all of the shit you are hoarding can be rebought on the market after you no longer own it. make a rule for yourself: if i own two of the same thing, 2 tables, 2 microwaves, 2 of something just keep 1 so you atleasy kept 1. look at that feeling you get when you throw the other one away but go through with it anyway

[Anonymous No.49641313]

>>49637041
post examples of your valuable goods and /biz/ will decide if you trash it or not

[Anonymous No.49641369]

>>49637524
>>49637566
your hoarding the wrong things; hoard weapons and ammunition instead

[Anonymous No.49641388]

>>49636692
compulsive hoarding is highly associated with narcissitic personality disorder OR sometimes it's symptom of OCD hoarding

[Anonymous No.49641441]

>>49641388
Why are those girls wearing strapons under their skirts?

[Anonymous No.49641501]

>>49637524
Thats a man.

[Anonymous No.49641515]

>>49641017

Highly recommend you purge anything you can't identify. Anything you can identify needs to be labeled on the item itself before you pass. Even better to take photos of the good shit and label the photos. My grandfather took polaroids of all his really good shit and wrote on the bottom what the item identification. he stuck them in a fireproof safe, so when it came time to sell off his hoard we knew exactly what we had and could get top dollar for it.

[Anonymous No.49641598]

>>49641388

Narcissism is the shit and anyone telling you otherwise is trying to control you.

[Anonymous No.49641613]

>>49641515
Yep. Don't want them getting robbed by some house clearance firm. They will know the value of everything.

[Anonymous No.49641720]

>>49641613

Digital and physical record. Sounds like you aren't gonna be lazy about it, but don't be lazy about it.

[Anonymous No.49641768]

>>49636692
Is this a prison cell?

[Anonymous No.49641790]

>>49641720
Spreadsheet indexed to physical auction receipts which have handwritten notes. Photos attached if higher value items.

[Anonymous No.49641857]

>>49636692

[Anonymous No.49642026]

only when gme finally squeezes can I finally let the collection go.

[Anonymous No.49642071]

>>49642026

[Anonymous No.49642239]

>>49641768

European by the looks of it. Basically the same thing. You can see the adjacent quasi-commie bloc "flats" in the second image, and the strange lock in the 3rd. The electrical boxes are unfamiliar to me too. Might be DC power from one of those Eastern European states, but I can't be sure.

You can see the adjacent commie bloc "flats" in image

[Anonymous No.49642280]

>>49641790

That's the way to do it. I didn't start until I saw how my grandfather did it and thought "wow, that makes so much fucking sense." Good shit.

If it's not worth indexing, it's noth worth keeping.

[Anonymous No.49642425]

>>49642071
I days wipe for an American.

[Anonymous No.49642437]

>>49636692
Pick a random piece of junk, maybe a carpet or the picture. Sit down with it and deeply ask yourself "do I need this? ” DO NOT GET UP UNTIL THE ANSWER IS NO. it may take you 15 mins or 5 hours of internal reasoning, but do not give up until you can strongly answer " no, I do not need this thing ". Then throw it out. It might be hard the first time, but force yourself to do it again and again. It'll get easier and easier

If you don't have the willpower to do this, get a family member or friend to force you to sit down and do this. Tell them to beat you or tie you down if you get up or get distracted. This will work

[Anonymous No.49642563]

>>49636692
>How can I manage to sell this on the Internet?
its probably not even worth the time just throw your trash out dude

[Anonymous No.49642905]

Please post more pics of your 3rd world shithole apartment and your disorder OP

[Anonymous No.49642992]

>>49637041
I know that feel, I have one room packed with boxes to the ceiling, try to keep other room somewhat clutter free, only have two room apartment, have been thinking about hiring a junk service to just cart it away but of course have to go through it first which i will never do

[Anonymous No.49643019]

>>49642026
>>49642071
I had a family member like this that would horde the most useless trash imaginable. Plastic and carton shit that have absolutely no value of use. Would get mad when I told him to throw out something. Had to constantly throw shit behind his back.
I kind of understand the mentality behind OPs hording, since you can technically argue that these items might have some small value and can be refurbishable, but why the fuck horde fucking toilet paper rolls or some plastic packaging shit?

[Anonymous No.49643041]

>>49637566
sheeit looks like my apartment

[Anonymous No.49643152]

>>49643019

I get it and agree fully, but a 1964 Gilligan's island bubble gum + trading card wrapper now sells for $200. A bubble gum wrapper.

That said, it should all be indexed and stores for safekeeping.

[Anonymous No.49643388]

>>49637041
stop thinking and force yourself to throw it away. Just fucking burn all that shit and you will feel better

[Anonymous No.49643675]

>>49639265
Most people don’t know that info. Professional appraisers are a thing.

[Anonymous No.49643677]

>>49643152
You don't acquire a 1964 Gilligan's Island bubblegum + trading card wrapper by hoarding toilet paper rolls and other random trash. And even if you could, living in filth for 70 years to sell a couple hundred bucks of miscellaneous garbage one day is a bad investment.

[Anonymous No.49643845]

>>49641857
I would unironically love this if it were given to me. There’s a whole beach there and I bet it’s always warm.

[Anonymous No.49644157]

>>49636692
Anon this is not a business problem. As you understand, it’s psychological. Treat it like alcoholism or OCD, not credit card debt. Ask for help. You can get out of this, but it’s much harder alone.

[Anonymous No.49644638]

>>49637041
>carpet
>furniture
>starts scratching immediately

[Anonymous No.49644691]

>>49643675

Exactly my point. Most people's possessions are "junk", because they can't identify it. If you can't or won't identify it then it is junk you should get rid of.

>>49643677

I get that, hoarding anything not cultural is mental illness, but there's a reason people do it.

[Anonymous No.49644879]

>>49636692
Looking at all your pictures op I would say you're probably in better shape than you think. You have a lot of junk you don't need, but at least the place doesn't look gross, I don't see old McDonalds bags full of food rotting in piles, that's a real hoarders house. You just have to start clearing stuff out. If you haven't used it in the last year then toss it or sell it or whatever you have to do.

[Anonymous No.49646293]

>>49641501
anon thats a framed photograph

[Anonymous No.49646645]

>>49637524
Why do you have 3 lifetimes worth of laundry detergent for you idiot

[Anonymous No.49646994]

>>49646645
hes beating inflation

[Anonymous No.49647047]

have a fucking yard sale and sell lemonade/ beer at the same time. jesus how hard is this shit i did this when i was like 7

[Anonymous No.49647482]

>>49637041
you could clean that shit up in a day why are you making posts

[Anonymous No.49647799]

>>49643152
autism

[Anonymous No.49649448]

>>49641501
It was an autographed photograph of someone famous back in the 60s I think.

[Anonymous No.49649657]

>>49636692
You call that hoarding?

[Anonymous No.49649680]

Hoarding is the result of unresolved emotional issues. Who hurt you anon?

[Anonymous No.49649747]

>>49637566
I see a Guitar Amp. If you play Guitar, why don't you throw away a bunch of stuff so you can turn it into a music room? You can practice and have a whole new cool room for when girls come over they won't think you're insane.

[Anonymous No.49649881]

>>49649747
this is your ticket, OP

[Anonymous No.49650242]

>>49636815
this. i considered selling my shit but realized it was.,.shit. I just rented a 10yard dumpster and fucking stuffed that bitch with as much junk i had in my house and garage as i could fit. feels so good just getting rid of everything at once rather than piece by piece over many months or possibly years. now i have just what i need and i dont dread the idea of moving anymore because I have about 10 plastic containers of stuff now.

[Anonymous No.49650359]

>>49637041
Brother I think exactly like you. But it’s all unrealized gains until you sell it. Sell all of it for whatever you can get for it and put that money in something that isn’t making your home look like a fucking hoarder den.
Unrelated does anyone want to buy some size medium shirts? It’s nice shit.

[Anonymous No.49650419]

How can you live like this?

Allocate a single day to clearing out your living space. Plan ahead... and just do it. Anything that you haven't used in the past month and will not use within the next month, fucking trash it. Anything worth over 100 bucks, sell it to a pawn shop and take whatever lowball offer they give you.

[Anonymous No.49650451]

>>49637706
I’d need a better look at the rugs but those may or may not be worth something

[Anonymous No.49650698]

As a salary-bitch for a commercial landlord, this thread triggers me. I shudder to think about how many of my 3k+ apartments look like what I see here. I've seen it before, but it was way worse then what I'm seeing here.
Please seek help.

[Anonymous No.49650700]

>>49636692
what are you hoarding, chairs?

[Anonymous No.49651058]

>>49637041
I understand the sentiment and I keep stuff which I feel has value or will appreciate. However most of this stuff is literal junk. A line needs to be drawn somewhere.

[Anonymous No.49651270]

Time for a bonfire OP.

[Anonymous No.49651300]

my dad is just like it, can barely move around in this house from all the shit he's bought and kept. my room is covered in trash so i can't talk