Thread by @WeftOfSoul, Crazy mindtraps my mom's hoarding/impulsive shopping/neurotic saving/guilt has installed in my brain [...]

Crazy mindtraps my mom's hoarding/impulsive shopping/neurotic saving/guilt has installed in my brain and I've mostly managed to uninstall now:
•Never buy full price things. Always wait for a clearance sale, 3 for 2, discount. Use these as an excuse to buy useless things

•A clever homemaker will buy cheap toys and stationary kits and books and fidget spinners and shit to use as gifts for kids and relatives. Store these in various closets, never find a suitable one in a hurry before a birthday party, buy a full price thing on the way there.

•Any time anyone is discarding something or taking it to a charity shop, offer to do it for them or directly as if you can have it, because that's what you will do. Even if it's denim jackets for 12 year old boys, broken electronics, anything, Might come in use, it's free!

•Always think of DIY and art projects you could make with items that no longer can be utilized in their intended use. Expired foundation might come in use in a painting. Gotta save egg cartons. Candy wrappers, I once saw a purse on pinterest made of those. Never do DIY or crafts

•If a member of your household wants to discard something, no. They have no right, it's yours now. Especially if you think you bought it for them 20 years ago and think it's still perfectly fine as a rug for the dog or to wear while painting the house or ANYTHING.

•A TINY bit of dried cat piss or chew marks by rats or a dog smell you cannot wash off or blueberry stains are FINE if the item has cultural, historical or emotional value. It's not like you can buy another pair of bell bottoms from the 70s or an ugly tapestry or a sofa set

•Dry and tinned foods never expire, therefore you can always buy more even if you don't cook
•You will always need more Tupperware, candles and soap. They also never expire. neither does sunscreen or lotion, it's FINE if it's from the 90s and almost empty!

•You NEED 5 freezers that each cold hold 3 fully grown men.
•You NEED three fridges in three separate buildings, each of which you forget to check for expired goods for months at a time
•Surfaces are made for piles to live on. Same for floors.

•There is no clutter, there's only buying more storage solutions for all you very valuable and useful things. Does not matter if the things are worth less than the storage solutions and the space they take up.

•Never wear your nice clothes, never use your nice plates and teacups, never put up your nice curtains, never waste fancy soaps and lotions. Always use the ugly and unflattering and annoying ones you got for free or cheaply, they're FINE

•Make yourself necessary by having such a senseless system for storing things that whenever anyone tries to do anything, they need to ask you where all the individual tools and things they need for it are
•Refuse to explain systems or make them transparent to others

•Always stop others from buying brand new things specifically suited for what they're trying to accomplish
•Talk them into using your found materials and things instead
•Once they're convinced, promise to find these for them
•Never get around to it
•Insist you will

•If you absolutely need to buy something like a party dress, leave it until the last possible day and spend 5 hours checking every option at every shop in all the nearby towns and have your children drive you around
•After 43 options buy the second one you tried on

•Adopt every troubled pet that's about to be euthanized because of behavioral problems. Hoarding isn't just about saving difficult to utilize items, it's also about saving every dangerous or lethally ill beast because you feel bad about the mortality of vulnerable things!

•Save every blurry photo, letter from kids' school, leaflet from a concert, wedding invitation, Christmas card, hospital wrist band, baby tooth, baby hair clipping. Insist you will make scrapbooks. Buy photo albums and crafts kits. Never do any of it.

•Wash every plastic container supermarket products come in. Save every bread tag and plastic bag. Save wrapping paper, ribbons. Do not fold away or discard cardboard boxes, cereal boxes, empty toilet paper rolls. These will be Important.

•Whenever a telemarketer calls you to offer a cheap subscription to magazines, book clubs, supplements, razors, pocket watches or anything at all, that's a deal you cannot let go to waste. Never read the magazines. Forget to eat the vitamins. Never get rid of them.

Just remember, everything has increadible meaning and value and you cannot bear to see any of it wasted, therefore you must bring everything into your house and never risk ruining it with use ar utility.

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