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66The Collyer Brother's Sad Demise
Everyone knows what a pack rat is, not the little furry kind, but the person who keeps or collects everything, whether it’s useful or not. In the more extreme form they are known as hoarders. Probably the most famous hoarders of all time were the...
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62How to Successfully Clean Your House
Tired of all of that stuff around the house that you just can't find the room for? What about all the things you have boxed up in storage somewhere? Let's see if we can clean that up a bit. There are a few questions you will need to ask yourself...
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77Are You A Collector Or A Hoarder?
Having a collection of things is a good wholesome hobby but sometimes people get carried away and it takes over their entire home. There are four different types of collectors: Collector, Extreme Collector, Pack Rat and Hoarder.
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83Help! I Married An Engineer
Engineers are renowned for their smarts. English majors are renowned for their discourse. When the two marry, it’s like a union between a cat and a dog—polar opposites. My electrical engineer husband lived up to the genius reputation—he was...
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75Unsafe Cumpulsive Hoarding Epidemic After Many Families Lose Loved Ones to Trash: How To Do Hoarder House Cleaning
I was recently asked by one of my friends to help him clean out his mother's entire house. She has been Hoarding for over 30 years. After the death of her husband (1984?) she stopped throwing things out and constantly bought everything that was on sale...
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62What is a Pack Rat
What a beautiful day to go rummaging through the storage room to see what forgotten treasures I would find. Please refrain from asking me what possessed me to spring clean in the storage room. Personally, I think it must have been a temporary case...
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60Things I Kept
To hear my family tell it, I never visit them in Maryland, and missing one day of phone contact qualifies me as "practically a stranger." The truth is, over my 5 year stint traveling I flew home about every 3 months, called home nearly everyday, and...
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69Clearing the Clutter to Clean
The first steps to having a clean home is to clear the clutter. Here you will find some tips on how to begin this process.
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61Learn 2 Get Organized
Getting organized is not an easy thing to do. But staying organized is even harder. Weather you work outside the home or are a stay at home parent, getting things in order, organizing, and cleaning, are no...
71Pack Rat? Hoarder? Hunter and Gatherer? Collector? Accumulator?
I am certainly at least one of the above, probably a few of the above, and on a good day, I would suspect, all of the above. Collecting, saving, hoarding, hunting and gathering can be fun, relaxing,...
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