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What possesses you to definitely save every scrap of newspaper thats ever come into his home? What compulsions drive a woman like Irene, whose hoarding cost her her marriage? Or Ralph, whose imagined uses for castoff stuff like leaky old buckets almost lost him his house? Randy Frost and Gail Steketee were the first ever to analyze hoarding when they commenced their work ten years ago; they expected to find a few sufferers but finished up treating hundreds of patients and fielding a large number of calls from the groups of others. Now they explore the compulsion through some compelling circumstance studies in the vein of Oliver Sacks.With vibrant portraits that show us the attributes where you can identify a hoarder - piles on sofas and bedrooms that make the furniture inadequate, houses that can be navigated only by pursuing small pathways called goat tracks, vast piles of newspaper that the hoarders churn but never dispose of, even collections of animals and garbage - Frost and Steketee illuminate the move that property exert on all of us. Whether we're savers, enthusiasts, or compulsive cleaners, hardly any of us are in fact free of the impulses that drive hoarders to the extremes where they live. For all those with complicated connections to our things, Stuff answers the question of what happens when our stuff starts to own us.
