And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development

Podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols and this episode is titled Hoarding. And if you're ready,

we'll start the show. Hello people. How are things? Hey, the weather's picking up a little bit

here in the UK anyway, tiny bit at a time.

March is supposedly the start of spring in the northern hemisphere.

We put the clocks forward, we have some lighter evenings, and everybody starts spring cleaning, don't they?

And maybe there is a lot of stuff in your house that you could do with taking to the charity shop, sticking on

eBay, or just plain old putting in the bin. My son is 18 now, and for the last 18 years, we've

been collecting so much crap, and a lot of it just got talked to the charity shops bit by bit,

or I gave some to friends or relatives with younger kids.

And my wife stole quite a bit on eBay, actually, as well.

But we still have a stack of stuff in the garage to get rid of, stuff that my son got

too old for, mostly books and clothes and stuff.

And until recently, this enormous telescope that has been doing the rounds around the family for about 20 years.

And it's about as powerful as something that fits in your pocket.

So my wife stuck it on eBay.

She got 30 quid for it because one man's junk is another man's car boot sale bargain, isn't it?

I remember when eBay started to become quite popular back in,

I think it was about 2005. It was a BBC journalist called Rajan Datar. It still works at the BBC,

and he wanted to show how ridiculous it was and how gullible we all were by literally putting a piece of old rope that he found on the beach

onto eBay for sale to see if anybody would buy it.

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