How Hoarding Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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You may be familiar with compulsive hoarding from TV, but something that’s often missing from those shows and the news is the deep and overwhelming shame that this disorder creates in its victims who are neurologically incapable of parting with their stuf

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.3	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from How Stuff Works.com.
0:41.6	Hey and welcome to The Podcast.
0:43.0	I'm Josh Clark.
0:44.0	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.
0:45.5	There's Jerry over there.
0:47.6	And here we are doing Stuff You Should Know about hoarding.
0:52.9	Yeah, Jerry's over there under a stack of pizza boxes and newspapers.
0:57.6	Yes, but Jerry proudly displays them to anybody who comes into the office and makes eye contact
1:03.8	with her, which makes her a collector of those things.
1:06.4	A big difference.
1:07.4	Well, yeah, that didn't save your hoarder.
1:09.4	She's a pizza box collector.
1:10.6	I got you.
1:11.6	She likes those greasy afterstains.
1:14.4	Yes, supposedly that prevents you from recycling pizza boxes.
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