Keeping it all in

eBay purchases take over house

I spent a good part of yesterday cleaning up the room, and so it's clear to me that I'm a pack rat - but this is on a scale far, far beyond anything I've ever done.

Comments

Elia Diodati said…
Kleptomaniac loves eBay. *Shivers*

Manual trackback.
11 June 2005 at 16:38
Anonymous said…
OMG!!!!!!!!!!................

my mouth is still hanging wide open...
12 June 2005 at 06:44
Badaunt said…
I suddenly feel much, much better about my house.
12 June 2005 at 07:03
kachuaz said…
i cant imagine myself living in such a house.

think i will mmost probably suffocate from the lack of air..and space..
12 June 2005 at 09:04
Indri said…
"Kleptomaniac" is not fair. There's a different name for this problem--hoarding. It's a subset of OCD, and appears to have a chemical basis. Which is incredibly sad--but let me point out, in this woman's defense, that the hoarded items are arranged in some kind of order, and the place isn't knee-high in dirty plates and cat shit, like the homes of some people with this problem.

I'm not saying this is right or good. But someone close to me suffers from the same problem, so I'm rather sensitive about name-calling.

And yes, eBay can be a terrible thing for these folks.
13 June 2005 at 00:26
Daryl said…
It's true, hoarding is a very different problem from kleptomania... although isn't kleptomania also chemical in origin?
15 June 2005 at 10:52
eeyore_1996 said…
im 13 and my parents complain about my room. like if I leave a sock on my floor im grounded for 2 weeks. so i have never seen any thing so messy!
8 April 2009 at 22:02
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