that's different than hoarding. hoarding is where you literally can't throw things away. my mother is like this. if you let her, she will save every damn jar, grocery bag, and egg carton. if i don't go over to her house for a few months, her entire laundry room is filled with trash, and i have to endure a bitchfit to throw it all out. i realized part of it is because she's afraid of being abandoned. she anthropomorphizes everything and tries to "care" for it because she, herself, is afraid of being abandoned/"thrown away." it's very bizarre, and i have no idea where she got it from, because no one in her life ever abandoned her. she had a stable, traditional family and my dad stuck with her and never cheated on her, despite her being a raging lunatic bitch.
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