Do you have a standard of living you want to upkeep without having to work around your pile of stuff?
Do you consider some items not of good enough quality to be owned and maintained by you?
Do you not want to see the world burn and the source of your collection to fail so you can’t collect anymore?
Congrats you have standards and can collect away.
My mom has a “collection” of um… various
garbageahem “treasures” other people left behind…Literally just becomes a bunch of hiding spots for the cat lolz.
Pretty sure it’s a fire hazard, it’s hard to access the back door in case the front door starts burning or gets blocked or something. Like so much garbage blocking the way, the path is so narrow.
It’s been like this for a decade… there are thing that have never been touched like not long after we moved here.
Context: It’s a remnant of the mindset of poverty… like… “gotta collect them all” lol.
Then when guests come, they frantically try to hide stuff from the livingroom to the basement and sort of tidy up and clean things a bit, even though there’s barely any space there.
We visited a neighbor once, and omg the house is like the same but worse. Stuff overflowing the entire living room. And I was like “mom, this old man is just like you” 🤣
Maybe this mess that I live in partially contributed to my depression.