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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DH is like this. He fled the Vietnam conflict as a young child and lived a very frugal childhood with his parents.

I buy his clothes (latest bunch at J Crew - not a store he would ever go in!), and know exactly what he looks good in. I just throw away his holey and stringy clothes when I can't bear to see them on him. He used to make a fuss about it, now he realizes his quality of life is better - it's just that the impetus has to come from me.

Slight hoarding behavior too with stuff in the house. 
Now he more or less agrees on the rule that "if you don't have a place for it, you don't bring it home". Otherwise straight in the trash it goes, courtesy me. I have actually had to do this :-)

This sounds terribly controlling on my part, but we are all so much happier now that ground rules have been laid and mostly adhered to. [b]Within that framework, he can hoard salt/ketchup packets from restaurants and save grungy elastic bands to his heart's content![/b]
And we save on the therapist.[/quote]

This describes my in-laws to the T.

MIL once brought me a plastic bag full of old, used scrunchies. She said, I've been cutting my hair short, but yours is long, so I thought you could use these.

I literally didn't know whether to laugh or to cry. But I'm a wimp, I just took the bag and politely said "Thank you". [/quote]

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