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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mother was really cheap.  Would wash out plastic sandwich bags, cut paper towels in half, reuse aluminum foil, cut paper in half to reuse if there was nothing written in the bottom half, etc.  She had hoarding tendencies and our house was full of stuff because she couldn’t throw anything out.  She kept my clothes from 4th grade, etc.

She dropped dead in her 70s and it was awful cleaning up the mess.  She saved a lot of money but did not get to enjoy any of it, too busy washing out plastic bags...  [/quote]

This was my thought. These stories are all so sad. So many people missing out on life while trying to game the system to save a buck. What’s the point?[/quote]

If you had ever been poor you would get it.

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PP.  My mother wasn't just poor but lived through a war as a small child, was a refugee.  Lost her father.  Her hoarding was from trauma  and her "cheapskate" actions reached the level of mental illness.  I have other relatives and know others who lived through the same thing and they didn't do this.

Growing up she had piles of used washed out plastic bags, aluminum foil, etc. that got bigger as she grew older and all the kids left.   Just a mess.  Crazy mess.  By the end, my siblings and I couldn't even go into the house we grew up in because it was full of garbage.[/quote]

People react differently to trauma. My mom hoards. One brother became an alcoholic. A sister had four divorced. The youngest brother is so morbidly obese he had seven strokes before age 50. [/quote]

My mother has two sisters and they are nice normal people with clean houses... not crazy/drug addicted/married only once/ slim/etc  so some people go through the same trauma, but don’t end up so completely damaged.[/quote]

Way to victim blame your mom for being traumatized by WAR and losing a parent and being a refugee.  Her sisters weren’t affected, why couldn’t she toughen up?[/quote]

Nothing to do with victim blaming.  War happened more than 70+ yrs ago.  At some point you cannot blame everything on what happened to you in your childhood and take responsibility for your own actions:  Even my mother did not blame her actions on living through a war and childhood trauma - I see her hoarding as a result of it not her.

My country suffered through a war and still emerged a first world country from a third world one within a generation so not everyone was so traumatize that they spent their time fixated on useless economy.

My mother was cheap and wasted her time cleaning out used plastic bags, etc.  I am very sad that she never got to enjoy life.  That's all.[/quote]

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