Edward
Bartender
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I am a few psych sessions past being a "hoarder" BUT if there was a fire in my house I would likely be the one to go up in smoke. Likely paralyzed by trying to decide which of my stuff to save.
We've now begun in earnest clearing out a lot of stuff so we can renovate the flat properly. I am realising I have developed a very pronounced hoarding problem; yesterday, we had a row about a jacket I agrered to bin because it had sustaned some bad moth damage - I wanted to cut off and keep the buttons for spares. (Old, West German naval jacket.) I find myself regretting doing the "right thing" and backing down (utterly gracelessly as I did).... to the point where I've already put an eBay watch on a bunch of the buttons. If I'd not been accompanied to the binroom, needless to say, those buttons would be in my jacket pocket on their way to my office drawer right now. I'm also furious with myself because it turns out that it's not going to be so easy to replace the jacket after all (two years ago, when it was bough,t they were eveyrwhere, now all the surplus stores only have a handful of tiny sizes), so maybe I should have tried to rethink how bad it was.....
In terms of fire, a dark and unpleasantv part of me would actually currently welcome a housefire because it would be infinitely easier than this death by a hundred cuts of being forced to clear out stuff I don't want to let go, but know I have to. Which probably more than anything says it's a real problem I have.
Polo is a very handsome boy. Well soon be looking for a couple of kittens to keep our Greta company; she's been on her own since her sister Marlene died about eghteen months ago. If only we could take in a couple of little souls fathered by this magnificent beast!