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A Connecticut woman who police described as an apparent hoarder was found dead Saturday after the first floor of her house collapsed under the weight of all her clutter.
Hoarder Dies When House Collapses Under Weight of Clutter - TIME
Anyone know any hoarders?
A buddy of mine knows a hoarder. His place got so full of "stuff" he had to go live in a homeless shelter. But he kept paying rent on his place plus several storage lockers needed for the overflow.
I'm a bit of a hoarder myself. I hate to throw anything out. But I overcome the remorse and go through the place once in a while and chuck stuff out, almost randomly. We moved one time and I took 9 pick-up loads of "stuff" (that I had gathered that just maybe I might find a use for) to the dump.
That's a lot.
Thing is I also donate a lot of nonperishable stuff to the church and various organizations. Then I simply replace part of my stock. So my supply comes in handy in more than one way.I will confess and admit that I am a hoarder. Thing is I only hoard nonperishable food items like canned goods. I usually keep a 3 year supply of canned goods and various nonperishable drinks in the cellar in the event of an unforeseeable catastrophe. This would cover my family (wife, son, and myself), and a few close neighbors. Chances are an event of this magnitude may never occur, but the hoarder in myself refuses to acknowledge this.Hoarder Dies When House Collapses From All Her Stuff
It's a good idea to keep a supply of non-perishable food stored, in case of an emergency situation. Three years is a lot though. When are you building your bomb shelter?
I will confess and admit that I am a hoarder. Thing is I only hoard nonperishable food items like canned goods. I usually keep a 3 year supply of canned goods and various nonperishable drinks in the cellar in the event of an unforeseeable catastrophe. This would cover my family (wife, son, and myself), and a few close neighbors. Chances are an event of this magnitude may never occur, but the hoarder in myself refuses to acknowledge this.Hoarder Dies When House Collapses From All Her Stuff
What an awful way to die. It boggles the mind to think of how much stuff it would take to collapse a floor like that.A Connecticut woman who police described as an apparent hoarder was found dead Saturday after the first floor of her house collapsed under the weight of all her clutter.
Hoarder Dies When House Collapses Under Weight of Clutter - TIME
Anyone know any hoarders?
What an awful way to die. It boggles the mind to think of how much stuff it would take to collapse a floor like that.A Connecticut woman who police described as an apparent hoarder was found dead Saturday after the first floor of her house collapsed under the weight of all her clutter.
Hoarder Dies When House Collapses Under Weight of Clutter - TIME
Anyone know any hoarders?
Yes my mother is a hoarder although not that bad that her floors would collapse. The good news is her hoarding produced at least two very tidy kids. My younger sibling and I would never let our houses get that way. My other sibling is what I would describe as normal when it comes to cleaning. some clutter but not out of control.
I will confess and admit that I am a hoarder. Thing is I only hoard nonperishable food items like canned goods. I usually keep a 3 year supply of canned goods and various nonperishable drinks in the cellar in the event of an unforeseeable catastrophe. This would cover my family (wife, son, and myself), and a few close neighbors. Chances are an event of this magnitude may never occur, but the hoarder in myself refuses to acknowledge this.Hoarder Dies When House Collapses From All Her Stuff
[MENTION=45739]Jughead[/MENTION]
Jughead,
You should think about a big cooler in case your power ever goes out because then you can keep your food cold. My boss put her food in a cooler on top of the snow for three days and everything was still frozen.
I am in a hurricane zone so I started buying Cree flashlights off of ebay that use AA batteries, we bought a generator, two utility pumps and I just bought a heater last spring.
Our power went off for three days in winter so I'm looking into getting a transfer switch to power six circuits and the heater.
I just bought an LED attachment off of ebay for 9 volt batteries and I bought a lantern that uses Cree batteries.
Our neighbor lost her FIOS battery in one of the storms and had to have it replaced as they go dead after eight hours of being unplugged.
I possibly want to buy more of some of these items because I know what it was like to go through hurricane Sandy that knocked our power out for 15-19 hours and then the ice storm that knocked our power out for three days but I am pretty well prepared for now.
We already have family radios (GRSM) but I started getting interested in a CB radio because when our town lost power for three days, the police turned a switch and our cell phones were for 911 only and if you don't have power to power your FIOS batteries for your home phone, you need a way to communicate.
Chuck
Don't think so Chuck. What I did learn in Katrina about storms and cellphones though, if there's equipment out of service and the system won't handle a call, that's when texting finally has a purpose. We refugees couldn't make voice calls but found that texts would go through, so you'd text the number of a landline you ended up at, and they'd call it. The only constructive use I've ever found for texting but there it is. It's all about bandwidth. Voices use too much, text hardly any. Then of course some clown is going to start sending pictures of a downed tree and slow everything down..
I'll bet he's found a source for canned hamburgers. 
Yuck! Why would anyone want to hang onto such a thing? If that isn't nuts, I don't know what is.On second thought...maybe I don't feel so bad. I saw one show (last one I watched) about a woman that had poop piled so high in her toilet, it rised a foot ABOVE the toilet seat. She would just hunker over that pile and add to it.
Disgusting. And they are a hazard to neighboring homes due to disease potential.
A buddy of mine knows a hoarder. His place got so full of "stuff" he had to go live in a homeless shelter. But he kept paying rent on his place plus several storage lockers needed for the overflow.
I'm a bit of a hoarder myself. I hate to throw anything out. But I overcome the remorse and go through the place once in a while and chuck stuff out, almost randomly. We moved one time and I took 9 pick-up loads of "stuff" (that I had gathered that just maybe I might find a use for) to the dump.
Yikes!
Police control the phone company now?
Using snow and ice to preserve food is always a good idea. Never heard of a "FIOS battery" -- what does that do, provide backup power for your FIOS TV? In that situation TV is not your priority; radio maybe... or you can just do what I do and keep a UPS system for at least short-term fill-ins. If my power goes out I don't even lose the internet because the UPS kicks in, and speaking of communication you can use the internet to make phone calls too -- Skype is one way, Gmail is another -- I make lots of outgoing calls via Gmail (and they're free).
Double-A (AA) flashlights and devices aren't that useful; AAs don't last very long. That's what D batteries are for. The bigger the battery the more stamina it's going to have. AA flashlights are largely a waste of time. Even with fresh batteries they don't cast much light. When I grew up we always had oil lamps around -- my mom called them 'hurricane lamps'. They, or candles, always help light up a room and never need batteries.
Thanks, Chuck.I will confess and admit that I am a hoarder. Thing is I only hoard nonperishable food items like canned goods. I usually keep a 3 year supply of canned goods and various nonperishable drinks in the cellar in the event of an unforeseeable catastrophe. This would cover my family (wife, son, and myself), and a few close neighbors. Chances are an event of this magnitude may never occur, but the hoarder in myself refuses to acknowledge this.Hoarder Dies When House Collapses From All Her Stuff
[MENTION=45739]Jughead[/MENTION]
Jughead,
You should think about a big cooler in case your power ever goes out because then you can keep your food cold. My boss put her food in a cooler on top of the snow for three days and everything was still frozen.
I am in a hurricane zone so I started buying Cree flashlights off of ebay that use AA batteries, we bought a generator, two utility pumps and I just bought a heater last spring.
Our power went off for three days in winter so I'm looking into getting a transfer switch to power six circuits and the heater.
I just bought an LED attachment off of ebay for 9 volt batteries and I bought a lantern that uses Cree batteries.
Our neighbor lost her FIOS battery in one of the storms and had to have it replaced as they go dead after eight hours of being unplugged.
I possibly want to buy more of some of these items because I know what it was like to go through hurricane Sandy that knocked our power out for 15-19 hours and then the ice storm that knocked our power out for three days but I am pretty well prepared for now.
We already have family radios (GRSM) but I started getting interested in a CB radio because when our town lost power for three days, the police turned a switch and our cell phones were for 911 only and if you don't have power to power your FIOS batteries for your home phone, you need a way to communicate.
Chuck
Police control the phone company now?
Using snow and ice to preserve food is always a good idea. Never heard of a "FIOS battery" -- what does that do, provide backup power for your FIOS TV? In that situation TV is not your priority; radio maybe... or you can just do what I do and keep a UPS system for at least short-term fill-ins. If my power goes out I don't even lose the internet because the UPS kicks in, and speaking of communication you can use the internet to make phone calls too -- Skype is one way, Gmail is another -- I make lots of outgoing calls via Gmail (and they're free).
Double-A (AA) flashlights and devices aren't that useful; AAs don't last very long. That's what D batteries are for. The bigger the battery the more stamina it's going to have. AA flashlights are largely a waste of time. Even with fresh batteries they don't cast much light. When I grew up we always had oil lamps around -- my mom called them 'hurricane lamps'. They, or candles, always help light up a room and never need batteries.
We couldn't text during the ice storm because the cell phone lines were used for 911 calls.
The FIOS is basically a Fiber Optic Cable and your phone runs on it as well as your TV. It is all shared. The phone company rips out the copper wire and gives you a backup battery because communication is done on a fiber optic wire. The backup battery only lasts eight hours.
With LEDs, batteries last a lot longer because LEDs use a lot less electricity. We have a lot of AA and we have lantern as well as other types of flashlights so that we can use other batteries if we have them available.
I have a windup radio as well for storms.
That's true about the LEDs -- but still, the tiny units they put them in cast very little light.
For communication in lieu of cell service I'd say get chew a Gmail account or a Magic Jack. With the former you can make all the calls you want and with the latter you can receive them too, and all you need is a working modem, which you can run off a UPS and it takes very little power.
That's true about the LEDs -- but still, the tiny units they put them in cast very little light.
For communication in lieu of cell service I'd say get chew a Gmail account or a Magic Jack. With the former you can make all the calls you want and with the latter you can receive them too, and all you need is a working modem, which you can run off a UPS and it takes very little power.
You can't directly look into a Cree bulb turned on without it blinding you. I use them over incandescent bulbs because it is like night and day.
That's true about the LEDs -- but still, the tiny units they put them in cast very little light.
For communication in lieu of cell service I'd say get chew a Gmail account or a Magic Jack. With the former you can make all the calls you want and with the latter you can receive them too, and all you need is a working modem, which you can run off a UPS and it takes very little power.
You can't directly look into a Cree bulb turned on without it blinding you. I use them over incandescent bulbs because it is like night and day.
I have no clue what a "Cree" bulb is. Should I ask Buffy Sainte-Marie?
What an awful way to die. It boggles the mind to think of how much stuff it would take to collapse a floor like that.
Yes my mother is a hoarder although not that bad that her floors would collapse. The good news is her hoarding produced at least two very tidy kids. My younger sibling and I would never let our houses get that way. My other sibling is what I would describe as normal when it comes to cleaning. some clutter but not out of control.
Well there goes the theory its a strictly learned behavior.
A Connecticut woman who police described as an apparent hoarder was found dead Saturday after the first floor of her house collapsed under the weight of all her clutter.
Hoarder Dies When House Collapses Under Weight of Clutter - TIME
Anyone know any hoarders?[/QUOTE
Everybody is a hoarder. The Smithsonian could be considered the biggest hoarder in modern history. It depends on the value and the display.
I will confess and admit that I am a hoarder. Thing is I only hoard nonperishable food items like canned goods. I usually keep a 3 year supply of canned goods and various nonperishable drinks in the cellar in the event of an unforeseeable catastrophe. This would cover my family (wife, son, and myself), and a few close neighbors. Chances are an event of this magnitude may never occur, but the hoarder in myself refuses to acknowledge this.Hoarder Dies When House Collapses From All Her Stuff
