Do You Watch Those Shows About Hoarders?

I do. I confess, it makes me look around at all my stuff and want to get rid of a good portion of it.And “stuff” is the perfect word for it, so says the book Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Randy O. Frost and Gale Steketee. Since they’re two of the leading researchers on hoarding, this book is an excellent account of the incredibly debilitating condition of being unable to part with anything, from clothes to trash. One account even shows a pair of rich brothers who have to keep buying expensive art until there’s no room in their apartments to even sleep. Hopefully this book can provide some insight a disability that seems to be increasingly in the spotlight.