The worst case of eBay obsessive buying behaviour

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charlottevwa wrote: »

no no no! shoes is a very delicate subject!!! No one touches my shoes! Although I am running out of places to put them.... far too many! and there is probs only about 10 pairs of them which i actually wear! The rest just sit in my wardrobe looking pretty

You are indeed a crazyebaymom in the making!!!!! :rotfl:

charlottevwa

stevew8975 wrote: »

You are indeed a crazyebaymom in the making!!!!! :rotfl:

yes, my husband may just agree with you :rotfl:

charlottevwa

carolinosourus wrote: »

I need a whole room for mine, wish I had a spare one. I actually have a couple of pairs that I've never worn (no doubt I'll get slammed for that comment as this is MSE.com!)

Totally! I'm reading a book at the moment... (shopaholic and baby) and they have just bought a 6 bed house with a shoe room!!!!!!! i'm sooo jealous, and told my DH that we need one now! lol... might wana clear the debt first though ... :rotfl:

charlottevwa

lorac3 wrote: »

Gosh how sad, his mom has a problem proberly O/C disorder. I am not sure
why he did this tho' was it for fun or to maybe get help.

maybe to make others aware! It may be helpful for those who are on the edge of doing the same

frostyspice

soolin wrote: »

This has been doing the rounds for a few years. It actually makes me very sad ..my father developed some sort of problem in the past few years and started sving everything he ever got, plus buying items from the £1 shop by the bag load and when he became seriously ill recently and had to go into a residential home for good I was left to clear the house all on my own.

I'm several months in and still haven't finished and I am at my wits end.

Exactly the same happened with my Dad. He's been dead for over a year and we still haven't finished clearing the stuff from the house. You can take an entire estate-carful of his rubbish to the tip, yet the place genuinely looks no different.

vikki2k1

i cant see it. it says internet explorer cannot display the web page

frostyspice

vikki2k1 wrote: »

i cant see it. it says internet explorer cannot display the web page

I've just seen it (11.28pm). It's pretty shocking.

bathgatebuyer

You know, that looks my house at the moment! At least my stuff is ready to be posted out, not coming in!

Contains_Mild_Peril

I like the fact that the website has a prominent ebay ad displayed beside this cautionary tale!
I can't help wondering whether the mother consented to or even knows about the publication of photos and details of her private clutter piles. Maybe she's in on it and gets a share of profits from all the advertising on the site for all I know! I'd be more comfortable knowing that this wasn't done behind her back. I'd be mortified to have photos of my house shown to the world like that. Mine's not quite as full of stuff, but I am something of a compulsive hoarder. I'm actually impressed by how neatly organised her bookshelves are!
If this is a few years old, I'd be interested to know how things are now. Has the author of the website moved out and his/ her bedroom become another storage room? Has the mother got some help and started to get things under control? Hoarding to this extent is a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder, but is often not recognised as such because people tend to think of obsessive cleaning and tidying (which seems almost the opposite of cases like this) when they think of OCD.

carolinosourus

Thing is, OCD can be anything from obsessive hoarding/tidying to constantly washing hands or not touching anything when out to covering everything in plastic in the house (a case-study I read when doing my Psych BSc) to feeling a need to flick the light-switch on and off however many times before leaving a room to not stepping on the cracks on the pavement. The majority of people have an OCD trait, whether it's obvious or under control, most people have a behaviour (which could be picked up from parents/family) which others think is a bit odd.
I sometimes go a bit crazy on ebay, especially with vintage bags, belts and jewellery, so I think that if I had the room I could quite easily buy up quite a lot of the stuff on ebay! It's only massive self-control that prevents it! But my family in general are hoarders, my mum won't throw anything away and I've got the same 'but it might come in useful' attitude and invariably, once it's been thrown away, that use becomes apparent!