Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms thrift, saving or hoarding?

Hoarding gets much worse as you get older. Funnily enough, we've just spent two days at my Mothers trying to resolve this very thing.
First day was the kitchen. Half the food was time expired. Some of it three years over the best before date. She had three fabric conditioner bottles opened. When we tipped it all into one she complained that she couldn't find the other two. I threw out four bin liners of rubbish, but always made sure that when she came in there was a half full bin liner on the floor, so she thinks we only filled one.
Yesterday it was the rubbish room, formerly my bedroom of forty years ago. You name it, she's saved it. And far too many clothes. And a hundred plastic bags.........

However, I do have a few pairs of new socks. I wear my socks until they go into holes and sometime they get darned. I also admit to having three new best shirts, and three new polo shirts and a new sweatshirt. And a new waterproof which I've only used once. But that's about it.

The garage is overstocked but that's simply because I hate running out of anything mid-job, so I try to keep enough stuff in hand never to run out, no matter what the job.