Anybody know any hoarders?

I married one.

Can you imagine the smell in some of these houses?

I used to live next door to one. You could smell the cat piss by just walking outside.

My grandad was... when he died he had each years Playboy in a Walmart sack under a bed...I was lucky enough to find the stash before my parents... teenage me was very happy

Yes my MIL

My wife's parents are hoarders. We had been trying to get them to clean up for years and even offered to clean their house for them to no avail. They'd always get pissed when we brought up the topic.

Then the Flood of 2016 hit and did the whole family a favor.

My mother has reader’s digest mags from decades ago. A few years back, when she was sitting up at hospital with my grandma, my dad and I cleaned out a bathroom cabinet and found a bottle of sunscreen so old it didn’t have an SPF factor. Also found a bottle of something with a Howard Bros Discount Store price sticker attached. That chain of stores ceased to exist in the late 1980’s.

My brother-in-law's mother was a hoarder of the highest order. By the time my sister and her to-be husband met and married in their mid-30's, the MIL-to-be had already junked herself out of the 2k-ish square foot house she lived in by herself and was well on the way to junking herself out of the 2,500-ish sq ft recreation hall behind the house (the square footage does not include the attic that ran pretty much the length of the place) as well as having put many things out in their very large barn.

The items she would accrue were many and varied:
-Clothes, lots and lots of clothes. Many still had the tags on them.
-Lamps (wtf?)
-Silverware
-Holiday ornaments (for all the holidays)

The rest were very random things like a cheap plastic Budweiser sign that hung above a pool table in some bar once upon a time (had a plastic set of horses pulling a wagon, all encased in yellowed plastic), various toys, pottery, dishes, old vitamins, old meds, etc.

In the barn she had a couple of Kohler water filters, about 20 mattresses she got from a motel that went out of business ( ), sleeping bags, even more clothes... it was crazy.

After she died and the family went through cleaning the places out it was discovered that she would randomly stash cash in places. $50 in this jacket pocket, $120 in that empty camera case, $75 in a salt shaker, etc. Over the next year or so they found at least $10-15k in cash in various places.

There's a hoarder in the neighborhood next to ours, you can tell because their carport (attached to their house) is not just full of random crap (bed frames, boxes, etc) but it's spilled out into the yard.

That kind of thing would drive me batshit crazy.

I didn't know her very well, but there was a doctor who worked at a hospital where I worked who was one. She had all kinds of shite in her office. Later I crossed paths with her in my current job because it turned out she was actually an animal hoarder as well and was arrested. She had dozens of cats and dogs in her house; turtles in the bathtub; rabbits, all kinds of stuff. She was caught and arrested for animal cruelty due to the conditions of the home. The ceiling on the first floor was sagging because of all the piss from the animals on the second floor. It ended up having to be torn down.