Stuff

The churning we saw in Irene’s TV room was driven in part by something we’d found in our earlier studies of hoarding—a problem with making decisions.

Hoarding involves not only difficulty with getting rid of things but also excessive acquisition of them.

the abnormality lies not in the nature of the attachments, but in their intensity and extremely broad scope.

the attachments to objects among people who hoard are not much different from the attachments all of us form to our things.