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Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard
You can see a lot of this behaviour in the elderly, especially those who lived through the great depression and who literally had absolutely nothing as kids. It was only after my grandfather died did I realize the burdens that he must have lived with throughout his life and how lucky we are relatively speaking. However when people have grown up with nothing it is easy to see how they have held on to everything that they own.
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Very true. Hoarding was a huge problem in the USSR. People literally kept everything.