Due to inflation 10-20M is worth about 60 cents today.
That much ?
I know it’s just a comic strip but I don’t think that’s the thought pattern behind trash accumulation.
Hoarders.
You don’t typically hoard trash, you hoard stuff. Trash accumulation is more from depression.
Stuff has a funny way of turning into trash when you’re not looking.
But it’s a joke
It’s funny, but more realistically, a hoarder at this mangetude usually has strong emotions tied to items. It can be that it reminds them of something or someone, or they feel a huge amount of guilt at even the thought of tossing it. Could be guilt of climate change or guilt of the item’s purpose being wasted. It could be as simple of being afraid of being in a situation and needing one again.
Even the hoarders that explain their horde by way of earning money (this will be worth something) is just using it as an excuse to horde. They tend to like the idea of what it could be and enjoy imagining the project, but don’t actually enjoy the action of doing the project. The connection to hoarding items is hoarding the imagination of it, and having the physical thing makes that imagining much more real to them.
Still, it’s a funny comic.
we still have grandpa in a box in the garage because my mother refuses to get him an urn or go sprinkle him over the lake he liked. he’s followed us through three houses and I’m concerned I’m going to inherit grandpa.
At least you can sprinkle grandpa then
Yeah but how much of him? Both of his husbands got ash we can pretend are him and put him in urns. It’s a family tradition now to go out to the garage, look up in shame at the box of grandpa as you grab five popsicles just for yourself.
Not how mental illness works, but go off, I guess… 🙄
(but don’t really, this kind of bullshit only deepens stigma and misunderstanding of how it does work, and makes those who suffer feel even more alienated)
how does it work? ive only ever seen the really bad scenarios on those sensationalist tv shows and i think thats what most people are exposed to tbh.
They don’t know, they just wanted to criticize.
Pretty uncool to be making fun of people with a mental disorder.
The person depicted in this comic is clearly a hoarder and is clearly drawn to be visually reminiscent of a Neanderthal or another less evolved variant.
Hoarders need help and treatment, not made fun of.
…But I guess punching down is how people have fun.Homie that’s just the art style, look at how fucked up the professor dude looks. No one is saying hoarders are Neanderthals but you
I reject your comment.
That’s not what I read here at all - it says “I should keep this.” Many of us have an urge to keep things, and in many cases we’re justified in doing so. Every person has had the experience of evaluating whether or not to keep an object, and I would guess most people have come up with specious reasons to tell themselves they should keep a thing. Hoarding is just taking that to the extreme. Because this comic is recognizing a tendency in one’s self it seems completely misplaced to say it’s punching down.
If the people who need this kind of help see the comic and get upset maybe it will spur them to get the help.
I can’t even take you serious with this train of thought lmao
Ok?
Found the hoarder?
Dumbest fucking comment here.
You can defend your fellow humans without suffering their problems.
Well, maybe you cant, but the rest of us can.
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