hoarder

Keeps everything collector

A hoarder is someone who accumulates and keeps things compulsively, often far beyond practical need.

The term commonly describes people with hoarding disorder, a psychological condition marked by extreme difficulty discarding possessions: The hoarder's house was stacked floor to ceiling with newspapers.

More casually, it describes anyone who stockpiles: Toilet paper hoarders cleared the shelves during the pandemic.

insult

packrat

Compulsive accumulator of objects

skinflint · scrooge · penny-pincher · collector · eccentric · recluse · hermit · shut-in

clutter

mess

Disorderly, troublesome condition

  • junkWorthless discarded items
  • disarrayLack of order
  • chaosComplete disorder and confusion

debris · disorganization · pileup · cramped · stuffed · overflowing · buried · pathways · squalor · unsanitary

compulsive

disorder

Absence of organization

  • OCDCompulsive repetition disorder
  • anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
  • obsessiveConsumed by fixation

compulsion · attachment · psychology · therapy · treatment · intervention · behavior · irrational · trauma · loss

animals

cats

Small domesticated felines

  • dogsDomesticated barking mammals
  • petsDomesticated companion animals
  • rescueSave from harm

neglect · welfare · cruelty · overwhelmed · breeding · strays · shelter · veterinary · seizure · intervention

accumulation

stockpile

Accumulated reserve supply

trove · amass · gather · accumulate · store · squirrel · collect · save · keep · pile

Categories
Opposites
accumulation versus dispersal of possessions

hoarderdeclutterer

One who removes excess

purger · giver · donor · squanderer · spender

excess versus restraint in possessions

hoarderminimalist

One favoring bare essentials

ascetic · declutterer · spartan · essentialist · Marie Kondo

financial behavior with money

hoarderspendthrift

Reckless with money

spender · squanderer · waster · profligate · wastrel

Phrases
Family

hoard, hoarding, hoarded, hoards, hoarders

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Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG