• TediousLength@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      Hoarding can be a trauma behavior. Their can be many more reasons for becoming a hoarder. There is also more than one way of hoarding. It is more a spectrum than a set standard behavior.

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      11 months ago

      Capitalism is a trauma machine.

      When you grow up in poverty, you keep something because it will most likely be the only one of those things you will ever get. You may not need it now, but if you do later, youre fucked. So you keep it. Best case? You share “the things” with people you can trust and build a mutual aid network of friends that help each other, but by god you make sure you can get to “the things.”

      It’s no wonder people being exposed to constant trauma do protective things. You could even say it’s a reasonable response.

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    11 months ago

    So here’s the thing…my car doesn’t need a fucking house. My car can live outside just fine. I don’t park my car outside because my garage is “filled with junk,” but because it’s filled with gym equipment, tools, and gardening supplies.

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    11 months ago

    And not, like, the prices of said (non-Chinese) EVs or that many (most?) of us are barely getting by?

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      11 months ago

      not really sure putting a lithium bomb in the house is smart

      Putting a gasoline bomb there is better?

  • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I believe it. But like…if the story was “Americans’ cluttered bedside tables are hurting smartphone adoption, study says,” we would rightly consider that story downright insane.

  • friend_of_satan@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I grew up with junk filled garages that meant we could never park the car in the garage. I will never be that way. I saw those boxes as stuff we would never use, and eventually, after all the kids had moved out, my parents did get rid of most of it. And it’s like… then why did we drag that shit from house to house?? We literally paid for the space, and spent the effort to move and store all that useless shit that wasn’t worth the rent we spent on the space to store it, especially considering we also had storage units.

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    11 months ago

    I believe it. I live in an area with lots of 3 car garages and it is shocking how many people have to park in their driveway. There’s one house that charges in the driveway with the cord running under the garage door. Who needs a 3 car garage full of stuff?!?

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      11 months ago

      I do, but uh … it’s in my username. If I weren’t running multiple hobbies and a business out my barely-one-car garage, maybe my car could have a house. The one time I parked in my current garage, without stuff on either side, there still wasn’t room to open the doors all the way.

      Anyways, weather-proof chargers exist. Blows my mind that enough people supposedly don’t know this to have any real impact. Well, it would, if I believed it.

      • The_v@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        I have a two car garage. One side is for the boat. The other side is for the tools and gardening setup and supplies for my business.

        The cars can stay outside.

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    11 months ago

    I don’t believe for a second that enough people are ignorant of weather-proof charger setups to make this an issue. Maybe if most people weren’t struggling to survive on terribly-low incomes, or renting from cheapskate land-lords, but in this reality? Not buying it.