Donald Baechler Quotes

I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.

I'm a real hoarder.

I keep everything. It's one of my problems. I'm a saver.

My mom is a pack rat.

I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.

I live like a crazy old pack rat.

There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we "can't bear to throw away.

Well, my parents were sort of packrats. They never threw anything away and, all through their time together, they stored away various things in a vault.

My mother kept every single thing that she ever got in her life.

I don't collect things for the sake of collecting. I don't really see the point.

I am quite a hoarder, so it is important to let go of some stuff.

I'm a hoarder.

I can be very messy and disorganized. And I don't throw away anything.

My obsession with accumulation, which at times has taken on the whisper of a psychic illness - as anyone who has experienced the ode to the Collyer brothers that is my 'Vogue' office will concur - began in infancy.

No, I don't suppose I'm so much a collector sort of person.

I've collected a lot of things throughout my life, and I think that's more being a hoarder than being passionate about them, and so I've tried to stop that.

God puts pack rats together with non-pack rats.

Wherever I go, stuff accumulates.

Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.

I'm a selective pack rat. There's some things I have no problem getting rid of and others I hold onto dearly.

I love collections of things, but always in moderation.

If you've had something for more than six months, and it's still not repaired, it's clutter.

I'm not a collector.

My friends tease me because I don't like clutter. I'm not someone who gets attached to things.

I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects.