I've been a packrat all of my life. I believe it stemmed from my poverty-stricken childhood, but it could be genetic as my grandmother and grandfather who lived through The Great Depression were both afflicted with it. And well, yes my mother has it as well. Mr. A has it, worse than me, and his mother has it. But her husband is one of the people who throw things away that are perfectly new just because it hasn't been used… Read the rest