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    by not means the worst but folk like this do need to be helped..by force if needbe, if for no other reason than public health
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    my only extravagance is having 2 tonearms,i sell on what i dont use to recoup funds.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    Yes, there is a conflict between wanting to live 'normally' and the emotional attachment to all the crap. However I'm not keen on the idea that people should be compelled to do something that is against their wishes because 'It is for their own good.' Even if it is.
    Me neither, but sometimes (as Grant has pointed out), you have to 'be cruel to be kind'... Not everyone who genuinely needs (and often deep down wants) help, realises it or is willing to admit it. Many though, are very grateful afterwards, once they've received some!

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    my Nana Emma., lived in a three bedroomed house and she was a hoarder..Mainly clothes. the authorities stepped in and put her in a single bed roomed bungalow, one of those things with all the pull chords and saftey features..Within 2 months, she was dead.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mad-moon View Post
    my Nana Emma., lived in a three bedroomed house and she was a hoarder..Mainly clothes. the authorities stepped in and put her in a single bed roomed bungalow, one of those things with all the pull chords and saftey features..Within 2 months, she was dead.
    That's the authorities for you. If you ask for help they'll tell you to piss off. But if you don't want help they are determined to give it anyway, especially if it is the sort of 'help' you could do without.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mad-moon View Post
    my Nana Emma., lived in a three bedroomed house and she was a hoarder..Mainly clothes. the authorities stepped in and put her in a single bed roomed bungalow, one of those things with all the pull chords and saftey features..Within 2 months, she was dead.
    That often happens when old people are taken away from what has been, in many cases, their home for decades. Leaving the environment that they've known for years, and putting them into an alien one, usually acts as their death knell. At that stage, they often lose the will to carry on and just give up.

    That's why we cared for both of Del's parents in their own homes, right until the very end, and up until that point, had dealt respectively with the effects of cancer and dementia, and that's what I'll also be doing with my dad. Too may kids these days, simply don't want to know, and dump their elderly or infirm parents into a nursing home at the first available opportunity!

    However, they're usually perfectly happy to take what's been left to them in a will, often whilst having done bugger all to earn it...

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    I've seen a few of these hoarder programmes, but I would like to see some where the programme makers return a couple of years later.....I'm betting that many are refilling their homes again.

    I reckon with these extreme hoarders it is always a kind of mental illness, or at least a severe compulsion, and never a case of being too overwhelmed to face tackling it. When the cleaners start removing stuff it always turns into a conflict, the object of which can be something as random as a pile of dishcloths or a headless doll.

    Whether to intervene or not is debatable, as everyone should have the right to live their own life unmolested, provided that others aren't affected. However, in the case of the hoarder's house we cleared last year, the neighbours spoke about the smells which seemed to come through the walls, it was so bad. And there had been a problem with rats.

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    Am I a horder = YES
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    Lol - that's patently obvious from the pics you've posted on the forum... Still got all those rows of metal racks, jammed full of kit, daftee, with banks of double 13A sockets behind each rack, powering them?

    Anyway, at least you're not a hapless, hen-pecked hi-fi husband!

    Marco.
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    Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.

    Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.

    Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.

    CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.

    Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.

    Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.

    Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.

    Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.

    Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.


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    Also **SAY NO** to unjust 'vaccine passports' or certificates, which are totally incompatible with a FREE society!!!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Lol - that's patently obvious from the pics you've posted on the forum... Still got all those rows of metal racks, jammed full of kit, daftee, with banks of double 13A sockets behind each rack, powering them?

    Anyway, at least you're not a hapless, hen-pecked hi-fi husband!

    Marco.
    Yep 68 3 pin plug sockets on one wall , all racking still in place , 1 bedroom full of speakers , Bliss No killjoy ( wife )
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