Since hoarding and OCD have been mentioned in past clut-threads, I thought I'd plunk this quite here from an OCD self-help forum I came across, looking for something else:
....My mother has OCD Hoarding but it has gone undiagnosed as yet since she is lying to her doctors about it. I can easily recognize it. She obsessively buys things from QVC and Infomercials, rarely opens them except to get the 'receipt' out for filing. She has squandered her entire retirement fund by doing this in the last 5 years. She even has the body of her old cat, burried in a large pot with a plant.
.... oh... my... GOD...... Fluffy.... where are you..... I would never have looked THERE!