Saturday, March 26, 2011

Never to young to be a Hoarder

Ok... I am really at a loss.  I don't know what to think about this or do.  Is it just a phase?  Will she stop on her own?  Will she be on the TV show Hoarders? Let me back up a little bit.  Addy loves her "stuff" as she calls it.  It started out small (at least now I think that)  she "collected" things and put them in her back pack.  She would fill this thing so full and heavy that she literally would fall over wearing it on her back or couldn't get up!  Nathan and I would laugh about it and she actually had the biggest back pack out of all 3 girls and how ironic that was.  There is now rhyme or reason to what she collects that day... at least to me.  It seems whatever toy or book strikes her fancy that day she would hold onto it... in her back pack.  Well... I guess that back pack got to small for her...  It grew to where she would put her stuff in her bed.  We would remove it every night for obvious reasons...  talk about a temper tantrum!  She hated this... Well I guess she thought she was getting smart or something... cause its no longer her bed that held her treasures it turned in to her closet. 

Please keep in mind that this is VERY MILD to what she has collected before...  I've cleaned out her closet 4 times now.

 It has grown to not only toys or books or blankets that she likes... but she is taking DVDs, my books, shoes and even food!  And putting them in her hoarding temple!  Laugh... I know its funny!  So... we have cleaned up gold fish from her closet and the most recent... popcorn.  She had taken bags of unopened popcorn out of the pantry and wrapped them in a dishtowel and placed it in her closet!  REALLY???  I get why she might take my stuff.  She likes it because I like it.  But food!?  Funny thing... she knows EXACTLY where everything is and when we are looking for an item... she'll say "Oh... its in my closet!"  So we clean it out every couple of days.

Here is the booger with her stuff! 
 So again...  She is a smart cookie, I guess she thinks we're not going to catch on...  Once we cleaned out her closet a couple of times... or maybe it was because she thought the closet was too small and she needed more room, because she still puts her stuff in the closet... Well she started putting stuff at the end of their bed.  So not only do we have a collection constantly growing in her closet it is at the end of her bed as well.

So I made her help me clean it up today.  I guess it's not that big of a deal... The main thing that bothers me about this is the toys are hidden and not available for Taylor or Payton to play with too.  I really, really hope this is a phase!!!!

2 comments:

Jamie said...

Oh goodness! Too funny!!!

jessprof said...

By four kids, you should know EVERYTHING IS A PHASE! Hee hee, at least that's what I always tell myself to make myself feel better :) I am wondering though, if maybe she is feeling a little "crowded" and enjoys the idea of having stuff that is all her own (even if she's "borrowing" it from you) b/c she has to share all of her other stuff/space/mommy/daddy with everybody else. Just a thought.