My dh likes his stuff to put it mildly. His main hobby and recreational activity at weekends is surfing from one charity shop to another buying stuff and then selling it on ebay. This may sound harmless enough but its really really starting to get to me. I have tried to contain him to one room but he has spread all through the house, with collections of books, CDs, board games, lps. I feel that the walls are coming in on and me and feel so overwhelmed by the amount of clutter and useless stuff around me that I don't feel comfortable in my own home. Its a relatively small house and I feel there is no where to escape. Even our bedroom has piles of books and if I open his wardrobe it is full to the brim with stuff he's hidden away. Our kids have started complaining that the only decent sized room in our house where they can have friends over is now half full of boxes and more stuff.

Its not just the stuff but also the amount of time he spends doing this, every evening and weekends. Inevitably every time we try and sit down to discuss it ends in a row. I feel like either trashing the whole lot or syphoning back out to the charity shop when he's not looking. It is really getting me down .