DH hiding 'stuff'

[Lesnewth]

I've just clamboured up onto the kitchen worktop to clean the tops of the kitchen cupboards (doesn't happen often!) and found a tin of mackerel fillets, an anniv card to 'My Wife' a box of Cadbury choc fingers, a couple of DVDs and a twee shabby chic sign his mother gave him at Christmas.

WTAF?!

Everything bar the mackerel fillets and choc fingers are covered in dust so have been there a while.

Is he crazy or just odd? He does have a hoarding problem in general but this has me stumped!

Maybe you need to say more about the 'hoarding problem in general'?

Well, the garage is chock full of junk that he refuses to sort but he gets twitchy if I offer to sort it for him. Our bedroom has loads of papers/mail/ newspaper articles he wants to read (some are 15yrs old!). Everything is in carrier bags down his side of the bed, there's a stack of papers a foot high on his bedside table.

How old is he?

He's 50, the hoarding is not new, he's done it all the time I've known him (20yrs) and before that too from what I can gather.

Sounds to me like this is part of the hoarding problem. Do you think he'll explain if you ask?

Not sure, he won't really acknowledge he has a hoarding problem. It's just so bizarre!

Tempted to put the items on the kitchen table for when he gets home, but part of me thinks leave it and see what else appears!

If you don't like hoarding, why would you marry a hoarder? It's what he does...he's not going to change (well he might if he goes on that hoarding prog on tv)

The hoarding doesn't really bother me. He can have his areas for keeping stuff, but if he starts leaving new stuff in the rest of the house, I move it quicksmart before it becomes a new dumping ground.

I'm just bemused by where he's hiding this stuff!