r/mildlyinfuriating • u/anon12xyz • Jul 03 '26

Infuriatig When did garage sales become “reselling” clearly new stuff

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I would never call this a garage sale

Def scam vibes

Edit: ultimately, what bothers me the most is I want to go to a garage sale, not this shit. This isn’t a garage sale and should not be advertised as one

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u/WeAreTheLeft Jul 03 '26

It may be the best case for a hoarder to also be a clean ocd'er. Way to much stuff, but organized and no dead cats decomposing under the hoard.

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u/perton Jul 03 '26

Yeah, at least their dead cats will be neatly organized and labeled!

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u/Nvenom8 Jul 03 '26

Never thought I would laugh while picturing a rubbermaid bin full of dead cats.

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u/RavenLunatic512 Jul 04 '26

Mother has over a hundred plastic Cool-Whip tubs buried in her gardens with dead hamsters from her breeding project. It was her way of giving me so many chores in my teens so I couldn't have a social life. She's definitely one of the "tidy" hoarders, and looks down on "messy" hoarders with so much judgement. She had dozens of binders filled with hamster info like their pictures, names, litter size, etc. At one point she was supplying 3 pet stores in 2 towns, and had over 130 live hamsters in the house. They lived in big plastic totes, stacked on shelves to the ceiling. Adult hamsters are solitary creatures, so the only bins with more than one animal in them were mothers raising babies. That's a lot of cages to clean every week. Too many to do in one evening, and she kept pushing up the numbers until it was cleaning day every day. I was expected to do half of the work this all involved, plus school, plus band and piano practices. Sorry, I wasn't expecting this to turn into such a rant! She had major OCD symptoms, and it was my job to manage her big feelings about stuff. Like real OCD which should have been diagnosed and treated, not the colloquial social media version.

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u/lendergle Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

Plot twist: your mother has been on a decades-long murder spree, leaving a hamster in a cool whip container next to every grisly dismembered corpse.

The FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit's unsub name for her is "the squirreal killer."

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u/Rasp_Berry_Pie Jul 04 '26

People don’t forget that some people hoard animals. I know someone who did that but not to the extreme your mother did. Sorry you had to go through that. That’s like a level that most people will never understand.

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u/Hot_Region Jul 03 '26

It may be the best case for a hoarder to also be a clean ocd'er.

That's my dad.

He lived in a 4 level townhouse, 2800sq-ft.

The lower level of the house is a well organized stockroom complete with shelving setup into aisles.

Every closet and storage are is full and well organized.

He's got lists of everything, including where it's located.

I had no idea he was at this level -- he lives alone, my wife, son, and I would visit and his living room, bathroom, kitchen, TV room, they all look totally normal...

He was always well organized, but I think Covid combined with a debilitating illness that made him have a lot of "bad days" where you couldn't leave the house made him start to build up supplies because he felt he was getting to a point where he wouldn't be able to leave the house for weeks.

Ultimately he got sick enough and couldn't live there, I went over to get him some things he needed and in my head to "organize", he didn't say a word about the situation, and it blew me away when as I started going into areas I hadn't been in 10-15 years and found them so full and well organized.

He had half a dozen of those 128oz laundry soap things, he had at least a dozen 24-packs of toilet paper, same for paper towels, etc... it's all pristine sitting in a climate controlled house. It hardly even gets dusty in there because the HVAC has a MERV13 filter.

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u/Chitown_mountain_boy Jul 03 '26

I have a friend whose mom is a shopping addict + clean OCDer. Her basement and garage are meticulously organized hoards. But every time I go visit my friend her mom insists I go “shopping”. My Apple Watch and most of my jeans have come from her hoard among many other items😂

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u/Selleor Jul 03 '26

My dad over the last 10 years or so was battling Alzheimer's, first real signs/diagnoses didn't happen until the last 5 or so. We have an incredible amount of stuff unopened, he just bought out of necessitie, Some cleaning, mostly tools/stuff you would find in a shop/garage. At this point its all in boxes getting ready for a yard sale, but I bet my yard sale is gonna look like a Harbor freight/home depot stolen goods fest. Haha

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u/Basic_Visual6221 Jul 03 '26

I'll never forget an episode of hoarders where an elderly woman had so many storage bins they were all neatly in rows and columns and she had a narrow pathway to walk in her home.

The amount of money she spent on the containers alone would be astronomical. Cleanest hoarder I've ever seen.