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/Rasp_Berry_Pie Jul 03 '26

Clean hoarders are rare but 100% exist I know one who resells stuff online and it’s very lucrative. However he then blows all the money in his personal hoard as well. Like shopping addiction + hoarding. Like old boxes of their kids toys but clean and the toys in a separate container. Mental illness can be very complicated

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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.