• arrow74@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    I think it’s a natural adaptation to want to save useful items. It makes perfect sense, but our modern society just has so much garbage and waste. Then sometimes things get wired wrong and then they’re hoarding marbles and soda pop tops.

    I do agree that trauma has an impact as well. Just some people are predisposed.

    • Kellenved@sh.itjust.works
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      20 hours ago

      People who hoard baubles now would have been out in the forest gathering armloads of berries 100,000 years ago. It’s sad how modern life turns these things into problems via consumerism