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BRIAN STAUFFER: CHILDREN OF HOARDERS

May 12, 2011

Brian Stauffer’s illustration for the lead article in today’s New York Times Home & Garden section profiles the children of hoarders, and how they cope with their own domestic clutter as adults.

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“It stands to reason that someone raised in a home marked by excessive accumulation would have a complex relationship with stuff. Some children of hoarders keep too much; others throw out everything. Both responses may suggest an inability to determine the proper value of objects.”

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