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The contents of the house were what you would expect if you took a normal house, multiplied the number of things in it by ten, then shook it very hard.

The new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual may classify this as a hoarding disorder.

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Having finally read Kahneman's book, I'd say this disorganized collection growth problem is definitely loss aversion/endowment effect. I apply this insight to verbosity and irrelevance in writing in "Avoiding irrelevance and dilution:Construal-level theory, the endowment effect, and the art of omission." -- http://tinyurl.com/62zwpr2

An analog to the far-mode solution for verbosity probably applies to collection growth.

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