Reply #35: My wife's aunt's house is the same way

[Ivan Sputnik]

and she lives in an earthquake zone. It's extremely dangerous, because the junk is piled up high everywhere. The family has tried to hire people to help her clean out the house, but she always ends up firing them. All of her stuff is "valuable" too. It's a sad manifestation of mental illness. There's a clinical term for it that I can't remember right now.