Stuff Compulsive Hoarding And The Meaning Of Things Analysis

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Many people at one point or another have flipped through the channels on the television and stumble across one of those television shows about hoarding pausing long enough to be appalled and wonder how they could let things get that bad. In his book Stuff Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things author Randy O. Frost tells the story of the two eccentric Collyer brothers, Langley and Homer. Two brothers lived in a three-story home in Harlem, New York. One morning in 1947 an anonymous caller reported that there was a dead body in the Collyer residence. Authorities went to investigate and when they unable to gain access through the front door, they forced entrance in through the basement. Only to find the room full of boxed and newspaper …show more content…
Since Langley did not show himself during all the commotion they thought he might be hiding in the house somewhere. After three days and Langley had not shown himself the police thinking he was hiding in the home began an intensive search of the home. The police cleaned out and searched the home for three weeks, removing over 100 tons of debris, before finding Langley’s body about ten feet from where his brother had died. It appeared that while Langley was crawling through the tunnels of stuff to bring his brother food he had accidentally triggered one of his own booby traps. He suffocated under the weight of the bales of newspaper that had fallen down on him. Langley appeared to have died first and since Homer died of starvation since he was unable to move or see. In the end 170 tons of the brothers valuable processions were removed from the home, including everything from fourteen grand pianos, including one once received as a gift from Queen Victoria, a Model T Ford, x-ray machine, old bicycles, newspaper, junk mail and piles or trash and tin cans. The salvaged possession of the brothers was auctioned off and only netted less than two thousand
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