Category Archives: hoarding

Land of Plenty

This is more than the personification of “a chicken in every pot.” This is a packed 18-cubic-foot refrigerator with enough provisions to carry a family of four several weeks into the apocalypse. The cupboards were full, too: This home was … Continue reading

An Essay on Hoarding, or, My Sad Yesterday

A coupon for 50 cents off Nabisco cookies was taped to the frame of the bathroom door. At the behest of the Health Department, a suburban city had asked us to clean a home, to bring it up to “inhabitable” … Continue reading