Russell Lynes Quotes

I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.

I'm a pack rat, like most people.

I keep everything. It's one of my problems. I'm a saver.

My mom is a pack rat.

Well, my parents were sort of packrats. They never threw anything away and, all through their time together, they stored away various things in a vault.

My mother kept every single thing that she ever got in her life.

I don't collect things for the sake of collecting. I don't really see the point.

I'm a collector - I collect everything. I can't throw things away. For some reason I think I'm going to need tiny wooden teddy bears with their arms hacked off.

Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.

I'm a hoarder.

I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.

I'm a real hoarder.

My obsession with accumulation, which at times has taken on the whisper of a psychic illness - as anyone who has experienced the ode to the Collyer brothers that is my 'Vogue' office will concur - began in infancy.

I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects.

I live like a crazy old pack rat.

The trouble with having a place for everything is how often it gets filled up with everything else.

I'm not at the hoarder stage, but there are two or three storage units here and there. I have things that a lot of people put a lot of heart and soul into, a lot of mental energy. I'm good at keeping those things. When it comes to pop culture, as you move through this fast lane, you wonder where it all goes and how you can hold onto it.

I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little happy hit.

I love to watch 'Hoarders.' My grandmother was a hoarder. My mother's on her way. I'm an electronics hoarder - I won't throw any out. I still have my first T-Mobile Sidekick... old VCRs in my garage. It scares me that I'm going to end up being buried under electronics.

I've collected a lot of things throughout my life, and I think that's more being a hoarder than being passionate about them, and so I've tried to stop that.

My mother used to laugh that if they asked me to clean up my room, I would spend so much time reading every tiny bit of paper, a receipt or whatever, instead of throwing it in the trash.

God puts pack rats together with non-pack rats.

I got shoes literally all over my house.

Wherever I go, stuff accumulates.

Men fill up their heads and drawers and sheds with stuff from their teenage years.