When Info-mercial Shopping Becomes Hoarding.

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My family runs an estate liquidating company. When a loved one dies or needs to move to a rest home or just downsizing into a smaller house, they hire us to come in and sell your antiques etc. More and more I see houses that older people lived in just full of the home shopping network stuff. One house was an older lady whos husband had died a few years earlier, she had rooms full of boxes for HSN and that other channel. Boxes never been opened. 2 and 3 of the each thing also. While talking with her family, we discovered that she had spent thousands of dollars just purchasing this stuff. She would watch it on TV and call in her order. My opinion is she liked calling in to the home shopping network because it was someone to talk to. If you ever watch those, they know some of these people because they call all the time. I'm sure she was getting some much needed attention this way. It is sad really, most of this stuff was the "as seen on TV" stuff. We were able to sell a lot of it but I'm sure not enough to cover the credit card bills etc. So, when does the home shopping network become an addiction? Definately when you have rooms full of boxes you never open.