The word kleptomania means 'a recurrent urge to steal'. But is there a word for people who hoard?
I'm thinking of that tendency that ranges from simply being incapable of throwing out old jam jars (despite already having 60 or so cluttering up the pantry) to that lost soul whose front yard, living room, porch, hallway, and bedroom are piled up with old bicycles, lawn mowers, broken pushchairs, empty paint tins, bales of newspaper, etc., and still they scour the streets with an old supermarket trolley, rifling through other people's trash in search of more junk.
Last edited by Hydra; 05/27/2007 7:30 AM.
