maybe i'll do that compact thing for a year, but i'd buy something first .

I'd probably exclude clothes, if you do that people assume it's because your a clothes horse, but it's actually because i'm the opposite, i hate clothes shopping and have a tendency to get down to a total of 3 shirts i wear at times or something, so i'm not even keeping up with minimal social norms of having even a weeks worth of clothes at that point, so i think i need to force myself to at least keep up to those types of norms (hey i'm not living in a cave).

I don't think i'm a hoarder, i am messy though. but i did get kicked into slightly more materialistic behavior than my VERY unmaterialistic behavior before, by the trauma i found job hunting to be - i had to take a break from it for awhile too as i was near a breakdown. Deaths didn't even trigger me into collecting or anything, i just mourned, but you can't exactly mourn the stresses of job hunting - so at a certain point I had no resources left to deal with the ever mounting anxiety. I'm employed of course, I just need to get something better, but easily get overwhelmed.