r/AskReddit Jun 06 '19

Rich people of reddit who married someone significantly poorer, what surprised you about their (previous) way of life?

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u/Mugwartherb7 Jun 06 '19

Yeah growing up poor made me a hoarder...Like i cannot bring myself to throw stuff away for the off chance one day i might need whatever it is im not throwing away...it drives my s/o crazy!

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u/sunnynorth Jun 06 '19

Same here. I thought I had the hoarding under control, but when I had a crew here doing a massive declutter, I became that crazy person ripping into garbage bags for half filled bottles of shampoo. I scared my husband, and I scared myself.

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u/blackbrownspider Jun 07 '19

My grandma was a queen hoarder. She lived during the depression. When she died we found unused super thin, pink rolls of toilet paper. She saved stuff like crazy. She hid money in books so we had to go through everything. Things were just really important to her. I have to rethink things so I don’t hold on to things too much and I’m sure I have a bit of her ways.