[Si] Si and hoarding

[+ patch]

My ex-girlfriend is INFP and a hoarder (you can hardly walk around in her house). My downstairs neighbor (ENFP) hoards coffee creamer and continually asks us (her neighbors) for coffee creamer daily. I'm odd because I throw things away because I want my apartment to look like a hotel room. I haven't read of a connection between inferior or tertiary Si and hoarding. I wonder if anyone knows which function or types are most likely to hoard.

 

[/DG/]

I'd say it's a combination of Fi+Si.

 

[Nicki]

People with Si as their third or fourth function seem likely to hoard.

 

[+ patch]

Fi and Si

I'd say it's a combination of Fi+Si.

You may be onto something Diz. My ISTJ brother in law hoards money. Hes one of the richest guys in a small town, but lives in a small house and drives an old car.

 

[Chiharu]

I don't hoard things, thank goodness, but I have a hard time throwing things away because I attach sentimental value to the silliest things.

 

[Giggly]

I hoard people.

 

[+ patch]

Do you hoard food and cats? Just kidding.

People with Si as their third or fourth function seem likely to hoard.

 

[/DG/]

People with Si as their third or fourth function seem likely to hoard.

Interesting. How did you come to this conclusion?

 

[Nicki]

Do you hoard food and cats? Just kidding.

Don't kid. I actually do that.

Interesting. How did you come to this conclusion?

Inferior or tertiary Si users seem likely to attribute subjective meaning to sensory objects (Si) and end up going overboard in doing it since it's not a function they use very often.

 

[Fidelia]

Whoa! I never thought about it before, but I know two INFP hoarders and one ENFP hoarder.

 

[Such Irony]

I hoard people.

I hoard information.

Maybe it's enneagram related.

 

[prplchknz]

I don't hoard so much as save stuff because you never know when you might need it

 

[Southern Kross]

Yeah, I admit I hoard a little. I just have difficulty throwing things away. I will keep something stupid and useless just in case I might need it some day. And it's pretty ridiculous what I think might be necessary - sometimes the apocalypse would be required to make that object useful.

I will also cop to attaching personal significance to objects. I sometimes even feel guilty about throwing certain things out because it's like I'm rejecting it.

I do think it is tertiary or inferior Si, because the Si doms/aux in my family don't do it. My ESTJ sister has regular purges of possessions that I find to be brutal and ruthless.

 

[EJCC]

Worst hoarders I know are Ni-doms, actually.

 

[Fidelia]

That's interesting. I wonder why that is. I think I'm messy, but I don't really like having loads of stuff. I keep some things, but I don't have a huge emotional attachment to a lot of items...

 

[EJCC]

That's interesting. I wonder why that is. I think I'm messy, but I don't really like having loads of stuff. I keep some things, but I don't have a huge emotional attachment to a lot of items...

I was mostly thinking of one INTJ and one INFJ specifically. (So they may not be very representative of INxJs generally.) They love collecting things and they hate getting rid of things. They're easily drained by getting rid of things, so a cycle begins where they take a day or two to get rid of only a few things, and the next time they try to get rid of things is maybe a year later, after they've bought more things then they got rid of.

My ESTJ sister has regular purges of possessions that I find to be brutal and ruthless.

I am so guilty of this. Letting things pile up makes me madder and madder until the only way I can get rid of all that energy is by purging E V E R Y T H I N G .

 

[Coriolis]

Worst hoarders I know are Ni-doms, actually.

Then you know some odd Ni-doms. The ones I know (myself included) seem driven, perhaps by aux Te, to prune our collections ruthlessly. IME, INTPs hoard more, because they can't bring themselves to make decisions about throwing things away. They want to remain open to the possibility that the item may be useful some day.

 

[EJCC]

Then you know some odd Ni-doms. The ones I know (myself included) seem driven, perhaps by aux Te, to prune our collections ruthlessly. IME, INTPs hoard more, because they can't bring themselves to make decisions about throwing things away. They want to remain open to the possibility that the item may be useful some day.

Rings true with the INTPs I know!

I don't get it, with the INTJ I'm thinking of. Then again, I don't really understand collectors who feel the need to have ten copies of the same model of the same thing, without any desire to do anything with it except display it. Her house is like a museum, and she has at least twenty collections of various types of antiques. It's out of control. We try to help her and the process is just like the process described in my previous post.

 

[skylights]

I know a hoarder who I think is INFP, though maybe ISFP. Her husband who lives there too is ESTJ.

 

[EJCC]

I know a hoarder who I think is INFP, though maybe ISFP. Her husband who lives there too is ESTJ.

WTF is that ESTJ doing enabling her?? He needs to grow some balls Te.

/a little hyper, sorry