I just went to a friend’s house. Not a good friend obviously because it’s my first visit. But OMG, shit everywhere in the place. He said wife is a hoarder.

When is too much stuff over the line?

Here might be some fairly good tests;
* When the disorder is disruptive to your own, or of the lives of loved ones – it is excessive.
* When the ‘hoarder’ ends up buying something even though they know they have one of those, somewhere around the house, but the amount of time to try to find it would exceed the cost and effort to buy another – it is excessive.
* When the ‘hoarder’ buys something because it is on sale, or gets it ‘free’, even though they do not need it in the foreseeable future, may not really know what it is or does – it is excessive.
* When the collection of ‘stuff’ makes it difficult or impossible for the ‘hoarder’ to do the things they want to do – it is excessive – it ‘takes over’ their lives.