Ten ways you know you grew up with a hoarder parent

 1. You never wanted your friends to visit but never really could explain why.

2. Nobody ever made a thing of putting out the bins, because nobody knew when bin day was, because nothing was ever thrown out.

3. You never got to slam a door when you were angry or wanted to make a point, because there was too much stuff for the doors to even move.

4. You thought all your friends were poor because they didn't have a fraction of the stuff in their houses you did.

5. You smelled of musty, dusty, neglect most of the time, except as this was normal you didn't realise until.years later when you left and revisited.

6. You wondered why other people had a single beige carpet and not an interesting patterned one. You didn't realise normal people are able to change their carpets every few years and the one in your living room dated back 25 years to a time when swirly patterns were normal.  

7. You realised losing a shoe for normal families was usually only temporary for a few minutes at most and not 20 years or so after yours were buried under piles of stuff.

8. You realised most people had a 'just.in case' drawer in the kitchen, not a 'just in case' house full.

9. You finally understood when people said they didn't eat out of date food, they were looking at the day on the label, not the year.

10. Once you move out you never, ever want to go back.