Stockpiling is a kind of "disease"

The supermarket is very busy, as if everything is free, and everyone carries it home with big bags and small bags. Rice flour oil, all kinds of fruits and vegetables, snacks, daily necessities and even toilet paper are almost empty.

This scene is all too familiar to us. As people in the southern coastal provinces, every typhoon season, we always staged a "war of hoarding goods" before the typhoon landed. Long after the typhoon, the shelf life has passed, and the goods have not been finished.

I am a typical crazy hoarder. I hoard goods for various reasons, such as typhoons, epidemic prevention and control, various shopping festivals, Chinese New Year holidays and so on.

As a result, the family often cleans up all kinds of things that are out of season or go bad. "Breaking up" is similar to "guillotine" to me. Always determined to change and indulge yourself.

In fact, people who hoard goods are suffering from a mental illness called "squirrel disease", which is scientifically called compulsive hoarding. Like a squirrel who wants to spend the winter, he likes to hoard a lot of nuts in his nest, but in fact he seldom eats them in the end.

The most important reason of "squirrel disease" lies in the lack of material security. For example, in the era of material shortage in the past, even some necessities of life were difficult to meet, which led to the habit of hoarding food and vegetables for most of our elderly people now.

Also, we all have a general herd mentality. Everyone else is doing big shopping, and I'm hoarding some. Don't miss anything. I'm not the only one who's stupid anyway. As a result, people who follow the trend of shopping appear. Most people who snap up Banlangen and Shuanghuanglian belong to this mentality.

Knowing our "illness" can prescribe the right medicine! Moderate storage is necessary, which can cope with emergencies and is convenient enough for people who are particularly busy. Even the Ministry of Commerce suggested "encouraging families to reserve a certain amount of daily necessities according to their needs to meet the needs of daily life and emergencies."

In addition to on-demand storage, we should also make timely use of hoarding goods. After all, the value of goods lies in use, and it is meaningless to simply hoard them. Only when they are used can we feel real happiness.

Finally, I suggest that everyone should learn the concept of "breaking up", stop hoarding unnecessary, inappropriate and troublesome items, emotions and people and give up decisively.