my mother has 500 pairs of shoes.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Hoarding is a behavior where people or animals accumulate food or other items. \"Hoarding\" and \"caching\" are common behaviors in many bird species as well as in rodents. Most animal caches are of food. However, some birds will also stingily collect other items, especially if the birds are pets. Magpies are infamous for hoarding items such as money and jewelry. (Contrary to popular belief, research suggests magpies are no more attracted to shiny things than other kinds of items.) One theory suggests that human hoarding may be related to animal hoarding behavior, but substantial evidence is lacking. Civil unrest or natural disaster may lead people to hoard foodstuffs, water, gasoline and other essentials that they believe, rightly or wrongly, will soon be in short supply. Survivalists, also known as preppers, often stockpile large supplies of these items in anticipation of a large-scale disaster event. Hoarders are people who lose the desire to throw away unneeded items because of a feeling of attachment to these items. Compulsive hoarders will equate certain, usually mundane, objects to their own personal identity or even give them certain human characteristics. In severe cases, houses belonging to such people may become a fire hazard (due to blocked exits and stacked papers) or a health hazard (due to vermin infestation, excreta and detritus from excessive pets, hoarded food and garbage or the risk of stacks of items collapsing on the occupants and blocking exit routes).\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Are you a hoarder?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I'm not personally a hoarder, but I love the show Hoarders on A&E."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Do you have a favorite episode which highlighted the issue of hoarding?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I can't think of a specific episode that was a favorite.  They've had so many...their eighth season began in 2016!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Are the episodes an eye opening experience as to how bad hoarding can be?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes it's terrifying.  All of the people are so impaired that they can't use their homes for cooking, sleeping, and they can barely move in the house."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I agree its a very serious condition. Do you think you could deal with hoarding if your mother had say like 500 pairs of shoes?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "500 pairs of shoes is definitely way too many.  If she was unwilling to discard the items and the shoes were covering up living areas, I would hate it."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I could only imagine how many shoes that would be. Do you think you could ever clean a hoarders home?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "No way...they use professional biohazard cleaners on the show.  There is just too much disgusting and unhealthy aspects to it."}]