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": "Hoarders seem to keep things that even seem like trash. Like stacks of 20 years worth of newspapers."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, and it can be disgusting, but more importantly a fire hazard or health hazard for them!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Why do you think people develop that behavior?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I think it's something that develops in their personality psychology, but can be for many reasons such as being lonely."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I understand. So hoarders may have other issues at play."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I have no doubt.  Think about animals, like squirrels, that hoard their food.  They do this to survive.  It's quite possible that humans hoard for the same reason.  They feel they have to in order to survive."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow, I never thought about it that way. So interesting."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Other things can lead to people becoming hoarders as well, like civil unrest or natural disater."}]