Tag: collecting

• Not Talking, Testing Beds, and Collecting Figures – Thoughts from June 3, 2025

  

  The day after my surgery, I thought it would be a good idea to look at beds. I did some research on beds online, but I wanted to feel them in person. Our old mattress was getting painful to sleep on. It was only slightly better than sleeping on the floor. All the mattresses I…

  Brian Kirwan

  February 3, 2026

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  2012, 2025, action figures, anime, anime series, back to work, bed shopping, California King mattress, collecting, early shy years, fellow shy people, firm beds, firm mattress, Funko, lifting a piano, mattress delivery, mattress manufacturers, mattress store, mattresses, Memorial Day, Memorial Day sale, My Hero Academia, not talking, Patti, piano in the house, plush beds, plush mattress, salesperson, sleeping on my side, Southern California, stopping myself from talking, surgery, testing mattresses, thoughts, throat surgery, using my phone to talk, wanting to say more

• Brian Explains Hoarding – Thoughts from December 10, 2010

  

  Brian Explains: Hoarding If you haven’t seen any of the shows about hoarding, you owe it to yourself to watch one. The basic premise of every show is that the person who the show is about cannot let go of things. “Things” include both physical and emotional things. It is the emotional baggage that compels…

  Brian Kirwan

  July 18, 2023

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  2010, Atari 2600, avoid hoarding, childhood memories, clear a path, clearing a path, coffee cans, collecting, dad, eBay, emotional baggage, emotional objects, feel better about yourself, floppy disks, get help, Gremlins cereal boxes, hoard, hoarders, hoarding, make room, memories, Men in Black, OCD, parents, Patti, physical objects, reminiscing, take a picture, thoughts, throw object out, tip, toys, wife