Compulsive hoarding

behavioral pattern characterized by compulsive acquisition and storing of goods

thumb|Engraving titled The Bibliomaniac from Navis Stultifera (The Ship of Fools) by Sebastian Brandt, 1497. Bibliomania is the excessive collecting or even hoarding of books to the point where social relations or health are damaged, particularly as a symptom of obsessive–compulsive disorder.

behavioral disorder notably characterized by extreme self-neglect and compulsive hoarding

thumb|300x300px|Tape hoarding Hoarding is the act of engaging in excessive acquisition of items that are not needed or for which no space is available.

keeping more domestic pets than can be cared for

"Insheeption" () is the tenth episode of the fourteenth season of the American animated television series South Park, and the 205th episode of the series overall. It premiered October 20, 2010, on Comedy Central in the United States. In the episode, Stan and Mr. Mackey suffer a hoarding disorder. In an attempt to find the cause for it, they get trapped in Mr. Mackey's dream. The episode spoofs the TV show Hoarders, Hoarding: Buried Alive, and the film Inception.

thumb|Plyushkin, drawing by Alexander Agin (1846-1847) Stepan Plyushkin () is a fictional character in Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls. He is a landowner who obsessively collects and saves everything he finds, to the point that when he wants to celebrate a deal with the protagonist Chichikov, he orders one of his serfs to find a cake that a visitor brought several years ago, scrape off the mold, and bring it to them. At the same time, his estate is incredibly inefficient; the cut wheat rots on the ground and any potential income is lost.

excessive acquisition of digital material