Conclusion

Ultimately, whether on television, during the Great Depression, or as a result of a collection gone awry, compulsive consumption and hoarding disorder are deeply connected to factors of historical and social circumstances which have proven much less challenging to trace and discern since the twentieth century. HD's psychological definition will evolve and expand as it is studied as an independent condition, but history will continue to march along with those developments and illuminate its broader complexities to those who care to look back over the piles of hoards gone by.