Some items need no explanations. Some, like these, need lots of ‘splainin,’ Lucy.

Specifically, could you please tell me why you would not bother to deal with even a little bit of your hoarding problem before shooting the photo of the thing you want to sell? No? Not even for the sake of preventing any suspicion of the existence of flat cats in your home?

Really? Not even so we can kind of tell what this even is?

Because I sort of doubt that this is an entertainment center. Unless You find old phone books as your primary source of entertainment.

This next one seems like the reverse of an impulse purchase.

It’s an impulse sale. The owner of this Coach purse was sitting here at her desk, smoking her Marlboro reds, staring into some horrifying numbers on her Quicken software and decided it was time to liquidate everything, including her purse. Plopped it right there on the keyboard and snapped a picture with her phone and uploaded. Because that’s easier than clearing a space on the desk, and moving the purse off of the keyboard to upload photos the old fashioned way.

And then, there are those who aren’t so much messy but cluttered in a weirdly ordered kind of way.

I don’t know about you, but somehow this is more unsettling that an outright mess.

But why stop there when there’s one last terrifying thing to behold?

I … don’t know. I honestly don’t.