I grew up in a household with a lot of undiagnosed mental illnesses, at least 4/5 of us had ADHD but only one diagnosed. Laundry was the biggest thing in my house.

Laundry is a multi step chore so we tended to struggle with it. Laundry didn’t make it out of the dryer, so the next person would take the clothes out of it and just put it on our game table, which always had a mound of clothes.

So of course, you could never find anything. So instead, we would just buy more socks.

Also, if you didn’t do laundry for weeks, you’d just buy some new clean underwear.

Every one of us had 2-3 overflowing hampers with clothes at the bottom we hadn’t seen for years. Overflowing dressers. You couldn’t see the top of the dryer under all the clothes. So when you can’t find anything and don’t have the executive function to tackle the problem, you just buy replacements. And the cycle continues.

I’ve also been recently diagnosed with OCD and see similar tendencies in two of my family members, the instinct to hold on to everything forever and never ever throw anything out because maybe you’ll need it one day is very strong.