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When disaster preparedness becomes compulsive hoarding

I keep buying way too much bottled water and canned food even though the wildfire evacuation was six months ago and we're not even in fire season anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The attempt to control an uncontrollable future through material accumulation provides false comfort.

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