I need suggestions, as this has gotten worse.

I am single and own a three bedroom, 2 1/2 bath home. Every closet and
drawer is crammed to the max with stuff that there is no room for more.
Pitty anyone who comes to my house who is curious and opens up a closet.
They'll be buried by an avalanche of stuff so high, that I might need to
call the fire department to bring in heavy equipment and dig them out.

Examples: I have more towels than your average hotel. I have more rolls of
toilet paper than your average hospital. I have more kitchen equipment and
utensils than your average restaurant, including two ovens, three microwaves,
three toaster ovens, and hundreds of dishes. Two to three televisions in every
room. Close to a 100 telephones (most all are not connected). Eight irons.
Thousands of plastic casino coin cups I've brought home from casinos over the
years. Old furniture in the garage, including a dining room set and a couch,
which is buried under other stuff. But don't get me wrong, my house isn't a
mess, as everything is jammed in closets, drawers or the garage. But as long
as I have one more cubic inch of room in the closets, which I manage to find,
I manage to squeeze some more in each week. The garage, though, which I
thought of as the "last frontier," to store stuff, is starting to look full.

Even though I have hundreds, maybe thousands, of dishes, recently I went
to Target and decided I needed more. I also bought more flatware, as
my place settings for 500 guests I didn't feel is enough. Might as well
have enough spoons, forks, knives, etc., for 1,000, just in case.

More stuff should be arriving at my house soon. I have a couple
of trips planned, which are mostly business. They include
going to vendor exhibits, like what happens at CES in Las Vegas.
I'll be bringing back cheap pens, toys, t-shirts, mugs, etc.,
all stuffed in my luggage or car. When I get home it will all get
stuffed in what room is left in my closets. Of course I'll
be bringing home all the tiny shampoos, soaps, shower caps, etc.,
from my hotel room. I have hundreds of those tiny shampoos
and hair conditioners I've saved from hotels. I also just got the
bath robe from a resort hotel. It's nice, and was a good
acquisition of some nicer stuff, but I don't use it.

Places like Wal-Mart are the main culprits why I may have too
much stuff. Some things are on sale for so cheap, that I
end up buying them, although I have no immediate, if ever,
need for the item. Also, it is just easier to go back to
Wal-Mart and buy the stuff again, than to go try to search
for it which I know is buried under other stuff. Those "free, or
almost free, after rebate" offers are also appealing, although
rebates sometimes are hard to get. Even harder is to find stamps
to mail them, as they're buried under a lot of stuff.
I know have much underwear and socks buried somewhere that
I've never worn, but have had to buy new since I couldn't find
it, or want to spend the effort looking for these things.

I had a girlfriend who I think wanted the relationship to be
more than that. After looking at the piles of stuff in my house,
she remarked that I might not have room for her. I then gave her
a shoebox and told her we can make room for any of her stuff
that she puts in there.

Actually, the piles of stuff worked out good in this case. Maybe
she wasn't right for me, and this situation allowed me to get out
of the predicament without having to say no. I still have some of
her stuff in the garage, which I have yet to get rid of. It's not
hurting anything, plus probably makes a nice home for whatever bugs
are crawling in there.

But when and if the time comes to get married, there sure won't be a
need for guests to bring gifts to the wedding, as where would it all go?
Maybe the opposite I could do. Give each guest a wrapped gift from my
piles of stuff.

I sometimes justify having all this stuff by saying, "that
I might need it sometime." You can't argue, no matter how remote,
that you might need 600 towels in case the 100 year flood strikes
my house.

Anyway, the house hasn't collapsed from the weight of all this stuff,
so it's not a safety hazard. But can anyone give me suggestions on
what to do, if anything?

Any suggestions appreciated.