1) Dear Buried: Your husband is a packrat , and the thought of going through his stuff is paralyzing, so you will have to do the lion's share of organizing.

2) Packrat parsing solves the problem of this kind of parser, i.e. exponential parse time.

3) When it comes to parser generators, Parsing Expression Grammars (PEG) have become quite popular recently after a thesis by Bryan Ford introduced an optimization called "Packrat Parsing".

4) I have found that by trying to understand the mentality of a packrat, you can actually get more accomplished than you would if you were negative towards the situation.

5) So how do you know if you you're an emotional packrat?

6) Confession time, until a few years ago I was an emotional packrat.