pack rat

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A known pack rat, Trump travels often, throws papers and news clips in cardboard boxes and sometimes instructs that boxes be brought along when he travels.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2023

I know where everything is, but I’m a pack rat.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2020

He is a pack rat, and kept the original packaging.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2019

But don’t call Bommarito a pack rat or a hoarder.

From Washington Times • Nov. 9, 2018

He was a regular pack rat, though smaller.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck