Having, collecting and hoarding

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I think it probably only counts as hoarding when it starts to have a negative impact on your life.

Boru

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I think it probably only counts as hoarding when it starts to have a negative impact on your life.

Boru

I saw a guy on TV the other day who always ate in his car and never, ever, got rid of the packaging. He'd dump out a drink but he wouldn't throw a half-eaten food item away. The cops pulled him over because he was basically sitting in a pit with trash to the ceiling and blocking the front and rear glass.

That's a hoarder.

[Drich]

What's the fine line between the three?

Your neighbor has a Zippo lighter. 

If he had 50 of them - he's a collector.

If he has a 1000 is he a Zippo hoarder?

....

Now substitute other things - toilet paper, cars, ammunition or guitars.

Do the numbers change?

If 100 rolls of toilet paper is hoarding - is 100 bottles of wine a hoard or a collection?

And lastly - have you ever noticed that a description of hoard varies by the approval of the person deeming it a hoard? Or by the fact that they only have a couple left?

having 1000 rounds of ammo is hardly hoarding. you can blow that in a weekend especially with a bump stock.

I think the primary difference is having so much it disrupts those around you. or you have to rope off sections of your house/living space to accommodate the items.

[popeyespappy]

Having



Prepping



Collecting



Hording

[onlinebiker]

All three are very, very different.

‘Having’ means that you’re in possession of something.

‘Hoarding’ is the inability to throw anything away.

‘Collecting’ refers to acquiring specific sets of items without regard to their utility.

Of the three, hoarding is the only one that indicates a psychological problem.

By way of example, at any given moment, I have between 30 and 50 musical instruments in my house. But I’m neither collecting nor hoarding them - I trade them for money.

Boru

And those definitions are subject to perspective.


For instance - I have Saturns. Primarilly SC2s.

I currenty have 14 +. (Hard to say how many - as I have parted many out). 8 are drivable.

To me - it's simple - I like them, they are fun to drive and simple to work on. However - they don't make them anymore (almost 20 years) -and parts are getting harder to find. 

Some people think it's a goofy hobby. Some an obsession.

However - the latest one I bought - I paid $350. I paid my neighbor $150 to haul it home using my dolly and his truck (better suited than mine for longer hauls).

I put a couple days work in on it - using parts I had here. I could sell this $500 car easily for $2000. I have seen dealers asking $4000 for comperable cars.

[Mister Agenda]

I think it probably only counts as hoarding when it starts to have a negative impact on your life.

Boru

What about when it has a negative impact on other people's lives? I happened to have stocked up on TP just before hoarding it became a thing; but I'm going to run out eventually and the paper products shelves are still wiped out every time I go to the grocery. These people need to get it together.

[onlinebiker]

I'm not telling you how much ammo I have, but nice try.

Safe bet - I have more.

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I'm not telling you how much ammo I have, but nice try.

Safe bet - I have more.

Edit to add...

I won't say how many - but I do have the following calibers -
.22
.22 win mag
32.H+R mag
.380
9mm
.38 spl
.357 mag
.40 S+W
10 mm
.45 ACP
.480 Ruger
.223
.257 Roberts
.30 Carbine
.75 x 55 Swiss
7.62 x 39
30-06

I probably missed one or two...

[arewethereyet]

Collecting can get strange. Some years back I purchased a tchotchke of the lighthouse I was born near. I also grabbed a throw pillow to put on a wooden rocker with images of lighthouses that are on the same string of islands. The Cape Hatteras light soon became the go-to gift for me. I even have one that is striped red and green with Santa and his reindeer circling around it. I finally had to ask everyone to stop. Currently the pillow remains on the rocker and two tiny lighthouses are on a shelf in the office here at home. I wasn't collecting all that stuff, I was being tortured by where to put it all (even the stuff I didn't like) so as not to hurt anyone's feelings. It was an assault.

[Mister Agenda]

My mother had one ceramic owl. Soon, she had dozens of tchotchke owls as people thought she collected owls.

[arewethereyet]

My mother had one ceramic owl. Soon, she had dozens of tchotchke owls as people thought she collected owls.

My daughter's grandmother-in-law suffered the same fate with roosters.