Hoarding - to what degree do you hoard?

[SamC]

If it's in use, I keep it. If it's not in use, but likely to be in use within a reasonable length of time, I keep it. If it's not in use and I won't use it again, but worth something, I sell it on eBay. If I can't be arsed to sell it, I take it to the charity shop. If it is suitable for none of the above, it goes in the bin.

Real hoarders, of the mentally ill variety, keep items that are objectively worthless and often hazardous. Whilst I know it is a mental illness, it is something I can't get my head around. The idea of keeping visibly rotting food in the fridge and empty plastic bottles etc, and living in squalor. I can't fathom it. I don't spend all day at work to go home and look at piles of stuff on every surface!

 

[Rural halfwit]

40 minutes and no-one has said it yet?

I had to sit on my hands and move away form the keyboard.

 

[MontyVeda]

off cuts of wood I'm worst for... even the smallest bit will either 'come in handy' or 'get burnt' (i don't have a fire) and is therefore not thrown away...

shoe boxes in a variety of places full of my cassette collection dating back to the mid 80's...not listened to any of those for years and years... but occasionally rip the odd one to MP3.

i also have a cupboard full of VHS cassettes yet have no player... the plan is, when i discover time travel, I'll send them back to my younger self ... that way, my younger self will have loads of films to watch, many of which won't have been made yet, and i'll be able to hoard something else in that cupboard.

a couple of hundred DVDs and a 1000+ LPs, but that doesn't count as a hoard, that's a collection

edit... i also have a couple of boxes full if disused electrical cables "oh I'll chop that lead off before i bung that toaster it'll come in handy" ... WILL IT FECK!

and at least one box full of old mains adaptors for things i no longer have, nor can remember.. like the cables... they will not come in handy!

 

[MontyVeda]

underwear i love underwear !!! and used to own (still do) very expensive La Perla sets, but i have put on weight and it dosnt fit but i just cannot throw them away - i will fit into them one day !!!!!!

A friend on mine found no less than 58 bras in her underwear drawer... is that good or bad?

 

[Cheddar George]

40 minutes and no-one has said it yet?

No comments, but at the moment it has two "likes" from a Rural Halfwit and Fnaar.

 

[s7ephanie]

said what ?????????????

 

[PaulSecteur]

said what ?????????????

Bless!

So innocent.

Begins with P.

 

[Melonfish]

My wife reckons that without her influence I'd appear on a TV program dedicated to hoarders. I don't agree but recognise that my chattels are somewhat eclectic:

A shedful of aeromodelling stuff.
A garage full of bikes, stationary engines, motor bike and a Leeds Whitehall Road station sign
A cupboardful of model railway, aeromodelling and computer magazines
A collection of paraffin blow lamps, tilley lamps and camping stoves

I don't reckon that the above constitutes a hoard. I can still get into the garage and my shed and I'm not actively adding to their contents though I am on the look out for a v-twin motor bike and a Bates Cantiflex bike.

What have you got that borders on hoarding?

Who are you and why are you living my life ?!
ok, swap the railway stuff with games workshop (i used to work for em too!) and i'm pretty much there.

 

[vernon]

Who are you and why are you living my life ?!
ok, swap the railway stuff with games workshop (i used to work for em too!) and i'm pretty much there.

I came very close to acquiring a Motor Morini Kangurao v-twin trail bike a fortnight ago. I made my move two hours too late

I found myself between two owners of Bates Cantiflex bikes also a fortnight ago. One owners is still on the acquisition trail and the other is on the disposal trail. I'm hoping to disrupt their channel of communication.

 

[PocketFrog]

I cut all the wire out of electronic items that we throw away for re-wiring guitars...

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

and at least one box full of old mains adaptors for things i no longer have, nor can remember.. like the cables... they will not come in handy!

Can you have a word with my other half about this please? He has a giant holdall, grandly called his "electrical bag", which contains about a hundredweight of various cables and leads and random wires that will never ever be used and he actually stopped me throwing out a handful of ethernet cables when we moved house as they might come in handy one day. We've had Virgin broadband for almost two years and I sneaked the damn cables into the bin when he was out.

 

[tyred]

I'm sure I'll find a use for this bent, rusty, 4" nail someday.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Can you have a word with my other half about this please? He has a giant holdall, grandly called his "electrical bag", which contains about a hundredweight of various cables and leads and random wires that will never ever be used...

What sort of eejit would do that!?

 

[ColinJ]

I'm sure I'll find a use for this bent, rusty, 4" nail someday.

I heard that Elvis Costello lost his and is looking for another one!

 

[Trickedem]

I also have collections of power adapters, spare bike bits, improbable spanner sizes, computer bits and bobs, army uniforms and most important of all, my wood collection, which includes some wood I inherited from my dad.
All of this is very important, as it might "come in"