Are you a hoarder?

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yup...... mum in law canned some grapes in kerr jars over 20 yrs old.
some canned item in basement in cold room .but not swoll up so maybe still good.? only little debbie snowball cupcakes and roaches can survive those kinda year .. those little debbie snowballs have absolutely no food product in the 100% chemical even the marshmellow coating in pure presevatives.
Just a silly fact found on the net one night.. Please do not start collecting those.

i ate some of my late father's 30+ year old C and K rations [army] a while ago. i survived, but that stuff was meant to survive past doomsday.

Yes - but not mindless! I´m hoarding for creative possibilities, wood, textiles and such. The problem is overview.

if your a child of anyone whom went through WW2 rationing of rubber , food , ettc. you might be prone to this .. But creative juicesflow best , when opportunities are in the minds eye and also in the physical eye.

Yes, most certainly.

I have loads of clothing I haven't worn in a decade. I have massive caches of parts and supplies for building custom toy cars. I have loads of guitar gear and musical recording equipment, including an ancient laptop that I haven't actually powered-on in years...

uh oh sounding familiar here ......................

Dept of Defence is just waiting for the day , you throw those things away............. most certainly will either hire you or arrest you for hoarding biological warfare components............

Since my post in this thread only comes up for me when I have the post displayed in descending order instead of ascending, I'll repost it incase others cant see it either


I didn't grow up having a lot of stuff. My parents grew up poor & gradually worked their way into lower middle class. They did buy me a bit of stuff but it was a lot less than some of my peers. I only had a few interests & I mostly just wanted to focus on that which were my toys, TV, & video-games. I never really got an allowance until I became a teen & the amount I got was a lot less than some of my peers. What I didn't spend on lunch at school, I saved up to buy vid-games. As an adult I only worked about 38 months of my life & the jobs I had were minimum wage type stuff. I was on SSI at the time but the more I made in employment, the more my SSI got reduced. I worked a lot of over-time when I was allowed but I gave my parents a certain amount of my paycheck to help cover my expenses & my parents bringing me to & from work. My health care cost a lot which was about half my SSI when I was just on that. I also paid the cable/net bill & my phone bill. I could never really afford to have a lot of stuff. Nowadays I'm living with my girlfriend & on Social Security Disability. My insurance is much better but I have other living expenses. I do have a knife/blade collection but I raked up aLOT of debt partly cuz of that.

I wasn't raised to be a hoarder & cant afford to be one but I do have OCD but it's not really about me having a lot of stuff. My parents have some traits of hoarding thou. My dad works in construction & has quite aLOT of tools for work & projects around the house that take up more space than he has room for. My parents are also into antique stuff & have lots of things they don't need some of which they need to fix up. My parents aren't at a hoarding level with it thou.

I have way too much clutter in my closet. I need to discipline myself to clean it out.

Seems like even if you collect things for a hobby people think you're a hoarder just because they're not interested in what you collect, and they act like you're a serial killer. Especially if you collect dolls. I know some people collect creepy-looking and overly realistic dolls, but my dolls are all sweet and adorable. Well, that's probably what all doll collector's think.

I did gather up two bags of stuff to donate to the thrift store, but it looks like I won't be able to do it now for... months. Or ever.

I'm worried the garbage collectors won't even take my garbage and recyclables away. Then I'll have bags and bags of garbage on top of everything else and it will look like the home of a hoarder, except that I will completely hate it and want it gone.

my hoarding of food is helping me now that i'm a shut in [for the time being].

I don't hoard as such, but I keep a couple of piles of magz that I will read later and I do collect comic books and books

/Mats

Yes. I do hoard.

if something trajic happens and you have to move . how do you decide what to save, what to keep ?
its like worse thing in the world and what if it just had to be done.

^^^such a situation would be akin to a giant *RESET* button that has been pressed, one basically loses everything one worked for until that point. there was a noted composer named conrad salinger who lost everything in the los angeles fires of 1961, and decided to end it all, he couldn't live with such a large loss.