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What do you hoard?

Posted by brianomaracroft • 10/30/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: habits, hoarding

I have trouble letting go of magazines, books I've read, and old stereo equipment. What about you?

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  1. MissSuzie
    10/30/09
    MissSuzie
    Nothing. I despise clutter.
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    1. brianomaracroft
      10/30/09
      brianomaracroft
      My wife's the same way. I'm a bit of a handful for her, at times.
  2. Shiley
    10/30/09
    Shiley
    Books, dolls, and bake ware.
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  3. crpitt
    10/30/09
    crpitt
    Books and paperwork.
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    1. DaniG
      10/30/09
      DaniG
      I knew that about you...I could just tell. I love stationary. With emails taking over, my supply has quickly grown to enough to match my tea (listed lower on this discussion.)
    2. crpitt
      10/30/09
      crpitt
      You should see my rubber collection
    3. dbowles1017
      10/30/09
      dbowles1017
      Rubber? Perv.
    4. crpitt
      10/30/09
      crpitt
      Spoilsport
    5. dbowles1017
      10/30/09
      dbowles1017
      Fine...
    6. crpitt
      10/30/09
      crpitt
      Haha!
  4. pillownaut
    10/30/09
    pillownaut
    i grew up with a pack-rat mother, so i am like an anti-hoarder. i don't really understand why people get attached to objects, but I may only be that way because all the clutter drove me crazy while i was growing up. what is the appeal of keeping things one doesn't need or use?
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    1. DaniG
      10/30/09
      DaniG
      Step away from the tea, Pillow. Or somebody gets hurt!
    2. pillownaut
      10/30/09
      pillownaut
      LMAO... what no tea-sharing? tea i can understand, i also keep loads of tea, but i also drink 3-4 cups a day, so there is turnover.
  5. rainforestrobin
    10/30/09
    rainforestrobin
    I try not to hoard anything as I hate clutter. I used to collect various things but the older I get I don't even want to do that. Now, I just feel like let it all go, get it outta here!! LOL!! It's seems I can't think straight in clutter.
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  6. DaniG
    10/30/09
    DaniG
    Tea. I've got 25 years of it stocked up...

    But, I AM happy to share. Unfortunately, none of you are close enough to enjoy that offer.
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    1. brianomaracroft
      10/30/09
      brianomaracroft
      Screw the tea...I want the brandy!
    2. DaniG
      10/30/09
      DaniG
      Hahaha!!! You can have some of the apricot, but if you touch the crabapple, I'll have to hurt you. And there's NO WAY Ken's football buddies are getting near the crabapple stuff! It's too good. (I'm still smiling that after waiting 3 months, it turned out so good.)
    3. brianomaracroft
      10/30/09
      brianomaracroft
      I'll wait for the sour cherry...
  7. ThriftShopRomantic
    10/30/09
    ThriftShopRomantic
    I have vintage lamp addiction. I love old lamps, rewiring them, and using them. If I see a good one for cheap, it takes serious willpower for me to pass it up.

    I've given them away to family and friends because I enjoy their character so much, and I want them to go to good homes.
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    1. DaniG
      10/30/09
      DaniG
      What a great collection! Bet your friends LOVE you for sharing it with them.
    2. ThriftShopRomantic
      10/30/09
      ThriftShopRomantic
      Fortunately my friends have similar taste to me, so don't mind me foisting lamps on them.

      One of my friends just bought a house, at the beginning of October, in fact, so I gave her two as a housewarming gift.

      But I still have way too many. I need to love lamps less.
  8. ckent27
    10/30/09
    ckent27
    I have a massive collection of Joan Rivers' Memoribillia. Add to it weekly.

    I do like keeping books by certain authors. I have a lot of DVDs too. But not sure books and dvds would qualify as being horded?
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  9. nothingprofound
    10/30/09
    nothingprofound
    Nothing. I even got rid of myself.
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    1. DaniG
      10/30/09
      DaniG
      Wow! Who writes your blog for you NP?
    2. nothingprofound
      10/30/09
      nothingprofound
      I can't answer. I'm not here anymore.
    3. DaniG
      10/30/09
      DaniG
      OK, then, if you aren't there, then you can come have tea with me. I've got enough you can have seconds...and thirds, and thirtyeths. I'm guessing you don't use cream or sugar...

  10. lifeshighway
    10/30/09
    lifeshighway
    Saddle pads. I cannot resit the pretty colors.
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  11. aningeniousname
    10/30/09
    aningeniousname
    My nipples out to sailo......oh.....HOARD. Nothing.
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    1. brianomaracroft
      10/30/09
      brianomaracroft
      That was funny...
  12. AtlanticEquity
    10/30/09
    AtlanticEquity
    I hoard half-written articles and topics that inspire. If I never wrote another new article, I believe I have enough material to last until next summer.

    The subscribers in my other blogs (and previous blogs) have stated that I sometimes post too frequently.

    Source Blogger
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  13. davedol
    10/30/09
    davedol
    I hoard pre-1982 copper pennies. The pennies made after 1982 after are zinc. The copper value of the true copper penny is double the value of the coin. However...we are talking pennies. Is it worth the trouble? NO! But I check my pocket change anyway. These are getting harder to find.
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  14. Selbon
    10/30/09
    Selbon
    My books, my son's books, my wife's books, A ton of books
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  15. jeremyjanson
    10/30/09
    jeremyjanson
    Old newspapers.
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    1. brianomaracroft
      10/31/09
      brianomaracroft
      Don't hoard matches, then
  16. amybyrd21
    10/31/09
    amybyrd21
    cookbooks I have tons of them and recipes too. Just written down on paper and on my computer and in motebooks
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  17. SoftwareGal
    10/31/09
    SoftwareGal
    Halloween spam comment
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  18. trailofpen
    10/31/09
    trailofpen
    I hoard money. Maybe I'll make a blanket out of it and sleep in it. It's just one of those things.
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  19. SoftwareGal
    10/31/09
    SoftwareGal
    I have a lots of DVDs including movies, audio CDs, pictures, softwares, ebooks, originals and also burned ones. Thinking of selling yet it is kind of something for me. At least everybody amazed when seeing to my walls.
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  20. carsonfb
    10/31/09
    carsonfb
    I'm a packrat. I hoard everything except money.
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  21. harveyavatar
    10/31/09
    harveyavatar
    Quarz crystals, metal shavings, resin... but it comes and it goes!
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    1. brianomaracroft
      10/31/09
      brianomaracroft
      rabbit feet?
    2. harveyavatar
      10/31/09
      harveyavatar
      wth!?

      I found a much better and more humane luck charm I can take down the rabbit hole.

  22. pinkmonkeychatter
    10/31/09
    pinkmonkeychatter
    I've saved every book that I loved to read since I was six. I also have a huge collection of 70's and 80's music on vinyl.
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