The thin line between hoarding and collecting

[Danny899]

Re: Difference between hoarding & collecting

Oh yeah, I'm a hoarder!! I always go after just about any Henderson jersey I can find!! But it is quite fun though!

Dan

[camarokids]

Re: Difference between hoarding & collecting

I think a hoarder would apply more to someone who collects (hoards) precious metals in bullion form. They don't really collect, but are saving them for their value and or investment. Even then if you have 10,000 ounces of gold or 10,000 silver dollars you may save them cause you enjoy collecting them.

I have ten bats of a players and like 5 or 6 pf many others. I think it is cool to have many bats of a player. It helps to show their use traits or like some players, their different use traits. Like Canseco, some bats have tape, some don't. Some have his written on the ends some don't.......

[bdeol4]

Re: Difference between hoarding & collecting

To me, if I cannot display it and have to put it in storage or in a box, I don't want it. I hate clutter and have mountains of stuff makes it looks like a joke. All i get is game used. I don't buy retail memorabilia. To me game used is the only way to go, everything else is junk. But I know many sports fans & collectors view it the other way around.

The best thing to do i pre-set parameters and stick to those no matter what. Every month, I can say i find items that are out of my collection scope. All I have toa sk myself is , "Wow, this Bengals jersey would look awful next to the $6,000 in buccaneers game used items I have." It doesn't make sense to have items out of the main concept of your collection. Stick to what your scope is, make a "dream" want list, then a realistic want list and actually plan on where and how you would display it.

I always am amazed how people jsut want to collect "game used jerseys" from any team or league or year. Then you are filling the never ending bottomless pit of hoarding and you will never be satisfied.

Agreed!

[mad87man]

Re: Difference between hoarding & collecting

I think the difference is people who collect, collect for fun and their love of something. I think Hoarding is people who collect stuff b/c of an obsession or memory of something. They will keep a tissue b/c it reminds them when they fell 5 years ago and cut their knee for example. That is the difference ot me anyway.

[yankees506]

Re: Difference between hoarding & collecting

The way i feel is simple: what's the point of collecting? to collect right? so what if i have 1 or 100, if the item is one that i think would be cool to own it really shouldnt matter how many i have? Its the same as telling someone they shouldnt buy any more bats period because they have "too many". I dont get the whole "leave some for me" this isnt the last slice of a pizza pie, its a hobby.

[bigtime59]

Re: Difference between hoarding & collecting

If you still have a functioning kitchen and bathroom and you don't have to navigate over and between piles of stuff to get from point a to point b in your residence, you're a collector.
If not...

[godwulf]

Re: Difference between hoarding & collecting

If you still have a functioning kitchen and bathroom...

Hey, I only used the bathroom for storage for a couple of days, during a reorganization I was doing awhile back.



And, as you can see, I posted a guard to watch out for termites.

[jppopma]

Re: The thin line between hoarding and collecting

The difference is all in the eye of the beholder. While I consider myself a collector, my wife would totally put me in the category of a hoarder.

[mook03005]

Re: The thin line between hoarding and collecting

I was probably a level 2 hoarder at my worst, albeit all my appliances still worked, and I still could navigate around the house, but after getting married I had to put everything aside …as for the collecting/hoarding analogy there is no real difference. One has an organized mess, the other has a disorganized mess. And yes I still have alot of baseball cards wrappers from 1988 fleer

[frikativ54]

Re: Difference between hoarding & collecting

Hey, I only used the bathroom for storage for a couple of days, during a reorganization I was doing awhile back.



And, as you can see, I posted a guard to watch out for termites.

LOL! I love it. We have two guards, who would chew on my memorabilia if they could.