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⌈ Secret Post #6572 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Nah. Hoarding is a problem because of all the rotting food and trash. Because it reduces the quality AND quantity of living space. Books aren't a problem until they get wet, and even then the carpet/furniture is probably also a problem.

I'm not saying having a ton of books you won't read is "good"* but let's not pathologize slightly quirky behavior.

*They're heavy as FUCK ok?!? I had to help sort/sell/donate my Grandmother's stash of 1000s of books and it was HARD. I wish she'd used the library more often. But if she'd had super heavy furniture or a rock collection it would have been just as hard.

[(Anonymous)]

That isn't true at all. Many people just hoard newspapers and such.

[(Anonymous)]

Dude newspaper hoarders will make their houses 100% un-navigable and huge firetraps. Teetering stacks to the ceiling, mouldering, fading/rotting/becoming hidden rat nests, impossible to see the back 5 rows, tiny narrow pathways between if any.

Like, I'm not saying there's no such thing as book hoarders, but the typical "I have 500 books on shelves that I've been meaning to get around to for 10 years" is not the same as a hoarder. Even if it's not trash/food, the fundamental feature of hoarding is the way it completely degrades the ability to use the space OR the things that are hoarded.

Overbuying books is a bit of a dumb bad habit but it's a meaningfully different problem from hoarding.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Yep. Hoarding is a problem only when it becomes an actual problem. Collecting things is not the same thing.

Anyone with dozens of "to be played" games in their Steam account should agree with this. Or call themselves a socially acceptable hoarder by their own standards.

[(Anonymous)]

Or rather, I shouldve phrased that, "Collecting only becomes hoarding when it becomes a problem. Collecting things is not the same thing as hoarding."

[(Anonymous)]

... that's still the definition of hoarding. If you're keeping something because "I'm definitely going to read it someday" but you haven't actually touched or looked at it in years, it's hoarding regardless of whether you have it piled up in heaps or sitting nicely on shelves.

Hoarding is keeping stuff you aren't using and realistically aren't going to use, period.

[(Anonymous)]

"Period" LOL I've never hear hoarding being used the way you define it. Having stuff at home that doesn't serve a particular function be it paintings, books, knick-knacks, whatever, even a stamp collection ain't hoarding either. It's just humans being humans.

[(Anonymous)]

I think the key distinction between hoarding and collecting is whether you're actually, like... appreciating the stuff in some way? Because I know a lot of people who claim they collect things but then they keep all of the stuff in boxes in storage and never take it out or display it or even look at it, so at that point it's like "why are you even collecting it in the first place?"

[(Anonymous)]

Depends on why it's in storage and whether there's something compulsive about it. Some rich dudes like having expensive cars they almost never drive, and sometimes don't even know how to drive. Is is hoarding? Some people have tons of Pokémon cards in binders and sleeves they barely take out so they don't accidentally damage them. Is it hoarding? I can see where buying stuff you never look at is hoarding but I think it still depends on why you're doing it.

[(Anonymous)]

This comment is so absurdly obtuse that I have to think you're trolling.

[(Anonymous)]

I dunno, I watch Hoarders and there was definitely an episode where the couple hoarded books and the books were the problem because they were so heavy that they were causing structural damage to their house.

[(Anonymous)]

I could imagine that. My partner and I do have a ton of books, but we also have six bookshelves that are organized and regularly dusted lol.

Okay...there's a bit of overflow, but we do weed through these and donate some to the library occasionally. Having a lot of books is just a consequence of lifelong reading and rereading. Our TBR piles only have about 4-5 books in them.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a book (and fabric and craft supply and plant) hoarder and there must be a genetic component; one of my uncle's book and especially cookbook collections had taken over every room in his house by the time he passed away. My dad, one of his younger brothers, was more a traditional "that might be useful" hoarder rather than a overzealous collector of specific things, but their surviving youngest brother still collects records.

Many years before he died, my dad helped his younger brother build specialized shelving into the walls of his house, because the weight of the records was caving the floor in.

So far (knock wood) I've only had a couple bookshelves collapse, not the floor.

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, hoarding ANYTHING is a problem. It doesn't matter what it is. And yes, people can absolutely hoard books-- I point at my parents who have shelves upon shelves of books that they literally have never even touched in 30+ years. I don't think they even remember what books they own at this point, which means that they don't actually care about the books at all.