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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2025-01-02 05:12 pm

[ SECRET POST #6572 ]


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(Anonymous) 2025-01-02 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
That isn't true at all. Many people just hoard newspapers and such.

(Anonymous) 2025-01-02 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
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) 2025-01-02 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
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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) 2025-01-02 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
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) 2025-01-03 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
... 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) 2025-01-03 01:48 am (UTC)(link)

"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) 2025-01-03 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
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) 2025-01-03 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)

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) 2025-01-03 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
This comment is so absurdly obtuse that I have to think you're trolling.