[ SECRET POST #6572 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6572 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Hoarding is more than just owning a lot of one thing, or many things, it's about it taking over the living space of person to dangerous levels and making the space pretty much uninhabitable(to those not hoarding). My mum is a hoarder and growing up with that was difficult.

People who have a habit of buying new books while they still have unread ones on their shelves mainly just have poor impulse control, and I can't bring up much effort to care about that or get judgey. It's not my house, they can collect lint rollers for all I care.

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[(Anonymous)]

Yeha, unless the TBR books start taking up soace in the house/living area and are creeping into negative habitable space area, it isnt hoarding.

Though tbf I do know hoarders that books were one of their main things they collected. I just doubt that is really who OP is addressing.

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[(Anonymous)]

DA, anon who made the Steam comparison above:

Yup this. If you have 500 Steam games you bought on sale and never played... sure, whatever. Your money your hobby. Collect away. If you compulsively buy more games than you can afford and cannot stop, that's a different thing, and a problem.

Hoarding is a mental health issue, collecting things isn't.

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[(Anonymous)]

AYRT.

Funnily enough books is one of the things my mum hoards and years ago I had to throw out a whole bunch that she had just left in the bathroom that got mouldy and rotten because she couldn't throw them away despite the smell and hygiene issues. I had to crawl over piles of books and old boxes just to get out of my room every day, my brothers room was her second clothes dumping ground(the floor of her room was covered with piles of them) just...

Having a thing you collect isn't hoarding, certainly not if it's properly stored somewhere and out of the way.

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[(Anonymous)]

My sympathies to you nonny. I have had to deal with family members hoarding as well. I don't really find it funny to joke about being proud to be a hoarder. It was traumatizing to live with.

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AYRT.

It's rough and unless someone lives with it they don't always get it. I'm sorry for you as well anon.

[sparklywalls]

I was about to get all "hey don't call me out like this!" about the secret (in a jovial way) but this comment has made me feel a bit better because yeah, my tbr pile is a bit ridiculous but not "it's taken over my house" ridiculous. I just have a couple of shelves in my bookshelves full of books I've not read yet, and yes sometimes I ban myself from buying new books until I've made more progress.

A nice problem I have is my mother in law knows I like reading so she always gets me vouchers for a bookstore every Christmas/birthday and I've not necessarily made a big dent in my backlog before I buy another 5-10 books.