Jealous of a Hoarder!

Waski_the_Squirrel

Waski_the_Squirrel

Resident of the least visited state in the nation.
Some of you may have caught on that I do not own a television. I don't watch TV. However, I do have a computer and an internet connection. Somehow, I got addicted to A&Es "Hoarders." They put the current episode on their website a few nights after broadcast.

Tonight I was watching a gentleman named "Vance" and I had a strange feeling. He is a teacher and he hoards...books! I don't want to live in his overcrowded house. However, I have to admit that I was a bit jealous at the incredible number of books in his house. I would love to have information and entertainment of any kind available like that! They estimated between 250,000-500,000 books in that 26-room house.

My own book collection includes about 700 volumes, so I would have a long way to go. Honestly, I don't think I have the personality or finances to get that kind of collection...and I only have 3 rooms in my house!
 
I hoard certain things.If it has to do with tools or electronics, I can't bring myself to throw it away.
 
What?! 26 rooms? Yikes!! I, too, love books. MrB and I are both huge readers, and we really do not watch much TV either. I just packed up our books from downstairs. It took me four days. Four. We have too many, but neither of us can part with them.
 
I am NOT a hoarder. I am, however, a collector. :)) my family does some hoarding though. :))
 
A teacher friend of mine is a true hoarder. She, too, has scads of books...conservatively, I'd say she has at least 2,000. In a smallish 3BR house. She has a spacious garage (not as spacious as mine and Grey Colson's, mind you - oh, not the same garage...we have matching garages that would park five cars easily if he didn't enclose part of his and possibly six - but a nice-size 2-car garage nonetheless). She's lived in this house going on 12 years and has never parked in the garage because it's stacked floor to ceiling with CRAP. She has little trails amongst all the stuff. And she has two storage units. GAH!!! There is no talking to her about it, because this is a true mental illness. She got it honest, though - her father/stepmother were the veriest hoarders who could truly have been in that show.

I, however, do share the love of real books. The last time I moved, I, too, packed boxes and boxes and boxes of books. I will occasionally give some away that I KNOW I won't read again (to the church library, or Bird Mom's thrift store, etc), but my dream house would include a HUMONGOUS library, like in one of the huge estates in England, with floor-to-ceiling books and floor-to-ceiling windows along the outside wall. And comfy chairs. :wistfulsigh:
 
I must admit, I'm a little disappointed. A hoarder thread and I don't even get an honorable mention. The Chief is a book hoarder. Not thousands, but a few hundred.

After we got married, we didn't live together. It was awesome, by the way. When we moved, the movers loaded the 3BR Hiram house first. It took a little over an hour with seven total boxes of mostly kitchen stuff. They said it was the best loading ever. I told them, just wait until tomorrow.
The next day, they loaded the Chief's Atlanta condo. Fifty boxes, at least, of books. I even marked some of the boxes "more damn books". She has two e-readers that will hold thousands of titles. Still, I have a closet in a guest bedroom filled with books!

She has drawn the line and won't let me get rid of any of them. So, I guess I'm stuck with all these freaking books she will never read! I don't get it, at all.
 
OK, here's where we're not twins. To some of us, books are cherished old friends, waiting to take us on a delightful journey any time we want. Books also represent information (although you can certainly get information from the interwebz these days. Books, to me, are different from other items that are hoarded in that they always have something to give back.
 
mei lan said:
OK, here's where we're not twins. To some of us, books are cherished old friends, waiting to take us on a delightful journey any time we want. Books also represent information (although you can certainly get information from the interwebz these days. Books, to me, are different from other items that are hoarded in that they always have something to give back.
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I can see your point. I don't know that I disagree with you. One Stephen King book weighs a ton. I think she has all of them. I just don't hoard anything, except maybe ammunition. I want the closet space back. E-readers are awesome. Nothing wrong with technology.
 
I do also like e-readers. We have about 3,000 titles on our Kindle. :embarrassedface:

PS - GREAT new avatar! She's gone, man...
 
mei lan said:
I do also like e-readers. We have about 3,000 titles on our Kindle. :embarrassedface:

PS - GREAT new avatar! She's gone, man...
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Bailey knows the proper way to use an iPad.
 
While I'm not a hoarder, and happily toss and donate things weekly (because, you know, people keep giving me stuff :huh ), I do 'collect' certain things. In a small apartment with 2 kids (4 on alternating weekends), it can certainly feel like hoarding.

My weaknesses are books, craft supplies, and cloth diapers. I have two bookcases full of books, plus several stacks on shelves around the house. I have a linen closet that is the 'craft' closet, plus an entire corner of the living room set up as crafting space, plus totes in our apartment storage full of fabric. Then, my favorite shame-less admittance: I can diaper the little one something like 84 times before I have to do laundry.

I don't...because that's a long darn time between washes, but yeah....that's alot of darn diapers. Why do they have to make them so cute?!?! I attached a pic of my diaper stash. :eek:

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i hoard pens... sadly when I really need one I can never find one
 
MrsAlmostSmith said:
Then, my favorite shame-less admittance: I can diaper the little one something like 84 times before I have to do laundry.

I don't...because that's a long darn time between washes, but yeah....that's alot of darn diapers. Why do they have to make them so cute?!?! I attached a pic of my diaper stash. :eek:
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Dude...great pic! You are my hero. ;)
 
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