|
|
Post by DE Sinclair on Sept 26, 2014 10:05:22 GMT -5
When you buy more comics than you need, is that hoarding? The norms might tell us we don't technically need any... I was thinking the same thing. We need air, food, water, shelter. Pretty much everything else is a luxury. |
|
|
|
Post by DE Sinclair on Sept 26, 2014 10:10:02 GMT -5
Collecting can definitely turn into hoarding, especially if you never had a game plan going into. It does tend to over take people's lives and homes and get out of control. And sometimes the hoarding aspect is more rooted in a deeper connection/emotion one has had from past issues. Collecting is something that your items are in a certain location for the most part and you're proud to be able to display those items. Proud to display them? Is that a requirement? Oh-oh...  [ |
|
|
|
Post by Gang of 7 (Dan's Cats) on Sept 26, 2014 10:18:21 GMT -5
The norms might tell us we don't technically need any... I was thinking the same thing. We need air, food, water, shelter. Pretty much everything else is a luxury. And cats. Followed by catfood. Then cat litter. You forgot all the really important things, you idiot. You're thisclose to being as stupid as our daddy. P.S. We don't eat bananas. |
|
|
|
Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 26, 2014 10:19:43 GMT -5
I had a non-comic book friend come over to the house from time to time. He'd see a stack of boxes with comics in them and would mutter..."One match, just one match" . So I doused him with gasoline and showed him my lighter. The subject never came up again
|
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2014 10:22:53 GMT -5
I doused him with gasoline and showed him my lighter. Please, sir. This forum is supposed to be family-friendly. |
|
|
|
Post by DE Sinclair on Sept 26, 2014 10:23:25 GMT -5
I was thinking the same thing. We need air, food, water, shelter. Pretty much everything else is a luxury. And cats. Followed by catfood. Then cat litter. You forgot all the really important things, you idiot. You're thisclose to being as stupid as our daddy. P.S. We don't eat bananas. If it helps, we have two cats and they never let us forget cat food or kitty litter. Plus one of them we have to adore on command or she bites our feet. And it's good you don't eat bananas. It helps to prove how much smarter you are than your daddy. |
|
|
|
Post by DE Sinclair on Sept 26, 2014 10:24:41 GMT -5
I doused him with gasoline and showed him my lighter. Please, sir. This forum is supposed to be family-friendly. He didn't douse the man's family with gasoline, so it still qualifies as "family-friendly". |
|
|
|
Post by Gang of 7 (Dan's Cats) on Sept 26, 2014 10:34:09 GMT -5
And cats. Followed by catfood. Then cat litter. You forgot all the really important things, you idiot. You're thisclose to being as stupid as our daddy. P.S. We don't eat bananas. If it helps, we have two cats and they never let us forget cat food or kitty litter. Plus one of them we have to adore on command or she bites our feet. And it's good you don't eat bananas. It helps to prove how much smarter you are than your daddy.We believe that's called "damning with faint praise." We hate you. So do your two cats, even if they don't let you know it; we guarantee it. Also, stop feeding them. Send the food to us. Thanks in advance, you moron. |
|
|
|
Post by wildfire2099 on Sept 26, 2014 10:43:39 GMT -5
I have some borrowed expertise in this... I sell books to the people that diagnose and treat hoarding, and have listened to more than a few lectures on the subject.
It's easy to throw the term around to mean someone who has alot of stuff... that's not hoarding in the clinical sense. Hoarding is when you have more 'stuff' than you can afford and/or store, and the thought or act of getting rid of any of that stuff would cause you emotional distress. A comic book/novel/TPB collection would only cross into hoarding if a) You're buying comics instead of groceries, paying the rent, etc. b) You have to knock into piles of comics/step on them to move about your residence c) the thought of selling some of them causes you anxiety or distress.
Short of that, you're just a person who likes to collect stuff. How useful and/or healthy that is is certainly debatable, but it's not hoarding in the psychological sense.
|
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2014 10:17:06 GMT -5
Welcome back, Jez, been missing you. Agreed on the headache. Oy. Thanks to you and Ish...have some catching up to do. |
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2014 10:23:32 GMT -5
You have to knock into piles of comics/step on them to move about your residence *sigh of relief* I'm good, then. Piles of books, CDs, etc. ... yes. Comics are lots easier to stack & keep up & out of the way. |
|
|
|
Post by ghastly55 on Sept 27, 2014 11:30:09 GMT -5
The last time I was actively buying floppies (which was in early 1991), my "not read yet" pile was growing exponentially. I was buying so much stuff and never getting a chance to read them, that it was one of the reasons I stopped buying.
Now that I buy only collections, I STILL have a massive not-read-yet list, except they are on shelves rather than in piles or in longboxes.
I don't look on it as hoarding, I look on it as building my library for retirement.
I have in my library (besides 10,000 pairs of stretch socks) 10 large bookcases, each at least 5 feet tall and most over six feet. Virtually all of the shelves are full, I have room for maybe 30 more inch-thick books before I'll need to buy a new shelf. About four of those shelves are of exclusively yet-unread books -- most of the DC archives, all of the Warren Creepy/Eerie/Vampi Archives, almost all of the DC Nu52 softcovers (I try to stay current on the hardcovers), about a half-shelf (40 books or so) of pre-Nu52 non-Archive DCs, and almost all post-Onslaught Marvel collections.
What I need is more spare time. Or some self-discipline.
|
|
shaxper
CCF Site Custodian
Posts: 22,862
|
Post by shaxper on Sept 27, 2014 11:45:59 GMT -5
I don't look on it as hoarding, I look on it as building my library for retirement. I like this perspective. Of course, I'm starting to think I'll have to live to be 150 to get through all the comics AND novels I've amassed over the years. |
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2014 13:30:06 GMT -5
(besides 10,000 pairs of stretch socks) A reference to possibly my favorite story from one of my all-time favorites series, one that also happens to feature probably the only iteration of the Silver Surfer I can stand. If indeed you're not here to make friends, you're failing miserably. |
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2014 13:31:25 GMT -5
I don't look on it as hoarding, I look on it as building my library for retirement. I like this perspective. Of course, I'm starting to think I'll have to live to be 150 to get through all the comics AND novels I've amassed over the years. I've used the comparison before of amassing books, comics, music, movies, etc. in accordance with the same philosophy that a hypochondriac presumably employs in stocking his medicine cabinet. You just never know what you'll find yourself needing (or at least wanting) in the middle of the night someday. |
|
