Hi, my name is Peter and I am a hoarder
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If 1 of something is good, 100 (or 1,000) of something is even better
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In the words of that great philosopher Burt Gummer: “Better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it” (Tremors)
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He who dies with the most toys is the winner
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As stated to my wife by a suttler, while looking at his handmade knives: Wife to me-“How many more knives could you possibly need.” Suttler to wife- “One more than you already have"
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We collect, because it is in our nature. Many of us since early childhood, pick things up (rocks, coins, critters, cool things) and collect them, they are our treasures. The hunt (for the perfect thing or just another thing we appreciate) is a quest, possibly even hardwired into our being.
Many of our parents grew up during the depression or we may have come from an economically disadvantaged family, everything had value and was to be saved and used until it could no longer be used.
There are likely a hundred more reasons as to why we collect. Some are unique to us, other reasons are shared by many. Bottom line is we do.
Pete