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Topic	You know, the opposite of hoarding is bad too.
adjl 06/28/20 3:11:47 PM #17:	ParanoidObsessive posted... In her case, I wonder if she actually grew up with parents who were hoarders (either full-scale or just partially). Because from what I've seen people who grow up in that "OMG WE'VE GOT TOO MUCH CRAP!" sort of home tend to boomerang in the opposite direction and throw away as much as they can to keep things clean and spacious... The reverse can also happen. My dad's parents moved around a lot when he was younger and made him throw out a lot of his toys and whatnot each time they did (in retrospect, they had a few abusive tendencies, and that was among them), and the end result of that was to turn him into quite the packrat, accumulating stuff and being very reluctant to throw it out, as well as being adamant that he'd never force his own children to throw out stuff they wanted to keep. I don't think he ever reached full-on hoarder status, and he did end up finding some degree of balance there, but he definitely erred toward the side of hoarding because of his background. ChaosAzeroth posted... I found this doesn't work with video games for me. Physical games get hard to find, and I get sudden urges to play a game years later. And when I actually really want to play a game, that's all I want to do to the point it impedes everything else. Especially if I can't, because I can't get the initial 'I gotta' over with. Fortunately, games are pretty easy to hoard without taking over your life. A single $50 bookshelf from Ikea will hold a few hundred easily, especially now that discs in cases are the norm, and that can very easily be made to look organized enough to be a collection and not just a hoard (the line between the two can be rather thin sometimes). There are absolutely games in my collection that could spontaneously vanish tonight and I'd never notice without taking inventory because I'll probably never want to play them again, but keeping them around just in case I get that prediction wrong isn't really inconveniencing me. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:941389711] in You know, ... [t:78799650]...</cite> <quote>ParanoidObsessive posted... </cite> <quote>In her case, I wonder if she actually grew up with parents who were hoarders (either full-scale or just partially). Because from what I've seen people who grow up in that "OMG WE'VE GOT TOO MUCH CRAP!" sort of home tend to boomerang in the opposite direction and throw away as much as they can to keep things clean and spacious...</quote> The reverse can also happen. My dad's parents moved around a lot when he was younger and made him throw out a lot of his toys and whatnot each time they did (in retrospect, they had a few abusive tendencies, and that was among them), and the end result of that was to turn him into quite the packrat, accumulating stuff and being very reluctant to throw it out, as well as being adamant that he'd never force his own children to throw out stuff they wanted to keep. I don't think he ever reached full-on hoarder status, and he did end up finding some degree of balance there, but he definitely erred toward the side of hoarding because of his background. ChaosAzeroth posted... </cite> <quote>I found this doesn't work with video games for me. Physical games get hard to find, and I get sudden urges to play a game years later. And when I actually really want to play a game, that's all I want to do to the point it impedes everything else. Especially if I can't, because I can't get the initial 'I gotta' over with.</quote> Fortunately, games are pretty easy to hoard without taking over your life. A single $50 bookshelf from Ikea will hold a few hundred easily, especially now that discs in cases are the norm, and that can very easily be made to look organized enough to be a collection and not just a hoard (the line between the two can be rather thin sometimes). There are absolutely games in my collection that could spontaneously vanish tonight and I'd never notice without taking inventory because I'll probably never want to play them again, but keeping them around just in case I get that prediction wrong isn't really inconveniencing me. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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