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Originally Posted by Katsunami
In the Netherlands, hoarding ("hamsteren") is mainly used to describe the practice of accumulating stuff that might be hard to get later on; it's not neccesarily hoarding unreasonable amounts of said stuff.
Like me, who has bought 4 Logitech UltraX keyboards at a sale (new), after production already stopped, could be accused of "hoarding" keyboards. (Yeah, I like that particular type of keyboard.)
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Maybe "stockpiling" would have less of a connotation of aberrant behavior.