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Originally Posted by hobnail
I had a coworker friend who was a hoarder. Piles of junk mail, unopened cans of food years old in the garage, etc. After seeing her place it made me realize that I needed to make sure I didn't have any stuff that I no longer needed and went through my place and got rid of a lot of stuff. Just recently I put out on the curb some pots and pans I no longer use; we have "iron mongers" who come by every month or so to collect unwanted metal stuff.
On my daily walks I go by a house that sometimes has its garage door open and their garage is packed. They have a narrow channel down the middle to walk in.
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Extreme hoarders are whom you notice, and they are the ones shown in the media. You don't notice people who only hoard certain stuff, or you call them simply collectors.
I hoard ebooks, digital wallpapers and a couple of paper magazines. I don't hoard much anything else, either physically or digitally. Am I a hoarder? Or am I a collector? Depends on your definition, I guess.