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As I was reading though this thread I kept thinking about my reloading supplies. But that is not a house full.

I'm sure there are some gun hoarders out there, too. Although I've never come across any. Recently, when toilet paper was in short supply I was wondering if there's any hoarders out there with a spare bedroom stacked floor to ceiling with toilet paper. It wouldn't surprise me.

Having been a city inspector and a vol fire/ems I've seen enough of em.

They are not lazy. It is a disease. Around here a lot of it stems from living through the depression, save EVERYTHING days. If you didn't you might not live.

I wonder how they fit it in when all available space was already filled with .22lr.

I catch myself getting too attached to stuff sometimes. Just the whole "might use this for..." And I have to remind myself that I am probably not going to...and throw it away eventually.

But i sort of get how little stuff adds up. And i know it's a symptom of a mental illness.

I ain't that bad with my reloading stuff. Yet. Lol

I still have quite a few trim pieces and other lumber stacked in my garage and basement but I still need to finish the basement. When it's done I'll keep one piece of each style and burn the rest.

I spent most all of my twenties never living in one place for more than 8 months. Lots of school at 5 different universities and following whatever summer job around that offered the most overtime. For about 10 years almost everything I owned fit in a full size 4 door sedan. I kind of miss the simplicity of it. Now days all of my bolt action rifles wouldn't fit in the same car.

Bb

Sold a home (owner finance) to a lady that worked for my ex. 6-7 years later, they stopped paying their mortgage, delinquent on property taxes, and no home owners insurance. Foreclosed and property sold at auction for what they owed in total (thank God). Real Estate company that bought the place called me over to take a look at the place when they took possession.

Front of house and front yard looked ok... but the back was full of tires, car parts, refrigerators, freezers, washers, dryers....junk and bags and bags of trash. Inside was completely destroyed. Sheetrock removed or had large holes, one bathroom gutted and nothing worked. Cat [bleep] everywhere, fleas, trash piled up everywhere (spoiled food, mummified food). Just absolutely horrible.

Dodge a bullet on that foreclosure! lol

Unbelievable how some people will live in squalor.

I don't know if this would qualify as hoarding, but I keep a lot of odds and ends of materials, etc., that I might or might not need someday, because it's often impossible to buy when you do need it at least at a reasonable price. "Sorry, we only sell it in 10 ft. lengths, or 4x8' sheets, or 5 gal. cans, or packages of 50, or whatever, or we don't sell retail." Where I used to live there there were shops that might charge a cutting fee, but that was fair. You can buy small pieces of specialty metals online, but the shipping costs are out of sight.

So I've accumulated a lot of crap of dubious value that takes up space.

Paul

Reminded me of the "good 'ol days"! When I was in college I felt like a migrant worker. When it was time to move I bought a bag of Hefty Steel Sack garbage bags, filled 4 or 5 up with my personal possessions and moved to a different apartment. At the time I was driving a Ford Pinto. I had no furniture and I could move everything I owned in one load in my Pinto.

It just acuminates here, most is worth little. The last I heard scrap iron is worth next to nothing.

Paul, that sounds like my wife talking about me.