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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 5423630, member: 105098&quot;]I&#039;ve thought of this many times actually. Collector vs. accumulator, vs. hoarder. </p><p><br /></p><p>I collect, it&#039;s all organized and cataloged. I also accumulate, like excess wheat cents, Pre-1960 Jefferson nickels with S mint Mark,&nbsp; which are hard to come by where I am. and I accumulate silver in the form of stacking.</p><p><br /></p><p>At no point am I adverse to selling my accumulations, but I don&#039;t want to give it away either but I do give away Wheat Cents or Nickels as &quot;starter sets&quot; in coin folders to children in the family and such, maybe get them interested in the hobby or whatever but just do that randomly, not as a gift for like a birthday or something. For the stack I buy low and sell high and can sit on it for quite a while. but I don&#039;t consider it hoarding or any of what I do as hoarding as it&#039;s managed and not completely out of control.</p><p><br /></p><p>even my comics, or my action figures, I&#039;ve had since a kid, I mean, I&#039;m not going out of my way to sell anything, but all in all it all fills a 10ftx10ft walk in closet and tightly packed to the ceiling, I don&#039;t consider it hoarding because it hasn&#039;t overrun my life, and I did have it organized when I put it all up and wouldn&#039;t be hard to open it up and find what I&#039;m looking for, but I haven&#039;t really looked at any of it in decades so in a sense, it&#039;s just sitting there doing nothing and technically clutter forgotten for the most part.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess Hoarding is considered excessive accumulation of unnecessary items. I guess the comics and action figures could be considered hoarding at this point. totally unnecessary and forgotten by me for the most part.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;I guess a collection is an organized accumulation that worked on, while an accumulation is a pile of stuff n, kept but not well organized,</p><p>....and a hoard is a pile of stuff out of control and becoming a problem or just neglected and unnecessary but you can&#039;t let it go.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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