This and presentation. A stack of movies on the floor? Hoard. All your movies on a display shelf? Collection.
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200 jars of piss on a shelf? Schitzo hoarder.
200 labeled jars of piss with date/time, place collected? That's a data set waiting for testing.
Be sure to check my PissDB for more info!
Standards on how you want to present it?
Ehh? See?
Hmm. You might be onto something…
My stacks of movies are in a box. Not a hoard :P
Museums are Hords in the back and collection in front
Unless you're British, then it's the spoils of robbery in both places.
No standards on what they were willing to steal from others
Check it out, it even works on other definitions of the word.
wow the opposing army is so disorganized, no basic weapons or training it seems and they just accepted anyone.
Its not an army, that's a hoard!
My mom has a "collection" of um... various ~~garbage~~ ahem "treasures" other people left behind...
Literally just becomes a bunch of hiding spots for the cat lolz.
Pretty sure it's a fire hazard, it's hard to access the back door in case the front door starts burning or gets blocked or something. Like so much garbage blocking the way, the path is so narrow.
It's been like this for a decade... there are thing that have never been touched like not long after we moved here.
Context: It's a remnant of the mindset of poverty... like... "gotta collect them all" lol.
Then when guests come, they frantically try to hide stuff from the livingroom to the basement and sort of tidy up and clean things a bit, even though there's barely any space there.
We visited a neighbor once, and omg the house is like the same but worse. Stuff overflowing the entire living room. And I was like "mom, this old man is just like you" 🤣
Maybe this mess that I live in partially contributed to my depression.
I organize my collection via emergent ontology.
This just means you let stuff just add on the pile, right?
That, and I occasionally pull things out of the pile then put them back on top, so they slowly organically sort into having the most frequently used things on top. I also have multiple piles that organically evolve into specializations. For example, I never intended to have a "old specialized cables" pile, but it emerged from the bottom of the "old hardware I seldom use" when I transplanted all the top stuff into a new discrete "electronics I might salvage someday" pile. It's not a good system 🙃
Yeah.... That sounds like neither a collection nor a hoard but just a...
Pile of stuff.
Only you can prevent your pile of stuff from becoming a hoard, keep on subdividing those piles.
Ah a fellow electronics I might salvage someday collector! They call us hoarders but one day we’ll replace those faulty caps / learn to micro solder / source a very specific and difficult to find component and then oh boy will we have saved the cost of replacing that thing that we’ve done without for the last several years!
If your collection is of books that are in a messy mound.. ok.
If your hoards is a bunch of napkins in Walmart shopping bags also covered in cat piss, TVs, milk jugs than it is a hoard.
Standard to keep your mound of books small so it doesnt interfere with your life or home.
The second option is just a really bad hoarding hoard with cats.
For me, the difference is whether the stuff is organized or not. If not, it's hoarding.
Thats a pretty standard... Standard. Ehh, wink wink, nudge, nudge.
God fucking dammit, it’s a hoard
Nice.
That means my thousands upon thousands of Magic the Gathering cards languishing on my shelves are a collection, since they're organized into labeled binders, right?
Honestly... If you know where they are, and how they are being kept... Yeah.
You can have a silly collection of thousands and thousands of rocks you picked up, but if they were in binders labeled what they are it would be a collection too.
Come back to me when you have a pile you sleep on and we can talk about upgrading you to Hoard.