If you lived closer I could encourage your Dr Seuss collection! Books tend to turn up in charity shops these days  :biglaugh:

I'm hoarding plants at present: in the UK Spring has Sprung and my clematis are up and in flower and others are following.  So every weekend I have to go out and look round a garden centre but still haven't filled up the back of the Volvo. As for those hairs ......

Lizzy I found a NECK HAIR! Yuck Do you want it for your hair collection? :D

I used to get one of those regularly. It was looooooooong. Drove me nuts. But since I had my hysterectomy it stopped growing. Hormones. Can't live with 'em. Can't live without 'em. LOL! ??? I think.

I don't know, Moon. Sometimes, I would prefer chin or neck hairs to men. At least you can pluck them and flush 'em down the toilet!

True! Very True! :;):

Chin hairs are very comforting.....I think I would feel lost if mine went away. They did for awhile, then came back again. They are anxiety-provoking and relaxing both.

Now I know I'm weird! :p  ???

Love you (((((UM)))))

I guess I'm weird, I don't have any hairs growing out of unwanted places... I've feeling very left out :(

wait!  I think I have one that grows out of my left knee.... yep!  there's one!  just one though... and you can just pull it out, or shave it when you shave...

false alarm

I'll go back to Dr. Seuss... bummer. :(

Check under your belly button, or your n**ples Cat.

Anything? ???


What?  :whistling:

Just trying to help....sigh..... :blues:

ewwww... no.  I'm pretty hairless, sorry. :(

do I lose?

:D  Naw, Just wanted to say n**ples. :p  ???  :blues:

we killed the thread :(

No way! Ni**ples can't kill a thread! Can it???????

Can't believe I made the TOTP with nipp**s.

Blimey! My ni**les killed the thread! LOL!

*if I've already posted this and just forgot, feel free to edit it again.* ???

*sweep, sweep, sweep.....*  :;):

Fine... If you ladies need hair to pluck, I am loaded with em. Face, chest, belly, NI**PLES, legs, knees, CHIN, you name the spot I bet I have a hair or to for ya.  :D  :p  ???
I hate shaving so if any volunteers can reach me at hair2ya. *whispers* psst. It's suppose to be a phone number.  :D

Actually my hoarding tendencies go toward personal care supplies. Toothpaste, toiletpaper, papertowels, mouthwash, dentalfloss. My problem is i can never seem to have the money to fulfill these desires. I think about it though. Question to myself if I have enough of this or that. Restraining myself with thoughts like, "I have enough, I can make it til payday." Crazy huh?

If you read through this thread and all the previous hoarding threads, (people with 75 rolls of paper towels) you will see that crazy is just a matter of perception. LOL!

Hoarding is a form of security.  THink of dogs burying bones!  Our cat used to return to his bowl frequently to make sure it had a little something left in the bottom - he wouldn't always eat it, just give a little sniff and go back into the garden.

I hoard hairs because I can't believe the length of them!  Off now to clean the bathroom and Hoover the rooms.  I spend far too much time 'hoarding' posts here, at Freecycle.com and Bookcrossing.com - this chit-chat is becoming addictive  :yay:

OOOOOOOH! It just disappeared because nobody was using it! I see! :blues:

Here it is UM!!! I'm holding it for ya! Cat found it, and I'm holding it.

:D

I looked at the wrong thread!  :lookaround: I'll be back here to post later.

Hey UM! You were supposed to come back here. ???

Maybe it will help?

Moonheart, thanks for 'digging up' this thread, good that i discovered it.

i don't know if i'm OCD. but i do have some issues concerning hoarding i think. or maybe about not letting go. i don't know. or maybe they go together.

also, thank you UM, some things you said elsewhere got me to the idea to have a look into this forum.



Lizzy thanks for this. helps me understand myself a bit better i think. (and my cat :) )
i sure do have much need for feeling security.

fmh i do that too: think/worry about supplies. (although i hadn't yet come to think of that as hoarding, too.)
and when/whether there'll be money again to refill and how long i'll get through, is it enough, ... (although usually it is enough, to get me through, sometimes even more than for certain items - and if not, there's often some alternative to get by till then.)
my supplies often are such that they'd need a while to run out, well, for the basics that is. but i've also experienced how helpful it can be to still find some canned beans in a back corner of the kitchen closet or some more rice.
somehow it does provide a somewhat more 'secure' feeling.

mynah Saw where you posted here and begin to think that maybe you were seriously going to collect dust!

I am a number one hoarder. I am constantly trying to kick it. I do OK for a while and then it's back to hoarding. And, it is a security type thing. I feel safe knowing that I have everything that I need (well, actually, much, much more than I need). I sat down here at the 'puter to put some stuff on eBay but can't seem to get started. I don't know if it's because I just don't feel like fooling with it OR deep down inside, I want to keep my stuff. ??? ???

UM but i am...seriously considering... nah. i've collected enough. even i'll collect cobwebs one day if i don't learn to leave my house more often, i fear.  :p

on a more serious note, i'm really not so happy with my 'collections'. but i've not yet figured out what this is about for me. what i'd need mostly i don't have, yet i have my flat full with stuff, and feel bad about it. maybe a big part of that is due to disorganisation. and sure also a result of moving too often, having to, in a severly depressed state. and other things that happened. and those many things i meant to repair. and then again, fell out of life again, or what of it i had regained, in a time when i had started some 'projects', started 'making' it a place to live again. oh well don't know feels too complicated to explain. but then some of it must be pure hoarding or collecting, of some things there's much, more than i use. and some i don't need. oh i'm confused now, sorry.

I have started down-sizing my belongings: via car boot sales, freecycle.org, charity shops .....

Anything I haven't had out of the cupboard for over a year I have dusted off, had a good look at and 'let go'; apart from a couple of ornaments.  Photos I am slowly sorting into albums.  Books I am reading, sorting and those that won't fetch much in a sale are going on www.bookcrossing.com.  

That gives me space!  Space to readjust to shelves that can be dusted easily.   Space to sit down on the settee without having to move books etc.  :D

In the garden I have masses of plants but always have to 'rescue' that one in the garden centre without a label.  I did that last year with 3 clematis and two roses: all doing well with TLC, a good feed and regular watering.  I'm pleased with the result.  But I still look-see just in case anything needs a new home  :biglaugh:

If you haven't repaired them by next week take them to someone who will or throw them.  Broken items have no use other than being of sentimental value.  Unless they are worth lots and lots <wink> ditch them.  That makes room in your head and on your shelves so that you can enjoy something else.  

I'm hoarding books currently.  NOw I need the time to read some of them!

Good for you, Lizzy!!!!!!!!!!

It's CLEARANCE time for summer stuff. I am started to hoard again. Took everything in me to make myself stay away from shopping today.

Yep - summer sales on in the UK ready for the autumn/winter stock!  And we are in the middle of a Heat Wave!

Lay out your clothes and decide whether you will wear them again.  Then off to the charity outlets or Freecycle.com.  That way you don't have to justify the odd treat that you see in the Sales  :;):

I've had a good fie-out recently.  There are some lovely styles in the shops right now but it's too hot to go looking!  Can't be doing with changing and fitting in this weather <phew>

Hello all. I just thought that I'd fill everyone in on a recent hoarding discovery that I made. You see, I realized that I had OCD about two years ago and, after pleading with my doctor for a solution that would end it, began using Celexa. About 8 months after I started the meds I went on a long trip. I recently returned home and realized that it was about time that I went through all of my old files to see what I could make of them and hopefully put them in some sort of order. Well, upon going through everything, I found, peppered throughout my folders, strategically layered in between important papers and tucked into drawers here and there, stacks of airline ticket stubs. I fly quite frequently and had apparently developed the habit of hoarding all of the bits of paper left over after a trip was done: ticket stubs, boarding passes, everything. Bunches clipped together, stray ones stapled to each other here and there, and so many of them that once I was finished going through everything, I literally had a stack of stubs that was inches high.

It was the strangest thing for me to find all of these things that I now see as worthless and no longer feel the need to keep, knowing that at one time it seemed like the most unquestionably reasonable thing in the world to collect them all. I remember myself carefully putting them away as if it was the only thing to be done with them; throwing them away wasn't even a consideration. But now I no longer feel this way. After having spent so many years saving paper relics from my past airplane trips, I saved nothing from my most recent one. So without ever even having acknowledged that I had had this compulsion, it was gone.

How strange.

 batgirl

I saw a TV program  where it said that if you couldn't make your mind up about disposing of something, put it to one side for six months and if you haven't used or worn it, get rid of it.

Oh no!!! Birdmaster.....that would mean that I'd have to get rid of 75% of the stuff in my house. NO!!! You can't take my possessions from me. :p

Welcome batgirl. It's a good thing that you weren't collecting large items. At least airline stubs don't take up too much space.

Decided to dig up this thread again because I think it might be useful.

lizzy You hoard chin hairs because of their length?? Are you still doing it????

Yep!  But clearing them away quite soon from the bathroom windowsill into the bin.  We have more visitors lately and I don't want them to think I'm messy  :p

You could always save them in a baggie until you are really ready to part with them. :idea3:

Don't give her any ideas!

I've started collecting dragonflies now. :(  that's all I need... dragonfly pendants, dragonfly photos, prints, statues... etc....  I guess I'll store them in all these boxes. :(

Hubby started a dragonfly collection for me 2 years ago: a brooch and matching ear-rings; two decorative ones on stakes for the garden near our pond; and two pin 'sticks' but they are too heavy for light-weight summer clothes.

I also have frogs all over - my mum thinks I collect them!

In real-life I collect dogs: other peoples' though, who I 'baby-sit' whilst they are at work!  :laugh:

chin-hairs are in the BIN!  until the next time.  I do collect shampoo though - since I had my hair coloured 5 weeks ago I like to try different types on my head ...... any suggestions!  Johnson's baby is soft; Timotei is nice too ....

Lizzy Aveda is good very good..a MUST for any collection and they have many products  :yay:

I am FINALLY getting rid of stuff.  Thank goodness! And, I actually have been throwing stuff away. I am trying to make it my goal to throw away at least one thing everyday. :)

lizzy Are ya having chin hair hoarding withdrawal yet????

No - but with this Autumn weather I'm finding plenty to pull  

Thought this thread might still have some life in it.