Less Space Left

Home storage already includes some items we need to function everyday. However, we sometimes keep more items either as a hobby or because they remind us of a significant person or experience. For the latter, it can be a gift from someone we love, or it could also be from a person we look up to (such as a celebrity or a famous athlete). As for encounters with famous people, many can go lengths to either meet the celebrity at a concert or game, or win an online auction for an autographed item. Other motivations to keep items are as simple as keeping a travel souvenir.

It’s hard to let go of tangible things that we place too much importance on. This becomes even more important if what is associated with the item cannot be recreated.

Just adding more to home storage?

For collectors, there is that joy and thrill of acquiring an item, especially if the acquisition process is difficult and can hand you the priceless “bragging rights”. It is often amazing how collectors consider a rare factory defect as a factor that gets the item a higher appraisal.

Being a collector, or plainly just keeping stuff is common. However, many are wary of its tendencies of crossing the “compulsive hoarding” line.

Keeping too much stuff

An article by Randy O. Frost  in the New York Times states that a hoarding problem starts when a collector is unable to keep possessions organized while increasing the number of items he collects. The number of collections become so big that a specific room, for example, is no longer used for normal activities. He even cites that these people can have recently purchased items that go unused.

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