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collecting vs hoarding

July 1, 2013 //

If one man’s trash is another man’s treasure as the cliche goes,
what happens when one wife’s treasure is one husband’s trash?

Her: [hand’s on hips]: Where’s my favourite wire basket?

Him: [casual] I threw it out. It was all rusty.

Her: [wailing] But it had the perfect amount of rust!

My husband thinks I am a hoarder. It’s true.
True that he thinks I am. True that I am?

After watching episodes [in horror] or Hoarders and other similar shows. I think I am safe for now. Possibly not from D-I-V-O-R-C-E but from the clutches of this sad disorder.

According to the TLC website hoarding is a form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. O.C.D.

Hoarding usually involves objects that have little if any value. Newspapers, old flyers and used food packaging and in extreme cases fingernails, hair and crap. And I mean that literally. Distressing but true apparently.

Professionals look for these three things when evaluating compulsive hoarders:

An inability to discard objects coupled with anxiety if a hoarder does try to throw things away.
Impaired ability to function due to hoarding.
A cluttered living space that has become so filled with objects that it can’t be used effectively.

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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector’s passion borders on the chaos of memories.
Walter Benjamin

Hoarding is not the same as Collecting. In general, collectors have a sense of pride about their possessions [as opposed to embarrassment] and they experience joy in displaying and talking about them. They usually keep their collection organized, feel satisfaction when adding to it, [rather than sadness and shame] and budget their time and money whereas hoarders may be in debt.

Anxiety & Depression Association of America [ADAA]

It’s possible however, I may be a borderline Obsessive Compulsive Collector if I wanted to pay attention to Science A Go Go. Judging by the name I don’t think I do -do. According to this link, collecting items can trigger O.C.D. E.E.K!

You know you have a problem [don’t you?] if you can’t drive past a thrift/ Op Shop without swerving to a halt and dashing in [no matter how late you already may be] just to make sure you are not missing the next best new old thing.

Nothing makes me happier, than finding some great, unusual, and amusing thing.
John Rosselli

So I may be self-labelled mad or

berko/birko in this case but at least I am in good company.

Probably the most famous of all collectors being Andy Warhol whose possession obsession has eternal fame with 612 Time Capsules preserved forever at Warhol.org

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I don’t think any collector knows his true motivation.
Robert Mapplethorpe

So…any ideas? Collect your thoughts and let me know, please! xS

Tags Andy Warhol, Collecting, collecting vs hoarding, Hoarders, John Rosselli, obsessive compulsive, Possession Obsession, quotes, Robert Mapplethorpe, save Kermit, Walter Benjamin

Categories label vice, randomness, save Kermit

not new with tags

December 19, 2012 //

Some time ago in a space not far away…

I decided that my supercool vintage label maker was just too inefficient as a business card/ tagging device.

Ok, ok, it was a long time ago [last September]

witness yesterdays post on snails and doing it slowly…

My stamps have arrived [also some time ago, it’s the getting around to this that has taken a while…]

One of the best pieces of advice I can apply truly to my own flawed procrastinating self comes from my husband’s hard core depression era [the first one] Boxing coach:

“Thinking about it aint gonna get it done”

So very true and so bleeding obvious. But like a fish slap in the face it’s what you might need occasionally. Why you ask? Meh.

I digress. As I do. No wonder nothing gets done. Except the boring bits. Like washing and folding. The eternal round of wiping counter tops, treading on lego and making food. etcetera etcetera.

So yes, where was I? Stamps. Afraid of commitment. Sick of computing. [Yet here I am bashing away on a keyboard] Rebelling against my own profession as a Designer, I am going back to old school techniques…

It’s been done before, I know, but you know, like whatever. As I said. I’m being rebellious. So observe if you will, dear readers, my business cards à la mode.

No two are alike, and yes, I can use child labor. Sweet. If I don’t get too bossy and art directy.

So the point being, my stuff make great gifts. As they have tags. Ooooohh. Yes. And there’s some stickers somewhere too. Not happy with those, though. Too big and unfindable. Later. [Possibly much]