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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 18940, member: 25&quot;]<i>I see that because of this thread it seems a member, afantiques, was motivated to clear up a room, leaving his wife utterly gob smacked.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>My real motivation was that I had run out of chaos to show, so I thought I&#039;d have a go at anti-chaos for a change. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Plus there is an aspect that all hoarders know, and that&#039;s the forgotten treasure aspect. After a fairly long while, a store or hoard may be considered as &#039;mature&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>In this condition, you have no detailed memory of the contents, and often no great attachment to them, having not only bought more and better in the intervening years, but in many if not most cases, forgotten what they cost.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mature hoard may now be considered &#039;Ripe&#039; and ready for picking. It becomes like someone else&#039;s stuff, that you have a free pick at if you just haul away the real junk.</p><p>The good, salable bits are the &#039;pay&#039;, some of the other stuff might be left to mature further somewhere else, and and a fair amount you no longer care enough about to regret discarding. </p><p><br /></p><p>You can&#039;t measure &#039;hoard maturing&#039; in cash terms. If you can afford to let it fester, even with storage costs, without it really hurting your spending, then while it may be sensible to argue that you could be making just a bit more money, for most, maximising cash flow is not the goal.</p><p><br /></p><p>If it does not mutate into some hideous burden, a nice store of stuff satisfies an atavistic urge to gather and store that is shared by the squirrel and his winter nuts.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; <img src="http://www.corbisimages.com/images/Corbis-AF004534.jpg?size=67&amp;uid=d7c0cd22-8abd-492c-a5de-376872f42029" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>(His OTHER nuts, idiot illustrator)</p><p><br /></p><p>Having a load of stuff can be comforting, and it&#039;s worth cash money just for that. And it can make money too, some stuff is hot one year, unsalable the next and back to hot again a decade later.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was heavily into ebay selling the entire current stock fitted into a normal size filing cabinet, everything was sold every week, and the only use for storage space was to pile up the stuff that came in boxed with the salable bits but not really costed in as anything.</p><p><br /></p><p>Stuff not valuable enough to ebay, or too heavy or large or broken. In effect, a stream of free or low cost stuff piling up for the winter.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I packed up the ebay selling, that old hoard was there to replace buying new stuff to satisfy my stuff-lust.</p><p><br /></p><p>So may&nbsp; it be with other storers.</p><p><br /></p><p>In reply to a question, how much was thrown away and how much simply moved, some old electrical stuff went for recycling,</p><p>six bin bags of mixed ladies clothes went to the charity shop, and some more including a couple of clammy old duvets are destined for the tip. Smallish stuff worth having has been condensed to one modest storage box. A few boxes remain to be sorted, most&nbsp; will be long obsolete paperwork, and instruction manuals for long discarded gadgets.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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