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Some asshole Transformers action figure sellers on eBay who DISASSEMBLE THE FIGURES AND THEN SELL EACH PIECE SEPARATELY. Fuck those people, seriously.
Or toy resellers in general.
"Uh, I uh got this ActionGuy's left arm..$14 please...will throw in some random unnecessary junk from other toys to make up the value"
It's obscene and I'm happy for 3-D printing to exist as it is today, is to tell these assholes to get fucked.
For real. Or they remove the weapons and sell them separately, or the figurines from Lego sets. Special place in Hell for those people.
Pinball. Because a lot of the classic pinballs are 25 years plus old they tend to have extra of everything in case something breaks.
If you own a pinball machine, you have a whole lot of other stuff too. Ramps, decals, balls, fuses, you name it.
Plus hardly anybody who owns pinball machines owns only one. Four or five seem to be the norm, and I know several people who have a house with 20 or 30 in it. That's 20 or 30 full size pinball machines in a normal house.
Hobby electronics?
Need a small part? Better buy 10 in case you break one and because it's only marginally more expensive than getting one. Now repeat for every project you do
And then never even one of the partsβ¦
Oh god yes. I have so many extra switches, connectors, resistors, capacitors, microcontrollers, little screens, sensors, etcβ¦..
Then I had to buy so many little containers to hold them all. When I die my family is gonna hate me.
Don't get me started on the broken or obsolete thrown away shit I keep around "for parts or that one time I might need it"
Well, last week I finally soldered the cut cables of the otherwise working basic (literally a transformer, bridge rectifier, fuse and voltmeter) 12V lead acid battery charger from 2007 I found earlier this year to charge a tractor battery, so that's a plus
oh god i have so many junk boards i keep just in case i need some part. ive stripped them for parts maybe a handful of times over years.
please send help.
I don't want to desolder all the relays off this washing machine board to throw it away only to find out I needed a double optocoupler!
Fishing. 5 bucks here and there, it adds up. Even more so, fly fishing. I have some many materials
Junko pop
Collecting stuff is basically the ultimate hoarder hobby.
I collect rocks and yes the clock is a rock
Cycling can get bad. Some dudes have a garage full of $20k of bikes.
I am on the low end of the bike hoarding spectrum. I have two very modestly priced bikes (one road, one fat) and a 20β box of parts and accessories. You could count the 4 water bottles in the cupboard, 4 bike shorts in the drawer, and 6 bike jerseys in the closet as well. 2 pairs of bike shoes, a hook of tires and tubes in the garage, oh god never mind I have it bad.
This week I actually got to use some old cranks I had saved from a bike I replaced.
Ok I'm not actually going to ride those cranks. I just needed to fit them on the bike to confirm the other cranks were bent and not the bike frame itself.
Now I'm going to buy new replacement cranks and keep the old ones AND the bent ones for some reason...
Model Railroading.
It's not the worst, but it requires all the key ingredients - you need to own a home large enough to have a 'spare' room, which means you've got disposable income. And displaying the trains is almost as much fun as running them, so you end building shelves and shelves, which then sprawl out to the rest of the house. Only to realize you're missing the 'key' one from that set, got to go find that, obviously.
And then of course you can't throw away the boxes, because that would lower the resale value, so you need to rent a second storage unit. Not that you would ever sell them of course. But your kids will be sitting on a goldmine!
And that's just the collection portion. It's a crafty hobby, from making scenery & waterfalls & little trees all the way to the special paints to make the engines look aged. That will need a room as well.
And now that we've got the train shelves in the kitchen, you know, I could put a food themed railroad on the table there. Yes I already have the desert themed one in the train room and the prairie themed one in the living room and the snow theme layout in the hallway, but I don't have a silly one. No of course the Halloween theme one doesn't count.
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I would actually love to know what hobbies donβt have some sort of hoarding aspect! Iβm trying to think on it and I canβt come up with any at the moment.
Iβm sure one of you can help me?
Playing music. Sure some people can collect guitars or whatever, but really that's a separate hobby from actually playing.
Idk, I know a pianist and his house is just filled with boxes and boxes of sheets music!
Hmmm yeah I have learned a ton of fiddle tunes. Does it count as hoarding when its in your head?
But you need equipment to actually play?
I'm not a guitar collector/fetishist at all, but still need at minimum an electric (preferably at least two for humbuckers & singlecoils), a steel string, a nylon string and a bass to be able to play what I want to play. Not to mention amps, pedals etc. And this is strictly for playing gigs and home practice, when you get into home recording it piles up even more. Even if you restrict yourself to things you actually use, the possibilities for hoarding are pretty much endless.
Yeah collecting instruments, parts, strings/reeds, and accessories is totally part of it. People hoard to varying degrees but any hobby requiring physical objects is hoardable.
Warhammer.
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