I think people who are into crafts. They have all of these yarns, construction papers, various tools and stuff. All so that they can say that they have all of these projects in mind that they want to do. But they never do them so they get more crafting stuff and it just eats away storage until their place is practically consumed by it.
I would actually love to know what hobbies don’t have some sort of hoarding aspect! I’m trying to think on it and I can’t come up with any at the moment.
I’m 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.
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.
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?
Oh man, woodworking is pretty bad. Tools galore, scrap wood everywhere, and half-finished projects all over the garage.
That is a personal attack I do not appreciate
Shhh! I swear I can build that for only twice the cost and take three times as long, but it will be waaay quicker if I have this new tool.
Your mistake is in what you are making your comparisons to. You can’t compare your solid wood bookcase to an Ikea cardboard bookcase, you need to compare it to the fancy brands that actually do make things from solid wood.
Mini DIsc enthusiasts
As a crafter who is more on the Marie Kondo side of things, it’s way worse than that. I’d say a lot of time, knitters and sewists (my two main hobbies) buy yarn and fabric with no specific pattern or project in mind but rather just because it’s pretty. Some of them seem to be proud of their room-filling stashes. Personally I think most people just like the instant gratification of purchasing craft supplies but don’t have the patience to actually create the craft, especially since knitting in particular is very, very slow. I have tried really hard not to fall into this trap and have been actively not purchasing yarn for a few years now, though I’ll still put it on my Christmas list.
There is a sweet spot with buying tools and materials just because you want to and having the right thing when you need it because of an impulse buy. That is me never.
Haha exactly! I got frustrated as an early knitter when I bought pretty yarn and then realized when I got home that it wasn’t enough for a project. I stopped making that mistake pretty fast and have been fairly disciplined about it.
Extreme couponing
People who pick stuff off the curb, refurbish it, and resell it.
My neighbor (apartments) does this but mostly around the time rent is due because she doesn’t have a job. She leaves her shit all over the property: half-finished furniture, tools to move it, etc.
Anyone into restoring cars probably has one or two cars that don’t run on their lot. Time goes by and those cars are rusting faster than they’re being fixed.
I’m starting to get into making my own flies for fly fishing. It’s a ton of fun to buy like local feathers and shit but it does take up a lot of space and you’d be surprised at how expensive some of the materials can be
Relevant and interesting if you’ve never heard the story.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/great-feather-heist-180968408/
Every collecting hobby is definitionally a hoarding hobby.
Any “retro” collection. Old video games, for instance. In many cases, the barrier to entry is sky high, because there are very few old consoles or games on the market; The collectors have bought all of them, and are never planning on selling.
I had to give up my retro game collection when I moved and I realized how long overdue it was. I hope someone out there is enjoying my old consoles and games.
If I were a collector, this would be my thing.
I am not a collector though. I don’t have the house for it and I don’t want a house big enough to be able to do that.
Hams maybe. All the different electronic components, radios, cables, and parts they collect over the years. And before you know it, the antennas are through the roof!
I grew up near a guy with literally dozens of towers on his land. He would get paid to decommission old towers then he’d put them up at his place rather than scrapping them.
The antennas can be a lot more than just through the roof.
Cars because they are so big, and ugly when in disrepair. Small scale hoarding is a small scale problem.
They’re also wasteful pollution machines when they’re run, and for no practical purpose. They’re just toys to these people.
To be fair, the same can be said about most forms of entertainment.
Same as the social media servers you utilize and the streaming services that you utilize.
Data centers use a ton of power for subjectively no practical purpose.
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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.
3d printing, if you start it’s a wormhole, where you end up wanting more and more different types of printers, print a lot of useless crap, have a lot of filament lying around, and spare parts. Not as space consuming as automotive or woodwork etc but if you live in a small apartment without a dedicated room for hobbies it can get pretty crazy.
I keep trying to get into it. I have one and do some neat things with it. But personally. I’ve found it to just be another tool to fabricate for some other projects. But the little knick knacks keep being the main models showing up on printables and thingiverse.
I’d love to see a repository of 3d models of parts for various machinery and car parts. My entire interior is basically molded abs, why aren’t there models of all those pieces I can just print?
I wonder if one of those 3d phone scanning apps would be enough for something like that with a few measurements.
I’ve read some really good answers, but imo there isn’t a worst type. This will vary from person to person, some people don’t get buried under the whatever they buy and others do, regardless of what their interests are.
The reptile-keeping hobby. ):
