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’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.
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.
The reptile-keeping hobby. ):
Is this a place to cast shade or self reflect? In the former experimental scientist. They have closets of oscilliscopes, vacuum pumps, cryostats. Enough to furnish 3 or more labs. They always say they’ll use it, but the pile only gets bigger.
For me, I have the opposite problen in general. I throw everything away and end up buying or making new shit. Worst is probably code. Fuck making a repo. This is a one off. I can write the same code 3 times before I keep it, but I like to say that is what makes me a decent programmer. And I’ll keep telling myself that until I die.
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/
My first answer would have been retro game collecting, but that’s already been discussed, so I’ll posit custom PC building. That’s a hobby rife with keeping spare parts “just in case”.
Source: Self
I feel like you’re attacking me for my
drawerboxcratetotestorage rental of cables…As shit, I’ve got one of those for spare car parts…
Oh man, the car parts one take up so much space too.
Do I need three exhausts for my WRX? Nope, but I keep banging them up off reading.
3 engine blocks, all needing some form of rebuilding. Mostly just new bearings. Or an entire extra wire harness because in the last rebuild it was just easier to buy a new one.
All my old shocks and springs after I replaced them with outback gear.
And that’s just what fits on the car. I’ve got big brake kits for cars I don’t even own! But they’re like $2k if I can ever find a buyer.
No no, I’m sure my box of IDE Hard Drives & CD Burners will be of use to me at some point…
You laugh and you joke but I stumbled into a PS2 original, the fat one, with a network adapter so you can slot a hard drive in. I went into my spare parts and pulled out an old IDE hard drive, as the PS2 was before the spread of SATA (I think even before SATA was announced) and it popped right in and guess who doesn’t have to worry about discs
I’m sure if you add up all those hard drives, there’s like 1 GB of storage! That’s valuable, right?
This is the one hobby where you actually might use the thing you’re hoarding just in case.
True. But do I really need all those case fans that I’m holding onto? Or that big bag of DDR3? Probably not but it’s cool ok…
All I can say is that you’ll need them within 6 - 12 months of getting rid of them.
last week i needed the dvi to hdmi converter cable i’ve been saving in my cable hoard for like 8 years and i have never felt so validated
Nice! So vindicating when that happens.
but it is a double edged sword, lol. now that i have proved to myself that those cables really will come in handy one day, i am forever stuck with a slowly growing stash of cables!
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.
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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.
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.
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.
antique airplane restoration. So many parts, so many unreplaceable parts, soo many tools, soo many large parts as well.
sounds like a Lego builder
Everything that has yarn.
Yarn just seems to take over a home everywhere I’ve seen it.
I pretty much had to set a limit with my wife. Like you can have these 4 giant tote bins filled with yarn supplies and two baskets of projects in progress but if you want more than that you have to give some away.
I had to make a boundary because it was getting out of hand.
I got rid of all my yarn one day last year because I was overwhelmed. Haven’t gotten any since but I really want to get back into knitting/crocheting. I’m afraid I’ll just end up with way too much again
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.
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.
I know people are giving some very good examples, but a pet that can easily turn into a hoarding hobby is hamsters. You get one, get super attached, and then three years later whoopsie doodle, the living room is filled floor to ceiling with cages for all twelve of your little dudes.
This is just due to how much space the little guys need. In the wild hamsters will viciously defend miles of land, so bigger cages are always better. As a general rule, an ideal cage should have 900 sq inches of space and be at least 2 feet deep to allow several inches of bedding. So, one little dude will take up at least 12.5 cubic feet of your living room, or .07 cubic smoots for our friends across the pond. This adds up fast, and it can be easy to get in over your head because each individual little dude requires so little cage cleaning per month.
Yep, but imagine a Klingon falling in love with the warrior spirit of the fearless tribble. That’s basically the appeal of a hamster.
Automotive, back yards becoming junkyards of old cars that “will be fixed one day”. Piles of used oil, broken parts, tools that are for only one purpose. Extra car parts, that may or may not work.
