Collecting versus Hoarding Research reveals that 1 in 4 people involve themselves in collecting some sort of item of interest. This isn’t surprising as we often tend to engage ourselves in collecting items such as stamps, coins, figurines, curios and other items. Consider this situation. You have several shelves in your personal library stacked with video game CDs. Additionally; you have some unsorted and age-old CDs lying in several boxes in the storeroom. Is it hoarding? The answer is no. Then, where to draw the line between a collection and a hoard? Both involve buying lots of stuff and storing them. Upon careful comparison of both situations,
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