What do you hoard?

[Tractor boy 239]

I Saw this topic on mtf. So I figured id give it a shot,  Im notorious for collecting hardware especially before I got my license. After that happened the amount of stock went up. I have so many of those spring clamps for fuel line, I scrap about a dozen lawnmower batteries and more parts then i could count every year from work. I probably have 5 feet of 2-3 inch long scraps of fuel line and just as many junk filters. So what do you hoard? 

[JAinVA 4,619]

Tractors and 78 Ford trucks.

[Stepney 2,325]

LawnBoy's and LawnBoy Accessories.

[Herder 2,354]

15 minutes ago, JAinVA said:

Tractors and 78 Ford trucks.

We share similar vices.  A crap load of tractors and a 76 Ford truck.     

[Herder 2,354]

I hoard all the things I like.  Cars, trucks, engines, tools and clearly I have some type of obsession with tractor!!!  God only knows what's next.  

[ebinmaine 67,274]

Louis Lamour books. A LOT of books really.

Between Trina and I we have hundreds....

 

 

General hardware like nuts bolts etc.

 

Scrap wood. Neither one of us can throw away scrap wood pieces.

 

 

[JAinVA 4,619]

I don't throw away wood scraps either .I turn them into heat and smoke!

Edited August 1, 2019 by JAinVA

[rjg854 11,350]

 

[ebinmaine 67,274]

Just now, JAinVA said:

I don't throw away wood scraps either .I turn them into heat and smoke!

We do the same thing after they sit and take up space for awhile.

[JAinVA 4,619]

Some of the little guys.BIgger brother in the background

Edited August 1, 2019 by JAinVA

[ACman 7,618]

Besides tractors it parts. I was going to start a “ I spy “ thread with these pictures.

 

[elcamino/wheelhorse 9,296]

Copies of all my wife's medical bills since 2013 ( all related to her back ) I have a problem TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much paper.

[The Tuul Crib 7,336]

Im with @ebinmaine about the scrape 

wood . Alot of times just add glue 

and make BIGGER scraps! Because 

of the  length of time it takes to make 

wood its a shame to burn it sorry

@JAinVA !!

[ohiofarmer 3,265]

Motorcycles. all honda from 1972 to 1984.From 100 cc to 1200 cc. It is a shame, really because a recent crash has me rethinking whether or not it is worth it.

[Pullstart 62,791]

Not much.  Nope.

 

tractors, trucks, four wheelers, tools, parts, v8’s, snow plows, wood and steel scraps, repeat

 

 

[ebinmaine 67,274]

4 hours ago, pullstart said:

Not much.  Nope.

 

tractors, trucks, four wheelers, tools, parts, v8’s, snow plows, wood and steel scraps, repeat

 

 

 

 

V8. +. Tractor....

 

Hhmmmmm......

[Pullstart 62,791]

2 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

 

 

V8. +. Tractor....

 

Hhmmmmm......

 

I have a Suburban in my driveway / lot that has two V8’s...  one’s just in the back hatch though...  

[The Tuul Crib 7,336]

They make mini v8s !

[bottjernat1 2,190]

Well i hoard lots of different stuff. Specially since my dad took his life in 2016. I have 16 garden tractors many parts, also new parts because he was a stens parts dealer. I have lots of very old rr lanterns, coin collection, dukes of hazzard stuff, toy tractors,bird figures,manuals, guns,signs. i am a collector/ hoarder of all sorts of stuff. My wife says i am a collector of buildings LOL because i have 3 different building with all my crap in it. LOL But i take lots of pride in my garden tractors because what i have alot of it was my late dads. I will most likely keep everything i have as of right now. I have sold a few things but i have kept what my dad loved the most. and i have kept what he gave to all 3 of my girls(which was wheelhorses) i told them they cant sell them till they move out on there own then they can do what they want. 

[formariz 11,987]

To specifically answer the question, I basically hoard anything and everything related to my profession or interests. They range from woodworking tools needed or not, wood scraps which many times become problematic, tractor parts, etc,etc.Now, what may be more interesting, and what will give people an understanding why we do this is I think the important part of it. With the current TV shows on the subject most people look to it as to somewhat of a mental problem, and I agree that it many times it may be, specially when it affects your well being and your family. However I know that is not the case with me nor with many of us that I know.

To me it is mainly what was embedded into my personality since a young age. The attitude of not wasting anything and finding usefulness in what many would consider garbage. Along with it is the need of self reliability in making do with what you have without resorting every time to running out to purchase something . There is a common statement here in the neighborhood by many neighbors, that if you need something before you run to Home Depot , stop and see Cas. More often than not they go no further than my house. It is an extremely satisfying feeling to me to improvise from anything that I have, and never ceases to amaze me how many different uses objects that are considered garbage or useless by most have.

Many times also stuff comes to me in the most unusual circumstances. Recently an elderly very good friend also a woodworker all of his life had to sell his home due to illness and the inability to live alone. Sure enough the whole family and children descended on his home clearing everything out to sell the house. In his basement and shop he had a lifetime of accumulation as we all can imagine. Screws, hardware, exotic wood scraps,tools and so on. They started throwing stuff out and immediately it became a serious issue where they were basically literally killing him. So unknown to him they asked me if I could help them with some of this stuff. All I can say is that when he saw me there he started ranting on how no one understood how much good stuff was there and how long he had worked and saved all of it. That his son runs to the hardware store for everything and all that he needs is there and then he complains that he has no money.

So, even though I have no real need for it, what was I to do? Definitely not convince him to throw it all out . I asked him if I could have it all. The only answer I got was having an 82 year old man hugging me while he cried. For the next two days I made four trips to that basement with my van, as he peacefully watched me with a smile and a sense of serenity about him. Occasionally as I picked up certain items, he would tell me the story behind it and how he came about it. I asked him if I could pay him for the stuff and he merely touched my face and said," you already have".

[oldiron613 583]

Anything that I think is cool and affordable at the time.

[elcamino/wheelhorse 9,296]

I really don't throw away anything I might reuse. Wood scraps heat the shop ,any metal is stored , nuts , bolts separated in to bins , jars coffee cans , tools for anything and everything all over the place . I have a large wooden box with various old tools that I have no idea what they are ( don't ask for pictures the box is at the bottom of the pile ) . I think my problem was handed down from my parents . Both born before the Great Depression . They can up the hard way , no money for anything so they saved everything and took anything that was given away. Way to too many examples of their hoarding but one example. In 1965 I wrecked a 1953 Chrysler ,it was totaled. Fast forward to spring on 1992 after my father died in 1991. My mother wanted all the little buildings and garage  cleaned out. My brothers and I carried 4 pick up loads to the dump and 2  pick load loads of metal to the scrap yard. In the back of the garage were 4 tires on rims form the 1953 Chrysler. Dad saved everything including bent nails ( don't ask ).

[JoeM 7,871]

I have trouble getting rid of left over used parts, pieces of metal especially.

i know I'm not as bad as my dad, he would even pull nails, straighten them and put them coffee cans. 

About 30 years ago, when my son was 4, we went down to dads to use the garage. My son was in to everything, so I found a chunk of timber gave him a hammer and a can of those old rusty nails. That wood looked like a pocupine! Dad came down to the garage and you would have thought i cut off one of his fingers!  Oh my we used those golden rusty nails! 

I am slowly loosing my affection for clutter. 

Just one of my left over piles. 

[Yossarian 208]

I am also genetically predisposed to lumber hoarding and nail pulling.  Never in my life have I passed by a dumpster with a board sticking out of it.  When I was a kid my dad put a sizeable two room addition on the house. Almost all of the framing was done with lumber from a large old corncrib on the property. I pull hardware off anything that does make it into the garbage  Pocket knives and flashlights are another weakness. I also seem to have trouble walking past old Coleman stoves and lanterns at flea markets and garage sales. I'm sure if my wife were to chime in the list would be much longer.

[ebinmaine 67,274]

6 hours ago, Yossarian said:

genetically predisposed to lumber hoarding and nail pulling

That's funny right there.

 

 

I wonder if there's a strand of our DNA we could narrow it down to?