Is it right or wrong to hoard videogames ? i admit i am a hoarder of these things ! i have updated my info to show this.
I think not everybody agrees on what a hoarder is. Some people would suggest that people who have collections like Tatsujin (26 pages iirc in the collections subforum) are hoarders, when he's more of a collector and enjoys the games. However there are people who buy up absolutely everything obsessively, these people are hoarders in my opinion as they buy up everything regardless of price, i guess you could lump in scalpers with these but those people are just dicks and dont do it obsessively. After my mum passed we got a hold of a lot of the things she had in her house. She was the definition of a hoarder, but she only bought cheap to sell at car boots (that was how she made her money), I'd say we only took 1/4 of the items from her house and it left the house I live in now full tbh, boxes everywhere including the loft. I'm just now starting to filter the items out (and making a decent amount of money) and it scares me the amount of things she has, and because my aunt was the one who took items from her house, how much items of value were left there. Both sentimental and valuable. My first computer was at that house, as was a small comic collection and some mint in packaging figures.
Hoarding is collecting to fill an emotional dysfunction , it is the inability to not collect items. Collecting is intentionally seeking out items , choosing what you want. Hoarders just pick up anything and everything. Empty boxes, old clothes, used tires. You are not, by any measure a hoarder. You may be perhaps a bit lacking in direction or self restraint. Obsessive compulsiveness can be confused for hoarding. Basically there is a simple test: The inability or unwillingness to discard large quantities of objects of seemingly no value. Throwing something away will cause intense emotional distress, to the point of breakdown. This is a hoarder.
I used to be a total videogame hoarder, picking up anything and everything even vaguely related to them, I'm only now starting to sift through it all and sell some stuff on. I think focussing on dreamcast collecting has allowed me to see how much crap I really don't want or need, I even had a copy of "the lion and the king" on ps1. Nobody in the entire history of the world has ever wanted that lol
I don't think I'm a hoarder - I have given away/sold parts of my collection. very small parts but I've done it.
You aren't a hoarder if you can part with any of it. Hoarding is a mental illness. You might be a tiny bit obsessive complusive.
I couldn't part with it before, just the thought of getting rid of even the crap made me feel physically ill, I was practically drowning in it all. I don't know what changed really
You were surrounded by it constantly. A total lack of space and realized you'd wasted your life on these things. It's what happened to me.
Oh man, come one... calling a crazy video game collector a hoarder is like calling a wine taster an alcoholic. Hoarder: Someone hoarding video games: There's just different kinds of collectors. For instance there are those who pick up every piece of loose crappy trash and opposite to that sealed collectors who put new items in plastic boxes for eternity.
lol thats how its starting to be I have no room for any next gen systems i dont even have a ps vita , 3DS or PS3
Tatsujin is a hoarder due to his need to buy every PC Engine CD System card he can find. XD I am a hoarder if only as my collection is sitting in a dry strong room, in a secure car park, in a secure building in the place in the UK that has one of the lowest crime rates and that I have not seen some of it for the last 8 years... games I bought that I have not even taken out to play.
I should show my family this thread, they think I'm a hoarder cause I continually buy games and just place them in my draws.
LOL you should tell them that you aint bad and show them some of the enormous collections on here that will change their minds XD
I sometimes feel like I'm hoarding Clock Tower & Haunting Ground stuff, but the thing is I also document everything and translate stuff too to share with the fanbase so I don't feel too bad about it. I'm probably a bit OCD because I've gone through different phases or hording and collecting crap since I was little. Coin collecting, gemstones, first edition novels (I do admit, I still collect some Enid Blyton ones purely because when I see one in a shop for $1.50, I can't exactly pass that up when I know the actual value of some of those books >_>; ) and so-on. Too much to list. That and I used to practically buy any VG stuff or related stuff as a kid and since then, I've narrowed my lot down to this older series after giving up on trying to get all of the Final Fantasy, Biohazard/Resident Evil stuff because there's way too much crap for me to pick up or that I would really want related to everything. And I probably have also taken a liking to seeing what Decades collects (Biohazard & Silent Hill stuff) which did inspire me to start documenting the items I have or know of because it's a bit hard to find things when there's no definitive lot of information, so I think that collecting is also a good base to get a decent lot of information regarding items that some may not even know the existence of in contrast to buying whatever you see regardless and just tossing it somewhere to never be used, looked at or documented ever again.
I wouldn't call a collection "pathological" (hoarding, OCD, compulsive, whatever) unless it's interfering with the rest of your life, making you unhappy, or genuinely out of your control.
