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.
You must have met my wife. My oath, the amount of fucking yarn and fabric in her stacked to the ceiling sewing room is horrendous. She couldn’t knit enough blankets in her lifetime to use up half of it.
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.
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.
Collecting stuff is basically the ultimate hoarder hobby.
I collect rocks and yes the clock is a rock
Crafters are definitely up there, overall - but I think wargamers might beat them. Hundreds to thousands of models, paints, brushes, terrain, carrying cases, books - it adds up to a hoard of epic proportions. That’s just personal experience though. Lego fans can also get to be out there, and TCG players.
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Everything that has yarn.
Yarn just seems to take over a home everywhere I’ve seen it.
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
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.
Backpacking. I have a big plastic bin filled with equipment that I decided to go another direction with.
But makers are the kings of hobby hoarding, just look at Adam Savage. He has parts for things he hasn’t even thought of building. He has a plethora of tools that overlap entirely just because the set of tools is closer to a given work aspect. Walls of bins with various degrees of filled because he bought 100 of something a decade ago that may have a future use.
Perfect example.
Opposite with me. I’ve got 25+ years of hiking in, never been a gearhead. That shit’s expensive. I buy one and make it work until it don’t work no more
My first backpacking trip, my bag was 40lbs. I said fuck that jazz, and now my pack is 20lbs and it has made trips so much better.
The ultralight stuff is a whole new set of gear I’ve considered buying but don’t know if I’ll use it enough to be worth it. My old school ass carries about 50lbs on a weekend trip though it drops fast as I eat up the food and drink the beer. I managed this for decades while my body weight was about 130lbs. Now I’m at 170 with plantar fasciitis, mild arthritis and possibly Covid lingering effects.
The rare occasion that “the thing” ends up being exactly what you needed is incredible, though.
It’s almost always whatever you you threw out last week though.
Or what you put in a storage unit that is inconveniently far away. I still need those 5mm magnets…
Adams cave is so beautiful and well ordered these days. He’s the best kind of hoarder.
Those videos are so relaxing to watch
collecting
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.
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.
To be fair, the same can be said about most forms of entertainment.
I have a friend who is a car guy who owns both a scrapyard and a storage lot due to the fees he was racking up with his hobby.
Warhammer.
The reptile-keeping hobby. ):
Fishing. 5 bucks here and there, it adds up. Even more so, fly fishing. I have some many materials
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.
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
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!
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…
No no, I’m sure my box of IDE Hard Drives & CD Burners will be of use to me at some point…
I’m sure if you add up all those hard drives, there’s like 1 GB of storage! That’s valuable, right?
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
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