Hoarders...?

Oh, this thread hits home. My dad is a hoarder. Thank goodness my mom isn't or the whole house would be nothing but paths. We have two large barns and another small home full of shit. 90% of it should be thrown away, in my opinion. It's crazy the stuff he can't let go. We have newspapers, 1980's computers, used foam boards, every car we have ever owned, old building materials. Hell, he brings home all kinds of crap. We just auctioned my grandpa's estate, and you should have seen the time he spent going through all the trash. I dread the day he's gone. It's going to be a ton of work. Maybe a big bonfire would do the trick.

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To some extent I'm border line hoarder myself,but to me it all has a monetary value tied to it,whether it should or not.Who realy needs seven sm465's,50 driveshafts and 25lbs of dana 44 spindle nuts?? To my defense I usually have one big clean out a year that weeds some of it out.
 
My granddaddy was a hoarder. He grew up in Southwest Georgia during the Depression when you didn't throw anything away. When he passed, my dad, brothers, and I got a 40ton dumpster delivered to the house. We cleaned out the garage and two barns. He had about $1000 worth of aluminum cans that we carried to the recycler. Everything else was just trash and junk. We found his old woodworking and cabinet making tools that had been buried for years.

I think I inherited some of his traits. I'll keep anything of value or if it has any kind of usefulness. Most times, after something has been thrown away, I find a need or a use for it.

The MIL has about two Hallmark stores worth of Christmas decorations in the attic though..We've found ornaments and other decorations still in the box that she has forgotten about.
 
We bought a house almost two years ago from an elderly couple that had lived here since 1961. We've been throwing things away ever since.

Amongst the things we've found: half a pack of Scott napkins from 1964. A black trash bag full of sweet gum balls. Two black trash bags full of airline boarding passes. A couple hundred golf clubs. About 1000# of NIB BMW parts.

Yesterday, I rounded up the latest pile of shit out of one of the sheds. Found a gallon zip lock bag of Christmas cards (including Billy Graham's 1997 card), another gallon bag of church programs, and a tuna tin full of pull tabs from milk or juice cans.

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RobMcBee said:
I'm not as bad as these stories, but I do find myself a bit of a hoarder. Usually because if I throw something away, a week later I'll need it. Never fails.....


Had a friend when I lived in Columbia SC though... his mom was a hoarder. The typical old newspapers and dirt.... I swear this woman never cleaned. One night we were out drinking and decided to just crash at his moms place. She lived just a few blocks from 5 points. Woke up with the smell of cat piss and just total stench! I had laid my coat down on the couch and slept on top of it.... tried washing the smell out but wound up throwing away the coat and the clothes I had on that night. Funny thing is he swears to this day that she didn't have any cats....
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I think your drunk friend just pissed on you! Haha


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I guess I need to come clean about this. I.....am a tool hoarder.
I inherited my grandfather's cache as well as my dad's, and my neighbors. My most prized pieces are old Proto, Williams, Herbrand, New Britain and S&K that go back 60-100 years. If I find an old tool box (presumably) full of sockets or wrenches on side of the road, I will lock up the brakes and plow over mailboxes, innocent pedestrians to grab it. I have a 15 ton floor jack that I rescued out of the trash when I worked with a pavement marking crew. Some jack leg tried to lift the whole front half of an International 4900 ( iirc it was a DT466) with it on a gravel surface and bent the frame of the jack all to hell, rendering it unusable, or so they thought.
The thought of somebody throwing away a tool of any kind makes me want to punch someone straight in the teeth repeatedly. I have stuff in my collection that I have no idea how to use. But who knows when I might need to do roadside assistance on a Sherman tank, or build a 32' yacht in the backyard, and come to think of it, those 5/8 drive sockets that I don't even have a ratchet for come in handy all the damn time. (No, they're not for sale! Piss off).Oh wait, and that 100' extension cord that got cut 33' in just became a 66.5' cord that's better than yours. Ever used 4 hand trucks at one time? Me either, but I have that option.

Intervention over. I'm going to wrench on something.
 
XJsavage said:
I guess I need to come clean about this. I.....am a tool hoarder.
I inherited my grandfather's cache as well as my dad's, and my neighbors. My most prized pieces are old Proto, Williams, Herbrand, New Britain and S&K that go back 60-100 years. If I find an old tool box (presumably) full of sockets or wrenches on side of the road, I will lock up the brakes and plow over mailboxes, innocent pedestrians to grab it. I have a 15 ton floor jack that I rescued out of the trash when I worked with a pavement marking crew. Some jack leg tried to lift the whole front half of an International 4900 ( iirc it was a DT466) with it on a gravel surface and bent the frame of the jack all to hell, rendering it unusable, or so they thought.
The thought of somebody throwing away a tool of any kind makes me want to punch someone straight in the teeth repeatedly. I have stuff in my collection that I have no idea how to use. But who knows when I might need to do roadside assistance on a Sherman tank, or build a 32' yacht in the backyard, and come to think of it, those 5/8 drive sockets that I don't even have a ratchet for come in handy all the damn time. (No, they're not for sale! Piss off).Oh wait, and that 100' extension cord that got cut 33' in just became a 66.5' cord that's better than yours. Ever used 4 hand trucks at one time? Me either, but I have that option.

Intervention over. I'm going to wrench on something.
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But you sold me a damn nice drill press.
 
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