Stuff

[Steve McCarty]

There is a collector mentality and one either has it or not. Collectors will collect almost anything, from shot glasses to shotguns....and then there is everything else. The mania can get out of hand, so we must be careful.

I collect guns, books and Old West tintypes. My tintype collection is out of this world, but so are my guns and books....oh well.

[C.O.B.]

I call it collecting, others refer to it as hoarding.

[Steve McCarty]

Originally Posted by Rich Anderson

I call it collecting, others refer to it as hoarding.

As I consider your post I conclude that a hoarder hoards everything, even garbage. They fill their homes with stuff of all kinds of unrelated things. This is a sickness. People who do this need help.

Collectors collect certain catagories of things. A gun collector will pass by a '55 Chevy for instance....okay; the Chevy has to come along too.

So, I think there is a difference between a hoarder and a collector. Hoarding is a mania.....collecting is not - sorta, but I do think the two are related to some degree.

[C.O.B.]

Perhaps those that refer to my "collecting" arn't that well informed. Somehow I haven't convinced anyone that two totes of 16ga empties are collectible I defer to the rationale that they won't spoil, don't go out of style, have future use and don't cost or eat anything. Therefor they have value and therefor are "collectible"

[Steve McCarty]

Originally Posted by Rich Anderson

Perhaps those that refer to my "collecting" arn't that well informed. Somehow I haven't convinced anyone that two totes of 16ga empties are collectible I defer to the rationale that they won't spoil, don't go out of style, have future use and don't cost or eat anything. Therefor they have value and therefor are "collectible"

Paper or plastic?

[C.O.B.]

Plastic. 2 1/2 inch Purple RST

[Grantham Forester]

I am certain that I have read several pieces by the late Gene Hill dealing with all the postings herein. There is a comfort level with older, well-worn and well-used, but cared for: guns, decoys, calls, dog collars. Maybe we all want to return to the by-gone days seen by Nash Buckingham, Havilah Babcock, Corey Ford and now, Gene Hill too! I think Gene expressed part of this "collecting" best in "The Stranger"!!my favorite!!

[Bill Murphy]

What a coincidence. I almost don't need any more either, and on the exact same day as Steve. Imagine that.

[Bill Murphy]

Good news, Linda never gives me grief about the wood decoys because her Dad carved every one of them. Well, almost all of them. There is a trophy pair that represented my previous ability to shoot good skeet, and a McGaw canvasback from a good friend's massive family rig. It was a present from him after I presented him with his last bring 'em back dog. Linda is not fond of the non wood decoys in the basement, though, since they haven't been in the water since her Dad passed away about fifteen years ago. I guess I could let them go. As for calls, even though I shouldn't be allowed to use them, they take up very little room and I don't think Linda knows about them, except the few that hang next to the kitchen door. They are there in case of the flyovers that happen regularly during the early resident Canada season. Linda thinks I own three calls, all three goose calls. I hope no one will ever accuse me of hoarding. Well, I guess there are the bird vests.

[Blind Dog]

Probably an accumulator, somewhere between a collector and a hoarder, mostly due to a procratinatory tendency; slow to suck up and get rid of the useless.