The Psychology Of Collecting

My mother in law died recently and we have been cleaning the home out to get it on the market.  She wasn’t a hoarder, thankfully, but we have interviewed different Estate Sales vendors and some of the stories they tell about homes that they have been in are fascinating.

It is known, even though not entirely accurate as a historical fact, that when Thomas Crapper invented the Flush Toilet (incorrect) created a mass produced product to be used as a Flush Toilet (correct). Individuals were now more regularly passing motions in their unnatural posture.

The unnatural posture results in a partial excrement, leaving waste within the Bowel and hence increased needs to clean the Bowel with a wipe.

Wipes in the excess used today are pretty much a growing market for approx' 150 years in the western world. People in general are very concerned about the cleanliness of such a area on the body, it is not uncommon to domestic use packages of Wipes being sold as 36 x Rolls, not running out is a dominating  factor in the minds of the average individual. Suggest Supplies of Wipes are to be threatened and that is an equivalent to a unavoidable Armageddon.

 The difference between a Typical Hoarder and a Hoarder of Wipes used as a cleaning aid following a use of a Toilet. Is that the Typical Hoarder can't bear the thought of parting with their hoarded goods. Where as the Wipe Hoarder can't wait to diminish their Hoard and get out and replenish it to the quantities funds will allow for. 

Apparently COSCO have substantial sized Packages of Wipes immediately ready to be added to the trolley, as this settles the shopper, and makes them more at ease with the purse strings being opened as they are routed through the Store.

Are collecting and hoarding the same thing?  There are some members here that have every single reissue of a favorite record album.  That’s collecting.  Hoarding would be having a home filled with cases of T.P., or so filled with random junk that one can’t move about 

Mr. Whipple

If an individual is fortunate enough to collect / hoard items that are appreciating in value, heirs of such collections will say:

"Even though he was an eccentric hoarder, he was also a Wise Investor. Aren't I lucky the Wealth was not left to the local Cat Rescue Charity.  God Bless for putting me in the Will, they won't be needing any of it anymore. Shame I have a expensive Item to find a buyer for, Cash would have been better".