The way I see it is Hoarding is getting something with the intent of holding onto it until you can make a profit with no concern about the item itself. Not that making a profit is wrong, I rarely sell things at a loss though I give A LOT of stuff away for free.
Collecting is more about the item with little or no concern to making a profit. It's really hard to keep from hoarding sometimes when you have something of real value. I havwe a rule about bike parts, I don't spend any money on bike parts that I didn't make selling bike parts. This rule sometimes makes me think in hoarding terms and I try my best to avoid that. In the early days of my "collecting" I also hoarded all the wrong things, so that's kept me from beliving in profit in bike parts.
enjoy, Brandon"monkeyman"Ives 72-deg santa barbara,ca
"Nobody can do everything, but if everybody did something everything would get done." Gil Scott-Heron
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Chuck Schmidt wrote:
> New subject: Hoarding or Collecting
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> Compare and contrast.