Just because I collect things don't make me an official hoarder!

Dallas, Texas
May 15, 2016 10:39am CST
I don't consider myself a hoarder. There is plenty of room in my man cave to get around. In fact mostly everything is packed and stacked against the wall in one corner and I am able to get to the dresser for stuff and I have a book shelf that is only partially blocked by two keyboards and several paintings in frames, that will eventually grace the walls of the other bedroom when I make it my new man cave. This cave will be redecorated so my wife can have this room made up for our new master bedroom as it is larger than the back bedroom. Our Queen size bed takes up more room than our original full size bed. This cave is going to have to see this stuff removed however, and I realize this. But just because I have this stuff don't mean I am an undocumented un-diagnosed grade A hoarder. The biggest challenge will be for me to disconnect all of my computer components and then contact AT&T about placing an Ethernet cable line to the back of the computer via a new port on the lower wall in the back bedroom when I eventually get this room done. It will take a year to get the money together to hire contractors to replace: 1. Ceiling Drywall 2. One small wood framed window on the east side of the room, along with removal of damaged drywall just underneath it. 3. Replacement of any rotted or damaged boards inside the framework of the outer wall around and underneath the old window. 4. Tape and Bed the wall under the new window, 5. Insulate in and around this new window 6. Tape and bed the ceiling where the old Drywall was removed and replaced. 7. Finally, painting the entire room and placing brand new carpet on the floor and finally putting the Queen Size bed and dressers in side. 8. Taking all this stuff out and putting it in the old bed room 9. Buying a new desk and chair and getting the computer, the monitor, the stereo speakers, the printer, and the Ethernet and USB cables as well as power all connected using color coded tape with labels marked on each so every single wire will go back into it's correct input and output. Then I will have to deal with all the small items and decide if I really want to keep them or donate them all to a charity like The Good Will. Meantime I am glad I am quite a few or even several more months from having the funds to pay a contractor so meantime I am here in the old man cave, the future master bedroom, typing myself silly at myLot.
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@akalinus (40769)
• United States
15 May 16
Remodeling is always a mess. There is no help for that but you will be happy when it is all put together the way you like it.
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@akalinus (40769)
• United States
15 May 16
@lookatdesktop We just do the best we can with what we have.
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• Dallas, Texas
15 May 16
@akalinus I would still like to have Trump as my financial backer. lol
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• Dallas, Texas
15 May 16
I would need to have Donald Trump as my backer to do that.
@jndlponti (2402)
• Philippines
15 May 16
Sounds like a good project is coming up which also means a good amount of cash will be spend for that. Hope you find a good constructor who works things the way you wanted it to be without overcharging you with anything. Let us here some updates again of this man cave when it becomes a masters bedroom already.
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• Dallas, Texas
15 May 16
I can hardly picture this room empty, but then I took architecture classes for years and have some stuff in a box for all the architecture drawings I can if I want to, design houses that can store lots of stuff. I embrace my stuff with passion and compassion. But then, my treasures, be they modest at best, are my wife's version of hell's collections. so to speak. She hates all my stuff, except for my computer and my pictures. All the rest could be donated but that is her opinion. I don't tell her to get rid of her stuff nor do I make her feel bad about collecting purses and recipe books. I like recipe books anyway and so, the purses are her passion. Yours might be collecting vintage antique furniture and hand crafts. I don't know. but we all have our own hell of sorts as far as going through our collections and we all have to somehow learn to either live with the stuff or get rid of it so we can start all over collecting more new stuff. The process is life long. It never ends.
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@jndlponti (2402)
• Philippines
15 May 16
@lookatdesktop very well said.. yes we all.have different things we live to collect.. my husnad is fond of collecting shoes, bought them one by one but use it once or maybe never, he just like it. At first it thought of it as an expensive mess. But then come to think of it we all have different passion. So I had ask a carpenter who do best with fornjtures to make him a cabenit just for his shoes. The some part of it could be kept close and some part of it are open for those shoes which he likes to be displayed. Just hang on their. You will sort out later on on how you would find some ways that your wife won't be bothered about it anymore.
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• Dallas, Texas
15 May 16
@jndlponti , I like this idea. It is a good one.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
15 May 16
That sounds like quite a job you have ahead of you just finding the right contractors and then the windows and all the computer stuff and last but not least all your stuff.
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• Dallas, Texas
15 May 16
My stuff is just that, my stuff. My wife has her stuff. I have mine and we also have our stuff. It's the American way. If you think about it, Retail stores, especially the ones in America, are full of so much stuff that it's basically crazy.
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@carebear29 (31962)
• Wausau, Wisconsin
15 May 16
My husband totally loved your post. He is like a hoarder himself and when he read this, it made him laugh and say I told you so
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• Dallas, Texas
15 May 16
Good for him. I am glad he got a giggle out of this. lol.
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@miniam (9154)
• Bern, Switzerland
15 May 16
Having alot of stuff does not make you a hoarder, l have minimum 2 of almost everything but it does not make me a hoarder nor do i consider myself 1, it`s about what you need and want in your life.
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• Dallas, Texas
15 May 16
Things are harder and harder to come by. I never know when I might need a pair of scissors, sharp ones, some screws and other things like scotch tape or a set of reading glasses. There are so many things I depend on that if I just threw it all out I would just have to go out and buy more. Why not work with the stuff by taking the effort forward putting things in proper places, and being more organized?
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@miniam (9154)
• Bern, Switzerland
15 May 16
@lookatdesktop Same here,dont want to run out then go buy new one, so i hang on to what i have
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