First post, by Half-Saint
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- Oldbie
Yes, I am one... any way I look at it, I'm a hoarder and it's bad.
It all began around 2001 when I started visiting the local flea market. I was mainly looking for old computers such as the C-64, Spectrum etc. Every time I saw a cheap C-64, I had to buy it. I ended up with about 30 machines, almost a third of them C-64 😀 After a while, I decided that space won't permit any more purchases so I stopped.
Fast forward a couple of years and a new apartment, I bought a huge collection of boxed PC games. Sold about half of it, still have some 30-40 boxed games today plus at least 50 tapes. My next craze became mechanical keyboards which I kept buying as long as I had the money.
My latest obsession are now retro systems. Don't get me started on that one...
And now the turning point... I lost my job for the 2nd time in May 2012 and started my own business in December 2012. The business is not going well and I'm forced to sell parts of my collection just to keep things afloat. There are some pretty valuable items in it but still clinging to the best stuff 😁 My hoard hasn't decreased significantly because I now have a new source - the junkyard or as they call it, the sorting facility.
Owning all of this stuff is making my life difficult. Having to keep track of it all, having no space for the stuff that I need, my workplace is turning into a warehouse... yet I can't give it up! Anyone else having this problem and how do you manage?