Amp, you are denying the reality of some situations, and insisting on the reality of others being the probable cause.
Have a few examples.
My mother in law is a hoarder. She has a rotting, broken wooden storage shed in her back yard, and I guess that it is 12 x10 or so. No, it doesn't have a lawn mower, chipper, tiller, or even engine parts in it. It is filled almost wall to wall with plastic totes full of fabric scraps. SCRAP. she has entire rooms filled wall to wall with garbage. My wife and family have gone over and had interventions several times, and she fights every step. My wife has been bringing home bags and boxes of records and mail, I have to sort through them and scrap the stuff. She keeps JUNK MAIL. catalogs. Spam. publisher's clearing house, change your bank or card, buy this insurance...
I was going through her tools during one of them. I found a few rusty little screws and she caught me getting ready to drop them into the trash. She got angry, took them from me, found a jar and put them away.
Her children are similar. two of them are almost as crazy as she is. One had a collection of over a dozen broken vacuum cleaners. He moved into a trailer when he was evicted, and had to leave several dumpsters worth behind him. His new home had a stack of maybe thirty dinner table chairs in his front yard after he was finished moving in. When he was evicted again, we put most of his stuff into a double car garage storage unit, packed the rest into a covered patio in his mothers home, and there was still a dumpster load left behind when he was banned from the property once again.
One of her daughters gathers yarn, for example. One of the bedrooms has yarn in plastic totes. the stuff is stacked floor too ceiling, two deep, in a ten foot long stack.
she doesn't knit.
this is crazy.
Now, if a man stores tens of thousands of rounds of ammo in a dank basement or garage, stacked on pallets and piled on floors, either inventoried carefully or just tossed in, yet never or rarely shoots, that person is maybe a nutter.
A man who collects money, yet collects it just to have it, is called a miser. A person who has a 150,000 dollar salary, yet owns a twenty seven year old car and eats beans, and has his fifth million, that's a nutter. If you pursue wealth with no reason than to have that wealth, you are pursuing a ghost. A block of cash in a mattress is no more valuable than a brick.
There is an old truism. When a person covets and cares for an object, and spends his life keeping it safe, which one of them is more important? the hoarder, or the object? I knew a woman who would not leave her home without getting a babysitter to watch her 'collection'. (of junk). Her antique beer can collection was safe and guarded, but she sometimes went without groceries, and it wasn't because she lived in montana. Her salt shakers were more important than she was.
If a person is a nut, and collects ammo because he is a nut, he is a nut because he has ten million rounds of rimfire rusting in his basement. Just because it isn't ten million in a basement, it doesn't change the fact that the guy may still be a nut, maybe the guy buys a case of everything every time he goes to a gun show 'just in case' of the zombies. Or "just in case" he ever has his cataract surgery and starts to hunt again.
People who needlessly or pointlessly hoard things, no matter what they are, frequently do so because they have psychological issues and sometimes, far too frequently, because they are just nuts. the historical schifferdecker home burned to a hollow brick shell because the biggest room was filled floor to ceiling, wall to wall, with stacked antique dressers, and every dresser was packed with stuff and the rest of the house was just as bad. It was like a landfill fire. They both died.
Who was more important? the people? or the possessions that they died protecting?
Don't dismiss crazy. It is everywhere. the guy next door may be an absolute loon. Did I mention the guy who kept propane tanks in his house in case he needed them? He didn't seem crazy until i talked with him for several months.
When he finally got around to showing what he really is, it was by telling me that the moon was coming up in different places every day. he would hoard ammo if it was his desire.
Have a few examples.
My mother in law is a hoarder. She has a rotting, broken wooden storage shed in her back yard, and I guess that it is 12 x10 or so. No, it doesn't have a lawn mower, chipper, tiller, or even engine parts in it. It is filled almost wall to wall with plastic totes full of fabric scraps. SCRAP. she has entire rooms filled wall to wall with garbage. My wife and family have gone over and had interventions several times, and she fights every step. My wife has been bringing home bags and boxes of records and mail, I have to sort through them and scrap the stuff. She keeps JUNK MAIL. catalogs. Spam. publisher's clearing house, change your bank or card, buy this insurance...
I was going through her tools during one of them. I found a few rusty little screws and she caught me getting ready to drop them into the trash. She got angry, took them from me, found a jar and put them away.
Her children are similar. two of them are almost as crazy as she is. One had a collection of over a dozen broken vacuum cleaners. He moved into a trailer when he was evicted, and had to leave several dumpsters worth behind him. His new home had a stack of maybe thirty dinner table chairs in his front yard after he was finished moving in. When he was evicted again, we put most of his stuff into a double car garage storage unit, packed the rest into a covered patio in his mothers home, and there was still a dumpster load left behind when he was banned from the property once again.
One of her daughters gathers yarn, for example. One of the bedrooms has yarn in plastic totes. the stuff is stacked floor too ceiling, two deep, in a ten foot long stack.
she doesn't knit.
this is crazy.
Now, if a man stores tens of thousands of rounds of ammo in a dank basement or garage, stacked on pallets and piled on floors, either inventoried carefully or just tossed in, yet never or rarely shoots, that person is maybe a nutter.
A man who collects money, yet collects it just to have it, is called a miser. A person who has a 150,000 dollar salary, yet owns a twenty seven year old car and eats beans, and has his fifth million, that's a nutter. If you pursue wealth with no reason than to have that wealth, you are pursuing a ghost. A block of cash in a mattress is no more valuable than a brick.
There is an old truism. When a person covets and cares for an object, and spends his life keeping it safe, which one of them is more important? the hoarder, or the object? I knew a woman who would not leave her home without getting a babysitter to watch her 'collection'. (of junk). Her antique beer can collection was safe and guarded, but she sometimes went without groceries, and it wasn't because she lived in montana. Her salt shakers were more important than she was.
If a person is a nut, and collects ammo because he is a nut, he is a nut because he has ten million rounds of rimfire rusting in his basement. Just because it isn't ten million in a basement, it doesn't change the fact that the guy may still be a nut, maybe the guy buys a case of everything every time he goes to a gun show 'just in case' of the zombies. Or "just in case" he ever has his cataract surgery and starts to hunt again.
People who needlessly or pointlessly hoard things, no matter what they are, frequently do so because they have psychological issues and sometimes, far too frequently, because they are just nuts. the historical schifferdecker home burned to a hollow brick shell because the biggest room was filled floor to ceiling, wall to wall, with stacked antique dressers, and every dresser was packed with stuff and the rest of the house was just as bad. It was like a landfill fire. They both died.
Who was more important? the people? or the possessions that they died protecting?
Don't dismiss crazy. It is everywhere. the guy next door may be an absolute loon. Did I mention the guy who kept propane tanks in his house in case he needed them? He didn't seem crazy until i talked with him for several months.
When he finally got around to showing what he really is, it was by telling me that the moon was coming up in different places every day. he would hoard ammo if it was his desire.