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Title: Are keyboard afficionados compulsive hoarders?
Post by: ideus on Sun, 06 October 2019, 13:06:42
Scientific literature has described a behavior called compulsive hoarders (CH). It's a mental disorder characterized by:
Excessive acquisition of things.Inability to discard collected items.
2% to 5% of adults suffer that pathology. Symptoms worsen with age. It is not known if CH is an isolated problem or if it is part of obsessive compulsive disorder syndrome.

I thought in this while considering to sell or give away some of the keyboard related stuff that I do not need anymore. Now that I think that I am approaching the point where I should have something close to my end game board. Yet, I always have a reason why something must be kept, instead. LOL.
What do you guys think?
Title: Re: Are keyboard afficionados compulsive hoarders?
Post by: tp4tissue on Sun, 06 October 2019, 13:08:53
YES,  Hoarding 30+ computers atm
Title: Re: Are keyboard afficionados compulsive hoarders?
Post by: Sintpinty on Sun, 06 October 2019, 13:11:53
YES,  Hoarding 30+ computers atm

I don't mean to hoard, i'd just like to recieve the switches and not the keyboard unlike most others
Title: Re: Are keyboard afficionados compulsive hoarders?
Post by: Findecanor on Sun, 06 October 2019, 13:57:56
I'm not a compulsive hoarder. I can quit whenever I want.
Title: Re: Are keyboard afficionados compulsive hoarders?
Post by: JP on Sun, 06 October 2019, 15:21:48
I'm not a compulsive hoarder. I can quit whenever I want.

Same  :-X
Title: Re: Are keyboard afficionados compulsive hoarders?
Post by: demik on Sun, 06 October 2019, 15:28:28
I think if you have a hobby and it involves having stuff, you become a hoarder. Especially when people try to make money off it then you start keeping stuff more because it’ll eventually get harder to buy it again if you decide to sell it.
Title: Re: Are keyboard afficionados compulsive hoarders?
Post by: ideus on Sun, 06 October 2019, 18:06:50
May it happen that certain hobbies are preferred by compulsive hoarders? those that include to pile things up?
Title: Re: Are keyboard afficionados compulsive hoarders?
Post by: Rob27shred on Sun, 06 October 2019, 18:27:42
I'm not a compulsive hoarder. I can quit whenever I want.

Same  :-X

(https://i.chzbgr.com/original/2188565248/hE1FB1D2C/)

That just may happen to be never, but I digress....