Collecting or Hoarding?

[RHClarke]

I fancy myself as a HUP collector, but I could also be seen as a HUP hoarder. My observations:

Both categories obtain vehicles.
Both categories "save" some of said vehicles from oblivion.
Both categories involve considerable effort and cost.

I tend towards the collector category as this is my only real hobby, but my wife thinks otherwise.

By definition hoarding as a human behavior falls in to two main categories.
One type of hoarding is triggered as a response to perceived or predicted shortages of specific goods.
Compulsive hoarding, on the other hand, is a mental disorder marked by an obsessive need to acquire and keep things, even if the items are worthless, hazardous, or unsanitary.

OK, so my dear wife may have a point. So? What's the difference? Is there a set number of vehicles that make you a "collector"? How do you earn the "hoarder" sorbriquet?

[Ed Storey]

Good question and one that I have wondered about myself.

[Ryan]

I think your safe and would be considered a collector.
Unless you are keeping one or two HUPs in your living room between piles of magazines then you are a hoarder.

[Scott Bentley]

After watching all of these new "Reality" Hoarding Shows on TV lately, IMO if you don't need to negotiate your way through parts to cook a meal or use the toilet, your golden in my books

[Lynn Eades]

In the english language, they refer to "first person "second person" and "third person" or "me" "you" and "them".
Its a bit like that. If I am talking about you, "I" am a collector and "you" are a hoarder.
If I am talking to you, "we" are collectors, and "they" are bloody hoarders!

[Phil Waterman]

I've always said thought the Hamilton Barn would make a good Reality Show.

What could we title it?

I survive the Hamilton Barn

MVMVC the untold survivor of a victim of " Military Vehicle Mycosis Very Contagious", which is a sub group of "Multiple Vehicle Mycosis Very Contagious"

(MVMVC is an inside joke that Bob may get.)

But would it have a big enough following?

Cheers Phil

[oztankboy]

Well be you a horder or a collector at least you are saveing them from heading to China as scrap metal so thats all that matters...

Phil...