I think people who are into crafts. They have all of these yarns, construction papers, various tools and stuff. All so that they can say that they have all of these projects in mind that they want to do. But they never do them so they get more crafting stuff and it just eats away storage until their place is practically consumed by it.

  • grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Some asshole Transformers action figure sellers on eBay who DISASSEMBLE THE FIGURES AND THEN SELL EACH PIECE SEPARATELY. Fuck those people, seriously.

    • Pyrin@kbin.melroy.orgOP
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      9 days ago

      Or toy resellers in general.

      “Uh, I uh got this ActionGuy’s left arm…$14 please…will throw in some random unnecessary junk from other toys to make up the value”

      It’s obscene and I’m happy for 3-D printing to exist as it is today, is to tell these assholes to get fucked.

      • grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world
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        9 days ago

        For real. Or they remove the weapons and sell them separately, or the figurines from Lego sets. Special place in Hell for those people.

  • Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 days ago

    Hobby electronics?

    Need a small part? Better buy 10 in case you break one and because it’s only marginally more expensive than getting one. Now repeat for every project you do

      • umbrella@lemmy.ml
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        9 days ago

        oh god i have so many junk boards i keep just in case i need some part. ive stripped them for parts maybe a handful of times over years.

        please send help.

        • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
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          9 days ago

          I don’t want to desolder all the relays off this washing machine board to throw it away only to find out I needed a double optocoupler!

    • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Oh god yes. I have so many extra switches, connectors, resistors, capacitors, microcontrollers, little screens, sensors, etc……

      Then I had to buy so many little containers to hold them all. When I die my family is gonna hate me.

  • Pulptastic@midwest.socialEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Cycling can get bad. Some dudes have a garage full of $20k of bikes.

    I am on the low end of the bike hoarding spectrum. I have two very modestly priced bikes (one road, one fat) and a 20” box of parts and accessories. You could count the 4 water bottles in the cupboard, 4 bike shorts in the drawer, and 6 bike jerseys in the closet as well. 2 pairs of bike shoes, a hook of tires and tubes in the garage, oh god never mind I have it bad.

    • tacosplease@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      This week I actually got to use some old cranks I had saved from a bike I replaced.

      Ok I’m not actually going to ride those cranks. I just needed to fit them on the bike to confirm the other cranks were bent and not the bike frame itself.

      Now I’m going to buy new replacement cranks and keep the old ones AND the bent ones for some reason…

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    You must have met my wife. My oath, the amount of fucking yarn and fabric in her stacked to the ceiling sewing room is horrendous. She couldn’t knit enough blankets in her lifetime to use up half of it.

  • Hikermick@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Fishing. 5 bucks here and there, it adds up. Even more so, fly fishing. I have some many materials

  • ptc075@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Model Railroading.

    It’s not the worst, but it requires all the key ingredients - you need to own a home large enough to have a ‘spare’ room, which means you’ve got disposable income. And displaying the trains is almost as much fun as running them, so you end building shelves and shelves, which then sprawl out to the rest of the house. Only to realize you’re missing the ‘key’ one from that set, got to go find that, obviously.

    And then of course you can’t throw away the boxes, because that would lower the resale value, so you need to rent a second storage unit…

    And that’s just the collection portion. It’s a crafty hobby, from making scenery & waterfalls & little trees all the way to the special paints to make the engines look aged. That will need a room as well. And now that we’ve got the train shelves in the kitchen, you know, I could put a food themed railroad on the table there. Yes I already have the desert themed one in the train room and the prairie themed one in the living room and the snow theme layout in the hallway, but I don’t have a silly one. No of course the Halloween theme one doesn’t count.

  • w3dd1e@lemm.ee
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    10 days ago

    I would actually love to know what hobbies don’t have some sort of hoarding aspect! I’m trying to think on it and I can’t come up with any at the moment.

    I’m sure one of you can help me?

    • pr06lefs@lemmy.ml
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      10 days ago

      Playing music. Sure some people can collect guitars or whatever, but really that’s a separate hobby from actually playing.

      • kronisk @lemmy.world
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        10 days ago

        But you need equipment to actually play?

        I’m not a guitar collector/fetishist at all, but still need at minimum an electric (preferably at least two for humbuckers & singlecoils), a steel string, a nylon string and a bass to be able to play what I want to play. Not to mention amps, pedals etc. And this is strictly for playing gigs and home practice, when you get into home recording it piles up even more. Even if you restrict yourself to things you actually use, the possibilities for hoarding are pretty much endless.

        • Pulptastic@midwest.socialEnglish
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          9 days ago

          Yeah collecting instruments, parts, strings/reeds, and accessories is totally part of it. People hoard to varying degrees but any hobby requiring physical objects is hoardable.

        • pr06lefs@lemmy.ml
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          9 days ago

          Hmmm yeah I have learned a ton of fiddle tunes. Does it count as hoarding when its in your head?

  • wuphysics87@lemmy.ml
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    10 days ago

    Is this a place to cast shade or self reflect? In the former experimental scientist. They have closets of oscilliscopes, vacuum pumps, cryostats. Enough to furnish 3 or more labs. They always say they’ll use it, but the pile only gets bigger.

    For me, I have the opposite problen in general. I throw everything away and end up buying or making new shit. Worst is probably code. Fuck making a repo. This is a one off. I can write the same code 3 times before I keep it, but I like to say that is what makes me a decent programmer. And I’ll keep telling myself that until I die.

  • lakeeffect@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    antique airplane restoration. So many parts, so many unreplaceable parts, soo many tools, soo many large parts as well.

    • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca
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      11 days ago

      Shhh! I swear I can build that for only twice the cost and take three times as long, but it will be waaay quicker if I have this new tool.

      • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
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        10 days ago

        Your mistake is in what you are making your comparisons to. You can’t compare your solid wood bookcase to an Ikea cardboard bookcase, you need to compare it to the fancy brands that actually do make things from solid wood.