Instead, when something I really love to use is running low and money is tight, I stop using that item and I hoard it. For example, I have a Clinique lip repair (fancy chap stick really) that I use because after decades of playing a double reed instrument, my lips are beyond dry. I’ve tried pretty much every lip product out there and this is by far the most effective. But at $25 a tube, it's not cheap. I’m running low so rather than going ahead and using it up, I’ve stopped using it.
I do the same thing with books. I bought an Iain Banks book in the spring of 2008 and didn’t open it until the summer of 2009.
I doubt my version of hoarding will ever be shown on TV.
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Thanks for sharing - you are not a sufferer! Thank you for calling attention to this serious problem, that can be life threatening. Clearly it is difficult for anyone who does not suffer from a cluttering problem to understand what it is like to be paralyzed emotionally and unable to let go of things that appear to be trash to others. Thank god there is a 12 step group for people who are desperate to help themselves through fellowship, action and provides tools to let go of things one day at a time. Clutterers Anonymous http://www.clutterersanonymous.net
We have a friend who won't read the all the Sherlock Holmes stories because he prefers the feeling that there are always one or two still out there, waiting to be read. I suppose the world would seem a little smaller and less exciting if he finished them. This sounds a bit like your type of hoarding. I kept slowing down during the last few chapters of the last Harry Potter book--perhaps I didn't want it to end.
Ron I think you're touching on the reason I hold back from reading the book--then that possibility, that potential for fantastic enjoyment is over. Enjoyed, sure, but still done. Rereading is always good but not as good as reading something for the first time.
I think you ought to go ahead and read it, unless you want to read the first one first. I'll bet you can find it in a public library: A Door Into Ocean.
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