Hoarding

[krustyballer16]

Does anybody else hoard anything "useful" that would take them FOREVER to get rid of/use?

 

I hoard steel. Tubing, sheet metal, clean scrap, anything I can get. Not rusty junk scrap, stuff I can still use eventually. Ha.

 

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[yellaheep]

Even after the mass liquidation/scrap fest...... XJ/MJ parts.  

 

I still have a u-haul van full of the stuff.

[Wiggilez]

Even after the mass liquidation/scrap fest...... XJ/MJ parts.  

 

I still have a u-haul van full of the stuff.

 

I wish I had that problem.

[Pete M]

 

Even after the mass liquidation/scrap fest...... XJ/MJ parts.  

 

I still have a u-haul van full of the stuff.

 

I wish I had that problem.

 

 

years of dedication (cough, obsession) have lead me down the same 2 paths.   :yes:  

[Minuit]

I currently own 9 Jeep factory radios. I don't really know what that says about me. I also have 6 Renix gauge clusters (only one fully working, sadly) despite only having one truck that uses them.

 

One useful thing I collect is bolts. I've got 2 boxes full of them and working on a 3rd - that collection has saved my @$$ quite a few times.

[Jtrux]

Vehicles.

 

'71 K5, '74 F100, '77 F100 (first truck), 79 F150 4WD, '87 MJ, '93 K2500, '06 LJ.

 

No intentions of gettimg rid of any of them.

 

I do not see anything wrong with it.

 

I do get extremely pissed when someone tells me that I shouldn't have that many vehicles or that I should get rid of a few.

 

Recently my gf's dad (her and I have been together 8 years and living together 7) was over and decided that he should tell me I should get rid of a few of them. Out of sheer respect for my gf, I just told him that I didn't want to and left it at that but I really wanted to tell him to mind his own effing business.

 

All the same, if I had more room, I'd buy more. Lol

 

 

 

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[johnj92131]

I currently own 9 Jeep factory radios. I don't really know what that says about me. I also have 6 Renix gauge clusters (only one fully working, sadly) despite only having one truck that uses them.

 

One useful thing I collect is bolts. I've got 2 boxes full of them and working on a 3rd - that collection has saved my @$$ quite a few times.

 

I inherited both my uncle's and my dad's collection of hardware.  Dad had an old steamer trunk full of the nuts and bolts, all neatly organized. (My sister wanted the steamer trunk, but I got the nuts, bolts, screws, washers, very slightly used nails.  All the good stuff).  Added it to my own collection, moved it around to a bunch of different houses.  Finally realized it was taking me more time to find what I needed each time I went to the collection than it took to go to a specialty hardware store and get just the right parts for the current project.  So if I needed 4 specialty parts - I would buy a dozen of them.  Hey, I will save me all that time in 5 or 10+ years when I need a spare, right?  So now I just add stuff to the collection and never take anything out of it.

 

Gauge clusters, you say?  I will have to pull out a very large plastic tote box full of them to find how many Renix clusters I own. I went on a buying binge a couple years back for them.  You actually own a Renix era truck that you could use your 6 gauge clusters in???  How strange...I don't own a Renix era truck - never did.  But I do have a bunch of gauge clusters.  Can we trade pictures?  Maybe we can just swap stories about each of them.  What do you say?

[Knucklehead97]

Vehicles.

 

'71 K5, '74 F100, '77 F100 (first truck), 79 F150 4WD, '87 MJ, '93 K2500, '06 LJ.

 

No intentions of gettimg rid of any of them.

 

I do not see anything wrong with it.

 

I do get extremely pissed when someone tells me that I shouldn't have that many vehicles or that I should get rid of a few.

 

Recently my gf's dad (her and I have been together 8 years and living together 7) was over and decided that he should tell me I should get rid of a few of them. Out of sheer respect for my gf, I just told him that I didn't want to and left it at that but I really wanted to tell him to mind his own effing business.

 

All the same, if I had more room, I'd buy more. Lol

 

 

 

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this is more so my problem as well. Something I've learned is that you can never have too many cars there. There was a point in time where my 3 brothers and I all shared one little Nissan Sentra due to us all having car troubles. Now we all have running driving vehicles. I have 2 and want more! One breaks down and I drive the other till I get around to fixing it.

[Minuit]

 

I currently own 9 Jeep factory radios. I don't really know what that says about me. I also have 6 Renix gauge clusters (only one fully working, sadly) despite only having one truck that uses them.

 

One useful thing I collect is bolts. I've got 2 boxes full of them and working on a 3rd - that collection has saved my @$$ quite a few times.

 

I inherited both my uncle's and my dad's collection of hardware.  Dad had an old steamer trunk full of the nuts and bolts, all neatly organized. (My sister wanted the steamer trunk, but I got the nuts, bolts, screws, washers, very slightly used nails.  All the good stuff).  Added it to my own collection, moved it around to a bunch of different houses.  Finally realized it was taking me more time to find what I needed each time I went to the collection than it took to go to a specialty hardware store and get just the right parts for the current project.  So if I needed 4 specialty parts - I would buy a dozen of them.  Hey, I will save me all that time in 5 or 10+ years when I need a spare, right?  So now I just add stuff to the collection and never take anything out of it.

 

Gauge clusters, you say?  I will have to pull out a very large plastic tote box full of them to find how many Renix clusters I own. I went on a buying binge a couple years back for them.  You actually own a Renix era truck that you could use your 6 gauge clusters in???  How strange...I don't own a Renix era truck - never did.  But I do have a bunch of gauge clusters.  Can we trade pictures?  Maybe we can just swap stories about each of them.  What do you say?

 

:rotf:

 

I'd need to get them all out and get a family picture. At one point almost every room in my house had its own gauge cluster. I'm typing this from the "1989 full cluster with 32k miles and a suspiciously tampered with speedometer head" room.

[Jtrux]

 

Vehicles.

 

'71 K5, '74 F100, '77 F100 (first truck), 79 F150 4WD, '87 MJ, '93 K2500, '06 LJ.

 

No intentions of gettimg rid of any of them.

 

I do not see anything wrong with it.

 

I do get extremely pissed when someone tells me that I shouldn't have that many vehicles or that I should get rid of a few.

 

Recently my gf's dad (her and I have been together 8 years and living together 7) was over and decided that he should tell me I should get rid of a few of them. Out of sheer respect for my gf, I just told him that I didn't want to and left it at that but I really wanted to tell him to mind his own effing business.

 

All the same, if I had more room, I'd buy more. Lol

 

 

 

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this is more so my problem as well. Something I've learned is that you can never have too many cars there. There was a point in time where my 3 brothers and I all shared one little Nissan Sentra due to us all having car troubles. Now we all have running driving vehicles. I have 2 and want more! One breaks down and I drive the other till I get around to fixing it.

Exactly. I've never not been able to get to work or where I need to be.

 

Guys at work talk trash to me for driving old stuff. Say I'm cheap and all that. I told them that it has nothing to do with being cheap, it's what I like.

 

I bet I could make a small truck payment on what I spend monthly on my vehicles.

 

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[Knucklehead97]

 

 

Vehicles.

 

'71 K5, '74 F100, '77 F100 (first truck), 79 F150 4WD, '87 MJ, '93 K2500, '06 LJ.

 

No intentions of gettimg rid of any of them.

 

I do not see anything wrong with it.

 

I do get extremely pissed when someone tells me that I shouldn't have that many vehicles or that I should get rid of a few.

 

Recently my gf's dad (her and I have been together 8 years and living together 7) was over and decided that he should tell me I should get rid of a few of them. Out of sheer respect for my gf, I just told him that I didn't want to and left it at that but I really wanted to tell him to mind his own effing business.

 

All the same, if I had more room, I'd buy more. Lol

 

 

 

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this is more so my problem as well. Something I've learned is that you can never have too many cars there. There was a point in time where my 3 brothers and I all shared one little Nissan Sentra due to us all having car troubles. Now we all have running driving vehicles. I have 2 and want more! One breaks down and I drive the other till I get around to fixing it.

Exactly. I've never not been able to get to work or where I need to be.

 

Guys at work talk trash to me for driving old stuff. Say I'm cheap and all that. I told them that it has nothing to do with being cheap, it's what I like.

 

I bet I could make a small truck payment on what I spend monthly on my vehicles.

 

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guys at my work do the same. Most of them have 200$+ a month payments plus full coverage insurance and it makes them able to afford NOTHING extra. I put that money towards modifications! :D

[gogmorgo]

I didn't realize how bad I had it (and it's still not that bad) until I had two weeks to move everything out of my house. My XJ is sitting full of parts in my parents' driveway, as is the Niva, and I've got a 6'x6'x4' pile of stuff stashed in an old school bus out at a friend's bush property.

[Pete M]

yeah, moving puts everything into focus. :(  I had to sell off a couple trucks and stash the bigger items in the shed at my grandma's house. (and no, she has no idea there are a couple engine blocks in there :D )

[johnj92131]

yeah, moving puts everything into focus. :(  I had to sell off a couple trucks and stash the bigger items in the shed at my grandma's house. (and no, she has no idea there are a couple engine blocks in there :D )

 

Anita's mom's old house has a 16 x 12 shed on the property. The old tenants used it as a "garden room",, full in door irrigation system and lots of electric power. I have that just half full, including a couple of engines.  Anita is trying to get my spare blocks and a couple more full engines stashed in that shed.  But i won't help her move them.  I am not falling for that.  She wants to put a couple of electric ovens in the garage - ever since she discovered I added an extra 220 volt circuit to the garage.  She got two new ovens out of the kitchen remodel and doesn't like the way the big, new gas oven bakes.  She has been after garage space ever since.

[schardein]

Before I moved a couple years ago, I worked out of a one car garage-sized building.  I say it that way because even though it had a garage door on the front of it, it wasn't a garage, it had a raised wooden floor.

 

One day I scored a high amp alternator that looked brand new at the junkyard.  Took it home, stepped into the workshop, and tried to figure out where to put it.  "On the shelf behind the toolbox", I thought.  I carefully walked around stacks of parts and boxes, over to the tool box.  Went to put the alternator behind it... only discover there was one already there.  That I completely forgot I had.

[Dzimm]

For useful stuff I hoard a lot of electrical wire, plugs, and connectors as well as cardboard.  

 

For not so useful stuff I collected *cough* hoarded *cough* a lot of SEGA Genesis stuff throughout high school and the first year of college.  I ended up with like 5 of everything they made for them (which is a lot).  I'm still working on getting rid of it all.  

[Keyav8r]

I'm kind of an eclectic hoarder. Not really too much (as I see it) of any one category, just a lot of a lot different things. For instance - tools. I've got tools I requested as Christmas gifts that I haven't taken out of the box. About once every couple of months it's like Christmas all over again when I "find" a tool I didn't remember I had.

Also like old tools, like my grandfather's belt driven cast iron wall mounted drill press (has to be at least 100 years old because he got it as surplus from his work when he retired) and a brass blow torch ( haven't either worked up the courage or been stupid enough to try to light it off).

The usual stash of standard bolts and nuts and a lot of specialty fasteners I keep in a large tackle box for whenever I might need a left-handed metric toggle bolt.

And, a fairly good size collection of bulbs, fuses, and small trim pieces from XJs and one or two MJs.

And a bunch of stuff that I keep trying to throw away but my inner hoarder won't let me.

[MeanLemons]

I'm kind of an eclectic hoarder. Not really too much (as I see it) of any one category, just a lot of a lot different things. For instance - tools. I've got tools I requested as Christmas gifts that I haven't taken out of the box. About once every couple of months it's like Christmas all over again when I "find" a tool I didn't remember I had.

Also like old tools, like my grandfather's belt driven cast iron wall mounted drill press (has to be at least 100 years old because he got it as surplus from his work when he retired) and a brass blow torch ( haven't either worked up the courage or been stupid enough to try to light it off).

The usual stash of standard bolts and nuts and a lot of specialty fasteners I keep in a large tackle box for whenever I might need a left-handed metric toggle bolt.

And, a fairly good size collection of bulbs, fuses, and small trim pieces from XJs and one or two MJs.

And a bunch of stuff that I keep trying to throw away but my inner hoarder won't let me.

ah yes I think that was called post beam drill press. I had one. A Champion Forge

[Keyav8r]

I'll have to pull mine out of the corner and see if I can find the manufacturer's name.

[dasbulliwagen]

I have a bunch of Jeep JK takeoff parts in a stuffed storage closet. I don't own a JK.

[jpnjim]

We don't have hording problems,

we just need bigger garages/basements/attics/backyards :yes:

 

 

 

The last realestate agent gave me the  :dunno:  :hmm:  :???: :nuts:   look

 

when I told her I only wanted to see houses with 'unfinished' basements :driving: :wrench: