If I Were a Hoarder

gnarlygnomes: Hoarding done right is Collecting.

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:38:20 -0800

gnarlygnomes:

Hoarding done right is Collecting.

cheeruptommy: ‘My Friend’s Grandma Was A Hoarder… Her Cat...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:35:39 -0800

cheeruptommy:

‘My Friend’s Grandma Was A Hoarder… Her Cat Actually Called 911’

7.5”x9.5” Acrylic on Card Stock

Exciting News

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:55:09 -0800

I know the posting pace on If I Were a Hoarder has been slow of late, but that may change soon. I’ll be driving across the country next week and will have little to entertain me (when I’m not driving) other than photographing roadside hoards (and trying to comfort my cats, who will likely be howling in terror)… Once I get to my destination—Watertown, MA—I’ll be close to my dad’s house, and I’m hoping he’ll let me begin the arduos process of cleaning out some of the many tons of junk that have accumulated there over the years…

iambidong: Abandoned Buildings and Hoarding: Together at Last...

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:01:46 -0800

iambidong:

Abandoned Buildings and Hoarding: Together at Last on Flickr.

Video

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:24:00 -0800

girl-detective: In honor Valentine’s Day, I present you—my...

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:23:06 -0800

Saving all my love for you

Dead-i-cat-ed to the one I love

Absence makes the mold grow fonder

The key to my heart...

girl-detective:

In honor Valentine’s Day, I present you—my beloved internet friends—with this very special set of Hoarders Valentine’s Cards.

Treasure them always (NO SERIOUSLY ALWAYS YOU CAN’T EVER THROW THEM OUT)!

[ From the Archive ]

Photo

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:33:30 -0800

Photo

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:15:14 -0800

Old furniture made new.

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:36:00 -0800

Occupy Oakland, 1/28/12

by Joni Spigler

Old furniture made new.

Trash Mountain, by Megan Whitmarsh

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:00:05 -0800

Trash Mountain, by Megan Whitmarsh

harpsichordshears writes: guys…I own the EXACT SAME antique...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:14:32 -0800

harpsichordshears writes:

guys…I own the EXACT SAME antique stool as this person on Hoarders

I wonder what this says about me…

…That merits at least swig of an extra extra dirty martini in the Hoarders drinking game!

pedrofernandes: Robert Hardgrave

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:00:06 -0800

pedrofernandes: Robert Hardgrave

Photo

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:02:05 -0800

217lemurs writes: The rubber number pad out of a freeview box -...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:58:34 -0800

217lemurs writes:

The rubber number pad out of a freeview box - found on the street in Whalley Range.

Interesting to see how the colour is applied to the buttons - i.e. not very accurately.

Also curious to see that the numbers 6 and 9 have completely disappeared. That suggest avid viewing of ITV2 (channel 6), BBC4 (channel 9) and/or Babestation (channel 96). Fortunately there is no channel 69. The combination of cultural references is astonishing.

A new site for dumpster divers to come together and share trade...

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:14:53 -0800

A new site for dumpster divers to come together and share trade tips, as well as pictures and stories of their finds.

thisisgrossnyc: Hoarders: NYC Edition. [Manhattan - UES]

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:06:17 -0800

thisisgrossnyc: Hoarders: NYC Edition. [Manhattan - UES]

Is the Pumpkin Lady an Unsung Hero of Our Age of Waste?

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:57:45 -0800

The great Discard Studies just published a series of graphics about food waste that convey some pretty astounding information, like the fact that 40% of all food produced in the United States is wasted. One graphic, which includes information about what we can do to avoid wasting food includes this note: “‘Use-by’ expiration dates contain no information about food safety - most food stays good enough to eat long after that date passes.” It seems that the pumpkin lady was onto something after all!

A Very Nice Pumpkin
The Death of a Pumpkin
The Remaining Pumpkin, the Reigning Pumpkin
Why Buy Hamburger? (A submission by my mom)
A Hoarder (and Ex-Husband) Responds (A submission by my dad)

"My own example is the stash of older computers I have kept in my university office. I have a least..."

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:16:21 -0800

“My own example is the stash of older computers I have kept in my university office. I have a least four or five and mostly use only one, the latest model. I remain attached to older machines that have been replaced so fast that I could neither learn everything from them, exhaust them as it were, or just trash them as I was advised to do. I have kept them with all their separate memories and data, out of a sense of nostalgic attachment. Today’s technology offers the spectacle of an elephants’ graveyard, of interest only for inhabitants of the third and fourth worlds or quasi-Luddites like me. Machines that are discarded but functional are figures of a stubborn non-death; they are muter than ghosts, those who do not know that they are dead, or vampires, who derive strength and powers from being dead. Obsolete machines are still alive in a sense, but are cold and dusty because left unused. This is why obsolescence takes us beyond the venerable category of the uncanny—its awkward survival is at best funny, or ironical. Devoid of melancholia, it points to the moment when both mourning and death are impossible.”

- Jean-Michel Rabaté, “The Death of Freud: What Is to Be Preferred, Death or Obsolescence?”

Photo

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:12:56 -0800

"The ego is like the superimposition of various coats borrowed from what I would call the bric-à-brac..."

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:10:53 -0800

“The ego is like the superimposition of various coats borrowed from what I would call the bric-à-brac of its props department.”

- The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book II: The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis (New York: Norton, 1991), p. 155.