Quotes About Hoarding

I keep everything. It's one of my problems. I'm a saver.

I collect a lot of shoes - I have at least 70 pairs.

At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.

I actually have a closet that's all shoes, maybe 700 pairs.

I hate to admit it, because it makes me sound weird, but I'm Mr. Shoes. I own over 30 pairs.

Imagine six apartments It isn't hard to do. One is full of fur coats The other's full of shoes.

I actually have more shoes than anyone will ever know.

I have to buy three of everything. It doesn't make any sense, but I have to. I'm worried I might lose it, and if I lose it, then I have a backup and then I have a backup to my backup.

My house is filled with boxes of books.

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

When weapons or tools of production can be effectively hoarded or monopolized, they tend to centralize power.

Collecting and hoarding seem to be about the loss of others, while philanthropy and de-accessioning are more about the impending loss of self. (Whoever dies with the most toys actually loses.)

Are you a minimalist? Do you take pride in a reductive life? Minimalists are actually extreme hoarders: they hoard space, and they're just as odd as those people with seven rooms filled with newspapers, dead cats and margarine tubs

This country's in the grips of total pandemonium. All over Japan, it's as if eighty million people had simultaneously gone out of their minds. Staple foods are either rationed or else completely unavailable, and the distribution always seems to be running behind schedule. On top of that, the authorities have cracked down on hoarding, and anyone caught laying in supplies is ruthlessly punished.

I have four warehouses full of stuff. I have every boarding pass of every flight I've ever been on. I have all the old contracts that we had from all the clubs and concerts we played, every one of them, up from 1980. Guitar picks and amps - it goes on and on.

People collect boredom, they hoard it, they wallow in it, hoping that one day it'll be of interest and become an effete ennui. Let me tell you, it doesn't.

I collect clothes - they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed.

When I save, I lay something aside for future need. If I sense God's leading, I will give it away to meet greater needs. When I hoard, I'm unwilling to part with what I've saved to meet others' needs, because my possible future needs outweigh their actual present needs. I fail to love my neighbor as myself.

You hear about women buying shoes? I buy DVDs. I definitely have a problem.

In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.

The world will not end. This is ridiculous. I think it's like 2000. It's a great trick to do business and earn lots of money because stupid people hoard things. This is a stimulator of the economy.

Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.