TV Show "Hoarders"

So here is a possible new episode of " Hoarders" on one of the cable channels.
" But you already have 10 thousand Washington Franklin 1 and 2 cent stamps" yes but I need to check them all. for what? well.... gotta check for type I, II, III , IV etc.. green or dark green, carmine or lake, perf 8 1/2 10 or 12, rotary press or flat plate, watermarked 190, 191 or unwatermarked, coil or coil waste, bluish paper or..... Well why do you need to buy 3 thousand more.. because I have to check for..........

I watched like two episodes. Not impressed.

Sounds like a nice healthy fetish you have going on there.
And good on you, Philately has become too respectable
of late, we do need more propeller heads to get back our
general public impression ranking.
If things keep heading in the way thay have
I'm considering moving over to collecting used printer cartridges.

Hip! Hip! for Hoarders.

My Great Grandfather was one, he owned 2 chicken coups that were 300 ft. long and the chickens had long ago abandoned. They were adorned with just about everything imaginable, and proved to be quite the project for my grandfather (his son) in cleaning up after his death.

But thank God for Hoarders, because now I have the daunting task of going through both of their stamp collections, and have plenty of the 1c/2c variations. What's a man to do??????????

there was a CSI: episode recently involving a woman who was a hoarder.

I have the use of a 300 foot long former Turkey House for my hoarding !
Everything from Old Stamp albums to physical fitness training equipment, and the contents are growing by the day.

It's such fun hoarding.

Hoarderbus1

Did this house house Thanksgiving Day turkeys or Turks?

As a country boy I know a poultry coop can be foul !! Its where I did most of my cigarette smoking !!

Modern chicken houses can house 20,000 to 30,000 chickens and the smell is overwhelming. There's an antique dealer / hoarder in Fair Haven, VT with over 100,000 postcards. He's listed in the Sunday driver guide for antiques. He also has 2,000+ corkscrews, 20,000 books, thousands upon thousands of ceramics, silver, glass, etc. It's all in his house and he has little pathways through it. One could do a full season of Antique Roadshow at this one place. On on hand, I don't know how he can live like that, but on the other hand at least he's not saving empty food containers, newspapers and used cat litter. It was more like a very dense version of the Smithsonian. He told me he's getting into postal history, but it's hard to imagine where he'll put it.

Philatelists are not hoarders even though we often have a lot of stuff. Unlike hoarders (like we see on TV) our is in neat piles, sorted by date and so on. We're npt obsessive - just compulsive. :)

Moonbird, I wish...

it would take a young un to sort and catalog my stacks..and then what would they bring $700 ? its a chore I will put off...

Phil:

Do you remember?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_mUz3RWKHQ

More the Thanksgiving Day variety !
However, they have been thoroughly cleaned and the area is slowly being developed into a kind of workshop site. Already someone is making Honey and so we have friendly Bees flying around; someone is refurbishing old furniture and there is a store for Water and Pipe fittings. My 'store' is for work and my hoard ! I hope to turn part of it into a small market area and to have a regular collectors market there.


Hoarderbus1

I'd better take some pics !

Yes!