The Psychology Of Collecting

Are collecting and hoarding the same thing?  There are some members here that have every single reissue of a favorite record album.  That’s collecting.  Hoarding would be having a home filled with cases of T.P., or so filled with random junk that one can’t move about 

My mother in law died recently and we have been cleaning the home out to get it on the market.  She wasn’t a hoarder, thankfully, but we have interviewed different Estate Sales vendors and some of the stories they tell about homes that they have been in are fascinating.

I mentioned up thread that we are cleaning the home of a recently passed relative.  We’ve dealt with a couple of Estate Sales people who say that stamp collecting has completely tanked as a hobby.