What are the differences between collecting/hoarding? - seeking research participants

[AmyResearcher]

Hi everyone!



My name is Amy and I'm doing an Honours degree in Psychology at RMIT University Australia.



I'm conducting an online study on the differences between collecting and hoarding behaviours, and so I'm hoping to involve some more collectors that are interested in contributing to this research area.



It's an online survey and anyone can participate as long as you are over 18 years of age. It's completely anonymous and takes about 20-30 minutes to complete.



If you would like to find out more information or participate in the research, here's the link: http://bit.ly/collecting_hoarding


Thanks! :)

[seedyrom]

When you find yourself with piles of newspapers, you are a hoarder.


That said ... I have piles of newspapers.

It's for the bottom of the Guinea pigs' cage, I PROMISE!

[ausproofs]

Hi Amy, I have completed the survey. All the best with your studies.

[stevo1962]

Hi Amy, I have completed the survey. All the best with your studies.

Ditto

[autocoupler]

I'm at the point of attempting to lessen my interest in collecting coins and am finding it very difficult. It's a bloody disease I tell you :dash1: but even so, it's fun. Go figure :shock: Go figure is not a term I would not normally use, nothing wrong with it IMO, but just shows to go ya what a few reds will do :biggrin:

[Nevol]

Hi Amy, I have completed the survey. All the best with your studies.

+1 Good luck.

[Hercules]

I just traded almost $2500 worth of $2 coins for Commonwealth Games tickets. Does that make me a hoarder? :huh:

[JeffH]

Depends if you intend just to sit on the tickets and not use them. You didn't keep the coins long enough to be considered to be hoarding them.

[Hercules]

Really? I've had some of those coins since March last year. I kept the 1999 and 2001 ones so I could do a statistical analysis on their obverses, and I kept the 2013-2015 ones because I wanted to preserve them in mint condition. Although I always intended to return the 1999 and 2001 ones to circulation, that was not the case with the 2013-2015 ones. However, I've got so many of them now that I've decided to get rid of all but the very best.

[JeffH]

Maybe we should get an expert opinion...Fulvio?