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I finally get why my grandma kept every glass jar she ever touched
So last week my cousin Mia from Portland asked why I had 30 mason jars full of screws and dried herbs on my shelf. I laughed it off, but then she said "you're just hoarding potential, same as grandma." That hit different because I realized I do the same thing with old bike parts, I keep every chainring and spoke in a bin under my workbench. It's not about the stuff itself, it's about being ready for any repair without buying new, and I've saved maybe $200 in the last 4 months fixing my own rides. Anyone else got a weird stash that started as practicality but turned into a personality trait?
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tarak1720d ago
My grandma had a shelf in her garage with about 40 jars, but she only ever used maybe 6 of them for actual canning. The rest held nails, rubber bands, twist ties, you name it. Thing is, she didn't save every jar. She recycled the ones with cracks or weird lids right away. So it wasn't really about keeping all of them, it was about keeping the good ones that still worked. That's the part people miss when they say it's hoarding. Your bike bin sounds the same way, you keep the chainrings that still have life in them, not the bent ones. In my experience the line between useful stash and junk pile is whether you actually dig through it when you need something.
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