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Originally Posted by Hankphenom
Is this the equivalent of hoarding, which in its extremer forms seems pretty clearly to be a mental illness related to some kind of childhood deprivation? We have all seen examples of where collecting as a hobby can take on more of an obsessive/compulsive nature if we're not careful or have that mindset. Trying not to be judgemental here, but what would possess someone to just keep filling shelf after shelf with duplicates, or unopened boxes of stuff that he knows will never have much value, etc. I don't get it. Does it say in the article what his motivation was in accumulating and making storage for such an enormous stash of cards? Was it money, did he hope to cash this stuff in one of these days, or he just liked buying more and more, or what?
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Well, it's definitely quirky, if you want to put it charitably. All I'll say is that he has a very supportive wife.