Has anyone ever called you a hoarder for all the books you buy/own. If so what do you say to these people?
Has anyone ever called you a hoarder for all the books you buy/own. If so what do you say to these people?
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I was and I said I’m not a hoarder it’s my personal library and they shut up
My best friend does ? I tell him to shut his mouth and go play with his cars lol.
Nichole Renee my mom does this too. Its so ridiculous because shes a reader so you’d think a fellow reader would understand but not her haha
@Hailee idk if you live with your parents/mom, but if you do she wants all the available space for her books…
But bookworms should stick together and they should hoard books together
@Cindy haha she doesnt keep her books after she reads them so she doesnt need room like me and wont even let me put my books anywhere but the damp cold backroom in our basement or my room i cant even have a small tbr pile in the living room or she gets mad lpl
Yes ???♀️ I’m like it could be worse
My husband tells me this all the time (in good fun). I just tell him that I could be addicted to drugs. ??♀️??♀️
At least it’s not drugs or animals….
Yes but I say well I have no kids no fella I don’t smoke seldom drink. After paying bills my money’s my own. So if I choose to have a hoard of books to keep me company I will and your not going to stop me.
@Ita tou and i aw the same personin that aspect lol my husband died my dog died i have no kids no car to go anywhere no friends not that i want any tbh so i like having books around better than drinking and smoking
Hailee Meghan Ava I have a job and a car. I am in a wheelchair so probably don’t get out as much I should. I have friends I just don’t live in their pockets. I like my own company even though I still live with parents. Book are my company most of the time and they make me happy.
At least it’s not druvs
Drugs
It could be worse…at least it’s not cocaine lol ??♀️
I could be an alcoholic.
Yup, I tell them “they are not just books, they are records of adventures I’ve been on”…. they just roll their eyes and walk away…
At least it’s not crack! ?♀️
@Andreana hahaha good one
@Katherine i love this! Its so true
at least its not drugs
It’s not hoarding if it’s books ?
Mind your own business!
☝️☝️☝️☝️
Nobody ever has.
I’m a hoarder for many reasons. My niece literally cleaned my bathroom cupboards yesterday and asked if I really needed the rusty scissors…. I hesitated lol
@Megan lol i did that a few items myself just couldnt part with it
Yup.. and I respond at least it’s not drugs or 20 kids ??♀️
Yeah but I tell him stuff it and go play with his hoard of fishing equipment. 🙂
At least it’s not meth ??
I do what i want ❗
AT LEAST IM NOT BUYING METH. ??♀️??♀️??♀️
It’s how I make my living <3.
@Chanderella this is great to hear
@Hailee Took me 35 years to figure it out, but I did it! lol
“I’m a Bookdragon. What do you expect?”, “At least it’s not drugs”, “Well, I could always just be boring like ‘some’ people I know *stares pointedly*”
“they are my trophies, I didn’t read well when I was younger. now look at what i’ve accomplished”
Thank you!
It could be drugs
OR
I could be drinking, having sex, or doing drugs but instead I read. What would you rather have me do?
I say to them- Some women are vain so they need to collect things like makeup, shoes, purses, and clothes to enhance their looks, I collect books to enhance my mind because imagination is more attractive than filtered beauty. ??????
@Brandy i think this is something everyone needs to hear this most women not all are worrying about there outward appearance and less about expanding there mind through reading and its sad
“I hesitate to articulate for fear that I may deviate from the point upon which I intend to portray. ” Then when they keep asking me what that means I just say “I don’t know”. (It’s just a fancy way of saying I don’t know and it confuses them and then they leave me alone)
@Athena brilliant
“You’re just jealous because I can afford it.”
At least my vocabulary is larger than yours ?
Yes. I just think we all have things we love. Mine is my husband, my cat and my books and not exclusively in that order lol. Xx
@Kirstie haha nice
There is worse addictions
It could be drugs so I’m doing just fine.
Laugh and say that that’s why I’m so smart. ??
At least it is a healthy addiction ???
I know I have a problem…
I’m a collector.
I say that books in a home are clues as to a who a person really is. Shelves of biz management- either driven to do better or searching for answers.
Shelves of historical bodice ripper romances- unrealistic expectations of relationships
Shelves of unsolved crime- maybe don’t sleep over when they are angry.
So if books give clues as to who we are, what does it say about you that your shelves are empty??
@Christine I love that lol ?
@Christine hahaha great comment i need to tell my mother this because shw has s problem qith my books and always tells me to spend my money on something useful but what she doesnt know is that books are useful if i have a burglar in my house i can try and atrack him with books if i have a wobbly table i can use a book to level it out if i need to i mean endless possibilities lmao but id hate to abuse my books in that way so theres that too
I collect literature. I’m not collecting used condoms. ?
Harley Reaves dying this is so funny??
“Shut up, your interrupting my reading.”
I tell them it’s better then drugs
No.
Because I don’t socialize. ?
And my husband nerds out too!
Yeah if anyone says that to you it is time to put on some music and turn back to your book.
It’s not hoarding if it’s books, its a library!
Nothing. I just stack my books around me and build a book cave to hide in. No one needs that type of negativity in their life.
@Amber i wanna do that now lol
I ask them if they’re jealous lol ? ?
I usually call them out on something the horde or collect and say at least my obsession makes me more interesting and intelligent. Or something way more snarky
I would’ve loved to have a comeback the other day. She called my collection ridiculous and all I could think was how sad of an opinion that is.
@Katelynd same my mother is always making a mountain out of a mole hill with my books and i never have anything to say back but now i do
Nope. I always get mine from the library unless they are text books or cookbooks. I do hoard them.
I am part dragon…. so what
Piss. Off.
Bye Felicia
I buy books at thrift stores so sometimes I dont pay more than $3 for a trade and $5 for a hardback. This is my smallest book corner.
I dont tell people anything.
Smallest hahaha whats the biggest and i love that you have so many there the best things to buy in my opinion
@Hailee my basement is pretty packed. And my living room where my “office’is but I cant find my desk or my laptop. Hahahahaha…
@Gladys hahahahah thats not good that you cant find them but id love having all those books
It’s not hoarding…it’s a library. 😉
I’m a hoarder anyway, not extream (maybe even calling myself a collector would be more accurate), but I like to think of myself as a Book Dragon with my hoard of books and bookish items… and comics/comic items.. and Pez dispensers.. and empty book subscription boxes, and packing worms (you never know when a present needs just a little extra packing) and lace… They’re my hoard.. I own the title proud and tell people in bookstores about my book hoard (I even show them pictures) 🙂 No one has ever called me a book hoarder though, admittedly I do get rid of a lot of books (which is not a typical hoarder action), but that’s usually because I need money for more new books that I might like better than the ones I’m getting rid off…. But yeah, if anyone said anything I’d be proud to call myself that. Now if someone called me a gross hoarder and thought I was collecting my faeces in bottles or something, then I’d have an issue… (I think my ADHD led me off track at some point…)
Yep. I’m a book dragon. Dragons hoard treasure and books are my treasure.
It’s not hoarding if it’s books
It could be drugs
I believe it is The Pen Addict who’s tagline is “There are worse addictions, right?”
You don’t ACTUALLY have to carry all those to the counter. I work out. (true story).
“Just because you cant read dont be mean to others”
That’s nice. I don’t care what they think lol
Standard response: “at least it’s not shoes”
Oh my God.. That is the nicest thing anyone have ever said to me..
THAT’S MY RESPONSE
My daughter says it all the time .. yet she benefits from it ?lol
@Cassandra seriously lol thats sad
@Sara you right most of us do. My cousins and mother think i buy too many books and just a few months ago i was gonna go visit a cousin because she was having a baby. But i just couldnt afford it at the time. Then i find out behind my back she said its better that she couldnt come or something like that because all i would do is buy books as if thats a crime or a sin
I say “So!” I call it my library. ❤
I didn’t choose the book dragon life… it choose me
I could say the same about all your magazines & ?
” I’m not a hoarder ! I AM A DOMESTICATED LIBRARIAN !” 😀
@Kalina this is so true