Originally Posted by Annaquilts
For me it is when I start feeling overwhelmed, when I no longer feel joy when I see it, when I no longer play with it, can't find anything, spend money I do not have, when I can't work in my studio because of all the stuff. I agree and think it is different for everyone. Two shelf units would be oodles of fun for me but your friends house would scare me. I do not think it has anything to do with if you ever use it or not.
I can agree with this. The overwhelming feeling that you have lost control or know what is there and what is not is when it begins to be too much. I also believe that we spend half of our life collecting those things that make us happy and half of our life getting rid of those same things. The same stashes we buy from other people now may very well become someone else's we when begin to go the other way with getting rid of some. Hoarding is a very real issue as most of us have witnessed in our lives or through the TV.
To expand on the original question a bit, my question would be: At what point does a stash become a hoarding problem? And/Or Do Stash builders become hoarders or were they already and just found a new thing to hoard?