You decide.

As a child my father ingrained a saving habit in me. Anything I wanted I had to save my reasonably generous pocket money for, but when I had saved enough and was about to buy that bike, my father would buy it for me and my saved up dosh would go into my savings account, never to re-appear.

For much of my life this has been a helpful habit though even now at 72 and in retirement I still save from my income. But there are aspects that SWMBO describes as hoarding. Today I unwisely decided to have a clear out of some of my clothes cupboards. In particular the one with my "stash" of new clothes in it. Note that these are brand new clothes still in their wrappers and is in addition to the clothes in regular use of which, like people on her, I am far from short .

I found 28 brand new pairs of socks. 6 brand new packetted shirts, 10 winter vests, 8 pairs of jeans - I wont go on. You get the drift. blush God forbit that I ever try to clear out the garage.

I once had a neighbour who lived in a large barn conversion with a 10ft x 8 ft larder. It was fitted out with and in it his wife had a stock that could rival the average small shop. It was referred to as her Tesco.

Do you hoard things? Indeed is it hoarding or natural prudence.