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Originally Posted by volleyballgranny  We were very well prepared for Hurricane Ike and it was barely a hiccup in our lives--food? Plenty. Water? Plenty. Electricity? Who needs it--we have propane lanterns and stoves. My friends and I played dominoes or cards and had a 9 day party. Hoarding...uh, being prepared...isn't all bad! |
I was going to bring that up. I think "hoarding" is probably just an instinct to secure material wealth, passed down through natural selection. It may seem a bit abnormal, but I'm sure it has a function, both today and in the past. Especially in the past. I can imagine that early societies with very limited wealth could benefit a lot from hoarding. This is just a guess, but I'm pretty sure it's true.
And today everything that's a bit out of the ordinary gets diagnosed as a "mental disorder", when in the past we would probably just call it "eccentric".