New Group Idea- You Know You are a Hoarder When

@Heartlander LOL. funny...

@Heartlander Humongous string balls are interesting though. My uncle would pick up things on the farm that he found and stick them in his overall pockets. At the end of the day we loved to watch what he took out of his pockets, screw, bolts, bits of baling wire, old marbles or whatever. He kept the screws, bolts, nails and anything useful in old jars and put them out in the smokehouse. When we left the farm and he retired from his other job he got a part-time job at a grocery store, as a receiving clerk. He would save pieces of string cut off of flats of bread that was delivered and bring them home. I started making a string ball because of it. If anyone ever needed string they knew where to find it.

@akindheart we once had a neighborhood grounds keeper/handy man who hoarded string, and from the size of his string ball had apparently been doing so for his entire life. The size of a volley ball. He used the string to tie the yard twigs in a bundle, then clip off the loose ends to tie them back to the ball, salvaging an inch or two of string.

@Heartlander I cut up old t-shirts into very long strings and rolled them up into balls and used them to tie cut branches for yard waste collection.

@cherokeepatti That’s so precious. Seriously. Here is something very trustable and admirable about people who waste nothing.

@Heartlander I don’t save everything but things I can use I’ll take them and do something with them. I had enough cleaning rags at the time so decided to make those. I have also made “string” from plastic grocery bags and crocheted them into little stress balls.

@Heartlander hey there is this TV show called Collectors...we need to watch it