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Friday 5...Hoards

20/4/2012

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"this is ALL necessary" Image:Davidd
TV is moving on from the overweight to the overloaded. It’s no longer all about embarrassing bodies but embarrassing rooms. Over-spilling waistbands are giving way to over-spilling cupboards. Oxfam are accusing the women of the UK of allowing at least 9 bras to languish, unworn in their underwear drawers. Hoarding. It’s now officially A Thing.

Even the most minimalist person has a guilty (or not so guilty) hoard of stuff, the need of which others might question. Those who move around a lot have a cardboard box that’s never unpacked yet the contents is indispensable. Some people now sleep on mattresses supported by piles of magazines stuffed beneath it, the bed frame redundant. Some of the Squeamish Bikini team have confessed to their own hoards…

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F1 Kate's babies
1. Shoes.  I don't hoard. I am a minimalist, and look down on hoarders. Why fill your life with crap?

Of course, some people might say that having 50 pairs of shoes and three years of F1 press releases and media information packs constitutes hoarding. I say that the latter are reference materials and the former are my babies.
F1 Kate

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The toolbox
2. Make-up. I come from a long line of hoarders. My Dad hoards wires, Nokia phone chargers and plug adapters. My Mum hoards toiletries and perfumes and from a peek in her bathroom cabinet my sister hoards leave in conditioners it would seem. We all hoard books. I’m a terrible hoarder; make- up is my big weakness, Superdrug my enabler. If ever I see a special offer on make-up I have to exploit it. A new product you say? Get in the bag. If I find a make-up product I really like I will buy up the lot for fear the manufacturer will discontinue that line. I’m also a total sucker for the outrageous adjectives presented as statistics in cosmetic advertising, I will stand in the make-up aisle deciding between 2 lip glosses and it will come down to the 1 that guarantees my lips will look 80% more juicy. FACT.  

My make-up collection has grown so much that last Christmas my best present was a repurposed toolbox which I now keep the make-up I regularly use in. But there is an overspill bag(s). I don’t feel too guilty about my make-up hoard though because it is one of the rare hoards I have that I actually use. Squeamish Kate 

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What would you pay to see this collection...TWICE
3. Collectable Card Game cards - Buried somewhere in the depth of the garage at my family home I have a collection of at least 50,000 Star Trek: The Collectable Card Game cards. A couple of hundred more actually – the pile of 50,000 cards is my swap pile (obviously I have a single copy of each, carefully protected in Perspex card sleeves, in a folder, securely hidden away so nobody knows how much of a geek I am).  Want to know the saddest thing about this? I’ve only ever played the game once as it wasn’t very good! However, it didn’t stop me buying them (I needed them all!  That must have been what was wrong with the game – a lack of cards!). Twice. I also own a limited edition set containing all the cards (at least I assume it does – I’ve never opened it because it is limited edition) with a special silver border rather than white. That totally justified the *mumble* £70 *mumble* I spent on the tin. I can’t bring myself to throw them away – I’ll never touch them again, they have very little value and they take up a lot of room but they represent several years of my life (and far, far more money than I’d like to think about). Gareth


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Image: Muffet
4. University Notes - The thing is, those notes represent over 3 years of hard work. I also know that my memory is terrible, so if I destroyed them that would be it – if I ever wanted to revisit literary theory or philosophy I’d have to start again from scratch. The box of notes is my insurance in case I ever decide that I do, in fact, want to be an academic.
Squeamish Louise



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What? Yes this is all of them...
5. Sunglasses – As I mentioned, I come from a family of hoarders and we all have various little hoards, it’s in my genes and that’s why I have the embarrassing pleasure of 2 appearances on this list. The other item I cannot stop myself from buying is sunglasses.  

As a teen I would buy sunglasses and then never wear them, I was (and am) always on the hunt for the perfect pair of aviators that will suit me. I was a teen when those Chloe shades were The Pair to have and I scoured the high street searching for the perfect imitation. It spiralled from there, I spent my first significant paycheque on Chanel 5018s and I am still hunting down a pair of Chloe 89s (high five to anyone who knows what I am talking about). Each time there’s a significant change in sunglasses style I think ‘gosh I can’t believe I used to wear aviators/asymmetric/rose-tinted shades! Now I will never go back because this is the style’. Until the next one comes along… Squeamish Kate

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Squeamish Kate link
19/4/2012 07:06:09 pm

Note my awesome flip shades in the corner that I got last year, they proved SO USEFUL. Instead of revealing embarrassing nose dents by taking my sunglasses off inside I could just flip up the shades! Function over fashion.

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Kate's mum
20/4/2012 12:24:45 am

Unlike your dad's wire and plug collection I need all those toiletries and perfumes to stay lovely and fragrant.

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