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Offline franksolich

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primitives discuss a particular mental disease
« on: March 25, 2011, 07:01:45 PM »
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Hubert Flottz  (1000+ posts)        Thu Mar-17-11 05:07 PM
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My Dad and I were "Pickers" 30 years ago.

I didn't know what I was until an antique dealer in Middle-port Ohio called my Dad and me "Pickers" back about 1980. I love hunting for good plunder, but I don't have anymore room to put anything else. I still go looking/picking though. It gets in your blood I guess.

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Vinca  (1000+ posts)      Thu Mar-17-11 05:45 PM
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1. It's a disease. My favorite days of the week are the ones when the dump is open.
 
I imagine if I won the lottery I'd still have the need to "pick." You must have found some great treasures over the years!

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Hubert Flottz  (1000+ posts)        Thu Mar-17-11 09:29 PM
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2. I have and I've parted with several items that I regret having unloaded.

I decided years ago to hang on to some of the plunder and now I'm plunder poor. Back when I was young and crazy I loved to refinish furniture. I finally out grew that bad habit, unless it's something really nice and worth the time and trouble. I love the old glass and I still "pick" up a piece now and then. Going to a good antique auction and spending the day is something that I enjoy doing very much. The picking is still good around here.

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northoftheborder  (1000+ posts)       Fri Mar-18-11 11:53 PM
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3. I think this trait is genetic!!! My grandmother, mother, myself, my brother, one of my sons......

are collectors or savers. However, I have tried to stop myself from buying anything else, since my mother died, and I had to dispose of all of her things - given away, sold, chosen by family, or in my house displayed or in boxes because I HAVE RUN OUT OF ROOM! I love to prowl around antique shops, the junkier looking the better. (Too many of them have gotten too "chic" with a mixture of new thrown in.) I'm not as crazy about yard sales. I have bought things on E-Bay, but not lately.

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Paper Roses  (1000+ posts)      Sat Mar-19-11 08:44 AM
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4. You are right, it is genetic. My mother, me, both daughters

I think I blame the beginning on my immigrant grandparents. When they came from the old country, they were too poor to shop for their children in regular stores. Going to a rummage sale was a way of stretching their dollars. Of course, the kids went too. My mom caught the 'old stuff' sickness, passed it on to me and I have in turn, passed it to my kids.

Yard sales, thrift shops, junk shops, antique shops, does not matter. If I pass one, I'm in with eyes going in all directions. Sometimes I strike out, sometimes a goodie.

I have recently consigned some things to a store and will be doing more of that. I have given my kids anything they want from the house, I'm getting too old to care for and clean this place. I am not a hoarder, but just a collector of interesting stuff.

I know this will never change. My daughter brings her two girls to all the sales, antique shops,whatever she can find. It is a good thing for the kids to learn about how things were.
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Re: primitives discuss a particular mental disease
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2011, 07:17:57 PM »
When I first read "pickers," I thought that they were called that because they picked their noses.  Oh well.
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Re: primitives discuss a particular mental disease
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2011, 11:07:29 PM »
Quote from: BlueStateSaint on March 25, 2011, 07:17:57 PM
When I first read "pickers," I thought that they were called that because they picked their noses.  Oh well.
Sorrey...when I first read "pickers" I thought of constipated DUmmys.

I must be sick like that.... :-)
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Re: primitives discuss a particular mental disease
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2011, 11:32:01 PM »
As usual the primitives are a tad off the mark. "Pickers" are hard working people who provide an invaluable service to the antiques and auction industry. They do not keep much on hand and by their very definition are not into keeping inventory as they are not retailers. They source inventory for those that retail and what they come in contact with is steadily moving to their clients, not being stockpiled in a warehouse for "someday".

If you are the sort that calls yourself a picker yet after many years of "seeking plunder" you find yourself running out of storage space you are not a picker. You are a HOARDER and likely own a few too many cats as well.  :wink:
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Re: primitives discuss a particular mental disease
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2011, 12:13:27 AM »
Quote from: FreeBorn on March 25, 2011, 11:32:01 PM
As usual the primitives are a tad off the mark. "Pickers" are hard working people who provide an invaluable service to the antiques and auction industry. They do not keep much on hand and by their very definition are not into keeping inventory as they are not retailers. They source inventory for those that retail and what they come in contact with is steadily moving to their clients, not being stockpiled in a warehouse for "someday".

If you are the sort that calls yourself a picker yet after many years of "seeking plunder" you find yourself running out of storage space you are not a picker. You are a HOARDER and likely own a few too many cats as well.  :wink:

BINGO, that is what I was going to say.
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Re: primitives discuss a particular mental disease
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2011, 12:31:21 AM »
I never heard of "pickers" until that TV show came on. I thought they were called "eBayers"
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Re: primitives discuss a particular mental disease
« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2011, 01:46:44 AM »
Quote from: BlueStateSaint on March 25, 2011, 07:17:57 PM
When I first read "pickers," I thought that they were called that because they picked their noses.  Oh well.

Funny. I immediately thought they were talking about harvesting the heads of a particular plant.
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Re: primitives discuss a particular mental disease
« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2011, 08:35:16 AM »
Next up on Hoarders.  She has spent thirty years creating this mess, and for the last ten has completely isolated herself from her family and friends sitting on a five gallon bucket and posting twenty hours a day on a website called Democratic Underground. 
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn9M421YKdI&feature=player_detailpage[/youtube]

The Chandler family from Ruckersville, VA will also be featured on this episode.  With a preview.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDT3zm45YaA&feature=player_detailpage[/youtube]
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AutzvMnxWk&feature=player_detailpage[/youtube]
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Re: primitives discuss a particular mental disease
« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2011, 09:58:35 AM »
Quote from: Vagabond on March 26, 2011, 08:35:16 AM
Next up on Hoarders.  She has spent thirty years creating this mess, and for the last ten has completely isolated herself from her family and friends sitting on a five gallon bucket and posting twenty hours a day on a website called Democratic Underground. 
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn9M421YKdI&feature=player_detailpage[/youtube]

The Chandler family from Ruckersville, VA will also be featured on this episode.  With a preview.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDT3zm45YaA&feature=player_detailpage[/youtube]
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AutzvMnxWk&feature=player_detailpage[/youtube]

Holy Crap, this is not a mental disease this is insecurity about the future.

I cannot think about the times I have donated stuff I did not use at the time and down the road I had to buy again at a high price as needs changed.

There are things I have put away in boxes because at the time I had no use for them and then forget about them and years later go out and buy the same darn thing.---- Times when I see a new or improved device when I will put the old away and buy the new stuff.    Why not give or sell the old device, there have been times I need a back up device in case the new one goes on the bunk

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Re: primitives discuss a particular mental disease
« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2011, 10:42:38 AM »
The DUmbats do it all the time. In fact the whole web site is a discussion of liberalism, a clinical mental disease.
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Re: primitives discuss a particular mental disease
« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2011, 01:29:30 PM »
Well, they're right about one thing.

OCD does have a genetic component.
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