{"id":80,"date":"2023-10-01T09:07:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T13:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/?p=80"},"modified":"2023-10-02T09:04:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T13:04:00","slug":"the-hoarding-tendencies-of-a-small-business-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/2023\/10\/01\/the-hoarding-tendencies-of-a-small-business-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hoarding Tendencies of a Small Business Owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\">I have a sig<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\">nificant amount of a lot of items including <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\">graphic<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\"> t-shirts and bags but neither of\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\">those <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\">c<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\">ompare<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\"> to the amount of yarn that I have. There is yarn i<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\">n a plastic tub, a basket, one of my desk drawers, in random bags and on my<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\"> desk. There is <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun AdvancedProofingIssueV2Themed SCXW172793368 BCX4\">probably yarn <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 1rem\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\">on me somewhere right now. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\">There are<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\"> also many completed crochet items around my roo<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 1rem\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\">m and that <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun AdvancedProofingIssueV2Themed SCXW172793368 BCX4\">doesn\u2019t<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\"> even touch on my room back home which has an entire corner <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\">dedicated<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\"> to it and even more fin<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\">ished things downstairs.<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\">This could be seen as hoarding, especially if I <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun AdvancedProofingIssueV2Themed SCXW172793368 BCX4\">was<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\"> a hobby crocheter, people always joke about a yarn addiction, but my yarn is technically materials for my small business and the completed items are my stock. When it all comes out of <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 1rem\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\">a tiny dorm room it can really seem like a problem and it <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\">probably still<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\"> is at least a little <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW172793368 BCX4\">bit<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\"> but I am able to explain most of my hoarding fears away by reminding myself that the yarn <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\">pr<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\">ovides<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\"> a <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\">portion<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\"> of my income. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun AdvancedProofingIssueV2Themed SCXW172793368 BCX4\">Where the actual problem comes in is when I keep buying yarn that I <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun AdvancedProofingIssueV2Themed SCXW172793368 BCX4\">don\u2019t<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun AdvancedProofingIssueV2Themed SCXW172793368 BCX4\">actu<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW172793368 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 1rem\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun AdvancedProofingIssueV2Themed SCXW172793368 BCX4\">ally need<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun AdvancedProofingIssueV2Themed SCXW172793368 BCX4\">, whi<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun AdvancedProofingIssueV2Themed SCXW172793368 BCX4\">ch is a problem I am currently working through by refusing to buy yarn unless completely necessary.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW172793368 BCX4\" style=\"font-size: 1rem\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-106 aligncenter\" style=\"margin-top: 0.857143rem;margin-bottom: 0.857143rem;margin-left: 1.714286rem\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/files\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-10-01-at-9.04.49-AM-229x300.png\" alt=\"Yarn from reddit\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/files\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-10-01-at-9.04.49-AM-229x300.png 229w, https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/files\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-10-01-at-9.04.49-AM-624x816.png 624w, https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/files\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-10-01-at-9.04.49-AM.png 693w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a significant amount of a lot of items including graphic t-shirts and bags but neither of\u00a0those compare to the amount of yarn that I have. There is yarn in a plastic tub, a basket, one of my desk drawers, in random bags and on my desk. There is probably yarn on me somewhere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1576,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hoarding-and-cleaning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1576"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}