[Judson]

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Originally Posted by Glennwillow

Is a person a hoarder if he has tools in his tool box that he needs only once in a while, maybe for a specific job, perhaps pulling a wheel bearing, as an example?

No he's a hoarder if he has three different tools that would all serve the same purpose for the same job.

Is a person a hoarder if he has a utility pickup truck and a sedan, too, and can't possibly drive both vehicles at once?

No he's a hoarder if he has 2-3 utility pick-up trucks all the same model, but in different colors.

Is a person who has worked and saved all of his/her life who now comes to the point of near retirement and has significant funds available who also decides to buy an expensive guitar just because he/she wants a reward after all that work some kind of hoarder?

No, he's a hoarder if he buys a dozen dreadnoughts of various makes and only plays one or two while the others sit in cases.

As Bob Womack comments, for recording projects, all kinds of guitars may be needed as tools to create the sound a client wants. Or the player personally wants for his own recording projects. After all, it is the player's money and how he/she spends it should be no one else's business.

The word "hoarder" carries very negative connotations.

It's very negative word indeed. And none of the scenarios you describe define hoarding. Hoarders hang on to things they neither need nor want, just for the sake of having them or because they are psychologically unable to part with them.

- Glenn