Words can be long reaching in their meanings. To my mind, hoarding implies nonsensical collecting and storing anything with no purpose, whereas keeping would suggest there is a purpose, right? The difference seems to be whether what is being kept has future value or purpose enough to justify the storage space.
An article in Psychology Today, Your Trash, My Treasure, suggests the act of hoarding and deciding what to keep depends on the prefrontal cortex of the brain. Damage to this area can mess with a person's ability to make judgments about what to keep and what not to keep. That would explain sudden hoarding after a brain injury, but what about other hoarding when there is no brain injury? The publication has a recent article, The Psychology of Scarcity, that says people will hoard what they have been deprived of in their lives.
My garage? There is no mindless hoarding of purposeless stuff. Everything has a definite purpose against future projects. I have no brain damage (well, some would dispute that), I am clearly aware of my plans for various items piled up in different areas. My situation seems to be one of organization and putting things in order for easy access.
I need an organizational plan.
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