Oct 29 2008
Is This Considered Hoarding??
From time to time I may make reference to my “stuff.” I like my stuff. I like to keep it. I like to look at it. Okay, maybe I like to hoard it. I attribute this to my parents who scraped through the early years of their lives during the Great Depression and never forgot the lessons they learned about scarcity and the importance of not being wasteful. They taught me well.
But, here is my question to you. I love recipes. I collect (hoard?) recipe books, subscribe to and store in binders (hoard?) seven different magazines devoted to cooking and recipes and have an entire software program (Mastercook Deluxe) devoted to storing (hoarding?) my favorite recipes in cyberspace. I will not live long enough to try 5% of the recipes I now possess, let alone the future recipes that will come my way to be stored and collected (hoarded?). Oh, I do experiment in my kitchen. It’s my favorite pastime. I’ve produced some great meals. I’ve produced some food concoctions that will never see the light of day. I’m okay with that.
What worries me is that I may have reached the definition of “Obsessive/Compulsive” with my love of recipes. What do you think? At what point will I have gone too far?
Drop an e-mail and let me know what you think.
