What's the difference between being rich and being a hoarder?

Hoarders collect trinkets that are mostly useless. Rich people invest in family and business.

You can be rich and not be a hoarder. Just because you have or can afford nice things, and maybe even have fancy collections, doesn't make you a "Hoarder".

Hoarders usually have psychological issues, and simply CAN'T ever throw anything away.

They collect stuff OBSESSIVELY-------filling their homes to the point of being health code violations and death traps............often with JUNK and worthless items. Sometimes pure TRASH.

There is a huge difference between collecting priceless works of art, or coins or something, and saving every TV Guide since they day they were invented....or empty pizza boxes, or empty cans and bottles.

The rich are the wealthy people in society. If you daydream of owning multi-billion dollar corporations and driving around in fancy cars, then you dream of being one of the rich.

Rich is a cognate (meaning a word that sounds the same and means the same) with various of Germanic, Frisian, and Dutch words for "king." Now it tends to be an adjective meaning "abundant."

A hoarder is one who tends gather or accumulate things; not necessarily money. Most hoarders have favorite hiding places.

I can discern the equation of 'rich' = 'hoarder' and it is true to a limited review identification of their definitions, but both words definitions extend beyond the scope of as a synonym for the word 'materials accumulator'. If we preserve and store materials, we are all hoarders. What differs from one hoarder to another is motivation. Does the fact that one motivation is right define the other motivation as wrong. The answer to that is no. What it is that delimits the rate of accumulation from rational purpose is absent purpose, action with no plan for utilizing the hoarded material or product. Purpose too can be quantified, i.e. there can be more than one purpose for the same material. The quantity of purposes for a store of product or material is proportional to the I.Q. of the individual and temporally concurrently factually valid data.

Being rich means enjoying it; being a hoarder means being obsessed with owning it.

There are moments when I own this entire wonderful existence :)

But miserable people do not believe me :(

Rich is actually a person's name, but Hoarder isn't.

The rich collect tax breaks while the hoarders collect useless crap.

Sanitary and safe living conditions.

Have you ever seen a very wealthy person living in a home that is so cluttered you had to worry about how you moved because of fear of falling or having something fall on you?

In almost all homes of the Very Wealthy, you see only a few high value items, not a lot of junk.

Rich acquire valuables and have a place for them. Hoarders aquire garbage and stack it everywhere.

Hoarders are mentally ill and rich people...nevermind.