I was only poking fun at ALL of us and our obsession with firewood. I'm guilty of it myself. The post was totally in jest.
I read years ago that "hoarding" is genetic or intrinsic to human nature. Those who stored more went on to produce more children. Last I looked, this site was called "Firewood Hoarders Club" and so a nod to our intrinsic human nature. I am at 5 years of firewood inventory but downed sugar maple, hop hornbeam, white oak, and bitternut hickory draw me like a "bear to honey". Leaving premium wood on the ground feels like a sin and I never know when the supply will fail. Besides, I like being outside and in the woods. I tried the gym membership and not my thing. The local gym charges $600 per year and that covers the cost of a lot of saw batteries, gasoline, bar oil, tarps... As to those with $$$$$$$..., ego seems to rule those. I suppose the "victor" or winner went on to produce more children eons ago. I am a hoarder not a victor and happy to say so. I just need to avoid those victor types...
In that case, sorry for jumpin' your $hit. The funny thing is, I'm not trying or even want to be one of those people. In fact I don't consider myself one at all. Hoarding to me are those who disrupt the whole supply/demand balance by buying up the supply side due to some crazy paranoia of possibly being without said item. All this does is make the supply side worse and increase prices for everyone else! I've never been -that- person. Harvesting dead trees of a renewable resource is not hoarding in my book. Exactly, and I see it as money rotting away if I don't get to use it as my temporary exercise object.
I have (when friends were looking at my fire wood stash and rolling their eyes) said the same exact thing, that, that firewood stash is the same thing as a bank account. That's money stacked up there and I can draw from it as needed. This winter, a cold one for us, I am going to withdraw from my extra. Just like a bank fund for emergencies.
