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Saving for a rainy day that, deep down, you hope never comes.
means To collect and stash away more of something than you need, often in secret, out of fear of future scarcity.
from From Old English 'hord', meaning treasure or a stored supply, with deep roots in the Germanic family of languages — related words meant hidden stores or treasure troves tucked away by kings, dragons, and dragons' real-world counterparts, misers. The word has barely changed shape in over a thousand years, which tells you something: humans have always been quietly squirreling things away, long before self-storage units existed.
- vs save
- saving has a plan, hoarding has anxiety
- squirrels do it
- and forget 74 percent of their buried stashes
- etymology
- old english hord, meaning treasure or secret stash
- dragons approve
- literary hoarding dates back to beowulf