Reminds me of the semantic game we used to play:
She is a hoarder but I am a collector
You need to get rid of your old junk; I need to curate my possessions.
But as someone who has also has had to help my mother sort out half a century's worth of possessions, I began to realize using the term "collection" to describe a pile of items pushed in dark corner probably is stretching the term a bit far. It made me contemplate the final fate of my "collections" once I was no longer able to clutch them, whispering "my precious".
