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Pinterest: Is It Digital Hoarding?

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I was looking through my Pinterest board, Crochet , the other day and had a thought. (How original! lol) I thought to myself, "When am I going to find time to make  all this stuff? And where will I get the money to buy the yarn?" I don't normally think of myself as a hoarder. Not even when it comes to my yarn stash (hubby would disagree). But when I look at all the things I've collected on Pinterest I find I might have to revisit that assumption. All those pins I've accumulated, and will most likely never  get around to making, are hoarding of a sort. Is this a trend we have to look forward to in the electronic age in which we live? An age filled with bytes and IPS and downloads that monopolize our time when we could be out there doing something else? This is not  the first weird thing I've wondered. Believe me. The other night our air conditioning was busted and it was really hard to sleep. My wonderful husband and I were ...