Hoarding is the storing of food or other goods. Hoarding of food is a natural behaviour in certain species of animals. It occurs in two forms:

• Larder hoarding, the collection of large amounts of food in a single place (a larder), which usually also serves as the nest where the animal lives. Hamsters are famous larder hoarders. Indeed, some languages have a verb which is derived from hamster that means "to hoard" (e.g. German hamstern, Dutch hamsteren, and Swedish hamstra, or in non-germanic languages, Polish chomikować, from chomik – hamster. In Hebrew it goes the other way around - hamster; oger (אוגר) comes from to hoarde; le'egor (לאגור)).
• Scatter hoarding, the formation of a large number of small hoards or caches. Many species of squirrel, including the Eastern Gray Squirrel and the fox squirrel are well known for scatter hoarding.

While humans are not notable for hoarding behavior, it is a common response to fear, whether fear of imminent society-wide danger or simple fear of a shortage of some good. When trouble looms (such as civil unrest or natural disaster), people's first instinct is to collect foodstuffs, water, gasoline and other essentials which they believe, rightly or wrongly, will soon be in short supply. (They also hoard money, especially if they expect deflation, in which falling prices mean that the purchasing power of money will rise.) This behaviour can often cause the very shortage which has been feared, and governments sometimes choose to introduce rationing in order to combat hoarding, as well as to reduce consumption and waste. However, those who have successfully hoarded the desired goods will not have to worry about the shortage, whether it was their fault or not. The compulsive collecting of objects is known as pathological or compulsive hoarding. A Larder is a cool area for storing food prior to use. ... Jump to: navigation, search Genera Cricetus Mesocricetus Cricetulus Phodopus This article is about the animal. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Germanic languages form one of the branches of the Indo-European (IE) language family. ... Jump to: navigation, search Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by 6 million people mainly in Israel, parts of the Palestinian territories, the United States and by Jewish communities around the world. ... Jump to: navigation, search Genera Many, see the article Sciuridae. ... Binomial name Sciurus carolinensis Gmelin, 1788 The Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) is a tree squirrel that is native to the eastern to midwestern United States and the eastern provinces of Canada. ... Binomial name Sciurus niger Linnaeus,, 1758 The Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger), also known as the Cat Squirrel or Stump-eared Squirrel, is the largest species of tree squirrels native to North America. ... Jump to: navigation, search Money Money is any marketable good or token used by a society as a store of value, a medium of exchange, and a unit of account. ... In economics, deflation is a decrease in the general price level, or a rise in the purchasing power of money with respect to a large class of consumption goods or services. ... Rationing is the controlled distribution of resources and scarce goods or services: it restricts how much people are allowed to buy or consume. ... Consumption is the using up of a resource. ... Koran inside a rubbish bin Koran is unwanted or undesired material left over after the completion of a process. ... Compulsive hoarding (or pathological hoarding) is a term which is used to describe extreme hoarding behaviour in humans. ...

With the advent of personal computers people started hoarding digital data. In 1980s they started storing megabytes of interesting texts, images and software on floppy disks. Two decades later, computer users hoard on their hard disks gigabytes of songs, movies, software and pornography. Even though most of the content is not unique and can be easily downloaded from the Internet, many people enjoy creating large personal collections. Now, the data is slowly migrating to portable devices. For example, a 2004 UK study by Toshiba found 60% of the owners of portable devices store between 1000 and 2000 music files on them, the equivalent of 100 music CDs [1]. Jump to: navigation, search A floppy disk is a data storage device that is composed of a circular piece of thin, flexible (i. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search Toshiba Corporation (東芝, Tōshiba) (TYO: 6502) is a Japanese high technology electrical and electronics manufacturing firm, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. ... CD may stand for: Compact Disc Canadian Forces Decoration Cash Dispenser (at least used in Japan) CD LPMud Driver Centrum-Demokraterne (Centre Democrats of Denmark) Certificate of Deposit České Dráhy (Czech Railways) Chad (NATO country code) Chalmers Datorförening (computer club of the Chalmers University of Technology) a 1960s...

On a larger scale hoarding can be a business strategy similar to monopolisation, where an individual or organization attempts to temporarily control all available supplies of a given good in order to artificially increase the price. This strategy is also known as "cornering the market". Jump to: navigation, search In economics, a monopoly (from the Greek monos, one + polein, to sell) is defined as a persistent market situation where there is only one provider of a kind of product or service. ... In business, cornering the market is an illegal attempt to buy up enough of a particular commodity to allow the price to be manipulated. ...