"Collector" A person who collects things.
I sometimes feel so all alone... I see I'm not..."Hoarder" A person who accumulates things and hides them away for future use.
from the implications of this thread, we're all "collective hoarders."
Of course, there are things of my parents I've had difficulty pawing through and getting rid of; the most valuable things were stolen, however, so it would have behooved to have done so, anyway.
8-)