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> Hoard seems more ad hoc and fear-driven: better keep yet another beat-up VGA cable, just in case.

Counterexample: animals hoarding food for winter time, etc.

Rather a corroborating example than a counter, if you believe how many nuts squirrels lose sight of after burying them.

Exactly. How many random computer dongles and power supplies get buried in sundry boxes that are effectively lost to the world?