# Hoarding for 12/21/12 **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 17, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarding-for-12-21-12/644318 "2012-12-17T16:50:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hilary\_Algar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilary_algar/32/4282_2.png) [@Hilary\_Algar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilary_Algar)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarding-for-12-21-12/644318/1 "2012-12-17T16:50:55Z")
Are you hoarding anything for 12/21/12? ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarding-for-12-21-12/644318/2 "2012-12-17T17:00:32Z")
You mean 12.21.12, right? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarding-for-12-21-12/644318/3 "2012-12-17T17:01:36Z")
The OP is hoarding 9 days. I’m not. I’m just trying to make it through the week. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarding-for-12-21-12/644318/4 "2012-12-17T17:03:22Z")
I think she means 12.12.21. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarding-for-12-21-12/644318/5 "2012-12-17T17:04:05Z")
Did hoard? What? ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarding-for-12-21-12/644318/6 "2012-12-17T17:05:08Z")
Or 21.12.12, following the non-US custom of day:month:year. Not hoarding anything here, at any rate. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarding-for-12-21-12/644318/7 "2012-12-17T18:28:30Z")
Why on earth would I hoard anything? If I believe in 12/21/12, that means I believe THE WORLD IS GOING TO END.:eek: There’s no halfway here. Either the end of the Mayan calnedar means the world is going to end, in which case hoarding is pretty silly, or it means the calendar simply resets back to Day 1, in which case it makes no more sense to hoard than it does on December 31 or every year. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarding-for-12-21-12/644318/8 "2012-12-17T18:40:55Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > There’s no halfway here. You’re failing to see shades of gray here. The world will go on, but without Twinkies. Kinda puts a whole new spin on hoarding, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarding-for-12-21-12/644318/9 "2012-12-17T19:14:15Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > You’re failing to see shades of gray here… Depends. Are there fifty of them? OP, assuming you’re talking about one of the many future apocalypse/armageddon/rapture dates, then, no. In fact, as my dept. is set to move offices soon, I’m doing the opposite, and trying to eat through the stash of food at my desk rather than having to pack it. (Mostly odds and ends: half a pack of crackers, part of a bag of peanut M&Ms, etc.) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarding-for-12-21-12/644318/10 "2012-12-17T19:19:01Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > part of a bag of peanut M&Ms 😕 I understand the words, but the concept is eluding me. It’s like ten years ago when my brother asked me about some “leftover lobster meat.” Um… Put it next to the unicorn and tooth faerie? ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarding-for-12-21-12/644318/11 "2012-12-17T19:21:24Z")
What time of day is that supposed to happen anyway? Like midnight Mayan time zone? Because I was thinking that there’s really no time of day that it’s the same day all over the world, so in some time zones the world will end on the day before or after. That hardly seems fair. ---
**Author:** ![Michael63129](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@Michael63129](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael63129)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarding-for-12-21-12/644318/12 "2012-12-17T20:03:48Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Why on earth would I hoard anything? If I believe in 12/21/12, that means I believe THE WORLD IS GOING TO END.:eek: > > There’s no halfway here. Either the end of the Mayan calnedar means the world is going to end, in which case hoarding is pretty silly, or it means the calendar simply resets back to Day 1, in which case it makes no more sense to hoard than it does on December 31 or every year. Maybe they think they will have their stuff in the afterlife, like the Egyptian pharaohs who were buried with all of those lavish riches, including many day-to-day items. > [@Zjestika](#): > > What time of day is that supposed to happen anyway? Like midnight Mayan time zone? Because I was thinking that there’s really no time of day that it’s the same day all over the world, so in some time zones the world will end on the day before or after. That hardly seems fair. Apparently, it is supposed to happen at [11:11 UTC](http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/maya-world-end.html), or 5:11 am CST (which is the [time zone](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Time_Zone) in the Mayan regions), but perhaps that was some number picked out of the air (midnight CST would make more sense). Of course, I don’t believe in any of this, so I’m not hoarding anything (beyond what I normally hoard, if you call it that). ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarding-for-12-21-12/644318/13 "2012-12-17T20:14:54Z")
> [@Michael63129](#): > > Maybe they think they will have their stuff in the afterlife, like the Egyptian pharaohs who were buried with all of those lavish riches, including many day-to-day items. > . Gawd it better not work that way. Sweet, sweet death is probably my only hope of escaping this house that is 5/3rds full of a lifetimes worth of borderline crap (certainly no damn Ming vases thats for sure). Please please tell me this shit won’t haunt my afterlife as well. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarding-for-12-21-12/644318/14 "2012-12-17T23:06:21Z")
I still have shit left from my Y2K hoarding. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarding-for-12-21-12/644318/15 "2012-12-18T00:32:06Z")
Changed the OP and title at the request of the OP. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarding-for-12-21-12/644318/16 "2012-12-18T04:25:10Z")
No hoarding here. I don’t have enough storage space to hoard anything other than dust. I’ve got a lot of dust. ---
**Author:** ![nion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nion)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarding-for-12-21-12/644318/17 "2012-12-18T05:51:09Z")
Bah, who needs to hoard? If the Fallout series of games taught me anything, it’s that there will never be a shortage of anything after the apocalypse, decades of radiation and decay be damned! Just waltz in any abandoned house or gas station and stock up on spam, Mac and cheese, bubblegum… Then you can wonder into local offices to look for spare ammunition and cartons of cigarettes to trade for whatever passes for currency. See? Simple! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![duchessofdork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@duchessofdork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duchessofdork)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarding-for-12-21-12/644318/18 "2012-12-18T09:53:35Z")
Junk food and holiday cartoons on my DVR! My husband and our 5 year old both start their holiday break on Friday, so we’re not leaving the house. I am not scared of the Mayan Apocolypse, but I’m terrified of the people who believe it’s going to happen. ---
**Author:** ![Hilary\_Algar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilary_algar/32/4282_2.png) [@Hilary\_Algar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilary_Algar)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarding-for-12-21-12/644318/19 "2012-12-18T17:13:41Z")
> [@duchessofdork](#): > > I’m terrified of the people who believe it’s going to happen. You and me both. I don’t see any panicky behavior, yet. I am not hoarding anything but I am stocked with drinking water, peanut butter, two charged cell phones, two vehicles with full gas tanks, a laptop computer with fully charged battery and a nice wad of cash. Lame, I know, but maybe better than nothing, I guess–then again, maybe not. Any way you slice it, it’s not like I’m _not_ going to be able to use the stuff if nothing crazy happens. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarding-for-12-21-12/644318/20 "2012-12-18T17:21:06Z")
> [@duchessofdork](#): > > I am not scared of the Mayan Apocolypse, but I’m terrified of the people who believe it’s going to happen. I don’t think it’s going to be any worse than the last few times the world ended. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarding-for-12-21-12/644318.md?page=2)