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A billboard (also called a hoarding in the UK and many other parts of the world [vague]) [1] is a large outdoor advertising structure (a billing board), typically found in high-traffic areas such as alongside busy roads.
Hoarding can run in families, and it may be possible genetics play a role in developing hoarding behaviors. [16] Also, this behavior can be developed due to life circumstances such as difficult losses, depression , financial crises , and living small which make it difficult for people to get rid of their belongings.
1894 poster articulating an aspect of hoarding. Hoarding in economics refers to the concept of purchasing and storing a large amount of a particular product, creating scarcity of that product, and ultimately driving the price of that product up.
An anti-hoarding, pro-rationing poster from the United States in World War II. The work of issuing ration books and exchanging used stamps for certificates was handled by some 5,500 local ration boards of mostly volunteer workers selected by local officials. Many levels of rationing went into effect.
Opportunity hoarding occurs when privileged social groups control access to community resources and prevent underprivileged groups from utilizing important resources. The process occurs when a dominant group identifies viable resources and acts in ways that prevents them from being used by individuals outside of this group.
The Amul girl, an advertising mascot used by Amul, an Indian dairy brand. The Amul girl is an advertising mascot used by the Indian dairy brand Amul.The mascot is a hand-drawn cartoon of a young Indian girl dressed in a polka-dotted frock with blue hair and a half-pony tied up. [1]
Hoarding disorder; Other names: Compulsive hoarding: Compulsive hoarding in an apartment: Specialty: Psychiatry, clinical psychology: Symptoms: Excessive acquisition, Perceived need to save possessions, Persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions, regardless of their actual value, Intense urge to keep items and distress when getting rid of them.
Slogan as it appears on a 1959 poster Slogan on an advertising hoarding (on right) in Birmingham's Moor Street, 1979 "Drinka pinta milka day" was an advertising slogan used by the British Milk Marketing Board and Dairy Council.