Due to my worsening spine and pelvis injuries, I am declaring I have enough (pretty sure I do anyway)! I smelted the rest of my CWWs yesterday, and will mine and smelt no more so I can concentrate on casting, reloading, and shooting. I greatly enjoyed the mining and smelting, but need to concentrate on the other aspects of this addiction when healthy enough to do so. Thanks to many on this website who helped me with trades, sales, and info on smelting early on in this endeavor. Selling my ingots when needed paid for my shooting needs and then some lacking income, so it is without a doubt a godsend for me to have had this opportunity. Not to mention the casting lead!
Just to show I am a realist, if given a chance of fate and see a batch of ore in a bucket somewhere needing some tender loving care, I might just have to fire up the burner. 'Till then, though, I'm not actively mining.
Now, as to the poll choice of "hoard for the sake of hoarding", the smiles brought on by the score and seeing that pile of cooling ingots surly transcends any "need", doesn't it? Geez, a hobby unto itself at times, I think.