Possible Clues:

• Magpie
• One with hidden store
• Taking off, at first, is not so easy for a squirrel
• Pack rat
• It's not so easy to embrace love for a miser
• One gathers nothing in tougher circumstances
• One secretly stores money or valuables
• More difficult holding ring for collector
• For whom it's not so easy having nothing stored
• For a magpie it's more distressing when nothing is retained