Are you a Collectaholic?

[DinoLast]

1. Have you ever lost time from work or school due to collecting?
2. Has collecting ever made your home life unhappy?
3. Has collecting affected your reputation?
4. Have you ever felt remorse after collecting?
5. Has collecting caused a decrease in your ambition or efficiency?
6. Has a collecting "dry spell" at your favorite spots caused you to
seek out other collection sites as soon as possible?
7. After a great find, have you had a strong urge to return and
get more? Or to visit every other collection store on the internet?
8. Do you often collect until your last dollar is gone?
9. Have you ever borrowed to finance your collecting?
10. Have you ever sold anything to finance collecting?
11. Have you ever been reluctant to use "collecting money" for
"normal expenditures"? (Remember, a maybe is a yes.)
12. Has collecting made you careless of the welfare of yourself
and your family?
13. Have you ever collected longer than you planned?
14. Have you ever collected to escape worry or trouble?
15. Have you ever committed or considered committing an
illegal act to finance collecting?
16. Has collecting caused you to have difficulty sleeping?
17. Do arguments, disappointments or frustrations create
within you the urge to collect?
18. Have you ever had an urge to celebrate any good fortune
by a few hours of buying collectables? (Note that habitual surfing the sites just to look at items is a mild form of such behaviour. Yes or no, depending on regularity.)
19. Have you ever considered self-destruction as a result of
your collecting?

How many of these fit the bill?
It's just for fun, but it makes you think how this could become an obsession

 

[Voorhees27]

Holy ^^^^ man, thanks! I AM an ef'n loser!

 

[pixletwin]

I answered yes to all but 5 of those questions.

 

[FQRizzo]

Hi, my name is FQRizzo, and I am a Collectaholic.

 

[pixletwin]

Hi FQRizzo

 

[creecher]

Ok I'm a collector. Now where's the alcohol come into it? It's your shout buddy. Where's my waitress?

 

[Kabukiman]

1. Have you ever lost time from work or school due to collecting?
Yes
2. Has collecting ever made your home life unhappy?
No, but the lack of collecting certainly has.
3. Has collecting affected your reputation?
Yes
4. Have you ever felt remorse after collecting?
Yes
5. Has collecting caused a decrease in your ambition or efficiency?
Yes, see question 1.
6. Has a collecting "dry spell" at your favorite spots caused you to
seek out other collection site as soon as possible?
wut?
7. After a great find, have you had a strong urge to return and
get more? Or to visit every other collection store on the internet?
Yes
8. Do you often collect until your last dollar is gone?
All the time.
9. Have you ever borrowed to finance your collecting?
CC counts a s borrowing.
10. Have you ever sold anything to finance collecting?
Yes.
11. Have you ever been reluctant to use "collecting money" for
"normal expenditures"? (Remember, a maybe is a yes.)
Yes.
12. Has collecting made you careless of the welfare of yourself
and your family?
In the past, yes. I've since gotten better.
13. Have you ever collected longer than you planned?
uhhhhhhh...
14. Have you ever collected to escape worry or trouble?
Oh yeah. Buying makes all the pain go away.
15. Have you ever committed or considered committing an
illegal act to finance collecting?
No
16. Has collecting caused you to have difficulty sleeping?
Sleep is for the weak.
17. Do arguments, disappointments or frustrations create
within you the urge to collect?
See question 14.
18. Have you ever had an urge to celebrate any good fortune
by a few hours of buying collectables? (Note that habitual surfing the sites just to look at items is a mild form of such behaviour. Yes or no, depending on regularity.)
Yes.
19. Have you ever considered self-destruction as a result of
your collecting?
Wha?

 

[DinoLast]

Hi, my name is FQRizzo, and I am a Collectaholic.

That's the spirit. You're among friends FQRizzo

 

[DinoLast]

6. Has a collecting "dry spell" at your favorite spots caused you to
seek out other collection site as soon as possible?
wut?

19. Have you ever considered self-destruction as a result of
your collecting?
Wha?

What I mean by number 6 is, if your favourite place to shop lets you down by not having the stuff you require, will you wait or go somewhere else straight away.

19. Have you never had the urge to bash your hand down on the desk when you have been outbid on Ebay at the last second.

 

[The Ringer]

Pictures make me weak.

 

[Blu Falcon]

LOL I think this is a standard questionnaire that was originally made for alcoholism. Only they replaced the word alcohol with collecting. Still good fun though. And yes, I'm turning into a collectaholic. God help me.

 

[Reinhardt]

Yes to all save for 6. I'm definitely addicted.

 

[ONEYE]

A few images come to my mind.

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[Darkseed]

Ha ha ha ha........quite a silly thought people actually do this over collectibles

 

[ONEYE]

I forgot a few applicable ones.

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[Darth Madden]

I would take this but my "toys" are telling me not too.

 

[barryo]

i plead the 5th........

 

[mr.thrifty]

I see little people holding guns....

 

[Darth Cruel]

1. Have you ever lost time from work or school due to collecting? No, I do all of my hunting while I am on the clock.
2. Has collecting ever made your home life unhappy? No, SHE makes my home life unhappy and blames my collection. It is all her fault!
3. Has collecting affected your reputation? Yes, it has improved it a great deal. I am the very favorite person of all the scalpers at Frank-n-Son Collectibles Show!
4. Have you ever felt remorse after collecting? No, but the kids' hungry crying can be sort of irritating.
5. Has collecting caused a decrease in your ambition or efficiency? No, I am still a completist and have no holes in my collection.
6. Has a collecting "dry spell" at your favorite spots caused you to seek out other collection sites as soon as possible? No, there are too many of them near me to all be dried up.
7. After a great find, have you had a strong urge to return and get more? Or to visit every other collection store on the internet? No. I clean out the shelves on my first visit.
8. Do you often collect until your last dollar is gone? No, I make enough money that all of the local spots put together can't break me.
9. Have you ever borrowed to finance your collecting? No...but I have "taken" to do so.
10. Have you ever sold anything to finance collecting? No, my kids went to white slavery in Mexico to pay the utilities that I couldn't pay because I bought 100 of each of the Hasbro troop-builders. But I have never sold anything to finance the collection.
11. Have you ever been reluctant to use "collecting money" for "normal expenditures"? (Remember, a maybe is a yes.) No, because I have never used collecting money for anything but collecting. What would it say about my priorities if I did that?
12. Has collecting made you careless of the welfare of yourself and your family? No, I trained my kids from early ages where the best food is thrown away after KFC closes.
13. Have you ever collected longer than you planned? No, I have never planned to stop...that is an interesting concept.
14. Have you ever collected to escape worry or trouble? No, collecting IS my worry and trouble.
15. Have you ever committed or considered committing an illegal act to finance collecting? No, or do you mean even if I didn't get caught?
16. Has collecting caused you to have difficulty sleeping? Who sleeps when there is collecting to do?
17. Do arguments, disappointments or frustrations create within you the urge to collect? Collecting is the only thing in my world that causes arguments, disappointments, and frustrations.
18. Have you ever had an urge to celebrate any good fortune by a few hours of buying collectables? (Note that habitual surfing the sites just to look at items is a mild form of such behaviour. Yes or no, depending on regularity.) No, buying collectibles IS the reason to celebrate.
19. Have you ever considered self-destruction as a result of your collecting? Yes, I seriously want my Hoth Imperial Probe Droid action figure to have a self destruct feature, but Hasro's sorry ***** won't get behind the idea.


That was easy enough.

 

[mkcc30]

A pic is all the answer I need to give........