Here's an interesting, yet somewhat stressing thought.

[Eli26]

Everytime I make a new purchase pertaining to a very high-end collectible piece made of delicate materials, and as I make those pieces grow in my collection I have this very overwhelming concern. Whatever happens to the day when I have to move my collection from one place to another? I was extremely stressed when I moved out of my mother's house into my own place 5 years ago, and I had third the collection of possessions that I have now. Now as a person that appreciates things in the most optimum level in terms of conditioning, it makes me cringe everytime I see anything of mine take on battle scars through transit. Lets face it, no matter how well you pack your things and care for them, something usually takes a hit.

Granted it's only a scratch or a nick but those things really do bother me. I know it's an anal retentive thought, but I am guessing I am not the only person who has had this thought. You buy all of these expensive pieces that have all these little doo dads all over the place, like fingers, antennas, or other of the like jetting out of a mass of resin or polystone. If you're like me and you have a hundred or more of those suckers all around your place it can become very daunting when the thought arises. How will you handle a move? I am actually contemplating slowing down because of that thought alone. I know it's going to be both emotionally and physically taxing to pack everything I own into a bunch of boxes and transporting them from point A to point B.

I just figured this had to be brought up because I have a feeling now that I am in a very deep loving relationship and the day may come when we want to get a new place that we both love. And that day couldn't come any sooner.

 

[darthviper107]

I don't worry. I have a medium sized collection of stuff and I've kept the boxes that they came in and I can just put them back into their boxes if I need to move them around and haven't had any damage.

In fact, the only thing that I've ever had damaged in transit was a computer, darn hard drives, they can't take the movement.


But then again, I don't have anything polystone.

I would say that as long as you've got enough room to keep the item with the box, then you are fine with the amount of stuff you have, if you have to throw out the boxes because you're out of room, then you might really want to consider cutting down on collection size. Although I don't think I could ever do that. If I want something I'll get it, dang it! No matter if I have the room or not!:chew

 

[Eli26]

That last paragraph of your's is spoken like a true collector.

And even if you own the box, notice how some things don't pack in as nicely as they originally came as? That bugs me. hehe

 

[Buttmunch]

I moved this last summer. Luckily, it was my old great-grandmother's house and we had actually been moving slowly over a year. The first thing I did was hand pack and hand deliver my collection a few boxes at a time. Everything arrived fine. Only my Der Kinderstod recieved a minor scratch of paint off his nose being too close to the cardboard box. Luckily it was very minor and not noticeable. Other than that everything was fine, but again I don't have Polystone items (until Jabba's throne comes) so there wasn't anything fragile. In a big move that had to happen all at once, I'd take anything fragile or valueable in the car and let everything else go in the moving vans. I'd pack the stuff in the original boxes if available or just pack them with peanuts, newspaper, etc.

 

[nash]

Moving or transporting things, especially big pieces like the PF or Maquettes are the burden of buying them. The only way to truly get rid of it is to stop buying alltogether. other than that, really what else is there that can be done?

 

[Darklord Dave]

Try living in Southern California! Everyday I dread waking up to just a pile of shards. I wasn't a collector for the last earthquake, but we're due for another one any day now.

 

[Memnoch]

Dave, are you more afraid of things falling from well secured shelves or things falling ontop of statues or just shevles collapsing?

 

[hairlesswookiee]

man i think about this all the time. i always get nervous when moving. as mentioned before, unless you are moving long distances i would try to pack as many precious items in your car/truck as you can and hope for the best. i worked part time for a moving company and as long as everything gets packed tightly in the truck with as little movement as possible just about everything should make it out unharmed.

 

[Darth Caedus]

Dave, are you more afraid of things falling from well secured shelves or things falling ontop of statues or just shevles collapsing?

Probably both. You should have seen my house after the '94 Northridge Earthquake. I like about 10 miles from Northridge and I couldn't even seen the actual floor because there was stuff everywhere. If another earthquake happens, I will be a very very very very very very sad day for my collection...

 

[EVILFACE]

What sucks is no matter how well you pack them, something will get broke in the move.

 

[Josette]

I've moved 3 times in the past 4 years, and I'm getting ready to move a 4th time. I'm used to packing things up at this point. I've been fortunate, nothing's ever been broken. I plan on using my car to transport my most valuable items though (not only expensive items- ones that mean a lot to me). My car has a nice trunk in it, and I would feel safer that way. It's also fortunate that I won't be moving very far from where I am now. Only probably twenty to twenty-five minutes away.

 

[Beren]

Yup, the thought of all my collectibles that I have amassed in the last 2.5 years... I have put all these pieces (over 150 SSW) in my apartment over that period of time. A friend is storing 90% of the boxes, otherwise I couldn't have kept collecting (he sometimes feels guilty of supporting my habit that way )

I'm not gonna live in this apartment forever and I dread the day I move for this very reason. I will have to rent a van to pick up all those boxes from my friend and I will prob have to allot two days just for packing up these things. My biggest concern is my Balrog AP. I sweat bullets thinking of putting him in that box, disconnecting his flame whip, ughhh. And before I move a single piece, I have to meditate 10 seconds on whether there are removable pieces on the item (like Sauron statue or Easterling statue, yep paid the price on that one already).

This kind of ties in with the other thread, how does your GF/wife stand to your collection.... she don't dig my collection and she has even stated, if we were to move in together, them collectibles ain't coming with (except for my Balrog AP, she'd allow that one for 'sentimental reasons'. And maybe RWoS)

Beren