When Will You Stop Collecting?

[Mqhuynh]

I've told myself I would stop collecting by the end of the year. Space and money has become a huge factor in my decision. All these statues, figures in boxes piled up as there is no more room to display is getting out of hand. I may end up selling most of my collection at the end of the year and keeping what I think is the cream of the crop. After that if I do decide to keep on going then I will definitely be more picky with what I buy. I will stick to my plan and see how that goes. So by the end of the year if some of you guys are still around, there maybe some good bargains from me when I start downsizing. Stay tuned...

 

[FlyAndFight]

Collecting will end for me when I either:

1) Get bored.

2) Prices get to a ridiculous point. (already there on many lines...)

3) Pieces released not applicable to my collections.

Having a mix of 1/6th figures, polystone statues/busts/environments and other hobbies demanding their share of the available funds has proven difficult to maintain. So I've been streamlining my collections in order to finance the pieces that I do want more. Space has become an issue as well. Not being a completist makes things much easier as well.

 

[Voorhees27]

FlyAndFight, I swear i've killed the bug in your signature 11 times now.

 

[The Ween]

Now thats a good question. It does kind of seem like the older I get the less interested I am in some things. I don't buy all the little goofy silly stuff anymore (like figures of the Disney characters wearing Star Wars costumes) so I wonder if in time I'll lose interest in the PF's and things like that. I HOPE I don't but who knows.

I'm not so much worried about losing interest, but.....when do you say, I better stop? Age wise that is. Should you just enjoy it right up to the end, or should you say, I should stop and sell things off because I'm, like 80 and who knows how long I've got to go? I guess I shouldn't worry about it. The way things are going, I'll probably have to sell everything off way before that just to make ends meet!

 

[Devil_666]

It just came over me (That's what she said!)

That's what she.. dammit!!!

 

[Darth_Fatso]

I'll stop collecting when it's no longer fun, they stop making figures I want or like, when I run out of money or all of the above.

 

[FlyAndFight]

FlyAndFight, I swear i've killed the bug in your signature 11 times now.

....

 

[Calcifer]

When i'm dead i guess.. but i would probably come back as a ghost and keep at it

 

[fosing]

figures or fingernails?

 

[Devil_666]

Waiting for the ubernerd who responds:

"When they pry the toys out of my cold, dead hands!"

 

[NowOrNever]

I don't really know, but it may happen if some important change breaks my normal life.

Maybe one day I just wake up and can't believe I spent so much time looking for some figures.

Not to mention the money...

On the other side, I look for collectibles because I learn from them, I copy and learn trying to improve as a sculptor (or so) and I really want to learn. So much...

 

[xYx]

money was the number 1 reason.
And I mostly collect Monsters. WHich SS has slowly gotten away from for the most part.... so it seemed like a mutual break up.

That's a pretty good out I say.

Hopefully I'll be old and wrinkly when I stop collecting.

So I don't get burned out on this hobby or lose all of my money, I keep a calendar of the things I want in each year along with a budget. If an item comes up that falls outside the budget, it gets put on hold until the next year.

I grab a couple of pieces here or there without getting crazy, and it helps me to appreciate what I have without looking for the next best thing.

That's pretty well planned! Might try that.

well pretty much after being attacked and stabbed.my collecting days are coming to an end.. i just don't feel it anymore.heck i don't really feel much of anything ...people are shocked that i come to work..i like to stay in alot more.but my life is different..

What happened, if you don't mind me asking?

 

[darthviper107]

Probably never--I'll probably go through and get rid of the stuff I don't particularly care about, there's plenty of things I bought that I only kind of liked and happened to have the money for. So as things move on, my collection will be more stuff that I really like a lot.


However--I wouldn't let it come to a point where there's stuff just everywhere, like those action figure collectors who have so much crap that they even have stuff in the bathroom. I'd probably make sure stuff stays in one room.

 

[budafett]

When I get bored or run out of space...

 

[devilof76]

Waiting for the ubernerd who responds:

"When they pry the toys out of my cold, dead hands!"

You missed it by 14 posts.

 

[EVILFACE]

When I tire of it.

 

[AllisonAmy]

When the mortgage checks start to bounce.

 

[Devil_666]

You missed it by 14 posts.

Figured it would be Shropt.

 

[King Darkness]

Collecting will end for me when I either:

1) Get bored.

2) Prices get to a ridiculous point. (already there on many lines...)

3) Pieces released not applicable to my collections.

Having a mix of 1/6th figures, polystone statues/busts/environments and other hobbies demanding their share of the available funds has proven difficult to maintain. So I've been streamlining my collections in order to finance the pieces that I do want more. Space has become an issue as well. Not being a completist makes things much easier as well.

Word for word what that guy said.

 

[BadMoon]

Already did.