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Becoming desensitised to money due to collecting?
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<blockquote data-quote="subzero" data-source="post: 494910" data-attributes="member: 9185"><p>Iv'e also experienced this shift in mentality, I went through a skint period for a while where I had literally nothing after the last recession hit, and I actually came out of it with a saving mentality to save for the future over the past 8 years now roughly. And as a bit of perspective when I put myself inside my head even as far back as 2 years ago I didn't want to spend a single penny on anything if it didn't have some kind of actual useful purpose, toys or not, I remember randomly getting the nostalgia bug back one day and wanted to start collecting a few little bits and pieces from all different franchises, and I remember wanting to buy a cheap SW MOC to add to my little collection so I chose to find a Teebo which was a childhood favourite. Man did it take me a while to decide on buying that very first piece, remember seeing one on ebay for £60 in perfect condition and it seemed like a LOT of money to hand over for it, I put a couple of offers in being cheap about it and put some thought into it for a couple of weeks and then decided not to even go for it in the end. :lol: </p><p></p><p>But once you make that first purchase ( mine was eventually a mint boxed Speeder Bike for about £100 as a 'self-xmas gift' ) then mentally it makes it a lot easier to do it again, until eventually one day i'm barely blinking an eye at spending up to £1000 for an item, the more I spent the more it normalised it for me and then large purchases became a regular thing. I was aware of what I was doing and that I shouldn't really be doing it but was too in love with it and the nostalgia, once you get a mental vision of a collection you'd like to see yourself owning it is difficult to stop it.</p><p></p><p>The place where I was going to with this collecting was very much defeating the purpose of why I started collecting in the first place, which was purely to enjoy the nostalgia of my childhood toys. So iv'e also scaled back now this year and sold off quite a few expensive pieces that I didn't even actually have in my childhood, which were bought just for the sake of them being vintage SW, so now i'm left with only what I actually loved as a kid. I actually put about £1000 of what I got back from some of the SW toys into some MOTU but they're pieces that really were in my childhood and which are very important to me and that's where it now stops, i'm not buying anything I didn't have as a kid. So now I have this mentality back of only sticking to what's actually important, and because I made that conscious choice to let half of my collection go my 'savers mentality' is coming back again and those thoughts of not wanting to spend large money on just one toy are taking hold again.</p><p></p><p>I have nothing left of high value now to add to my collection either, it's pretty much done, so in terms of valuable pieces my collection is now finished. I bought a loose Monster In My Pocket figure the other day which was the very first one I remember buying with my pocket money, it cost me £3 delivered and iv'e stood it next to a sealed pack of other MIMP in my display and it's made me so ****ing happy and to be honest I wasn't expecting it to, but iv'e basically just purchased an important childhood memory for £3 and you can't beat that, I also bought some childhood Commodore 64 cassette games for like £2 each and i'm over the moon with them just as much as I would be buying a rare expensive game. </p><p></p><p>I think as a collector sometimes we need a bit of a reality check and real perspective lesson, for me that was selling off and letting go of everything I bought for the sake of just collecting it, and then instead buying some very cheap childhood items and realising it's just as fun and rewarding as expensive collecting, and realising I really don't need those expensive and rare pieces at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="subzero, post: 494910, member: 9185"] Iv'e also experienced this shift in mentality, I went through a skint period for a while where I had literally nothing after the last recession hit, and I actually came out of it with a saving mentality to save for the future over the past 8 years now roughly. And as a bit of perspective when I put myself inside my head even as far back as 2 years ago I didn't want to spend a single penny on anything if it didn't have some kind of actual useful purpose, toys or not, I remember randomly getting the nostalgia bug back one day and wanted to start collecting a few little bits and pieces from all different franchises, and I remember wanting to buy a cheap SW MOC to add to my little collection so I chose to find a Teebo which was a childhood favourite. Man did it take me a while to decide on buying that very first piece, remember seeing one on ebay for £60 in perfect condition and it seemed like a LOT of money to hand over for it, I put a couple of offers in being cheap about it and put some thought into it for a couple of weeks and then decided not to even go for it in the end. :lol: But once you make that first purchase ( mine was eventually a mint boxed Speeder Bike for about £100 as a 'self-xmas gift' ) then mentally it makes it a lot easier to do it again, until eventually one day i'm barely blinking an eye at spending up to £1000 for an item, the more I spent the more it normalised it for me and then large purchases became a regular thing. I was aware of what I was doing and that I shouldn't really be doing it but was too in love with it and the nostalgia, once you get a mental vision of a collection you'd like to see yourself owning it is difficult to stop it. The place where I was going to with this collecting was very much defeating the purpose of why I started collecting in the first place, which was purely to enjoy the nostalgia of my childhood toys. So iv'e also scaled back now this year and sold off quite a few expensive pieces that I didn't even actually have in my childhood, which were bought just for the sake of them being vintage SW, so now i'm left with only what I actually loved as a kid. I actually put about £1000 of what I got back from some of the SW toys into some MOTU but they're pieces that really were in my childhood and which are very important to me and that's where it now stops, i'm not buying anything I didn't have as a kid. So now I have this mentality back of only sticking to what's actually important, and because I made that conscious choice to let half of my collection go my 'savers mentality' is coming back again and those thoughts of not wanting to spend large money on just one toy are taking hold again. I have nothing left of high value now to add to my collection either, it's pretty much done, so in terms of valuable pieces my collection is now finished. I bought a loose Monster In My Pocket figure the other day which was the very first one I remember buying with my pocket money, it cost me £3 delivered and iv'e stood it next to a sealed pack of other MIMP in my display and it's made me so ****ing happy and to be honest I wasn't expecting it to, but iv'e basically just purchased an important childhood memory for £3 and you can't beat that, I also bought some childhood Commodore 64 cassette games for like £2 each and i'm over the moon with them just as much as I would be buying a rare expensive game. I think as a collector sometimes we need a bit of a reality check and real perspective lesson, for me that was selling off and letting go of everything I bought for the sake of just collecting it, and then instead buying some very cheap childhood items and realising it's just as fun and rewarding as expensive collecting, and realising I really don't need those expensive and rare pieces at all. [/QUOTE]
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