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No idea what happened on RS Lee but a ban there is no big deal, your home is here
As others have said sleep on it for a month or two
As others have said sleep on it for a month or two
Frunkstar said:... if I were you I'd pack every scrap of SW related stuff up in boxes, pack it away & forget about it for a good while, theres plenty to life aside collecting & this hobby, hell in a year or 2 your drive & love for it may be back stronger than ever & it would be a shame to have to start again, especially with the prices the way they are going.
Frunkstar said:... But whatever you decide I wish you all the best.
_Lee_ said:He said that we should just watch the films again for a bit and that would make things better. Bloody hell, he is only 7!!!
yoda said:I have been searching and I am sorry if I have bumped this thread and it's not suitable. Is there a 'Pickup,' collecting thread? I could only find this regarding losing the collecting Star Wars bug. I am going through this stage myself at the moment. Nothing serious just considering selling everything I have bought over the last few years. I will never sell my childhood figures and ships but I feel the buzz slipping.
Does anyone else ever feel like selling their own personal collection (not for financial gain) thegave built up?
yoda said:I have been searching and I am sorry if I have bumped this thread and it's not suitable. Is there a 'Pickup,' collecting thread? I could only find this regarding losing the collecting Star Wars bug. I am going through this stage myself at the moment. Nothing serious just considering selling everything I have bought over the last few years. I will never sell my childhood figures and ships but I feel the buzz slipping.
Does anyone else ever feel like selling their own personal collection (not for financial gain) thegave built up?
I too sold everything 7 years ago, and felt good about the decision, as I had not collected SW in any earnest since about 2001, this feeling lasted for a while!yoda said:I have been searching and I am sorry if I have bumped this thread and it's not suitable. Is there a 'Pickup,' collecting thread? I could only find this regarding losing the collecting Star Wars bug. I am going through this stage myself at the moment. Nothing serious just considering selling everything I have bought over the last few years. I will never sell my childhood figures and ships but I feel the buzz slipping.
Does anyone else ever feel like selling their own personal collection (not for financial gain) thegave built up?
yoda said:I have been searching and I am sorry if I have bumped this thread and it's not suitable. Is there a 'Pickup,' collecting thread? I could only find this regarding losing the collecting Star Wars bug. I am going through this stage myself at the moment. Nothing serious just considering selling everything I have bought over the last few years. I will never sell my childhood figures and ships but I feel the buzz slipping.
Does anyone else ever feel like selling their own personal collection (not for financial gain) thegave built up?
Snaketibe said:I've never lost my passion for owning my vintage collection, even if for quite a few years I didn't really add much to it. However I totally understand the urge to downsize a collection, especially if the fun has gone out of it. This happened to me with the modern line, which I had collected religiously since 1995, getting multiples of everything to have a loose and carded collection. The problem was, I displayed neither collection and it was all simply stored in brown cardboard boxes that I never looked inside of. By the end, I had a huge collection that I never even saw, and couldn't have seen even if I'd wanted to as it took up so much space simply being stored.
After Revenge of the Sith came out, I made the decision to sell off my modern carded and boxed collection and try to display my loose items. It took a while, but I built display cabinets and put my loose figures, ships, vehicles, etc. in them where I could actually SEE them for a change!
Other than the occasional fleeting pang, I not only never regretted selling the stuff I parted with, I also enjoyed what I had left vastly more. Before I sold, collecting everything had become more of a chore than a thrill. It had started to feel like I had 2 full time jobs; my actual one that paid me money, and the self-imposed one of hunting down and buying everything in the modern line as I didn't want any gaps in my collection. I wasn't enjoying it any more and it was costing far too much, but selling up and displaying what I had left meant that I really could start to enjoy it again. I continued to buy new figures as they came out, but only the ones that I liked, and only one of each of those (before I sold up, I bought everything whether I liked it or not, simply to keep the collection 'complete', which is madness!). And I opened and displayed those figures. It made the whole collecting experience fun again.
In your case, I would recommend taking some time to think about what you really want to do. Don't rush into any decisions you might later regret, but after some serious thought, try to decide what it is that you enjoy about your collection and collecting. If you can identify those areas, hopefully you can continue to enjoy this hobby for years to come. But I would strongly advise against continuing with a hobby as expensive as this one can be if you're not deriving any enjoyment out of it. It's supposed to be fun, not hard work