03-20-2005, 05:17 PM
When someone engages in a hobby and they fully "obsess" over it (for lack of better words), they tend to go all out on research and especially with the internet, talk about the subject to death and surf thru every single website imaginable. They order a ton and set goals for what they want in their collection....
Then what happens when those goals are met? Well some collectors I know get all these items, display them, then simply get bored...they lose the bug so to speak...
Sometimes their option is to sell their entire collection because it seems like the right thing to do. When my collection was A LOT smaller, I did this on two seperate occasions only to switch to another hobby....
Now here is the trick I have learned....KEEP THINGS FRESH. If you\'re getting bored or losing the feeling of enthusiasm you once had, take a step back, don\'t sell anything you\'ll regret later, and just relax. Because when the bug hits you again, usually only months later, you will still have your collection and be able to add upon that rather than start all over again.
If you do find another hobby there is no reason to sell everything to fund that hobby, be patient and find a way in which both can co-exist.
There are many psychological underpinnings in "collecting." In many respects your relationship to the tangible objects you collect is a state of mind.
I hope my advice helps a few of you that have felt this recently. Rcuomo and a few others I know are going thru the very same thing.
Then what happens when those goals are met? Well some collectors I know get all these items, display them, then simply get bored...they lose the bug so to speak...
Sometimes their option is to sell their entire collection because it seems like the right thing to do. When my collection was A LOT smaller, I did this on two seperate occasions only to switch to another hobby....
Now here is the trick I have learned....KEEP THINGS FRESH. If you\'re getting bored or losing the feeling of enthusiasm you once had, take a step back, don\'t sell anything you\'ll regret later, and just relax. Because when the bug hits you again, usually only months later, you will still have your collection and be able to add upon that rather than start all over again.
If you do find another hobby there is no reason to sell everything to fund that hobby, be patient and find a way in which both can co-exist.
There are many psychological underpinnings in "collecting." In many respects your relationship to the tangible objects you collect is a state of mind.
I hope my advice helps a few of you that have felt this recently. Rcuomo and a few others I know are going thru the very same thing.