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Hobby Burnout... - SuperDanDrista - 03-20-2005
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.
Hobby Burnout... - WarLocK - 03-20-2005
Well said Dan, I agree w/ you 100%.
Hobby Burnout... - Prime Time - 03-20-2005
awesome speach dann-o
Hobby Burnout... - Ben_Forsaken - 03-20-2005
Thanks for the advice. I\'ve gone through that \'grey\' period only a couple times. But what I\'ve noticed with moving, and maybe this will help other collectors as well. Is maybe when you get tired of the collection. Instead of selling it, box it up nicely and store it somewhere safe. Then when the bug bites again, you get that joy of \'unwrapping\' everything and seeing it like new again. In some cases you might even open a box and see something you forgot you had, which is a neat surprise. I had that happen with some SideShow figures. I kept them in the box and put em away. One day later I opened the box and saw figures I\'d forgotten that I\'d bought. It was like Xmas in July, lol.
Hobby Burnout... - KingViper - 03-20-2005
The problem I have is, I like a mask so I buy it. But then almost within a month or so I get tired of it. So I sell it. Then another month later, I wish I had it back. What\'s up with that? lol
Hobby Burnout... - Ben_Forsaken - 03-20-2005
some people seem to like the trading and the collecting more then the actual products. Like kids with baseball cards.
Hobby Burnout... - KingViper - 03-20-2005
Good point. But there are some masks I have had since the mid 80\'s that will never leave my collection. Dunno, strange I guess.
Hobby Burnout... - Ben_Forsaken - 03-20-2005
maybe sometimes you really build up a replica in your mind as to what you think it\'s going to be like. And if it\'s not like that when you get it, you trade it cuz it didn\'t match your expectations. How many people have bought stuff based on inet pics, only to recieve a product that doesn\'t look like the pics? It\'s pretty rare you get surprised with something even better then the catalog pics. It\'s nice when it happens though.
Hobby Burnout... - myers-san - 03-20-2005
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKIN\' ABOUT?? :wink:
Jason.
Hobby Burnout... - VF31 - 03-20-2005
dan u smarty pants
great advice