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Originally Posted by COI
I'm strongly considering doing a reset. I've been collecting a long time and have a wide range of stuff, and I'm realizing that maybe 70%-80% of what I own I don't care all that much about.
In the next year or two I'm cleaning house to adopt a focus, and that focus will consist of being ridiculously discriminating about what I buy, and only buying stuff I want to be buried with.
To any new collector, save yourself the time and money and adopt that attitude from the beginning.
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I agree with this. My theme is quality.
Obviously most people will only buy characters they like ... unless you really get carried away. But the truly high quality pieces with characters you love are not that common, except with a few characters that are always being re-done. I have learned to ask myself, do I really love the statue and the character?
Often I like a few things but the whole statue just doesn't make the cut due to one reason or the other. If there is a small design choice that bugs me then "no purchase". I guess you could say I look for reasons not to buy a new statue!
I have also found I dislike crowded displays. So with limits on room and then not wanting to pile lots of statues on a shelf, that naturally puts a restraint on numbers too.
I originally tried to match scale between statues but now that they are more spread out, that isn't as much of an issue. And quality now outweighs scale issues for me by a longshot.
I have owned about 20 statues over the years but I now own only 8 and two of those are boxed and might be sold this year. But I also have one on order too, lol.
