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You are never too old!

Many people collect things, some are considered cooler or strange.

Transformers I do not think has an age limit considered they are things adults now, watched when they were young.

I think it all depends on how you do your collecting.

Are you obsessively weird about it? Or do you just have a few stage up somewhere?
Do you let your collecting affect your personal life?
Does it tank your bank account?

Are you obsessively weird about it? Yes
Or do you just have a few stage up somewhere? Huh?
Do you let your collecting affect your personal life? Yes
Does it tank your bank account? Yes

I think I got most of them...what do I win?

Kibble wrote:Are you obsessively weird about it? Yes
Or do you just have a few stage up somewhere? Huh?
Do you let your collecting affect your personal life? Yes
Does it tank your bank account? Yes

I think I got most of them...what do I win?

I hope your joking if not...

You win my hopes that you are at genuinely happy that way and a good for you!
Otherwise I feel sorry for you and I hope you things pick up.

lol

chonosmoon wrote:I hope your joking if not...

You win my hopes that you are at genuinely happy that way and a good for you!
Otherwise I feel sorry for you and I hope you things pick up.

lol

I was mostly joking, but if you actually take a look at it: obsessively weird…well, we’re adults posting on a forum about toys. That could easily fall under obsessively weird. Affect your personal life…I have a room in my house largely dedicated to TFs and I walk through the toy aisle 90% of my trips to department stores. Sounds like it’s affected, even if not negatively.

But then we come to the tanking bank account…I actually was just joking about that, but as I started to explain this in a manner similar to above, I began adding up money spent over the last 6 months and it really is far more than one should be pissing away on toys. No, it hasn’t been problematic by any means, and Hercules REALLY skews those numbers, but either way, it’s still a significant amount and deserves a closer look. I think it’s probably time once again to reevaluate the collection, start unloading more of the unnecessary parts, further widen what’s considered unnecessary, as well as do an even better job of narrowing what comes in. Too often I buy things I know I don’t ‘need’ in my collection just because it reaches a price where it’s seemingly ‘too good to pass up’.

Anyhow, yeah, I was kidding, but it did lead to an unintentional mini-intervention of sorts…

I think as long as it doesn't affect your personal life in a negative way it is fine.

For "pissing" money away, on toys i don't think it is bad as long as it doesn't put you in financial trouble. Since it is a hooby, I don't think the term pissing away is a good way to put it. There are people who spend millions on yachts, or thousands on cars, just because that is their hobby.

Writing on this forum is no different then writing on a car forum, gun forum, or whatever hobby you may have so I do not think is weird.

For shopping and going to the toy aisle 90% of time, isn't weird. It is like an athlete going to the sports/exercise section 90%.

Anyways, if you like collecting toys as long as it doesn't affect your life in negative way and makes you happy then by all means go for it. You are never too old.

Every man collects toys in the end, whether it's cars, guns, yachts, outdoor equipment, motorcycles etc... it is natural.

Yeah, but your hobby doesn't need to be putting you in the hole before you take a step back and evaluate it. That's all. I knew I spent a good deal on TFs (hence joking about it tanking the bank account,) but when I actually took a closer look and started adding up the numbers, I didn't like what I saw. It's too much, even if I can afford it. I don't intend to quit collecting, but I do intend to tighten up my habits.

*may not be suitable for child under 3 years*
*looks at drivers license*
carry the 3...

Looks like I pass!! There's no age limit for over 3 Whoooo!!

Well I'll be collecting as long as I can, I just found out not to long ago that the wifey and I are having a baby, and it's a boy! So now I have an heir to the plastic goodness. I'm no longer collecting for me. I'm collecting for my son's future collection.

Prime Evil wrote:*may not be suitable for child under 3 years*
*looks at drivers license*
carry the 3...

Looks like I pass!! There's no age limit for over 3 Whoooo!!

Well I'll be collecting as long as I can, I just found out not to long ago that the wifey and I are having a baby, and it's a boy! So now I have an heir to the plastic goodness. I'm no longer collecting for me. I'm collecting for my son's future collection.

So while the rest of us are searching desperately for our rare, expensive pieces at BotCon, you'll be scoping out the RescueBots?

Delicon wrote:So while the rest of us are searching desperately for our rare, expensive pieces at BotCon, you'll be scoping out the RescueBots?

Yeah, right...I'm looking at those for the baby.