Collectors Addiction: The Struggle We All Deal With At Some Point

[Ruined]

Its a tough balance. My collection has gotten a quite unmanageable as well.

I guess it boils down to priorities. On one hand, you can say you are wasting tons of money on plastic discs when that money could be spent on other things that are more important or what most people would consider more memorable (like going on a vacation to someplace exotic).

On the other hand, you only got a short time on this earth. If collecting and managing plastic discs is really the main thing that makes you happy, even if all your expendable income goes there, is it really bad to do the main thing that makes you most happy in that short time?

[gates70]

Originally Posted by Ruined

Its a tough balance. My collection has gotten a quite unmanageable as well.

I guess it boils down to priorities. On one hand, you can say you are wasting tons of money on plastic discs when that money could be spent on other things that are more important or what most people would consider more memorable (like going on a vacation to someplace exotic).

On the other hand, you only got a short time on this earth. If collecting and managing plastic discs is really the main thing that makes you happy, even if all your expendable income goes there, is it really bad to do the main thing that makes you most happy in that short time?

This is where I'm the total opposite. Vacations and stuff that you pay out of your ass for, give me nothing I can hold in my hand. Feel like I'm spending on not much. I'm not saying I never do, because I do once in a while.

[gardengirl1331]

Originally Posted by Professor Echo

Well, I've posted the following countless times in this venue, so please forgive the rerun, but remember:

Collecting movies on disc is never about having to watch ALL of it, it's about watching WHAT you want, WHEN you want.

This is how I feel. I watch what I want, when I want. I do go through my new purchases to make sure everything works ok (if it's something I'm not quite in the mood for I'll just slow fast forward through it- DVD and BD only 4k I watch since I've had issues with a pile of them) But otherwise we just watch what we want.

Originally Posted by Ruined

I guess it boils down to priorities. On one hand, you can say you are wasting tons of money on plastic discs when that money could be spent on other things that are more important or what most people would consider more memorable (like going on a vacation to someplace exotic).

On the other hand, you only got a short time on this earth. If collecting and managing plastic discs is really the main thing that makes you happy, even if all your expendable income goes there, is it really bad to do the main thing that makes you most happy in that short time?

I have some fairly bad health issues. I can only go to 1-2 movies a year if I'm lucky. I don't travel, hell I can't even go up to see family 2 hours away because I can't be in the car that long (we do try to go up every few years), so vacations are meaningless to me. We don't have good internet so we don't pay for any streaming. We don't have cell phones, never have. We don't have kids. We only have one car and a smaller house. We do spend money on three other hobbies (sewing/quilting/art for me, music for him, gardening for both of us) but otherwise most of it is movies. We watch on average 20 movies a week. Our to watch pile is very very small. I do wish I could sell movies we don't like as much, some I do give to family, but I hesitate doing that, partly because a few movies I HATED in the theater or on first viewing I've grown to like or even love. I have been slowing my buying down a bit the last few months, partly because of price increases, and used prices being too high at places like BM (compared to buying them new in some cases!) so I've been shopping sales more. But I also hate that pressure to buy new stuff since they keep doing limited editions only. If it's something I really want (something I like and don't have, or have an old flipper DVD that looks horrible, or have to buy since I've never owned it or even seen it but it's a must have) I will get it ASAP, but if it's not I'll pass and wait to see if it'll come out standard and cheaper, and after a few months if it doesn't then I just buy the old BD of it instead. But I'll still buy it one way or another.

It's just with my health watching movies is one thing I can do, it's super important to me. And when I'm older and can do even less I'll be able to look at my collection and smile and just watch what I want. By then the new movies coming out won't be aimed at, or anywhere near me, so I'll just watch everything I already own and be happy.

[Akuash]

There are worse things to become addicted to.

However, this addiction is getting too expensive.