Things you gave up collecting.

[J is Justice]

Have you ever started collecting something and then just stopped, for whatever reason?

For me, it's figures. I just ran out of room. Plus, I hated all the little accessories they came with. I wasn't someone who was gonna keep switching my figure's hands and face, etc. I did try collecting Funko Pops, which were definitely more compact, and very few came with accessories. But even those I gave up collecting.

I'm just gonna stick with my video game collection, I think.

[Scoops]

Action figures too, I came to realize I was just buying to not have gaps in the series (toony terrors, GI Joe, etc) or out of fear that prices would increase.

I find collecting retro games much more enjoyable due to not only being able to play them but that everything I want is already out for the most part and that posing was never interesting to me and I was more interested in keeping the boxes in prestine condition.

[DiBiase is Good]

The UK Now That’s What I Call Music albums. I always bought the new ones when they came out and had all the main editions from Now 1 in 1983 (the good thing was because they always sold well, you could easily find the ones from the early days before you were born). By the time it got to about Now 60 in 2005, I was literally playing the CDs once and would transfer the songs I liked to a laptop (of which there were fewer songs with each new addition). I decided it wasn’t worth the money or the shelf space, so I stopped. They’re up to Now 112 (I think) but I have no interest in buying them.
They are however releasing some excellent spin-off series, like the Now Yearbooks which you can get in limited edition coloured vinyl. Those, I am interested in.

[Eunös ✈]

Hot Wheels.

[MiLB Fan]

As a teen, I loved collecting baseball caps. When the season started, I would check the team’s promotional schedule for any games that included a free hat giveaway.

My dad and I attended many minor league baseball games, and I always bought a hat or two at the ballparks. I love minor league team names and logos.

At one point I even made a list of my hat collection. Most were from baseball teams, but I also had some from hockey and football. Including the original XFL.

[Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie]

disney infinity, but not really since the ones i don't have are much more annoying to get!
just looked at what it would cost on CEX for the figures i don't have

£33.50 for three crystal, two fx figures ... £15 just for the darth vader one OOF
dunno about the discs though YEAH SOD OFF KING MICKEY!!!

[BlackoutCreature]

Action figures in general, although specifically Transformers.

Hot Sauce. I used to love to try to pick up a hot sauce bottle from everywhere I went, and I would cook and use the sauce and save the bottle and put it on a shelf. Stop doing that awhile back when my health changed and I couldn't really handle eating the sauces anymore.

Wrestling tapes and DVD's were another. Loved finding whatever old and obscure stuff I could get. But between YouTube and streaming service (notably the WWE Network), it just doesn't seem worthwhile anymore.

[tirtefaa]

Video games

I was incredibly lucky to start collecting vintage games in the early 2000's when interest was at a considerable low. I remember buying a new boxed NES with 30 games for a little over $100. And it wasn't a bunch of junk games, it was all 3 Super Mario games, Castlevania 1, Elevator Antics, Batman, Contra, Street Fighter 2010, Ninja Gaiden, Crystalis, Duck Hunt, Dr. Mario, Excitebike, Rad Racer 2, Blaster Master, Gradius, Fester's Quest, Super Tecmo Bowl, Vegas Dream, Spy Hunter, Faxanadu, Double Dribble, Tetris 1 and 2 and several more I can't remember offhand.

I grew up playing NES, however my family has very little money so I never got a chance to own one until much later. My first system was a SNES, but even that I lived essentially on rented and borrowed games.

The goal was to never collect, but it didn't take long to start. It began with some basic games such as Metal Gear, Donkey Kong Classics and Pac Man. Then a used game store opened and I went in there specifically to find Burger Time.

I enjoyed the set up and started finding a few other games I had grown up with in one way or another. Unfortunately, sometimes when I went in there, I might forget a game I was looking for, so I created a list. That list expanded not only from NES, but to SNES, N64, PS1 and PS2. N64 games in particular we're dirt cheap at this time, so you could get games like Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Goldeneye and many others for less than $5 each.

Anyways, I became such a regular, that the employees had an extra list of games I was looking for and would call me when something came in. Within just a couple years, my collection absolutely exploded. And every game was practically in mint shape and I usually got the manuals to go along with them. My only regret is throwing out the boxes.

Once my list started getting low, I would add other games to supplement what I was looking for, so over time I found some incredible gems. However around 2009 I remember I was adding games to my lists that were either way too obscure or just not good enough. I haven't bought any games in years, but I still will frequent shops just to see what they have. Not only are most shops very sparse with what they have, but the mark up is incredible. I bought Powerblade for $1, and now I usually see it for $50 or more. I got Chrono Trigger brand new for $20...and that game just always seems to jump more and more.

The most I paid for a game was either Little Samson or Hagane, which both were in the triple digits. Sometimes stores would buy stuff in they had no clue what it was such as Panic Restaurant so I'd get that very cheap. I also became friends with folks who would sell me their games, I got Bubble Bobble 2 for NES for $50 when it was going for around $100.

I probably sank around $3,000 into everything but today's value is probably over $50,000 given the insane market. It was very much the right place at the right time.

[Ryback on a Pole!]

Marvel Comics

I lost interest part way through Secret Invasion--just found it, and the comic cstorylines preceding it post Civil War to be boring.

I tried jumping back in occasionally but they never held my interest for long--a few storylines/titles aside. Superior Foes for instance was excellent.


I am reading the current X-Men run. Post House of X/Powers of X. That was an excellent story and I really enjoyed X of Swords too. But I limited myself to reading solely the events, the revamped X-Men title and, until it ended, Hellions.

[Toilet Paper Roll]

I have 400+ on card autographs from different members of the New England Patriots. Im halfway to almost all the peole whove ever played a down for them. I just kinda stopped

[Ultimo Gallos]

I collected Hot Wheels and Legos as a kid and just stopped in my teens. Sold all that off.

And not really sure if you can say I collect comics anymore. I mostly just grab cheap tpbs or stuff I find in cheap bins.

Stopped collecting laserdiscs in about 2006. Stopped collecting VHS in 2019.

[mcmahonfan85]

beanie babies

[john84]

Comic Books.

[Fade]

Ultimate Spider-Man when Bagley left.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Hockey cards. I think the most I ever paid for a single card was like $8 and that was absurd. I stopped when I was a kid.

I'm kind of the opinion that as a kid, they're small pieces of your heros, once you need to shave, they're just pictures of men or in some cases, teenage boys. Your mileage can vary on that, I certainly have pictures of men, but they are, pictures of men.

[pinja]

Video games in general, PlayStation 1 in particular. I had a nicely sized collection and still have some valuable favorites stored away, but nothing out of the ordinary despite some obscure Japanese games. I'd say my most valuable items were a chunky Metal Gear Solid special edition, some rarer French special editions of some games (I still have House of the Dead 1 + 2 for the Wii with a giant pumpgun) and all of those JRPGs that cost a fortune nowadays. Even if I'd be interested to get back into it, it's just became too expensive when I'm hardly playing anyway.
I sold the majority of my collection in 2015, when I catched up on "High School" and needed the money. Selling the collection literally financed that.

[Mozenrath]

Another one for figures, since yeah, space, other things to spend money on, and already having a lot of the characters I'd especially want.

[Gus Richlen Was Wrong]

Anything involving dairy cattle genetics, mostly because 1. most farmers chuck the old bull catalogs out as soon as a new sire summary comes out and 2. over the last decade or so, things have progressed at a breakneck pace to the point where I cannot keep up.

[DSR]

Jun 25, 2022 23:53:46 GMT -5 john84 said:

Comic Books.

Same. I spent many many years collecting comics, and I would read them all. But after a while, I wound up buying a bunch of comics and then not getting around to reading them (I still have a bunch in my house). Then I just stopped picking them up altogether.



When I was a kid I had a collection of decorative wooden nutcrackers. I liked them a great deal, but I eventually felt like I had enough. Distant relatives continued to buy them for me every Christmas. Once that finally stopped, I no longer got nutcrackers. I think I had most of them donated to the local thrift store.

[john84]

Jun 26, 2022 2:21:41 GMT -5 DSR said:

Jun 25, 2022 23:53:46 GMT -5 john84 said:

Comic Books.

Same. I spent many many years collecting comics, and I would read them all. But after a while, I wound up buying a bunch of comics and then not getting around to reading them (I still have a bunch in my house). Then I just stopped picking them up altogether.



When I was a kid I had a collection of decorative wooden nutcrackers. I liked them a great deal, but I eventually felt like I had enough. Distant relatives continued to buy them for me every Christmas. Once that finally stopped, I no longer got nutcrackers. I think I had most of them donated to the local thrift store.

I just don't have the time to read them these days or space.  Ah well, maybe I can get back into it one day as I was still enjoying it but just had to make the decision to stop.