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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cherd, post: 24482643, member: 24754&quot;]I&#039;ve been a bit of a compulsive collector since childhood, and have went through everything from coins and baseball cards to fishing lures and casino chips. I always took a &quot;Get whatever tickles my fancy&quot; approach, and always found that I would eventually become a bit disenamoured with my collections.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is because my collections would always evolve into a sprawling mess of unrelated mediocrity. If I tried to tell somebody about my collection, there was no start/middle/end... but just a bunch of jumping around. I&#039;d have sparse examples of a lot of different things, but nothing was ever complete. Plus, I&#039;d always build up a bunch of cheap stuff that wasn&#039;t worth the effort of displaying or talking about, and barely worth the effort of even selling! (I&#039;d end up purchasing 20 different $10 things that added bulk instead of one $200 thing that I actually appreciated)</p><p><br /></p><p>I found that getting rid of the fluff and being more focused in my goals would ultimately reinvigorate my interest. After going through this type of process multiple times (always at a financial loss), I finally learned that mapping the desired collection out beforehand was the right thing to do in my case........... but that&#039;s just me!</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, this type of approach becomes a bit lackluster after you&#039;ve knocked out all of the &quot;low hanging fruit&quot; from your list. It was a blast when I started, because every auction would have 20-30 different coins that I wanted. Nowadays, I&#039;m lucky if there is even a single one <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. I&#039;ve partially solved this problem recently by laying out a &quot;British Celtic through Victoria&quot; collection to work on, which will ultimately comprise 47 coins. It&#039;s a bit dangerous to start another collection before you&#039;ve finished the last.... so maybe I&#039;m not all that disciplined after all![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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