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Message:: [QUOTE="quarter-back, post: 1931776, member: 47022"]I started off very focused on one set and worked diligently to finish that set.  When it got to the point that I was no longer progressing on that set as fast as I wanted to, I moved onto another.  That pattern repeated ad nauseum.  Then I discovered errors and cherry-picking.  That led to hoarding a lot of theoretically valuable coins. Note the theoretically.  I was accumulating a lot of stuff because I could never get the supposed value from the coins I was finding.  I finally realized that as long as I had the coin, it was worthless.   The only way to realize value is the sell the coin.  So I began to sell off some of the excess.  It was liberating.  I found that, even if I was not getting the FULL value, I was often getting 10, 20 or even 500 times the price that I originally paid for the coin.  For example, I sold a F-VF 1944 D/S cent for 22 dollars that I got for 4 cents. That's $21.96 that I could spend on another coin.  In other words, I could afford to even over-pay a bit on something I really wanted since I was using someone else's money. Bottom line is , you can't have the coin AND the value of the coin at the same time. Once you accept that, getting rid of the excess is easy and can be a lot of fun.[/QUOTE]