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<p>[QUOTE="Cherd, post: 7804140, member: 24754"]I'm a bit of a compulsive collector. I've went on baseball card kicks, US $1 currency kicks (only need 4 more!), ancient Roman coin kicks (current), Mexican Revolutionary kicks, and even collected antique frog-shaped fishing lures for a while. I have extensive records in the form of excel spreadsheets where I catalogued all information that I thought might be pertinent for every single purchase. Not only that, but I also extensively document all information that I can find about previous sales, conditions, example pictures, written descriptions, and interesting history and/or stories associated with all of the various items.</p><p><br /></p><p>The extent to which I build my own price guides and document collection associated information is extreme, I admit. But honestly, these activities are actually a big part of my collecting experience that I really enjoy. I will spend hours upon hours scouring past auction listings, meticulously documenting sale information, and reading in search of little tidbits of information to increase my knowledge base..........and I love every minute of it! Sometimes I think that my collecting compulsions are more about building the workbooks and less about the actual collections, which seems strange even to me <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Cherd, post: 7804140, member: 24754"]I'm a bit of a compulsive collector. I've went on baseball card kicks, US $1 currency kicks (only need 4 more!), ancient Roman coin kicks (current), Mexican Revolutionary kicks, and even collected antique frog-shaped fishing lures for a while. I have extensive records in the form of excel spreadsheets where I catalogued all information that I thought might be pertinent for every single purchase. Not only that, but I also extensively document all information that I can find about previous sales, conditions, example pictures, written descriptions, and interesting history and/or stories associated with all of the various items. The extent to which I build my own price guides and document collection associated information is extreme, I admit. But honestly, these activities are actually a big part of my collecting experience that I really enjoy. I will spend hours upon hours scouring past auction listings, meticulously documenting sale information, and reading in search of little tidbits of information to increase my knowledge base..........and I love every minute of it! Sometimes I think that my collecting compulsions are more about building the workbooks and less about the actual collections, which seems strange even to me :jawdrop:[/QUOTE]
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