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Message:: [QUOTE="jb_depew, post: 3226111, member: 88227"]I've always been a collector, and have accumulated and sold many types of collections over the years. When I was in my early 20s, this included parting with my first collection of (mostly) late Roman bronzes, which I had built painstakingly in my younger years on a limited budget (odd jobs, flipping burgers, you name it). It was decent collection, even by my current standards. I sold them to pay for a vacation to Europe, of all things. I didn't make top dollar on them, either. I don't regret it. The ancient coin collecting bug never left me, and after a hiatus, I came back to it. But I moved off into a completely different collecting and learning focus (Greece and the Roman republic, mostly). Trips come and go, and so do objects. I read an interesting article once on the "endowment effect," the psychology principle whereby people ascribe more value to something simply because they own it. I found this to be true of my own collecting habits at times. As a proactive measure, the article suggested that if you're struggling with parting with an object, ask yourself "If I didn't own this thing, how much would I pay to have it?" If the answer is "not much," then ditch it and move on to something new.[/QUOTE]