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Message:: [QUOTE="Kevin Mader, post: 7848592, member: 106826"]On another note, I really appreciate the circulation sets!!  I recall advice I received as a kid from the LCS staff: buy the very best you can afford.  While that seems like reasonable advice, for those who like to be purists (or lean more that way), better/best is that which comes to you via the circulation route.  Some years later, after putting collecting aside as a youngster, I was able to buy better/bests from the LCS.  But I elected to keep my circulation sets pure and start new sets.  In part, with the resumption of CRH, I was able to keep expanding my circulation sets while buying others for my better/best sets.  It's funny to call them that, since while I take pride in my better/best sets, my circulation sets give me the greatest sense of pride.  Of achievement.  To each their own...so my story may be different than others.  To those building BU sets and registries, keep doing it!!  They are quite enjoyable.  But I do delight in seeing others accomplishments in their circulation sets, combo sets...whatever really.  And the stories behind them, often eliciting thoughts of my own youth, making the accomplishments of other collectors that much more delightful.[/QUOTE]