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<p>[QUOTE="ewomack, post: 3572214, member: 15588"]Like many people here, I also succumbed to the hoarder mentality. After a number of years of buying things that stimulated my brain's pleasure centers, I knew I had a problem when I purchased something that I already owned (and I didn't intend to purchase a duplicate). This made me realize that I have no idea what's in that box at home and thought that perhaps I suffered from impulse or addiction over any sort of collecting sensibility. That's when the act of purchasing has more appeal than the act of enjoying a collection. If you spend more time buying than appreciating, you may qualify as having hoarder's pathology. In the end, mere acquisition didn't make me happy and I've recently sold a number of coins that I bought on impulse over the past 5 - 10 years. As I'm doing this, I realize what parts of my pile I would never want to sell and this has helped me purchase more carefully. For example, I don't really know why, but I really like my 1914-D MS 62 Barber Quarter. Though it wasn't a bargain bin coin, it's not particularly rare or really all that desirable, but I have some strange connection to it. I'll likely keep that one for life. I bought it to fill a type set, but now I'm not concerned about finishing a type set. I don't really care to "complete" anything at all. I just want to have a few things that I enjoy having around. An unidentifiable pile that just kept growing without purpose ended up just making me miserable. I felt like some sort of coin virus, gobbling up anything that looked halfway decent. I wasted a lot of time and money this way. Thankfully, I appear to be one the road to recovery.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ewomack, post: 3572214, member: 15588"]Like many people here, I also succumbed to the hoarder mentality. After a number of years of buying things that stimulated my brain's pleasure centers, I knew I had a problem when I purchased something that I already owned (and I didn't intend to purchase a duplicate). This made me realize that I have no idea what's in that box at home and thought that perhaps I suffered from impulse or addiction over any sort of collecting sensibility. That's when the act of purchasing has more appeal than the act of enjoying a collection. If you spend more time buying than appreciating, you may qualify as having hoarder's pathology. In the end, mere acquisition didn't make me happy and I've recently sold a number of coins that I bought on impulse over the past 5 - 10 years. As I'm doing this, I realize what parts of my pile I would never want to sell and this has helped me purchase more carefully. For example, I don't really know why, but I really like my 1914-D MS 62 Barber Quarter. Though it wasn't a bargain bin coin, it's not particularly rare or really all that desirable, but I have some strange connection to it. I'll likely keep that one for life. I bought it to fill a type set, but now I'm not concerned about finishing a type set. I don't really care to "complete" anything at all. I just want to have a few things that I enjoy having around. An unidentifiable pile that just kept growing without purpose ended up just making me miserable. I felt like some sort of coin virus, gobbling up anything that looked halfway decent. I wasted a lot of time and money this way. Thankfully, I appear to be one the road to recovery.[/QUOTE]
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