Do you ever get envious of other people’s collections?

Yeah I used to be like that espically with dyslexia&adhd, I used to impulse buy if I saw someone with something that I didn’t have. I now tend to remind myself that I don’t need alot of materials to make me happy and appreiacte what I do have. Plus getting in debt will make me a slave to a job , atleast if I have less debt I could resign easier if I ever feel trapped.

When i was younger the answer is YES I did, then as i got older it stopped being envy and started being “aspiring to” I stopped caring about what others had and started looking at it as “I can do this if I put in the hard work and time needed to acquire that level” Im an old fart and though I do not collect the things I did when I was younger I still see things in my interest range that I aspire to get to. You might be young but PASSION and DRIVE will never leave.

Dont look at it as envy, Look at it as a Challenge to get to that level.

Does anybody else here get jealous or envious of the people’s collections?

If I see something that is unavilable to me not due to monitary reasons but from Unconstitutional regulations… NFA… Fuck that Unconstitutional law your damned right I get a bit pissed off.

As for gaming stuff; which is really my biggest collection of stuff. I have the figures. One of the guys I game with has the ‘Dwarven forge’ scenery stuff. So it works out. I cant afford to get that stuff.

No, just annoyed when some game I want rises to such a high price because of videogame collectors who probably aren’t even going to use it other than putting them up on a shelf. I’m not talking retro games either because there are Switch games that have gone up in price and they were never limited releases like a lot of digital titles gone physical tend to be.

Right now I’m trying to collect the new Masters of The Universe toys, but Wave 1 was all that has shown up in Oklahoma. I see people with wave 5 toys in stores, and recently a Trap Jaw that I’ve had on backorder since February was on clearance at a store for $5. I’ve had to find them on Amazon, Big Bad Toys, and Entertainment Earth to get anything past wave 1 (aside from a Panthor that got shipped to a local target). I’m a member of a group on FB where people share photos of there collections, and I see people with all these figures I can’t even order unless I want to cough up more than 2X what they are worth. I get really jealous of them.

Yeah. This works for everything in life. We all feel envious sometimes. What’s great though is that it’s motivation. Save up and get what you like and slowly your collection will grow :)