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Some Thoughts on Collecting

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I got into collecting sort of on accident. About two years ago, I realized that I still had all of the systems that I got when I was younger, with the exception of a few that broke. I got curious about how difficult it would be for me to get one Game Boy from each generation. It quickly turned from one system to several systems of each generation. It can get easy to feel overwhelmed and feel like you need to buy everything. Especially in today's "collect them all" market where people have collections that take up entire rooms in their house. There's nothing (NOTHING) wrong with having a large collection or wanting a large collection. I'm just saying that I felt like I needed to have one even though it wasn't practical for me and I was getting overwhelmed. Collecting began not to be fun for me anymore. I was constantly checking Ebay, Etsy, and other online stores in addition to spending a lot of my time and money driving to various local game stores in my cit...