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Donkey_Kong:
Nice collection! :cheers:

Vigo:
My thought is that you should not ebay them...I've gotten into funks where I have gotten rid of things and only regretted it a few years later when interest sparked up again. IMO, you should just shove them in a box and forget them for a few years.

If after a few years, no interest comes back, then make some kids day with them....I don't know if you have or plan to have kids, or have nieces or nephews, but give a small piece of your collection to one of them. Then if they keep that interest, give them more valuable and significant pieces to them each year for their birthday or something. Kids are often surprisingly receptive to gifts with some personal significance to them. Plus, I think it would bring a little bit of closure to you collection to pass the torch on it rather than ditching it completely.

leapinlew:

--- Quote from: Vigo on February 27, 2012, 11:29:08 am ---If after a few years, no interest comes back, then make some kids day with them...

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Isn't that what he's done?

The people telling you to hold on to them are giving you good advice. I can think of a couple things in my life that I got rid of only to scramble to get it back later when the interest came back. However, I've had many many more things I got rid of and never looked back. Back in the early 90's, I was into Magic the Gathering. I had a impressive set of beta-3rd edition hard to find cards. After a year or two, I sold off all my cards in fear of a falling values. I kept lots of fun to play with rare cards and put them in a box with all my other cards. After about a year of non-playing I sold the whole box. Fast forward a few years later and I ran into some people still playing and I really wanted my cards back so I acquired a bunch of cards. Those sat in a box for about 10 years before I sold them just this last year. I'll never play again and I'm over it like I'm over playing with my tricycle.

Vigo:

--- Quote from: leapinlew on February 27, 2012, 01:08:14 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vigo on February 27, 2012, 11:29:08 am ---If after a few years, no interest comes back, then make some kids day with them...

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Isn't that what he's done?

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If I understood right, they were boxed up since October. It personally takes me a couple years to build back interest on a lot of things. In fact, I think I dissappeared off of these forums for about 2 years.  :lol

shmokes:
Boxed up since October 2010, though I only had the opportunity to unbox it in October 2011 when I moved into a new permanent location so had all my belongings shipped to me from Miami where they'd been sitting in storage.

But for 3 or 4 years before boxing them up when I was moving away from Miami, although they were on display I had utterly no interest in them. So for years I've had no interest, and for a year they were boxed up in another state, but when I finally had all my belongings shipped to myself, after not having them for an entire year, I unpacked all my things, but still just had no interest whatsoever in unpacking and displaying my Pez. I'm pretty sure I'm just done.

I could, like, pass them onto my daughter but I'm not sure I like that idea. For one thing, I'm not sure how meaningful it is to pass something onto your child that isn't meaningful to you. I mean, she wouldn't be getting some cherished possession of mine handed down. She'd be getting something that I had sitting in a box because I didn't care about it. Also, I've actually been moving toward the belief that collecting in general is maybe not that great a thing maybe sometimes a bad thing. Or sometimes the bad outweighs the good but it's invisible and you don't even know it's there. I mean to have things not because you want them or like them or they have any other intrinsic value to you, but only because they are just one more thing that shares some characteristic with another thing you have.

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