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HaRuMaN:

--- Quote from: Hoopz on March 08, 2012, 10:26:42 am ---Any pangs of regret?

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That comes when you see the cut that PayPal & eBay takes...   :badmood:

Le Chuck:

--- Quote from: HaRuMaN on March 08, 2012, 10:28:03 am ---
--- Quote from: Hoopz on March 08, 2012, 10:26:42 am ---Any pangs of regret?

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That comes when you see the cut that PayPal & eBay takes...   :badmood:

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Amen brother.

shmokes:

--- Quote from: Hoopz on March 08, 2012, 10:26:42 am ---Any pangs of regret?

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No, not at all. That doesn't mean they won't come, but so far I feel really good about it. It's not indifference either. I actually feel happy to have them gone . . . like having the collection boxed up in my storage closet was subconsciously hanging over me--a thing that had to be done, something I needed to address but wasn't addressing. We'll see how I feel down the road, I guess. I'm not too worried. I think I may have already said it, but the thing is, I gave away the collection, not the experience. I still did it, and barring something like Alzheimer's, I'll always have that.

lilshawn:
nothing stopping you from collecting something new now.

shmokes:
Nothing, I think, except for my own philosophical evolution that contributed to getting rid of this collection. I don't think I'll ever collect anything for the sake of collecting again. If I start another collection, I think it will have to be something meaningful. For example, I was at a professor's home when I was visiting Miami in January. He had a really cool collection of unopened Coke bottles from about 25 or 30 different countries. But he's not out to complete a collection of international Coke bottles. Each bottle represented his trip to that country (with a few exceptions where friends gave him one as a gift from a country they visited). I could see doing something along those lines. But I suspect that I am done with collecting just to collect--gathering up things for no other reason than to just have them.

I mean, I'm not going to live a spartan life. There are any number of reasons to own something that isn't useful--aesthetics, sentimentality, etc. For example, when I got rid of my book collection, I kept a couple of signed Vonnegut novels I have. Because I love him and those particular books are special to me. But just collecting to collect, I'd wager I'm done with it.

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