>>5958096I was like this a few years ago. My collection was getting pretty large and unruly. But I just wanted more, more, more. I had something coming in every month and most of the time I'd see a good deal on mandy and beef it up with a few other things to make the order 'worth it'. So sometimes I was buying several figures a month. I kept it up for about two years.
I don't really know what exactly changed. I moved out of home an in with an SO. There wasn't a lot of space for all my crap so I had to pick out the pieces I liked best and store everything else. Moving everything also drove home exactly how much stuff I had. My collection amounted to about half of everything I owned, and that was a real shocker. Adult life got in the way of the little pieces of plastic that I wanted, and these days I look at upcoming releases and nothing captivates me like it used to. I don't feel that burning need or excitement when I get a shipping notification.
But I did get into BJDs, which may be like moving on from weed and onto heroin. They're not like figmas or figuarts, you don't just drop 5k yen and receive the finished product in the mail. You drop several hundred USD on the doll, but then you have to spend 30usd on the wig, 20usd on the eyes, 50-150usd on having the face painted, and a wardrobe for a doll costs more than it does to clothe yourself if you don't know how to sew the clothes yourself. Most of us tend to buy several wigs or sets of eyes or outfits or shoes until we find the one that we like the best.
Sorry for the blogpost. We just gotta learn to be contented with what we have and less focused on the things we don't have yet.