>>10743028>If youre new, allow yourself time for your taste in toys to "mature". There's a lot of stuff out there and some of my favourite pieces I didn't appreciate until I got to see them in person or hold them. I've also decided to avoid a lot of products after seeing them in person. There is always time to get things and FOMO is truly a curse. >if youre already hording try and limit your display space. Square meters, display cabinets, a room. Its important you want to impose this limit or you wont stick to it. Alternatively quantify limits some othet way (ie # of figures or lines)>Invest in decent risers, lights, stands etc if you haven't already. No matter how much or little space you have, using it efficiently and aesthetically really improves the visual appeal of a display. >if you need to downsize pull your collection down. Pick items that you really enjoy, put them aside or arrange them back in the collection. Pick items you really don't care about, put them aside to sell or get ride of. Agonise over whats left until you reach your space allocation, put the remaining away into a storage box. In 6 months or a years time if you go back to that box and still want what's in there you can swap it out with something else. Otherwise your attachment has probably waned and some items can be demoted to sale.Collectors go apeshit and hyperfixate on a line they later abandon or regret, its an ADHD compulsion a lot of us have. love the hunt and the dopamine of purchases but find it unfullfilling in the end. You can usually tell because these collectors will rarely organise or improving displays and will simply pack a shelves with retail releases endlessly. You need to really think is something worth your money and display space. If you can try to supplement looking at and buying toys with something else it also makes a huge difference. I recommend making a 1/12 dollhouse room, props or clothing if miniatures interest you, or getting into toy photography.
