Hello all,
Just wanted your opinion on something.
I've been in the diecast collecting hobby since I was about 12 and back in the day, I played with the old Herpa models that still had the rolling wheels and of course over time those broke. But I never stopped loving them and asking my parents to buy me more whenever the chance presented itself. When I finally stopped playing with them and started caring for them and eventually getting a display case to showcase them, I was 22 and was just at over a hundred models total.
Fast forward to now and on the cusp of turning 30 with a relatively stable job as an air traffic controller for the military and I just passed the 750 mark a week ago with my last ebay and facebook market purchases, expanding my collection of almost exclusively 1:500 scale models and starting 1:400 scale and 1:200 scale models mixed in between.
This morning, I woke up to my bank account in the negative. I am deep in debt from a massive buying spree I went on about two years ago, and if I average out each of my planes being about $30 when bought new, that puts my collection at over $21,000 that I've spent.
Honestly, I think I have a problem. Whenever I get bored at home or at work there I find myself on ebay looking at what gaps to fill in my collection, even though I'm still massively in debt and will be for several years before I can get it under control. These latest purchases were fueled by me having a tiny bit of extra money to spend, which I should have put right toward credit cards.
How do I stop? I need help of some sort.
Thanks in advance guys.
Just wanted your opinion on something.
I've been in the diecast collecting hobby since I was about 12 and back in the day, I played with the old Herpa models that still had the rolling wheels and of course over time those broke. But I never stopped loving them and asking my parents to buy me more whenever the chance presented itself. When I finally stopped playing with them and started caring for them and eventually getting a display case to showcase them, I was 22 and was just at over a hundred models total.
Fast forward to now and on the cusp of turning 30 with a relatively stable job as an air traffic controller for the military and I just passed the 750 mark a week ago with my last ebay and facebook market purchases, expanding my collection of almost exclusively 1:500 scale models and starting 1:400 scale and 1:200 scale models mixed in between.
This morning, I woke up to my bank account in the negative. I am deep in debt from a massive buying spree I went on about two years ago, and if I average out each of my planes being about $30 when bought new, that puts my collection at over $21,000 that I've spent.
Honestly, I think I have a problem. Whenever I get bored at home or at work there I find myself on ebay looking at what gaps to fill in my collection, even though I'm still massively in debt and will be for several years before I can get it under control. These latest purchases were fueled by me having a tiny bit of extra money to spend, which I should have put right toward credit cards.
How do I stop? I need help of some sort.
Thanks in advance guys.
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