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Post by Hendrix83 on Jun 14, 2014 20:50:08 GMT -5
The best advice I could give you is: Just don't sell your collection. Life happens. Like some of these guys said, sometimes we through periods where we don't collect at all, or only the best figures. Especially if it's your first time moving in with someone and you're in your early 20's just getting out there. But, eventually, you will have the room to display them. By then it won't matter what your peers think. And you'll wish you still had those figures you sold off to appease a woman who you may or may not still be with. So, keep them in a box for a while if needed. When the time is right they'll still be there.
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Post by 80sbaby on Jun 14, 2014 21:26:39 GMT -5
My collection serves as a history or wrestling so I love it. One of each guy in their most iconic looks (except legends who stayed in the game for YEARS). Like I've said before, nobody past wm 30 is going my collection now. There will never be an Adam Rose or any other loser like that on my shelf. I just hope we get more legends in the years to come - I'm not happy that none of the guys below haven't been made yet. I have a feeling I'll die before the guys below are ALL made lol  Also if you're spending TOO much money and just buying everything then I can see a wife/gf saying something. But if it's your only hobby (or vice) then tell that bitch to shut up - seriously, no one should dictate to you what your hobby should be. What interests you interests you and you'd think the woman you love would understand that. Mine did - I wasn't CRAZY with collecting but she tolerated it. That's a cool woman. |
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Post by BestLookingInTheWorld on Jun 16, 2014 17:15:12 GMT -5
I can relate because I too felt embarrassed. A lot of people don't really understand the joy Collecting or actually the joy that wrestling just brings to us as a whole. When I first moved in with my fiancé, I was tiptoeing around her with my collecting. I knew she loved me and would accept me for whatever brought me joy and made me happy but I was just embarrassed. I mean I'm a 26 year old man driving to multiple Targets, Walmarts and Toys R Us to hunt some figures down. And my fiancé is beautiful, unbiased opinion, she can have anyone she wants. Well I came clean to her one drunken night. I had just moved in at the time so my figures were in my man cave in boxes. She was starting to get suspicious about my whereabouts and random step outs and the absolute last thing that I want is for my future wife to think I'm stepping out on her. I showed her my figures and her exact words were, “Oh my God, baby, you're so cute!!” She was completely accepting and said she loves the nerdy side to me and even encouraged me to start collecting more divas ha ha. As long as our kids and bills are priority number one, which of course, they are. She is completely okay and supportive.
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Post by jcjdotcom on Jun 17, 2014 8:54:49 GMT -5
As your life and priorities change, your collecting has to change. Once you start making a home with someone, you don't have to give collecting up, but you may not have enough time, money and/or space for everything you want. It's all about compromise and priorities.
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Post by shawnscga on Jun 17, 2014 14:58:20 GMT -5
I've been collecting since....well since I can remember, I started cause I loved wrestling, then continued cause I loved to customize them, then really slowed down in the r3/da figures cause to me those sucked, then really started again since mattel, I collect open figures not moc, probably have maybe 40 figures, they are not displayed and they sit in a draw next to my bed
I've been married going on 7 years, my wife never complained about it, she complains more about having to stay home on Monday nights more then anything, I am not a closet collector nor do I broadcast it
Sometimes I see people on here acting like you have a drug addiction and you don't want your friends and girlfriend to know
Collecting is not life, and should only be a small part of life,
My wife, work, household and God come waaaaay In front of collecting, don't let collecting get in the way of any of those things, but also don't let a woman get in the way of who you are
This is a tuff thing to tackle, some people are lucky and marry people who don't care or help them collect, some ain't so lucky, I wish you the best, and hope you make the right choice
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