Comments on: Is Collecting things a Waste of Time and Money?

By: babyboy2013

babyboy2013 — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:36:51 +0000

What’s important is Family and friends. Material things are worth nothing if nobody wants them. It’s a waste of time and money. get out and enjoy life. Plastic dreams are just that and will bring nothing but financial ruin and frustration at not being able to find that new peice because the resellers are buying them all up and making a living off of your obsessions. How many collections have been swept away by Mother nature. Yah can’t take it with you (Although i’m sure someone will try). So spend your money on a night out with someone you love or doing something that makes you healthy and strong. All your collection is doing is collecting dust until you die and then someone gets all that hard work you put into it and sells it for nothing. It’s just not worth it. Once you posess it it’s not much fun anymore anyway. (Beleive me I know). I used to spend every dime I had on Crap and was never able to make it to the end of the month because I spent it all on my collection. Let it go and get a real life. It’s so much more rewarding.

By: savvyworkinggal

savvyworkinggal — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 02:53:31 +0000

My elderly neighbor spent her life collecting antique clocks. She didn’t have children of her owne and when she was going into a nursing home none of her nieces or nephews wanted her collection. She was devastated and felt she wasted her life and felt she would have been better off spendiing her life working on relationships rather than collecting things she couldn’t even give away.

By: Ugifter

Ugifter — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:24:23 +0000

I’m not much into collections, myself. I always scratch my head at the people on those TV shows. That said, I do have an affinity for books and like to own lots of them.

By: JustinatTheFrugalPath

JustinatTheFrugalPath — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 04:51:05 +0000

Back in the 90’s when comic books were all the rage I had a sizable collection. I used to skip lunch to buy one on the way home from school. A few years ago I sold them all for a few hundred dollars and haven’t collected anything since. Well, unless you count the five or so PF books I have.

By: Beachbudget

Beachbudget — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 01:46:58 +0000

For me personally it is. I think more so I just never had spaces for stuff like that. About the only thing I collect is magnets from places I’ve visited. But that doesn’t cost much or take up much space. I’m not sure that really counts. :)

By: Thirtysixmonths

Thirtysixmonths — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 01:32:26 +0000

My aunt collects some of the most random stuff, and seeing her made me want to purge everything in my room.

By: StudentDebtSurvivor

StudentDebtSurvivor — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:49:55 +0000

I’m not a big collector, simply because I hate clutter. The bf on the other had gets really attached to and sentimental about certain items. It’s an argument we have often. “keep it or give it away and make more space”.