For me, its the grind to finish what I started.
What fuels you into scrolling on eBay/PWCC/etc and hunt down your next card for your collection?
- Flex
- Completionist
- Nostalgia
- Hype
- Grind
- Other (Reply in the forum)
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It’s the threat of my wife leaving me truly
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Pleasure, and a constant gnawing sense of urgency. At least that’s what it was.
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I open literally any Eevee collector’s thread on this forum and I realize just how much I’m missing. So that gives me motivation. One day maybe I’ll get my collection to where I want it to be.
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Other: Thrill of the hunt. Also escapism, probably.
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Mostly completion for me, but I’m also realistic about it. I know there are some cards I’ll never own, and I’m okay with that.
My binder brings me joy to flip through and remember where I got each card, who middlemanned for me, how I traded for them. Collecting is a journey I love to go back and revisit, and I can’t imagine I’d stop anytime soon.
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Mostly nostalgia. I remember being so envious of kids that got to go to league events or stores when they gave away cards. No one can tell me i cant have them now and ive never been happier lol
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I simply wanna be the very best, like no one ever was!
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Empty binder slots
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I just wanna be the very best, like no one ever was
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Nooo, i thought i was quirky saying that.
Look up and im 34mins too late
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An unhealthy mixture of completionism, escapism, nostalgia, treasure hunting, and anxiety.
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Accepting that there are cards out there that I will never have was such an important step for me. I’m somewhat of a completionist as well, yet having that understanding has taken a huge weight off when I think about what my next goals are.
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I’ve accepted that. Doesn’t mean I don’t still search on the off chance that it’s in a binder or lot and someone has no idea what they have. A tiny part of me still hopes that I can get the unobtainable some day.
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Yknow, @ragingkraken actually makes a good point- I’m okay with not owning certain cards, but I can’t lie and say I don’t still keep an eye out.
The balance there is absolutely crucial though, and will gnaw at you if you’re not careful. I treat those unobtainable cards as a nice little bonus, but not something I’ll lose sleep over the gaps in the binder or anything. I think it’s made me a lot more of a patient collector, haha.
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Same boat here, actually. My approach to it was to make an entirely separate page from my main collection sheet just to house those special few. That way, not having them doesn’t impact my overall completion and there’s no impossible-to-fill gaps in the main sheet.
That list is up to 9 cards now, only one of which I’d call “necessary” seeing as it’s an actual variant and not a test print, misprint, or trophy. I don’t fret about it much anymore, but I do get the urge to search every now and then, just in case.
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Finding the PSA set list moved me from just TCG to other variations. I’ve even added to the list.
So completionist primarily.
But it also ranks you so a little bit of competitiveness added in.
But I just really enjoy the hunt/challenge most of all. It’s something to do, something I have to manage and not let it become a huge obsession but it’s a nice hobby to have plugging away at getting not just a set list but the best examples I can unearth.
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Honestly, if I didn’t have another like-minded Greninja collector to compete against on the PSA Registry, I probably would not have done as much as I have. While I have accepted I’ll never get the 1 card I am missing, the fact that my rival has it tears me up.
So for me, its completionist with a lot of competitivness on top.
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We can’t even rob them as they’ll know it was us that did it
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A mixture of nostalgia and a craving to own certain pieces of the TCG history that are still reasonably obtainable. The feeling is becoming more urgent as time moves on and numbers of people in the tcg space increase.
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