I started as a gamer, then turned collector, then hoarder. When I realized I had a problem I became a re-seller (which is it's own demon). At one point I was buying power adapters and A/V cables and controllers by the case just so I could sell all of my systems. $30k+ one year on eBay alone.
Then I had my second kid and it kind of went reverse. I stopped selling because of time and ever growing fees and shipping costs, but kept accumulating (how can anybody say no $1500 worth of TG16 stuff for $250?) then went back to collecting specific items and finally back to a gamer.
lol now I have about a dozen cherished games and an original XBOX loaded with retro games. It's been quite the journey!
I started paring down last year, selling off most of my Nintendo 64 collection, a bunch of doubles and a bunch of duplicate controllers. I got rid of stuff on a garage sale too.
But I still have lots of duplicate consoles and totes full of accessories, cables and controllers. Its hard to fight the urge to keep this stuff, but having kids makes it much harder to justify keeping all this stuff around.
Thanks for the great comments!
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