How often do you trim the fat?

[ggallegos1]

I just recently moved and had to sell a lot of my games that I knew deep down I would never play or play again. Condensed my collection by a good margin and made me appreciate the games I kept much more while taming the growing amount of games around the game room.

Wanted to know how often everyone else condensed their hoard, if ever, and why.

 

[GutsDozer]

I'm pretty much as condensed as much as I would want. i try to only buy stuff I really want and if I don't like it anymore I get rid of it.

 

[GohanX]

Sell sell sell! I've realized I have too much crap and want to get rid of 90% of it, just been lazy. I did clean out most of my mvs carts, and I'm happier having a smaller collection. I need to work on purging more.

 

[lolifoxgirl]

Hoarding is a way of life. Even selling dupes is like parting siblings.

 

[BeefJerky]

Hoarding is a way of life. Even selling dupes is like parting siblings.

There is never a reason to own more than one copy of the same game.

Loli pls.

 

[Kid Panda]

There is never a reason to own more than one copy of the same game.

Loli pls.

Sure there is, when you're trying to inflate the value of a game you hoard as many as you can and then put in your piece list that it is super rare and charge 3x more for it. There's a certain guy that had scooped all of the Willow pcbs a couple of years ago and all of a sudden on his "official" price list the game tripled in value.

 

[BeefJerky]

Sure there is, when you're trying to inflate the value of a game you hoard as many as you can and then put in your piece list that it is super rare and charge 3x more for it. There's a certain guy that had scooped all of the Willow pcbs a couple of years ago and all of a sudden on his "official" price list the game tripled in value.

So rude.

 

[Kid Panda]

So rude.

No collector or reseller should be in control of a price guide. You're just asking for trouble.

 

[BeefJerky]

No collector or reseller should be in control of a price guide. You're just asking for trouble.

Yeah, try telling that to stefano. lulz

 

[ReplicaX]

Sure there is, when you're trying to inflate the value of a game you hoard as many as you can and then put in your piece list that it is super rare and charge 3x more for it. There's a certain guy that had scooped all of the Willow pcbs a couple of years ago and all of a sudden on his "official" price list the game tripled in value.

"I'm doing it for the community"

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[Phyeir]

Dont trim often enough. Really, there's not much point to it, if the fat means the really lo-fi games nobody wants. May as well donate them to Goodwill (which is what I did).

Part of me wants to do one great purge just to make each collection a pure I want to play it all set. That way you don't get stuck having to move all that shit ever again.

 

[Pope Sazae]

It's been nice to trim out a lot of it (either by choice or not) and having a much smaller collection now of regularly played games. Good to get rid of stuff that you don't care about or play anymore than someone else might be into. I need to do another one soon if people have an interest in the PS2 fighting games.

 

[Magician]

I trimmed my collection down to current gen stuff a decade ago.

I've been all-digital for about four years now, leaving nothing to trim sans hardware.

 

[smokehouse]

I sold off a vast majority of my stuff. It's way too long of a story to talk about here but I was surround gin myself with shit in many aspects of my life, I needed a purge badly.

I kept a ton of games on a few system I truly love…the rest, I sold.

 

[SNKorSWM]

Still in the process of going through my backlog. Instead of selling old, I simply stop buying anything new until I'm done with it.

 

[theMot]

I spent the first 30 years of my life hoarding every video game item i got. Then something clicked and i thought what am i doing? Sell sell sell now. At least once a year i look at what i have and if it's not getting used it is gone. I find i never really go back to games these days once i am done with them so no point keeping it taking up space.

 

[ColdWolf35]

I haven't hit that point in life to "trim the fat", but I've been keeping everything that I buy. Besides my collection page, my collection has been growing more and more, and hasn't stopped since. Most of the games that I have have been quality games, but if I sold my other bs games, they would only pull like $2-5 bucks.

The reason why I don't want to sell is because I'll be the type to regret letting something go. Either way, with what I've got, I feel content.

 

[Takumaji]

I take care in keeping my games library as compact as possible, that's why I always chose my purchases very carefully from day one. Nothing worse than having a busload of titles you can't get rid of anymore because the expense for selling them would be higher than the money you get. That's why I gave the few games I let go over the years away for free, with the exception of a Neo homecart (RotD) and a handful of MD games.

 

[Jon]

I know some people that have a policy to never get rid of any game, no matter what, unless they can find a replacement.

When your collection is so big (ie. thousands of games) and you have to get a storage facility, it's time to start reconsidering things...

Jon

 

[BanishingFlatsAC]

I've purged my collection 4 times now. This last time as I was moving and realized more then half of my belongings we're boxes of games...I decided I couldn't do it anymore. I replaced all my carts with ever drives, so hopefully I will avoid hoarding carts again.

 

[CaseyTappy]

I practically stopped buying about two years ago which is a good start, don´t have several hundreds of games but I do have some fat to trim .

Baby steps though ...

 

[ahcmetal]

 

[ahcmetal]

Here's 4 pictures of my last purge from 2 months ago...it started slowly with the first picture...then over the course of a full week it just snowballed and I was throwing all kinds of stuff out that I just had tucked away in drawers, closets and shelves...maaaaan it felt awesome to streamline everything!!!

 

[Jon]

Here's 4 pictures of my last purge from 2 months ago...it started slowly with the first picture...then over the course of a full week it just snowballed and I was throwing all kinds of stuff out that I just had tucked away in drawers, closets and shelves...maaaaan it felt awesome to streamline everything!!!

Lot of stuff.

The one of two times I met with the head of Assembler forums, I asked him "when is it time to invest in a storage locker?"

Answer: "When you have to take boxes off of your bed to go to sleep at night."

Looks like you were pretty damn close...LOL.

Jon

 

[Takumaji]

How does the old saying go: The things you own end up owning you.