Introduction to collecting toys

Collecting toys, like many other hobbies, can help to provide work-life balance.  It brings happiness and like-minded new friends into your life.  The experience also guides you to learn more things and develop new skills that are seemingly and initially outside the scope of your hobby (e.g. internet knowledge, online shopping, website building, using and managing forums, artistic and writing skills, social and even business skills).

I know of some collectors who turned their toy hobbies into a business and eventually into their career.  It is the dream of everyone to integrate their jobs with their hobbies.  When you love your work, you no longer see it as a job anymore, and you will enjoy doing it everyday instead.

To outsiders a.k.a. non-toy collectors, their usual reactions are, “it’s so childish”, ”you need to grow up”, ”you’re wasting hard-earned money”, “they take up space”, “they collect dust”, “they are useless things”, and the list goes on.  That is because they have different perceptions of your toys.  To them, they associate toys as mere playthings for children.  There is nothing wrong with that and you just have to accept that everyone will definitely have different views over the same thing.

As a toy collector, you would know that collecting toys is actually about your emotions.  It is about your attachment to the toys because of the anchoring effects they have on you and your states.  It is how you manage your collecting emotions that will determine if you will enjoy your hobby to the maximum.

Remember: How you do anything is how you do everything.