Stay focused on your main collectible toys

In my previous few posts, I touched on budgeting for your toy collecting hobby to ride out this financial crisis.  However, it also needs to be complimented by managing our emotions when it comes to toy purchases.  I know that this aspect is easier said than done for many of us tend to be ruled by our emotions rather than logics most of the times.

Using cash payment for your toys is only the first step.  This makes it more ‘painful’ for you to part with your cash so you tend to think twice before any potential impulse purchases.  However to cope with the angel and devil fighting it out in your mind is definitely not easy.  It threatened to mentally ‘tear’ my mind apart on a few occasions when I was faced with indecision on whether to get an impulse toy. 

Now it’s the time to constantly tell yourself to cut down on impulse toy purchases and stay focused on your main collectible toys instead, which should had been the case from the very start of your toy collecting hobby.  The reason why I have so many toys for sale at my online toy store today is because of my straying away from my main collectible toys. 

I got distracted too easily over the years of collecting and ended up with lots of miscellaneous toys in my collections.  Now looking back, I wish I had been more focused and not so impulsive in forking out my hard-earned cash on those extras, which have now become part of the clutter in my home.  Some of these miscellaneous toys also unfortunately deteriorated over the years, which pains my heart. 

Anyway, I now treat it as a lesson learnt.  During the economic boom of the past few years, I tended to splurge on impulse toys, no different from many other people did the same on luxury goods.  The impulse toys were not expensive individually but they added to quite a sum over time. 

In life whatever we do, we must define our goals and remain focused on them at all times.  If not, we end up ‘running all over the place’ and with lots of things we are likely to regret.  I once learnt from a personal development seminar - “how we do anything is how we do everything”. 

Your toy collecting hobby can reveal a lot about your character, the way you think and do things like managing money.  If you find some weaknesses of yourself from there, it’s time to correct yourself before you reach the point of no or difficult return.

The bottomline is: Buy toys that you collect and ignore the rest, regardless of boom or crisis times, discount or not. 

Good luck to you and continue to have fun in toy collecting!