You know you have too many toys when…
1) You run out of all available shelf space. As long as there is any horizontal space on your table, chair, cupboard shelves and even on your bed, piano, TV, etc. If the space can fit a toy, it would be used and filled with your toy displays.
2) Your bedroom room floor is stacked with boxes and plastic bags of your latest toy purchases that you have no where else to pack to. Soon you’ll hardly have any walking space left. Even the floor space under your table and bed are not spared and have been fully filled.
3) You even used up all the storage space on the upper shelves of your wardrobe and on top of your wardrobe. Usually those space are meant for storing seldom used items like luggage bags, extra bedsheets and quilt covers etc. Instead, you have filled them up to the brim with your boxed toys.
4) You collect 2 pieces of every or most toys. One is to keep Mint-In-Box (MIB) or Mint-On-Card (MOC), while the other is to be removed from its packaging for play and display. When you own about 100 toys, you actually have 200 toys and so on.
5) Your storage space has spread beyond your own bedroom or hobby room. Rightfully if you share your home with other people, you should keep your personal possessions such as your toy collections in your own room only. If your room cannot not contain all your toys, then you either have to downsize your collection or get a bigger home. Of course, it’s no problem if you live alone and the entire home is your personal space to use as you please.
6) Your store room, basement, attic or garage are also used to store your toy collections. These places are usually not suitable for storing your toys and they might cause your toy conditions to deteriorate over time. Do your best not to store them there as you may even forget about them for many years. By then, it might be too late to ’save’ them.
7) Your toys get in your way when you need to reach for your everyday items like the clothes in your wardrobe, the things on your study table, the books on your shelves, etc. It can get a bit inconvenient, even to the extent of a little annoying when you have to shift those toys aside each time you need to reach for the things you want to use.
I’m pretty sure that there are more observations that show you have way too many toys in your collection. These are some of the most common ones I can think of. How about sharing other observations that I have left out? Feel free to leave your comments here!
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I really think 2 of each is a overkill…:P
Ha Ha…I did not meet the criteria stated…can buy more toys…LOL
same here adrian!!! i didn’t hit that criteria yet…though i’ve seen some 3 3/4 inch star wars figure collectors who actually collect 2 of each…
but to do the same for 12′ inch figures would indeed be a serious pocket burner!
by the way..happy chinese new year JULIANA!
Hi Leon,
I do collect 2 of some toys that I like very much because they look so good MIB/MOC and out of package. Couldn’t decide which to keep so I get both. Luckily I only do this for some and not all of my toys
Hi Little Plastic Man,
Haha good for you, happy toy collecting!
Hi Joshua,
I also know of other collectors who collect 2 of each toy and they tend to eventually give up the MIB/MOC ones because of lack of space.
Happy Niu Year to you too!
I collect playscale dolls and figures. Thanks for this post: I realized how overwhelming my collection has become and your article showed me what thoughts and actions help maintain a suitable court hour.
I am sharing your URL with others on my blog, PhilyCollector.
Hi D7ana,
Thanks for your link up!
I saw the photos of your collections. No wonder you could identify with the points I made above!
I think you can custom build a tall display cabinet (with glass doors on top and opaque doors below) along one of your room walls to store your collection. It’ll be better than having them in the open.