Good Collections That Are Not Consooming - A Self Improvement Thread

[BangBingBongalo]

Okay so I guess for me its acceptable when its either a wall unit, display cabinet, part of the room and evenly distributed.
An entire room and house is consooming.



I can stand something like this, its not filling the entire room and it's not excessive.

Also Dale Earnhardt.
I wish they were out of the boxes though

 

[BangBingBongalo]

What difference does that make? Some collectors use wall units and display cabinets. Some consoomers use wall units and display cabinets. Some genuine collectors have entire rooms dedicated to their collections.

Mild PL, but an older friend of mine owns over 500 vintage radios. One of the rooms in his house is basically a small radio museum. It's taken him over 50 years to build this collection. He's not a consoomer. Meanwhile, I collect vintage computers. I have a display of 3-4 machines on a shelf at any given time. The rest of my collection is stored in a cupboard, and I rotate the collection from time to time when I feel like freshening up my home office.

These are both collections.

Meanwhile, I know someone that has a chest of drawers in one of their spare rooms that is loaded to the gunwales with Beanie Babies they bought about 20 years ago. I'd call them a consoomer (and a misguided one at that). Said spare room is filled almost floor to ceiling with everything from Star Wars figurines to Lego. Some of it is displayed, but most of it is in cupboards or on those metal shelves that are usually seen in garages or sheds.

Whilst I see what you're trying to get at with your original poll i.e. whether there is some sort of physical line between a collector and a consoomer, the question is poorly worded and possibly ill-conceived.

I think we should move on to photos of actually good collections which was the primary focus of the thread.
If anyone would like to do the poll again on another thread, be my guest

 

[Fomo Hoire]

In Yu-Gi-Oh Terms:

Solomon Muto just has stuff he enjoys. Heart of the cards is sappy and dumb but he has a legitimate story to tell about his blue eyes white dragon and he can pass the meaning of the story on to his grandson and the weird teddybear girl.

Early Seto Kaiba is a Consoomer, he wants all the blue eyes but he doesn't really care about them. He's willing to destroy one just because ha can't have it, he doesn't place any value in the card itself beyond it having a reputation for it being the strongest. The value of the thing is that it's his, it has no value to him if it is in anyone else's hands.

Late Seto Kaiba is a coomsoomer. Allegedly we later find out that he loves the blue eyes so much because it's his waifu's soul or something and he wants to fuck it. I didn't watch the series anymore at this point so huge grain of salt, but usually consooming something related to a loved one is no longer consooming, the sentimental value escalates it. Kaiba really hates the magical Egyptian stuff though, so I'm guessing he won't admit he misses his girlfriend or that there's a deeper reason for his compulsion to blue eyes his everything. So he has all the negatives of a consoomer for coomer reasons.

 

[Vingle]

owning funko pops makes you into an IRL soyjak in my eyes, regardless of whether you own 2000 of them or just 2.

Good that I own 3 animu figures, already got plans to switch them out though. But that takes time, since I'm more into designer stuff and that's expensive.

What about fragrances?

If you have a rotation of fragrances that you wear on a regular or semi-regular basis, that's not consooming. That's just consuming i.e. buying a consumable item. That's perfectly normal.

You got hoarders that do use some of their "collection", but if you have like 300 bottles. Then that's hard to use, and not all fragrances age with grace. Even though fragrance consoomers like to excuse themselves with "It doesn't spoil if you store it properly". That's more true to more rich and sweet fragrances. Freshies with citrus has more of a tendency to turn rancid after some years.

 

[Grinrow]

Owning anything that isn't vital to your survival is cringe and soy filled real based and redpilled men own a completely bare house devoid of anything that'll bring you joy

 

[jje100010001]

I think the distinction between a collection and a "consoom" has been discussed in the consoomer thread. Some people may label me as a "consoomer" due to my collection of records, both vintage, represses, and modern releases. But I don't see myself as a consoomer due to the fact that:

1. I have listened to all my records more than three times
2. I don't rush out to buy records because they just released, or because I need to grow my collection
3. I trade and sell old records to other collectors and record shops
4. My collection doesn't span more than a single cubby in a small bookshelf.

So, to correctly "collect" without consooming, at least in my opinion, is to have a collection you enjoy and cherish and make use of, and are willing to part with pieces to vary your collection without the need to grow it without cause. Of course this is tangential, as you can't do the same with sentimental items in the case of trading/selling items, or with items like sports memorabilia in the case of using the collection.

But perhaps everyone who collects items of some sort are consoomers in their own right, we just decided that one type of consoomerism is free from ridicule while the newer types aren't. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Definitely think that the line between collecting and consooming is discernment.

It’s reminding me of the houseplant/pet hoarders, where they end up filling up their houses with mass-produced Home Depot plants and/or pets, and then end up throwing up their hands in frustration having to run around keeping them from dying.

However, if for instance, you prefer types of houseplants with a certain quality (color, fragrance, rarity), or specialize in certain sorts of pets/breeds, then I think it launches you significantly closer towards being a connoisseur rather than a consoomer. You’ll be looking for certain qualities that may not come by regularly, rather than buying indiscriminately.

Likewise, with discernment, your tastes can change, and so being able to part with certain pieces of your collection may be easier- though this obviously has other stronger influences. For instance, I could see that being a cheapskate certainly helps against consooming, but it could prevent you from parting with your collection due to sunk cost fallacies, or hypothetical FOMOs.

 

[𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔]

Caring about this bullshit is fucking autistic.

 

[Fish Fudge]

It's a weird thing to worry about, and the answers people give are counter-intuitive.

Don't spread nerd shit around your house.

 

[Dyn]

Is OP the same autistic monkey who's made like four threads obsessing over whether we think he's a consoomer or not?