How much 'hobby stuff' have you held onto?

[Dirty Duck]

They're pretty expensive honestly, looked into it when I got evicted and those weren't even London prices. Plus it's a temporary solution-it doesn't help having my stuff scattered about like the body of Dracula. Just gotta streamline my existence at the end of the day.

True, I guess it's just I think sentimentality with some stuff isn't a bad thing at times and the one benefit of our silly little interests that most of us share to some degree is that value tends to accrue with a lot of the types of things we can buy.

It is true but it's also...not true. I've had it drilled into me from a young age ( ) that things grow in value and what it's resulted in mainly is a lot of stuff that I've taken good care of for years that actually hasn't accrued any value that I've carried from place to place. It obviously is true for a fair amount of collectors items in our spheres but a lot of the time it isn't-I think the Smash Guide I mentioned can go for £40 but often goes for £15, and the Hyrule Historia tends to go for <£10.

My brother is the worst for it-he'd have me believe I should hold onto a pack of Oreos because they have Mario on them. He's poisoned by this idea of the return investment. he buys anything and everything even if he has no interest in it and a lot of it is total garbage, ranging from brandless dinosaur toys to Mrs Browns Boys boxsets.

Slightly more on topic but while going through my stuff I'm annoyed to remember my Sonic Mania collectors edition box which was dropped and wrecked by my guardian when moving once. It was wrecked enough that I just threw it out. I have all of the individual items from it but weirdly I found the box one of the coolest parts and just used it to store stuff in. Plus it was a download code collectors edition since Mania didn't get a physical release until the Sonic Mania Plus expansion, so I now have no 'box' for the game whatsoever.