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Approx 1370 after all the cars I sold recently. I've a recorded 372 cars documented in my 2014 folder.
My goal back in January/February was to stay under 200 IIRC. That broke in no time and I pushed it to 300. Not bad I'd say!
When I did a recheck a while ago, Hot Wheels/Matchbox had become the minority in this year's addition of cars. I'm pretty sure everyone knows what has taken dominance now.
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But yeah, don't throw away cars. Think it over, think about the future like Ken suggested. I've been down the same road of buying cars and no longer caring for it. That's just an actualization of how buying toy cars brings you a mere short-term happiness. I'm happy you were able to experience it and haven't BS'd yourself into believing some bogus you made up on your own. This would be a good opportunity to reassess what it is that keeps you in the hobby, why you want to buy certain hot wheels, and whether you've found yourself satisfied with that (not just now, but years later).
I've said this in the past, but when I got into Hot Wheels thanks to my involvement with this thread one day, I was collecting cars at random. I didn't know half of the real cars, and heck, I grabbed any fantasy cars that remotely looked cool. not a care in the world. It was only $1... Before I knew it, the table I had displaying 20-some cars grew to 300 in no time. Some of the cars I didn't find any fondness of were purchased just because I see some of the guys here go looney about. I bandwagon'd in hopes I'd find an appreciation for the car some day. Sad to say there wasn't an 100% success rate there.
At this point, I've reached that same crisis you're having right now. "Wow I picked up a lot of cars I have no care for. What a waste of time and money." Right? Yeah that's true. As I recently announced, I dumped $500 on a handful of other Kyoshos and CM's. Never mind that they're rare or uncommon (I'd see that as an excuse to justify breaking paycheques). The point of the matter is whether or not I will look at these things and be internally satisfied with myself and what I accomplished at the end of the day. At face value, anyone would agree I grabbed a chrome blue KPGC110 for $53 an awesome deal, but let's not forget it is still just a model car, material with no functional or symbolic value.
So why have I started seeking the expensive stuff now?
Well, after re-evaluating it, I found myself not being completely satisfied with the margin of quality of the average Hot Wheels casting (save your $1 argument for another time), because I justified that the lasting quality holds more significance than the amount of money I put out to acquire it. Being one who appreciates good work, I concluded that money-saving Mattel products ain't what I was looking for out of the hobby. Plus, given that I have seen the work of other brands, I started moving to Kyosho and CM's. That's one part of my resolve.
The other part is why I'm not just sticking with basic Kyoshos. I'm guessing this has to do with me wanting to be all-knowing. There's a lot of Beads out there with a lot of missing information, based on what I could find in any English-written website. I could find out enough to acknowledge its existence, but like a library, I want to know all about it. I want to know when the thing was made, its category number, and produce higher-resolution images that others can reference if they ever need to. I've always liked the feeling of being the one to show off things other people didn't know about, and being the one relied on for info. Makes me feel important. I do have to admit, I've probably devoted more time to "show off" what I found and dumped money on than anything. Right now, I have this chrome blue Calsonic R32 Skyline I'm confident to say nobody here knows about, or knew about until I linked that one pic!
But yeah, as I took time to look at that K'nex shelf to look back at every Kyosho I bought, I think that is what I'm currently seeking to do with this pastime.
Of course you can throw away your cars in a yolo moment, but that might be a thoughtless move. Take a break from this if this is troubling you a lot, bring out all your cars, and spend some time just looking over things. You may arrive at something big.
My goal back in January/February was to stay under 200 IIRC. That broke in no time and I pushed it to 300. Not bad I'd say!
When I did a recheck a while ago, Hot Wheels/Matchbox had become the minority in this year's addition of cars. I'm pretty sure everyone knows what has taken dominance now.
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But yeah, don't throw away cars. Think it over, think about the future like Ken suggested. I've been down the same road of buying cars and no longer caring for it. That's just an actualization of how buying toy cars brings you a mere short-term happiness. I'm happy you were able to experience it and haven't BS'd yourself into believing some bogus you made up on your own. This would be a good opportunity to reassess what it is that keeps you in the hobby, why you want to buy certain hot wheels, and whether you've found yourself satisfied with that (not just now, but years later).
I've said this in the past, but when I got into Hot Wheels thanks to my involvement with this thread one day, I was collecting cars at random. I didn't know half of the real cars, and heck, I grabbed any fantasy cars that remotely looked cool. not a care in the world. It was only $1... Before I knew it, the table I had displaying 20-some cars grew to 300 in no time. Some of the cars I didn't find any fondness of were purchased just because I see some of the guys here go looney about. I bandwagon'd in hopes I'd find an appreciation for the car some day. Sad to say there wasn't an 100% success rate there.
At this point, I've reached that same crisis you're having right now. "Wow I picked up a lot of cars I have no care for. What a waste of time and money." Right? Yeah that's true. As I recently announced, I dumped $500 on a handful of other Kyoshos and CM's. Never mind that they're rare or uncommon (I'd see that as an excuse to justify breaking paycheques). The point of the matter is whether or not I will look at these things and be internally satisfied with myself and what I accomplished at the end of the day. At face value, anyone would agree I grabbed a chrome blue KPGC110 for $53 an awesome deal, but let's not forget it is still just a model car, material with no functional or symbolic value.
So why have I started seeking the expensive stuff now?
Well, after re-evaluating it, I found myself not being completely satisfied with the margin of quality of the average Hot Wheels casting (save your $1 argument for another time), because I justified that the lasting quality holds more significance than the amount of money I put out to acquire it. Being one who appreciates good work, I concluded that money-saving Mattel products ain't what I was looking for out of the hobby. Plus, given that I have seen the work of other brands, I started moving to Kyosho and CM's. That's one part of my resolve.
The other part is why I'm not just sticking with basic Kyoshos. I'm guessing this has to do with me wanting to be all-knowing. There's a lot of Beads out there with a lot of missing information, based on what I could find in any English-written website. I could find out enough to acknowledge its existence, but like a library, I want to know all about it. I want to know when the thing was made, its category number, and produce higher-resolution images that others can reference if they ever need to. I've always liked the feeling of being the one to show off things other people didn't know about, and being the one relied on for info. Makes me feel important. I do have to admit, I've probably devoted more time to "show off" what I found and dumped money on than anything.
Right now, I have this chrome blue Calsonic R32 Skyline I'm confident to say nobody here knows about, or knew about until I linked that one pic! But yeah, as I took time to look at that K'nex shelf to look back at every Kyosho I bought, I think that is what I'm currently seeking to do with this pastime.
Of course you can throw away your cars in a yolo moment, but that might be a thoughtless move. Take a break from this if this is troubling you a lot, bring out all your cars, and spend some time just looking over things. You may arrive at something big.
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