Things you regret collecting (non-TF)

[BruiseLee]

So I was doing some spring cleaning today in the garage and hauled off the shelves boxes upon boxes of my dvd and cd collection which did not make it out of the packing boxes when I moved 5 years ago. I'm staring at what would be thousands of dollars paid (think high here) for these and just thinking what I could have in TF dollars had I not been so impulsive back then. Some of this stuff has not been watched and some even still in wrapping. Well half of the DVDs and CDs have gone to charity but looking at it all it did seem like a waste of money.

Do any of you have any hobbies that you may have spent too much on that you now regret?

[Trent]

Go fast bits for my WRX. I poured the equivalent of a house deposit into that thing, not including what it cost to buy the car. I still shake my head at how dumb I was.

And yes, it does become a very time consuming hobby.

[Handsprime]

I have a few:
I used to collect a bunch of games, but got rid of some of them because they were useless to me (excluding rarities)
Roborods turned out to be a huge let down, but I'm not regretting it as much since I got them dirt cheap from the Reject shop (for about $3 a pop, when they can be around $12 on eBay)
Other than those ones, I can't remember what else I regretting getting. Most of my collections are I'm proud of, or sorta proud of (I know this might seem odd, but I did collect a few Tomica sets, mostly to build mini towns. In the end I kept the buildings and roads because when you put the little Transformers in it, I can take some awesome pics)

[yoshi594]

DVDS for sure. I haven't learnt my lesson as i've also been collecting Blu rays lol. Such is life.

Also Magic cards, g'damn i should have been like that cheap kid who would make his own rare cards by putting paper over a common card with the deets of the card he wanted to use... xD

DVDs and magic cards are pretty much worthless now...both obsolete and cheaper than chips these days.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Mate you are talking to someone who collected nearly everything from the old TV sitcom "Home Improvement" :o including:

Posters
Trading Cards
The Board Game
Tools
DVD's
Clothing including: Socks, Caps, T-Shirts, Boxer Shorts, Kimonos, Ties, Jumpers

All sitting in boxes in the shed now :rolleyes::o

[Megatran]

^ Is that the US sitcom with the character Heidi? :D

[BigTransformerTrev]

^ Is that the US sitcom with the character Heidi? :D

Ye, and the Tool-girl before her was Lisa who was played by Pamela Anderson (who got fired for being a crap actress and went on to do Baywatch, VIP & Striperella :p)

[BruiseLee]

Ye, and the Tool-girl before her was Lisa who was played by Pamela Anderson (who got fired for being a crap actress and went on to do Baywatch, VIP & Striperella :p)

Can't remember if this was Pammy pre or post "enhancement". :p

[BigTransformerTrev]

Can't remember if this was Pammy pre or post "enhancement". :p

Both Pamela Anderson (Lisa) and Debbie Dunning (Heidi) had gotten a bit of an 'uplift' before becoming the Tool Time girls ;)

[Gofigure]

Beverly Hills 90210 trading cards :(

Ummmmmm......noooooo......I can't pull it off! I regret nothing!!!!!

I likened myself to a young Brandon Walsh back in the early 90s.

Now where are those cards at

[GoktimusPrime]

I don't know if "regret" is the word I would use with a lot of my non-Transformers toys, most of which I gave away for free last year. Because I did get a lot of enjoyment out of them until I became a parent and had to streamline my hobby solely to Transformers. But they were well loved toys until my daughter was born. But after that they just sat in boxes for 5 years, which was just ridiculous... not a believer of keeping things in storage that don't see the light of day, so I gave most of it away. I wish that I'd been more proactive in selling them maybe (but even then, it's hard to offload everything), but I don't regret actually collecting them.

DVDs/BRs on the other hand... often I buy something because I liked watching it once or it looks like something I'd enjoy, and yeah, I'll enjoy watching it first couple of times, but then lose interest. I'm a lot more selective now in terms of what I'll buy on DVD or BR. I'm a frequent renter at my local Blockbuster, or sometimes I just wait until it's airing on TV. Definitely not a fan of collecting TV series. Another one is comic books (non-TFs). Yeah... a lot of stuff that I need to either sell or give away.

[UltimateGalvatron]

Lego Star Wars...

[Handsprime]

I'm gonna admit this, I regret some of the CDs I have bought, espically all the s**tty metalcore albums I have bought. Looking at you Asking Alexandria and Black Veil Brides

I don't regret the nu metal albums though.
"WAKE ME UP
WAKE ME UP INSIDE
CAN'T WAKE UP
WAKE ME UP INSIDE
SAVE ME
CALL MY NAME AND SAVE ME FROM THE DARK"

[jazzcomp]

Lego Star Wars...
Why, mate?

[Trent]

Lego Star Wars...

If prequel trilogy stuff, then I understand completely. But otherwise, what Jazzcomp said - "Why?"

[UltimateGalvatron]

IDK It was Clone Wars Lego and the sets kept breaking on me due to at the time a young sister. I started watching TF animated and the hundreds I spent on Lego I figured that I could have just bought more Transformers. I also started losing interest in the show, and then when I dropped off the TF scene I got into the actual Star Wats figures. In about 2013 I went through a phase where I wasn't collecting anything then got back into Transformers last year.

[TAAUBlaster]

For me it is anime cels/figures. I had a good time collecting everything, but now that it's come time to sell, its hard trying to get rid of everything without basically just giving it away.
I poured a lot of money into those hobbies. :/

Also was into the car modding scene before that. Had a built (not bought!) CA18DET N13 Pulsar. :p That thing turned out to be a black hole for money.

[GoktimusPrime]

One thing we all regret collecting: credit card bills. :p

[Jetfire in the sky]

I have collected so many different things since before I was 10, all things at the time are generally for fun and to be totally honest I have no regret because all things I collected brought me a lot of happiness.
Of note though was the sports card craze of the early 90's, it got a lot of teens sucked in pretty hard and I was definitely one of them, I am heading over to the US in a couple of weeks time and will be taking two shoeboxes full to offload them at whatever I can get as I have no interest in them now. Yes they were touted as a great investment back then but have since bombed except for certain cards here and there.

One regret sort of non-collecting really but related, as two members have already mentioned is cars and car modifications, my biggest loss in this realm was with a Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo, I sold over 1000 transformers in 2005 to pay for fixing the stupid engine on it thinking it was going to make it into a rocket ship, it didn't, and I continued to have problems with it until I decided to pull the entire car apart and sell it in bits and pieces early 2007. I learnt a very good lesson there as it was the last and most dramatic of my money wasting on cars.

[5FDP]

I'm gonna admit this, I regret some of the CDs I have bought, espically all the s**tty metalcore albums I have bought. Looking at you Asking Alexandria and Black Veil Brides

I don't regret the nu metal albums though.
"WAKE ME UP
WAKE ME UP INSIDE
CAN'T WAKE UP
WAKE ME UP INSIDE
SAVE ME
CALL MY NAME AND SAVE ME FROM THE DARK"


I love my metal CD collection as if it were my own child. Never parting with it!

[Megatran]

I'm gonna admit this, I regret some of the CDs I have bought, espically all the s**tty metalcore albums I have bought. Looking at you Asking Alexandria and Black Veil Brides

I don't regret the nu metal albums though.
"WAKE ME UP
WAKE ME UP INSIDE
CAN'T WAKE UP
WAKE ME UP INSIDE
SAVE ME
CALL MY NAME AND SAVE ME FROM THE DARK"


Is that from the 80's (boy) duo WHAM!?
Wake me up before you go go......
:p

[shockNwave]

I love my metal CD collection as if it were my own child. Never parting with it!

The same attitude I have to my metal collection and while we're on the subject of CDs, I regret buying CDs that turned out to be crap with only one or two good songs (back then there was no internet).

[kup]

Before World of Warcraft was released, I was a huge Blizzard fan. I loved Diablo, Starcraft and Warcraft and ended up buying several action figures that although had hardly articulation, looked good as small scale statues.

However, after Warcratft III came out, the founding members of Blizzard entertainment left and the company drastically changed direction to WoW - At first, I was a bit concerned but not skeptical and even gave the MMO a full hearty go. However it soon became clear that the franchise had been watered down to please the masses, the lore was now simplistic and shallow 'goodies vs Baddies' and much of what I liked about Warcraft had been changed or dumbed down. My enthusiasm for Blizzard was largely evaporating and in turn, I no longer felt good about owning my Warcraft stuff.

Then Starcraft II came out and that turned out to be just an unimaginative rehash of the previous game in an attempt to keep everything 'familiar and safe'. Another Blizzard franchise that I lost interest in..

Then Diablo III came out, it was dull and boring and couldn't even finish the second chapter - The final nail.

I now no longer care about Blizzard stuff but have a large box full of action figures. Not sure what to do with them so I just hoard them in a corner.

[CBratron]

I regret White Dwarf magazine. Cool if you're into Games Workshop stuff but with continual edition changes and new rules, all the old playable scenarios become obsolete. Do I keep them and flick through them occasionally for nostalgia's sake? Or do I just recycle the lot and be done with it?

[Defcon]

Hey Kup I agree with everything you just said about Blizzard stuff. The magic has gone and they really could of pumped out more sequels for Starcraft and Diablo after the originals, but they let the fans wait for to long. I have some Warcraft figures, and a figure of Diablo, I don't have any of the original Starcraft figures but they were at one stage very expensive on ebay. I don't regret Diablo because he is awesome.
Neca currently has the licence for Blizzard's Heroes of the Storm. I might be interested in Tyrael and the Lich King because they were important characters in the original games in the Warcraft and Diablo franchises.

[UltimateGalvatron]

I regret White Dwarf magazine. Cool if you're into Games Workshop stuff but with continual edition changes and new rules, all the old playable scenarios become obsolete. Do I keep them and flick through them occasionally for nostalgia's sake? Or do I just recycle the lot and be done with it?

I have a pile of them I never read. I'm sure there is someone on a 40k or Warhammer forum that would want them though.

[Defcon]

I regret White Dwarf magazine. Cool if you're into Games Workshop stuff but with continual edition changes and new rules, all the old playable scenarios become obsolete. Do I keep them and flick through them occasionally for nostalgia's sake? Or do I just recycle the lot and be done with it?

I had a big stack of white dwarf magazines and rulebooks, since I have moved on from the hobby I just put some in the recycling, some for charity and just a few I keep for reference because I love the pictures and the artwork. The new magazines look amazing though I wont be buying any I just have a browse in the newsagent when they are not sealed.