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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 8492921" data-attributes="member: 6796661">I'm a pretty aggressive decluterer. In college I ended up giving all of my gaming stuff to a couple I knew from SCA in exchange for a crate of homemade wine and mead, except for a few items in which I was published or which was signed. When I got back into the hobby I started accumulating more stuff than I could foreseeably play in the near future, so I've cut back on purchaing physical stuff since I'm mostly playing on line. Most of my gaming money now goes to VTT subscriptions, patreons, and digital items. I still have a small hoard of minis, terrain pieces, physical battlemaps, etc. But I'm holding on to them because eventually my job situation will change and I plan to start playing in person. Currently, they are just in storage. Board games were tougher for me, but I force myself to cull. I have to remind myself that I'm a player not a collector. For games that that the kids grew out of or games that I don't play often because nobody in the family really likes them, I donate them to the community gaming library as a local FLGS or give them to friends and family who might enjoy them. One thing I regret is that a couple of years ago I backed Bit Box on Kickstarter and replaced a bunch of game boxes with Bit Box storage. First, I eventually realized that the boxes mean more to my enjoyment of the games than I thought and I regretted tossing many of them. But also, while it saves space, it leads to more clutter in the sense that you can't easily give away games that don't have boxes and I don't like the idea of just throwning them away so they just stay stored away in Bit Boxes.I still have a crazy amount of gaming &quot;stuff&quot; by the standards of a non-gamer, but I don't hoard and collect stuff I don't or won't likely use.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 8492921, member: 6796661"] I'm a pretty aggressive decluterer. In college I ended up giving all of my gaming stuff to a couple I knew from SCA in exchange for a crate of homemade wine and mead, except for a few items in which I was published or which was signed. When I got back into the hobby I started accumulating more stuff than I could foreseeably play in the near future, so I've cut back on purchaing physical stuff since I'm mostly playing on line. Most of my gaming money now goes to VTT subscriptions, patreons, and digital items. I still have a small hoard of minis, terrain pieces, physical battlemaps, etc. But I'm holding on to them because eventually my job situation will change and I plan to start playing in person. Currently, they are just in storage. Board games were tougher for me, but I force myself to cull. I have to remind myself that I'm a player not a collector. For games that that the kids grew out of or games that I don't play often because nobody in the family really likes them, I donate them to the community gaming library as a local FLGS or give them to friends and family who might enjoy them. One thing I regret is that a couple of years ago I backed Bit Box on Kickstarter and replaced a bunch of game boxes with Bit Box storage. First, I eventually realized that the boxes mean more to my enjoyment of the games than I thought and I regretted tossing many of them. But also, while it saves space, it leads to more clutter in the sense that you can't easily give away games that don't have boxes and I don't like the idea of just throwning them away so they just stay stored away in Bit Boxes. I still have a crazy amount of gaming "stuff" by the standards of a non-gamer, but I don't hoard and collect stuff I don't or won't likely use. [/QUOTE]

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