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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 8942095" data-attributes="member: 6796661">Years of frequent moving, I thought, rid me of my hoarding inclinations. But now that I've had the family&nbsp; in one house for over 10 years (though I still travel a lot for work), I slipped back into my bad habits. It is hard to know what the proper balance is. With board games, I've gotten pretty ruthless. If I have not played a game for a while, or don't love playing, it gets donated to my local FLGS's game library. The only exception are games with some special sentimental value or games that have a cool or interesting factor that I can enjoy having around even if I don't play them. That is rarer for board games than TTRPG books.I somewhat regret getting rid of all my 1e stuff decades ago, which makes me a bit clingy with my TTRPG books. But I try to balance this by only buying, or backing Kickstarters for, books that are &quot;special&quot; in some way. Books I really enjoy having on the shelf, and that I keep going back to. Generally, I buy most of my stuff in digital format.Since moving to VTT, I've stopped buying miniatures and terrain. When I got back into the hobby in 2014, I spend a lot of money buying heaps of minis and terrain and have boxes of stuff I've never used and barely unpacked. I'd be happy to just give them to my one son who is in the hobby, but they just don't bother with terrain or even VTTs when they play. If I had to move to a smaller place, I could part with my minis and terrain pretty easily, but for now I'm basically holding on to them as something to enjoy when I retire.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 8942095, member: 6796661"] Years of frequent moving, I thought, rid me of my hoarding inclinations. But now that I've had the family in one house for over 10 years (though I still travel a lot for work), I slipped back into my bad habits. It is hard to know what the proper balance is. With board games, I've gotten pretty ruthless. If I have not played a game for a while, or don't love playing, it gets donated to my local FLGS's game library. The only exception are games with some special sentimental value or games that have a cool or interesting factor that I can enjoy having around even if I don't play them. That is rarer for board games than TTRPG books. I somewhat regret getting rid of all my 1e stuff decades ago, which makes me a bit clingy with my TTRPG books. But I try to balance this by only buying, or backing Kickstarters for, books that are "special" in some way. Books I really enjoy having on the shelf, and that I keep going back to. Generally, I buy most of my stuff in digital format. Since moving to VTT, I've stopped buying miniatures and terrain. When I got back into the hobby in 2014, I spend a lot of money buying heaps of minis and terrain and have boxes of stuff I've never used and barely unpacked. I'd be happy to just give them to my one son who is in the hobby, but they just don't bother with terrain or even VTTs when they play. If I had to move to a smaller place, I could part with my minis and terrain pretty easily, but for now I'm basically holding on to them as something to enjoy when I retire. [/QUOTE]

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