[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by BagJo

You're not alone. There's a very fine line with this stuff, and it can get out of hand easily. I've definitely bought figures I don't care that much about just to have a "complete set" and I've bought 2nd versions of figures (hell, I have Final Form Ride, Figuarts, Figuarts Renewal and RKF versions of Decade).

It's good to set boundaries for yourself.

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Originally Posted by AkibaSilver

Nah, I feel that. I went pretty big into the SODO Build stuff because I loved so many of the designs, and it was easiest to track down sets than just the ones I really wanted. While I don't exactly regret it, it's certainly made me reconsider buying things I otherwise would have (the Den-O figures, for example) just in case I'd rather get something else, plus I feel bad about trying new things in case it leads to me wanting to go full completionist again.

There's a lot of weird stress in collecting, it turns out.

Yeah, it... I'm trying to get better, mental health-wise, at that weird collecting psychology. I don't adhere to it as much as I'd like, but I try to remind myself, "Your collection is the things you collected. It's not the things you haven't collected." Like, having Figuarts of OOO, Gaim, Drive, Ghost and Ex-Aid doesn't mean I'm missing 15 of the Heisei Riders, it means I've collected 5. It's okay to have five! (I almost typed "just have five", but, like, that's problematic phrasing! That's definitely the kind of default evaluating I'd like to avoid!)