Whenever I see posts about how much they spend on this shit I just think about the time value of money and compound interest. I know it's a boomerish sentiment. But I always wonder if these people have any retirement savings. Or do they just have an eternal child mentality and think they'll never grow up? Mom and Dad will take care of them? The government? I genuinely don't understand this sort of behavior.
It's a mystery. If you have any emergency, liquidating cubic yards of expensive secondhand junk will be an albatross around your neck while you're already in crisis. The haul people who buy junk every week give me existential anxiety. None of us are immortal. Older generations were able to retire with savings because most of them didn't regularly buy knickknacks and media. Even $25 wasted every week is $1,300 at the end of a year.
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To be fair, A lot of libraries don't even accept book donations nowadays
I tried giving mine some like-new stuff from my childhood and teenweeb phase recently. They only put FMA and some of the Warrior Cats into circulation lol, you know the TRULY TIMELESS classics. My public library is basically a daycare for the homeless, any families that come in get some books and immediately leave after a few minutes. It's really depressing tbh, when I was growing up they had a lot of hands on activity centers and displays for kids.
Look I get liking manga. I bought a small three layer shelf from Walmart for my collection of shit that I REGULARLY collect and read. If I stop reading it, fall out of love, etc, there's a store in my area that buys manga so I can keep said shelf clear. This is ridiculous. The floor has been color coded, the box sets on top neatly arranged- this is a fucking project that will never get finished.
Which games?
Funny you should mention Night Court....
This is why I never even think to waste time donating books. Even if I don't read a book again in its totality, I can at least have it on hand to read portions of it if I remember something I read in it and want a refresher. I might as well keep books that I only plan to read portions of instead of having it literally end up in the trash because a library needed to make space.
I like manga but the amount of shelf space and money is pretty insane for hardcopies. A small novel series of 3 or so regular books probably won't cost more than $50 brand new and you can put at least 15 more books on the same shelf. A manga series of around 15 volumes would probably take up around half a shelf for me and one volume is around $15-20 in the stores around my area. For me that's a nightmare to the point where while I much prefer physical books as that equates to less screen time I just buy them online for less than half the price and never have to worry about ridiculous shelf real-estate again.
Most public libraries won't take book donations. Would take far too much time processing them and infrastructure. Library problems aren't funding for books, it's being defacto front line social workers/daycare for the homeless.
Well, I she hasn't dropped off the box of NES and SNES carts yet, but for some reason Faxanadu was mixed with the PlayStation stuff. I have Suikoden I and II which gives me the biggest stomach ache because supposedly it's worth so much, but when you look online plenty are going for cheap.
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I'll play Devil's advocate and argue at least some of these people understand perfectly well how they will never be able to retire comfortably, since they didn't get in on the ponzi scheme as early as the older generations and money was also worth a lot more back then, so they may as well not have savings that are only going to decrease in value. If their parents leave them a house, that's realistically the only house they'll be able to have, regardless of what else they do, so why bother working in a vain attempt to get ahead a little?
10k spent in a year and a half is absolutely absurd. I will never understand people who treat collecting like its a speed run. To me a collection should grow slowly and have a personal meaning, like a garden.
Yeah, thats the idea. Books proudly displayed on your shelf should act like a stamp of approval, why waste shelf space on something you don't care about? I got into manga a few years ago and had to settle on building a digital library due to space and budget. But there are a few series I really enjoyed that I would like a physical set so I can share with friends.
Exactly my point. I'm not putting a series that I barely read or got bored of on my shelf. You don't get 10k of manga on a shelf if some of that doesn't interest you anymore. Heck most of what I've read is still digital and hasn't been printed yet. I choose to buy a series if I respect it. If anything this horde shows a lack of respect.