What Makes People Collect Things?

I wasn't into collecting, until I got a really cool list comprehension macro at someone's garage sale. Now stuff is just piling up around me.

100% guilty of this...<p>I had 1 - and I was happy. It was nice. It was my favorite thing.<p>Then I got a 2nd one. Suddenly, I needed more. I needed them all. It felt like Pokemon.<p>Now I have over 160 of them. Oh god help me...<p>Knowing not to own 2 of things to avoid collecting more things is nice. It&#x27;s strange that it seems to only require 2 of some &#x27;thing&#x27; to create an urge for a collection. I&#x27;ll need to start throwing more things out. Pick my favorite of the two and give the other away.

I saw an episode of Horders on T.V.. The psychologist and team went to this older gentleman&#x27;s home and talked him into throwing away his book collection. He mentioned a lot of the books were 1st editions. Know one payed attention to the &quot;crazy&quot; old man.<p>At the end of the show, one of the hosts was surprised all the books were taken out dumptster by some other crazy Horder.

Another psychological bias exploitable by Free To Play games?<p>As an added bonus, if items A..E can be randomly obtained on equal probability, getting the last item is harder then instinct suggest. Thus, &quot;Complete Gacha&quot; lead to 1k $ spends.

I collect things. I regard it as a mental OCD defect and try hard not to add to them. Sometimes I have been able to dispose of one or another collection, and have never regretted it.

For anyone thinking of starting a collection, I suggest not picking heavy ones.<p>I collect heavy, hard to move things like cars and pinball machines, and my life would be a lot simpler if it was stamps.

Explains my Amiibo addiction.

Does this work for spouses?

&gt;April 1, 2015

&quot;People are more likely to build a collection of something once they possess two of them.&quot;<p>Really? Did they spend a lot of time studying that?