A completed collection is.....

When would you call a collection completed? Filled all the holes, all the upgrades you could afford/find, what? At what point would you say that your collection of (blank) series is done?
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These answers range from until I am satisfied all the way to until I have the best existing set.
Collecting should be about what makes one happy, not what shows how much money one has.
bob
A completed collection is.....
For me it does not exist !!
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<< <i>The ackomplishment of ones goals, nothing more. Don't let other people define what a set is to you. >>
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<< <i>The ackomplishment of ones goals, nothing more. Don't let other people define what a set is to you. >>
This
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<< <i>The ackomplishment of ones goals, nothing more. Don't let other people define what a set is to you. >>
I agree with this...(except for the spelling)....Cheers RickO
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<< <i>The ackomplishment of ones goals, nothing more. Don't let other people define what a set is to you. >>
I agree with this...(except for the spelling)....Cheers RickO >>
Yikes that is a stupid mistake
btw I still have the Ikes. I looked at again recently. I must have had a good eye 20 years ago. They all look 66!
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<< <i>impossible for me......
bob
Pretty much for me too. I only completed one set in my life - a 4 coin unc mint set of 1858-0 silver coins. And it technically wasn't complete as I really wanted to make it a gem set and 2 of the coins I couldn't find for years and gave up. Any set I tried to complete always came down to running out of money. My tastes for quality always out ran the "set." So I ended up just buying coins I liked, in areas that I like. I do have a complete drum "set" though...completed over 30 years ago. Never once got the urge to "upgrade."
<< <i>A completed collection is..... very anticlimactic! >>
Yeah, I once watched a guy come into a BM shop to pick up the Lincoln 1909s-vdb he had apparently been making payments on....and finally paid off. It was the last coin for his collection of Lincoln cents. He sat there looking at it like his mother had died! "Wonder what I should collect now?"
Probably better if you never really "complete" a set....Just eventually tire of it, and move on.
Oh, I feel like I get close to something and just never manage to finish because it either gets sold, or it needs upgrading, or I am not focused enough on ONE series. I think that's what keeps me motivated to do this every day.
Currently looking for national park quarters that I swore I would never complete or even attempt to collect.
As you approach it, you realize it's not quite "done"
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Trade fodder for my next collection.
There's always something else to buy!
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It apparently has caused a borderline mental meltdown
seem to have transcended into some sort of vegetative state of depression.
For reasons unknown to me I am now compelled to get back to completing the design for my perpetual motion machine which is finally after a few decades
very close to completion.
Or then again maybe I'll just take a nap with the hope that things might get better when I wake up.
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There's no end to the madness!
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<< <i>When you've amassed all the coins you planned to, and are not doing any upgrades
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A completed collection is something only your wife dreams about.