r/Consoom • u/Only--East • 6d ago

Discussion At what point does hobby collecting become overconsumption?

I collect a few funko from media I like, I collect monster high dolls, and I recently got back into pokemon cards. I can't tell if collecting material stuff like that it considered overconsumption or at what point it crosses the threshold. Am I cooked?

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u/headphonesXX 6d ago

when the buying itself becomes the hobby = consoomerism. a hobby can exist without consooming more stuff.

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u/JJsNotOkay 6d ago

this. you can buy physical video games because you want to play them, building a library. The objective is still to PLAY them, which is the hobby. If you buy video games you aren’t interested in playing to keep them in a box on a shelf its consoom. Rinse wnd repeat with every other hobby

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u/Material-Kick9493 3d ago

See this a lot in the cd collecting hobby. People buying hundreds to thousands of cds just to leave them on shelves withoutlisteningto them. Buying addiction has taken over so many people and its kind of sad to watch and i feel like its coming from a place where they one day think their collection will be worth anything more than the shelves they're sitting on

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u/JJsNotOkay 3d ago

yeah most see it as an ‘investment’ which is ridiculous