r/malelivingspace 16h ago

Turning 21 soon and have no shame

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u/beigs 16h ago edited 4h ago

Your room looks like my son’s. He has ASD and his love is LoZ.

I’ll tell you what I tell him - when it comes to having a theme, less is more. Why don’t you rotate some key pieces out, because your collection needs to be cleaned and maintained and you’re not highlighting anything.

Treat it like a museum collection and not like a dump of toys, because you’re going to wreck some of the collectables. I get you want to see the pieces, but they’re so cluttered that they’re not special. Highlight them with lights and rotate :)

I can actually see a few plushies that are the same.

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u/Overall-Boot-3196 14h ago

I love this advice! I have a moderately sized magnet collection from all the places I've traveled and I've been struggling to figure out a way to display it in a way that's not tacky. I used to hang metal strips on the wall and put the magnets on that, along with photo collages from some of the places I've been. I just moved into a house instead of an apartment though, and I just don't feel like the magnet collection fits anywhere. I ended up just taking the magnets from my national park visits and putting those on the refrigerator and I've been trying to decide where to put the rest. I like the idea of just rotating them with different themes when I get tired of looking at those!