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I feel like this is one of those posts that should start by me standing up at the front of the room and saying "My name is Jin and I have a problem". To cut right to the chase, the problem is that I've been collecting for way more systems than I can realistically afford to collect for; so I'm looking for advice on how to to reduce the number of systems I own and collect for without feeling like I've lost something precious in the process. I've tried a few times in the the past to whittle down the number of systems I collect for and was unsuccessful at doing so, mainly because I had some silly attachment of one kind or another to whatever system and it's corresponding game library that I was thinking about excising from my collection; so I could really use some advice from other collectors about how to moderate and focus my collecting down to just a couple systems. For many people I imagine that collecting for several different systems wouldn't be a problem, but as someone who lives on a fixed income (and will be for the foreseeable future due to medical circumstances preventing me from working) I'm finding that there's just never enough money to go around for me to able to afford to collect for more than a couple systems. At this point I've been actively collecting for the Atari 2600, NES, Sega Genesis, PS1 (to a lesser extent, since the PS1 is pretty much my wife's system), GameCube, Game Boy / Color, and Game Boy Advance. I've been continually finding myself feeling really frustrated with collecting because it seems like there's always so many games and peripherals I'd like to pick up for all of those systems, and every month I'm faced with the nail bitingly difficult task of deciding which system to spend the small amount of discretionary income I have on. That frustration and indecision has really taken a lot of the enjoyment out of collecting for me, so I feel like it's time to narrow my game collecting focus a bit. Of those systems the only one I can safely say that I'll never sell a single game or accessory for is the Atari 2600, and I wouldn't dare touch the PS1 library since at least 80% of it is my wife's, but I'd really like to find a way to whittle down the rest so I can focus my collecting efforts on the Atari 2600 and one or two other systems. Any suggestions for how choose? Every system I'm currently collecting for has played a significant role in my life at one point or another, and they all feel special to me in their own way, so I could really use some insight on how to let go of some of them without feeling bad about it. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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