Posted By:
Jason Lmaybe not!
Is it still fun?
were you going to keep the set once completed? (if so, then taking a break and coming back to it later on might be an option)
If you are in a price spike, and it's no longer fun, and you could see yourself selling it later on anyway, then definitely SELL them!!! just come back when the dust settles.
I have run into similar problems with my collecting tobacco Cubs cards. (lots of team sets started, and it's getting costlier)
for instance, I had no idea when I started the T207s, how ridiculously out of my budget the Ward Miller would be. I don't think I will complete that one, but now I am stuck with some otherwise cool cards.
as a result I am becoming less enamored with some of them. I am not generally a set collector because of lack of patience, and I hate buying cards I don't otherwise like, except to fill a set. For me, it can become drudgery. That was why I saved the HOFers for last (so that my early newcomer excitement was spent on the commons).
Of course, the problem I have backed myself into is that I now need all the expensive cards to finish the team sets, and the pace is depressing, regardless of how cool it is to be only buying HOFers.
Good luck whichever you choose.
Have you got the collection on display somewhere?