The Long & The Short of It ???

[JasonL]

Here's a simple question that might spark some interesting conversation into our collecting habits:

What is the Longest amount of time you have spent trying to collect a portion of your collection? (could be a set, a subset, a team set, player collection, etc)

Conversely, what is the Shortest amount of time you have spent on collecting a portion of your collection? And was it because you gave up, lost interest, or completed it really fast?

My Longest is the Lee and Gene Handley player collections, because the cards are hard to track down. (more than 20 years)

My Shortest was the Walter Payton Basic Topps Player Collection (completed in less than 3 months)