How long do you keep a set??

[vintagebaseballcardguy]

Everyone is different and has different tastes and levels of income they can devote to their collection. My question is do you guys eventually (or quickly too, I guess) sell off sets that you have built or have purchased? I still like what I have, but my interests are also changing (from postwar to prewar) and getting more expensive. In thinking about projects I would like to do, I am going to need $$ and I have limits. Do you guys eventually reach the point to where you feel you've enjoyed whatever it is you have and you're ready to move on to something else, or do you focus on just accumulating and never sell??

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[kailes2872]

Originally Posted by vintagebaseballcardguy

Everyone is different and has different tastes and levels of income they can devote to their collection. My question is do you guys eventually (or quickly too, I guess) sell off sets that you have built or have purchased? I still like what I have, but my interests are also changing (from postwar to prewar) and getting more expensive. In thinking about projects I would like to do, I am going to need $$ and I have limits. Do you guys eventually reach the point to where you feel you've enjoyed whatever it is you have and you're ready to move on to something else, or do you focus on just accumulating and never sell??

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Much to the chagrin of my spouse, I just accumulate. If you are looking to pivot out of post war sets into pre-war, I still need to knock out 52-53 topps 48-52 Bowman as well as some of the smaller sets such as 55 double headers 64 giants etc...

[Sean]

I sell a set when I no longer enjoy owning it.

[Yankees1964]

I too am an accumulator only. I keep saying that my wife and her new boyfriend can buy a really nice house when I am gone

[h2oya311]

complete set say what? What's that?

I only have 19 more Helmar Stamps to go (out of 180), but it'll probably still be another 10 years before I am able to complete the set. If I did finish the set, I will probabbly keep it as it has been a labor of love for me. But ask me again in a few years (after I have completed a set).

[Ronnie73]

It's probably different for everyone. The last "Set" I completed was a 1970-1979 Yankees PSA 8 decade set. I had a lot of fun building it but once that last card showed up, I lost interest in it and it just sat in a few boxes and now I've listed it on ebay to help fund the never ending chase of T206 front/back combo's. For me, the time building a set is most enjoyable. It brings me back to 1985 when I built my first Topps set one wax pack at a time.

[Kenny Cole]

Originally Posted by Sean

I sell a set when I no longer enjoy owning it.

To me, this is now the right answer. I didn't always to feel that way. But I finally realized that if I didn't even care enough anymore to look at a set for several years, it really didn't need to be taking up space in my house and I could go ahead and get rid of it. Fortunately for me, I'm really not focused in collecting sets anymore so with a couple of exceptions for the 1920's Cuban sets, it is mostly a theoretical issue for me.

[Bigdaddy]

No need to respond, but I wonder if folks would answer the same way about their spouse(s) that they do about cards.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by Bigdaddy

No need to respond, but I wonder if folks would answer the same way about their spouse(s) that they do about cards.

If my spouse got more valuable over time...

Just kidding. I've never been married.