I think that any hobby that involves some sort of need for a set of physical items immediately results in some collector mentality. Sports cards, beanie babies, my girlfriend's purse addiction, etc. I kind of look at it like the Autism Spectrum, it varies from healthy to unfortunately weird. I think that at the end of the day if you have a credit card with $000s on it and you haven't utilized your hobby's item in several weeks, you are a "Collectard."
However, after I read the latest 4 pages of this thread, I really want to know just how big is tggodrey's gas tank? $120 to fill up is absurd. Jet fuel?
The money one pays doesn't mean much in my book only because whats expensive today may be cheap tomorrow depending on the economic average income. Just 15 years ago 30.00 filled up your gas tank, today it gets you a 1/4 tank of gas. Sure none of us wants to see the inflation of prices but what someone is willing to pay doesn't make them a collectard. This is excluding the concept of using prices to inflate value ect.
