Vent: a guy at my LCS in Akron said collecting is "just shopping" and now I can't stop thinking about it
I was flipping through the dollar bins at my local shop in Akron last Friday and some guy next to me said to his buddy that modern collecting is "just shopping with extra steps." I laughed at first, but then I started thinking about my pull list, which is 14 titles right now, and how I barely reread any of them. I have long boxes from 2019 I have not touched since I bagged them, and I still get defensive when people say that stuff. The part that bugs me is he was kind of right, at least about how I was doing it. I want to actually read my stuff again instead of chasing variant covers every Wednesday. How do you all keep your pull list from turning into a hoarding habit?