You return home one evening from a nice dinner out with someone in your life and you see the flashing lights. Fire trucks are entering in your neighborhood and you can see thick black smoke billowing above. Happiness turns to anxiety as you follow. Anxiety turns to fear as you grow near your place. Fear turns to sickness as you see the fire is at your house!
In the end, it's a total loss. Nobody is hurt, but you now have to start picking up the pieces. Your house is badly damaged, but fixable. The battles start with your insurance company. You begin to sort everything out and find that among your beloved possessions that were damaged or destroyed by the fire includes your cards and memorabilia. The room you were storing these items in was a total loss and nothing remains.
I'm sure this will differ from person to person an collection to collection. Some may not even be able to answer the question unless they were actually faced with the decision as it's likely hard to speculate on something like this. Do you begin to rebuild the collection once the important issues are dealt with or do you pack it in and find something new to fill your free time?
I know given the type of items in my collection, much of it could be replaced eventually, but there is enough that would either be very difficult and time consuming to find again, is unique/one of a kind or would be much more expensive than it originally cost that I couldn't afford to replace it. I'm pretty sure I would be involuntarily done with this hobby, as I don't see me taking a different direction and starting over at scratch would be too painful and expensive of a task (unless everything was insured for a fair market value).
In the end, it's a total loss. Nobody is hurt, but you now have to start picking up the pieces. Your house is badly damaged, but fixable. The battles start with your insurance company. You begin to sort everything out and find that among your beloved possessions that were damaged or destroyed by the fire includes your cards and memorabilia. The room you were storing these items in was a total loss and nothing remains.
I'm sure this will differ from person to person an collection to collection. Some may not even be able to answer the question unless they were actually faced with the decision as it's likely hard to speculate on something like this. Do you begin to rebuild the collection once the important issues are dealt with or do you pack it in and find something new to fill your free time?
I know given the type of items in my collection, much of it could be replaced eventually, but there is enough that would either be very difficult and time consuming to find again, is unique/one of a kind or would be much more expensive than it originally cost that I couldn't afford to replace it. I'm pretty sure I would be involuntarily done with this hobby, as I don't see me taking a different direction and starting over at scratch would be too painful and expensive of a task (unless everything was insured for a fair market value).
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