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Pack most of the collection away in an attic or basement for a while to get it out of sight and give myself a break
11 (12.4%)
Remodel or rearrange my home to make more storage space for the collection.
12 (13.5%)
Buy some containers and start a major re-orginization project.
23 (25.8%)
Sell some playmobil items that I don't need as much to make room for more.
17 (19.1%)
Stop buying for a while until the mood strikes me again.
16 (18%)
Keep right on buying and don't worry about the mess.
6 (6.7%)
Stop collecting altogether and sell the whole collection
0 (0%)
Buy a bigger house.
4 (4.5%)

Total Members Voted: 38

Author Topic: How do you handle a playmobil crisis?  (Read 8674 times)

Offline bonniebeth

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Re: How do you handle a playmobil crisis?
« Reply #20 on: September 30, 2012, 12:06:57 »
Wow Daniela, sounds like you do have quite a situation on your hands. That's the point I hope I never reach, where there just is NO solution to the problem anymore and I end up hating my beloved toys. I'm shooting for the goal of keeping my purchases low enough that I don't anytime soon have more playmobil than can be enjoyed in one large bedroom. If I get past that point, I think I will start feeling choked. So I'm making some difficult choices right now, about themes I am not going to collect anymore, or not going to start on. It's really not easy, though. I love almost everything playmobil produces. And my real problem is, I don't have one large bedroom for my playmobil yet. :lol: So I have some displayed in our bedroom, and I have a closet devoted to storing it, but the collection has already outgrown the closet.

Anyhow Daniela, I think you are probably doing the best thing, just taking a break for a while. One day the mood will probably strike you once again to start organizing and enjoying your wonderful collection again!

Well the thing is, buying new playmobil is not needed to keep enjoying playmobil. Can always focus more on what you have and work with that for a while.  :)


Yes, and sometimes you must do that for a while. But in general a minimalist approach may work for what you like to do with your playmobil, making stories and all, but it doesn't apply to everyone depending on their purpose in collecting. For me, what I love to do with playmobil is build dioramas, as realistic as possible. That's what I really get pleasure from and is the whole reason I started collecting. My main theme is the zoo of course, and I'm sorry but it wouldn't be much of a zoo with only five or six species of animals. So to make it worth having any of it in the first place, takes a lot of animals, lots of fencing, scenery, plants, zookeepers, visitors, etc. To me if I don't make a realistic zoo, I might as well not even make one. So having just a few klickys and a couple of buildings, isn't going to work for me.
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Re: How do you handle a playmobil crisis?
« Reply #21 on: September 30, 2012, 14:15:17 »
Actually, please post them. I find it hard to believe there's a bigger mess than mine...  :-[

Okay, you  wanted it! I would suggest, to sit down first, to be safe!  ;D

Here you go!

And believe me, it´s only a PART of the mess!!!  :'(

I should have never start a new system of organizing my collection. Should have kept it the way it is.
Nevertheless, I don´t loose hope, because I am really good in sorting. So I will end this someday, at the one way or the other.  :lol:

But I need room for breathing first!

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Re: How do you handle a playmobil crisis?
« Reply #22 on: September 30, 2012, 14:19:11 »
Watching the pictures, I feel really ashamed. :-[

Please believe me, that´s NOT my normal way of living!!!

I HATE situations like that!!!
But when you started it, you also have to end it.
And in the middle of the way, sometimes desperation is overwhelming.   :(

Daniela
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Re: How do you handle a playmobil crisis?
« Reply #23 on: September 30, 2012, 14:20:47 »
halleluja!!
That is some playmobil :o
Hope you will get it all organised! I allready have some problems with that, and I have your collection : 1000!
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Re: How do you handle a playmobil crisis?
« Reply #24 on: September 30, 2012, 14:57:22 »
Watching the pictures, I feel really ashamed. :-[

Please believe me, that´s NOT my normal way of living!!!

I HATE situations like that!!!
But when you started it, you also have to end it.
And in the middle of the way, sometimes desperation is overwhelming.   :(

Daniela

It looks fairly well organized to me.  :yup:  (Reminds me of my pit.)  :lol:  I'll bet you can put your hands on anything you need though, am I right?
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Re: How do you handle a playmobil crisis?
« Reply #25 on: September 30, 2012, 15:50:41 »
I agree that I one point we will all feel over whealmed or 'go off' collecting. 

I voted for reorganisation (I love organising  :eh?:), selling some sets (I sell off a few sets each year that I don't really like or need) and stop buying for a while-I find taking breaks from eBay quite relaxing.  It gives me time to enjoy what I have and I'm not tempted to spend more money on even more sets. 

This time next year however, I'll be going to university and I have decided to pack up my collection and it probably won't be unpacked again for quite a number of years.  My collection has been taking up a whole room in our house for too long now and its only fair for it to be used for something else.  I'm hoping that when it is unpacked maybe when I'm in my own house (  8}  ) I'll appreciate it even more after the period of absence. 

Don't let your collection weigh you down, it's meant to be something you enjoy.   ;)  Just don't do anything you'll regret in the future. 

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Re: How do you handle a playmobil crisis?
« Reply #26 on: September 30, 2012, 16:04:57 »
I voted reorganisation, stop buying and selling some, too. It hasn't come as far as a real crisis yet, but since I don't have a house myself it is hard to just keep the playmobil in the limited space I have (one rather small closet, a few boxes in the salvage and under my bed), especially now I need some (or pretty much lots of) extra stuff so I can finally set up my zoo.  :-\

It would be great to have a whole room or attic just for playmobil, it would make things so much easier...
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Re: How do you handle a playmobil crisis?
« Reply #27 on: September 30, 2012, 16:09:18 »
I can't add very much to this conversation, as my collection fits into four small containers. This is probably because I have mostly figures and not many big set pieces. I do find that organising them into containers is very helpful, especially to avoid dust accumulation. As for the boxes, I fit smaller ones inside of the bigger ones, so they don't take up all that much room either.

I hope that you are all able to find solutions. :)
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Re: How do you handle a playmobil crisis?
« Reply #28 on: September 30, 2012, 16:41:47 »
Dearest Daniela, it is always the darkest before the dawn. You have taken on a big project, and at that midpoint where everything is all out in a mess before you can get it all put away again. One day soon it will look like the Deko department at Playmobil. :)  Take a break, make a fun little project. Perhaps it's time to create a new stage set for an opera? Cover some of the piles with sheets, so they look like just one big thing instead of lots of little things, then work on just a small part at a time. Tell your husband it's time to take you on a vacation :)

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Re: How do you handle a playmobil crisis?
« Reply #29 on: September 30, 2012, 18:12:21 »
Okay, you  wanted it! I would suggest, to sit down first, to be safe!  ;D

Here you go!

And believe me, it´s only a PART of the mess!!!  :'(

You think THAT's bad? Did you see this: The PROCESS

One example:



And as in your case this is part of the mess in one of the rooms! I just look at it all and have NO IDEA what to do.  :-[