Collectors' Disease ....

I think I have it ....
Do you?
Can it ever be cured?
WTHeck I enjoy having this disease

It's incurable - but you can take a "harm minimisation" approach - only paying cash for example or narrowing down what you collect - I stopped collecting Crown Lynn years ago and have shed most of what I had collection so am now down to thirty or so pieces - although I can't pass up a bargain - I bought four blue colour glaze c&s's this week for $6 so that's not really collecting lik an actual addict - I'm more a social collector

Well I went opshopping yesterday with one thing in mind .... to find the last two patterns to make the Patterns Database up to 2000. I went to a few dark, pokey little places that I don't go to often and there they were .... all pristine and perfect - cups and saucers and plates, all asking me to take them home like little lost puppies! For goodness sake!..... I tried to shush them, but they were very much in my face....'Take me!' 'No take me, I don't belong in this musty place!' I only took the patterns that we didn't have and had to leave the other lovelies behind .... it just breaks my heart I wanted to rescue them all .............

You must have better opshops than we do out west!

Hi all, I just saw this thread and had to make a comment or two. Just a couple of days ago I took some stuff to the recycling place...... as usual found some pieces just begging to be taken home. (Hubbies usual comment, what did you bring home THIS time?) Well, it was a dinner plate, lovely backstamp saying Gold Line British, plate still has most of the gold, I couldn't possibly leave it there! Plus a temuka pet dish, (yes, even the animals have to eat off NZ pottery!!!
Trouble is, how does one resist the urge to rescue all old Crown Lynn and other NZ pottery? When I remember (back in the eighties) that I foolishly thought I would try to get at least one of every example of Crown Lynn, and then Temuka pottery. What a laugh! It would take a decent sized museum to house it all. So I try to stick to just a few styles, but......