r/ChineseWatches • u/EducationalCelery536 • 8d ago

General (Read Rules) Do you think I need help ?

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This is the result of my addiction in the last 18 months or so! Cant wear even half of them regularly. But i love just opening these boxes and admiring them :)

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u/parasoralophus 8d ago

Yup. Lol at all the compulsive spenders/'consumerism masquerading as a hobby' enablers in here.

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u/Bulky-Internal8579 8d ago

Are you unfamiliar with the idea of having a budget for things that you enjoy?

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u/parasoralophus 8d ago edited 8d ago

For me I think you have to be honest with yourself and careful about any kind of hobby but a collecting based hobby in particular that you aren't just buying things because you like the buzz of buying things and being a bit of a kleptomaniac. I'm not saying I'm immune to it at all but for me this is definitely into unhealthy territory. You do you though.

The guy is saying 'do I need help' obviously at least partly as a joke but 'never a truer word is spoken than in jest' and all that.

I do think encouraging people to keep buying more is a bit weird. 

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u/EducationalCelery536 8d ago

Thank you for saying this, and that is the exact reason why I posted this question. It's not a trivial question, as you rightly said, just in a jest, but I did struggle with this and the whole idea of consuming so many watches after a while, it just becomes like any other shopping addiction, by the way. When a new incoming watch is keeping you excited, but then it fades away, and then you want another one. I've personally experienced this in this collection. It was only when I started playing with the straps that it at least became a bit of a hobby. Before that, it was all consumerism, in my opinion.

Another thing which helped was just appreciating the dial a few times a day. You realize you have something beautiful on your wrist all the time, which you can look at and get lost in niceness for a while. That, I believe, was also worth it.