Fascinating (to me anyways) how my collection size and collecting scope is tied to life events. I've been migrating over to collectorz and one of the graphs they provide for statistics is collection size by year. When looking at the spikes and drops of my collecting over the past nearly 50 years, you can plot a direct correlation to life changes and events.
Start of collecting
High school begins. (Girls, , and a bit too much )
College, the guy upstairs inroduces me to the George Perez run of New Teen Titans and I'm back in! (Aside: he is now the owner of my LCS).
I clearly have no self control.
Life choice. Pay rent or continue to collect.
I picked up a collection of 3 long boxes with a lot of books from 91 - 94 but it included a Hulk 181, ASM 300 and a X-menn 94.
Back in and I clearly still have no self-control.
Reeling it back in a bit. Career change limits budget.
I join the CGC boards. All bets are off
Daughter in college. I continued to buy some moderns but about half of my normal, I also purchased no back issues from 2015 - 2019.
Covid, lack of publication in 2020 can be tied to the lower number here.