Why did you start collecting?

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Okay, I'm on my 3DS right now so my answer probably won't be very good

Spoilered quite a large chunk as I ramble too much

Spoiler!

Ever since I was a little kid, I've always had that collector mentality. An addictive personality.

I've collected Pokemon cards, Pokemon toys, Harry Potter toys, TY Beanie Babies, Me to You bears, pogs, Crazy Bones, Happy Meal toys, Bratz dolls, books, designer handbags/shoes/clothes, makeup, perfume, etc. I don't think there's really a point in my life where I haven't collected something.

Throughout my childhood, I never really had video games. I mean, I had a Gameboy Pocket that my grandparents bought for me (so I could play Pokemon) and an old Sega Master System II that my granda had picked up cheap at a car boot sale.

Eventually, I got a PS1, with a handful of games, and I spent a lot of time on that.

I missed N64s, Gamecubes and many other gens of gaming though. I didn't even have a Gameboy Color.

So after a while, because I didn't ever really have friends nearby (I lived over 20 miles from school), my parents bought me my first PC, and some games for it (The Sims, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, etc), as well as a GBASP.

I still didn't have many games, so eventually got a little bored of gaming.

I preferred to play games whilst at my grans, as my Uncle Jim had a PS2 and a lot more games than me, so I'd spend time before and after school each day playing his PS2 (my gran lived 5 mins from my school, so my parents would drop me off each morning before school and pick me up at night).

In 2005, my Uncle Jim sadly passed away, and I inherited the PS2 and the games. I didn't play them very much after that as I went into a rebellious stage, started drinking with friends, smoking, etc. Being a little dickhead, really.

Eventually I grew out of that, and got back into playing the PS2, and in 2007, for passing my exams, my parents bought me a DS Lite with some games, and my grandparents bought me an Xbox 360 with a handful of games.

This then restarted my love of gaming, and I started to collect standard copy games, although I didn't manage to gain many over the years as I didn't really try hard

Fast forward to 2010, got with Allan, got pregnant, he started to collect CEs (after already collecting normal games, too) and I used to help him look for specific CEs, since I was home all day whilst he was at work (I finished school not long after I got pregnant, not because of that, just because I had finished high school).

Searching for specific CEs all day everyday, understandably, I eventually got interested in them myself, et voila, somewhere between May-June 2011, I started the collect CEs myself, and here we are xx