I wish it worked like that for me. When I got married, I only had a guitar and a mandolin; I didn't even play the uke. My collection's gotten a little out of hand, and they started putting their foot down, but too late! Problem is, I like low G and high. On all sizes. And with different wood variations. Also thin lines and travel ukes. Throw in a kiku/guilele, a banjo, and some more guitars. I literally don't know how many I have. I mean, it's just a fraction of some of the big hitters on here, but still more than I like. I have some on the cutting block, but I sort of got burnt out on selling stuff in other hobbies, and I dread it now. Unfortunately, my wishlist seems longer than my offload list.
I know your situation because I was in it a while back with guns. At first, it was just 2 pistols, a center fire pistol for self defense and a 22 for plinking. After a few years, I attended a local steel challenge event; liked the game and got a steel gun. From steel challenge, I went to IPSC action pistol and got a decent limited major gun to improve my rankings, then an open gun. Next, came IDPA and a decent SSP gun, then a decent ESP gun; and, finally, a revolver. Next, I decided to play NRA high power rifle and got an nice AR15; with the AR15, I decided to play 2 gun action event and decided to get a more action oriented AR15. Next come 3 gun events and got myself a defensive shotgun. At this time, my gun safe was too small so I bought a new safe that's much bigger than the old one. Then it was NRA smallbore pistol silhouette fun, which, of course, lead to a couple of single-shot pistols. Pistol silhouette lead to smallbore rifle silhouette, and I got a couple rifles suitable for the game. This game also taught me how important a decent scope can do, but we won't go down that rabbit hole. Next came NRA bullseye pistol, and 2 accurate center fires and a 22 that I didn't even know can cost that much. Terrible me, I moved and the nearest range was shotgun oriented and that got me into trap shooting, so I got involved with ATA and bought some expensive guns (before this, none of my guns were more than $2k by themselves). After trap came skeet, 5 stand, sporting clays, and more expensive shotguns. 5 years after that fateful steel challenge day, I don't even know how many guns I owned, but I do know that I have 3 safes, each one much bigger than the previous. Fortunately, that's also went I kind of stopped shooting because I moved to a gun-unfriendly state.
I've been selling guns for the past 15+ years; haven't bought any. Some of my guns are more specialized and hard to sell, so sometimes I get discouraged selling them. Just a few months ago, after a few years "forgetting" that I even owned guns, I decided to list some for sell again and was able to get rid of 4 of them (3 shotguns and 1 AR15). I still own too many, but at least I'm down to 1 safe now after the last transaction.
Although I only have 5 ukes, I really just want 1 uke. But I'm having trouble selling the the extras (like the guns and camera lenses and so many other hobbies of mine) at the prices I want. So, like the guns, I've become discouraged in selling them. And like the guns, I sometimes forget that I own them.
Thanks to your post, I've been checking out some of these forgotten stuff. And, with lenses, that naturally lead to snapping a photo -
