When you can’t play each one once during a 24 hour period
Quoted from Hayfarmer:When your pin room is full, and you have one in the garage and one in the shop, you know you're at the halfway point
Hahahahaha... Awesome, hahaha. Love this response
When you call me to come pick up the overflow for free!
PS. Did I mention the 3 pins for sale near you???????
You know when it is enough. For me it is when I realize that I am more "hoarding" than collecting. At that point it feels good to sell a few. Then get a few. And the cycle continues.
Quoted from tracelifter:Once you hit 50 games you have to start questioning your sanity.
I sold them all and bought this and restored all the mechanical.
Now I am buying a few more pins.
Pic taken @ Rotary Point, Lake Arrowhead.
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If there’s a hobby more expensive than pins, it’s cars!
I have 28 now and room to expand to 50 pins. You know you have enough when maintaining them all feels less like a hobby and more like a job.
I will let you know when you have enough pins. Keep them rolling in for now.
I have 22 working and 17 projects that need attention.
When you have either expanded your basement outward or literally raised up your home to build another level .
The threads are somewhere on Pinside. I just did not look.
I just started this hobby this year ,bought one in April ,2nd in June,3rd just made deal to purchase in late August ,then I will be broke until spring when I plan on buying 4th and 5th by summer ...then I’m either done or divorced!! I’ll lyk a year from now what happened .
When your on the phone with Steve at Pinball Resource 3 or more times a week. Only to send at least 2 follow up emails to that last order. I have yet to do this but figure it's only in due time.
When you are out of physical space for even one more pin.
Then, without getting rid of any of the ones you have, you figure out how to rearrange everything to put six more in the same space.
You won’t know it on the way up, but at some point you will realize you have too many. Then you can settle into the right number on your way back down.
It's all relative to the individual. Everyone is different, so buy whatever number makes you happy. You do you.
Quoted from chad:When you have either expanded your basement outward or literally raised up your home to build another level .
The threads are somewhere on Pinside. I just did not look.
Hey! It seemed rational at the time. Granted I had the entire expansion filled before they were done excavating the house lol. Still must say in all my years of hobby and marriage that was one of my oddest brainstorm requests to present my wife. All in all we would do it again. Use the space every day.
You have to buy another property on a vacant block to build a shed in order to store all the project machines that you have accumulated over the years.
Plus most will never be fixed to working status as a good portion have been raided for spare parts but you just can't bring yourself to part them out and turf the remainder.
When you find the secret to being content with the collection you have, let me know! No, on second thought, don't!
I had 8 at one point, it was awesome but only played the same few machines after a while. We have people over quite a bit and no one seemed to get into pinball. I sold 4 machines and picked up a Golden Tee/Silver Strike, foosball, 60-1 cocktail arcade and bar dart board. All those non-pinball games are constantly being played, plus we can setup tournaments with them and multiple people can be actively involved. Unfortunately pinball is a very isolating game, even in multiplayer games, you're playing by yourself.
When the sun rises in the West and sets in the East. When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves.
Tim Arnold wrote a piece for the old Pinball Trader - “are you a collector or a hoarder“. “Do you collect because they are collectible, or because they are fun to play?“ it was an eye-opener for me. I had 52. It was time to start selling. Now, I keep about a dozen.
Quoted from pinzrfun:this is like the square root of pi, it can go on ad infinitum........
Pi does that without square rooting it! You're probably thinking of the square root of two, which is also irrational.
When you run out of money, or space!
Quoted from Blakester:These pinball machines sure are fun to collect--but sometimes you reach a point where you can't give them all the time they deserve. Thoughts about when "enough is enough"?
Quoted from DanQverymuch:Pi does that without square rooting it! You're probably thinking of the square root of two, which is also irrational.
i knew it was something like that.....sorry, i was counting my games at the same time. How many are too many?
Quoted from Blakester:Thoughts about when "enough is enough"?
When you start unloading the shitty ones you bought because people on pinside told you they were good.
Quoted from Gorgar666:When you have more nonworking/projects than fully functional....
I like that definition - gives me a little room to get a few more and an incentive to keep what I have running!
When you have 15 in the basement that can only hold 11. 2 in the living room. 2 in the dining room. 6 in the garage. Some at your parents house...........what was the question again?
My household has an agreed upon limit of 7 in the house. So I try to stay around there? Just got back down to seven. At first I didn't like having such a low limit, but after a while I've discovered that one machine never gets played when I am at seven, so it works out surprisingly well. Sit at seven games for a couple of months, then I know what game to sell to fund the next acquisition.
Quoted from Blakester:I actually have IMDN (from MI Pinball Refinery) in my main counseling office.
I have the same sarcophagus that you do
A note on a work bulletin board simply said "sarcophagus for sale" with a phone number... how could I resist callin' right?
Playin' your game would drive me crazy though I must say. Havin' one foot on the rug and the other foot 1/2 on 1/2 off, I would blame every missed shot on that rug. lol
For me, I can fit four pins in my basement. I have nine...scratch that...I just agreed to buy 2 more that are coming this weekend.
Quoted from LTG:When you realize you haven't seen your wife for three or four years.
LTG : )
Wait, so all I have to do is buy more pins for that?? (Says the guy hoping his wife doesn’t read the forum...)
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