The stress of collecting… it’s real

Haha tell me about it. I waited 5 months for the items I purchased from the recent Vornholz Kavellerie Museum auction at Hermann Historica!

Have plenty of horror stories of items lost but then found weeks later including one $25,000 SS helmet from Belgium that was saved only because of my relationship with our DHL driver at my business.

Long story so I won’t get into it but after this recent stress combined with the disappointment of receiving a couple items from a well known and respected auction house with an equally well known catalogue that were not as described and condition hidden with creative photo editing and yet another item with a detached visor again not described or mentioned I decided to take a break for a while. I do not need the stress.

That is until the next “must have” item appears…..lol
 
J.LeBrasseur said:
happens to all of us, many horror stories in shipping over the years.

Just purchased an awesome Damascus sword 2 weeks ago, shipped from Missouri to Minnesota, not that far two states up, still not here and tracking never changes, just in transit, yes I am nervous, but the chase continues.
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Good luck!
 
Great article. I think most of us have experience with what you wrote about. For me at least, the collecting gene was in my DNA from birth, so I can blame my father's side of the family.

Overall, it is still a highly rewarding way to learn and meet great people too!
 
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Hoarding stress is a dangerous virus; once you catch it, it's too late. Doctors and specialists can't save you anymore; sometimes your partner senses it, so you just have to learn to live with it. Every online purchase causes the necessary stress, and then you open the box and look inside, and voila. Sometimes the seller hasn't told you everything, and then you're left empty-handed—that causes stress too. And when a package is never found, or you pay and suddenly everything is gone—I've been through it all, and yet every day I sit behind that stupid PC searching for that happiness = stress.
 
I just received a US delivered package from Canada that I feared would wind up in customs due to recent tariffs and taxation changes. I pondered buying a Weimar Republic Mountain Troop cap for over a year and finally bit the bullet and made a reasonable offer that was finally accepted, so lots of time to build up stress. Of course tracking stops at the border switching postal systems, so more stress is added. Everything worked out in the end and my now un-tracked cap showed up laying on my front porch. All was well in the end but my Prussian Police cap was worth the wait and stress I suppose.
 
Jeff R said:
Great article Peter...I can totally relate. My poor wife has pointed out more than once that maybe online tracking info does more harm than good (to me), especially when I obsess over a mysterious lack of movement here or there.
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We all do!
 
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