i can just about get on board with this @Glenacius_K… i’m pretty particular, and know what i like… i’m regularly picking up
things, refining… but i’m pretty pared down right now in a sense, and have a real hard time letting something(s) go to pick something up - which is what i try to maintain right now
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Yeah, I like all of my yoyos!
…except that one. It’s not green. 
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I feel the same. The Shutter WA was my only yoyo I very happily traded away last spring. To me that thing was like an action figure missing a head, leg, and an arm.
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USPS seems to me to have an overly convoluted routing map, particularly in large cities. Packages have quite the gauntlet of “facilities” to run before reaching their destinations. For instance, I am in Los Angeles, and here are the locations a recent package has so far visited on its way to me:
- Los Angeles Regional Facility Network Distribution
- Los Angeles Regional Facility Distribution Center
- Los Angeles Facility
- Los Angeles Post Office
Moreover, a package can spend any number of days in each one of these locations before ever making it onto a mail truck. And then even when it is ostensibly “Out for Delivery” it can still take an extra day or two depending on how many parcels each overworked mail carrier has on their manifest.
Not that FedEx is always better about this than the USPS. I’ve had packages sit in a FedEx depot in the middle of the country for nearly a week before ever taking another step closer to me.
I’m not really complaining, mind you; mostly just making curious observations. I understand the incredible strain our letter/parcel delivery infrastructure is under even when not further challenged by a global pandemic. This is just another reminder that there are simply too many of us all competing for the same scant resources.
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On the up side every delivery is like a surprise lately. Is it the yoyo I ordered last week? Jewelry for my fiance? SURPRISE! It’s the head phones I almost forgot I ordered almost 4 weeks ago!
I don’t trust FedEx orders here in Van Nuys though, I noticed once I was outside the guy was jumping out the truck with the door tag not even pretending to try, running up to the door to slap the door tag on and takes off, and they did that to the entire block.
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I ordered some stuff from YYE a few weeks ago. It hasn’t moved a mm through the US postal service yet.
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Does anyone feel like they have too many yoyos? I’ve been into modern yoyoing for the past 15 years and have collected about 50 or so Yoyos in that time that I felt were worth keeping. Seems crazy that I have this many Yoyos and only two hands. They are pretty split between modern responsive, mono metal, bi metal, 3a sets, 2a sets, 4a yoyos, and wood fixies. I try not to have doubles of anything other than my big kahunas but it still feels like this is a lot of throws. Does anyone else ever get this feeling when they look at their yoyos?
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Yes.
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Isn’t this the way it goes for most hobbies? In knitting I understand that there is the idea of SABLE: Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.
Enjoy what you have, and if it’s too many, sell or give some away! Life is too short to self-flagellate over your yoyo stash 
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I am pretty happy with my substantial but not excessive wooden fixie collection, only 1 full 2A set, no 3A setup yet (tbh the style is just too overwhelming), 1 4A yoyo, and 2 dedicated 5As. But 1A, yea. I definitely have a couple of 1A yoyos that I haven’t used since my honeymoon with them, but when I look at my collection of ~50, I appreciate the variety of options I have to choose from. I just opened up a case that I have for my “tier 2” yoyos that I haven’t touched in months and want to play with basically all of them.
However, when I put my entire collection in front of me, it just looks excessive. I dont really need 15 organics, 15 V-shapes, and 30 in between shapes. I should really do a hard audit on yoyos that are extremely similar, keep the best, and keep the quirky/uniques (latest example is a Qubit I got in a trade). The main problem I have is that most of my yoyos are not mint (like a slight nick or two), so they are basically cheap fodder on the BST to the point where I would rather keep it. So I keep them.
I keep my favorite yoyos down in the kitchen, which is like ~30 yoyos. The only problem ive found with this is mysterious dings in my yoyos, but nothing vibe inducing yet, so im ok with that. Most of you would be devastated to find a small ding in their Ti-Silver Bullet, but I honestly don’t care since it is as smooth as the day I got it. Still, my mom lives with me and said that she would have a carpenter friend of hers design and make a display case for my yoyos. I just keep them on a tertiary counter atm, but I see the merit in this since I can’t decide on how to simplify my collection yet.
Ultimately I still love all of my yoyos and don’t want to simplify it yet.
tl;dr - too many yoyos is a problem I have yet to solve.
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In the last month I’ve had 4 packages from USPS that say they’ve been delivered.
1 of them showed up a week after they claimed it’d been delivered…the other 3 are still missing. I’m REALLY hoping they show up at some point 
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When in doubt, blame it on the cat.
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lol, ive confirmed that most of them are from guests coming around when im not home, see my yoyos, and think that they are allowed to play with them thinking they are just cheap toys. Most seem to realize that they aren’t (and become interested in watching me throw it), but none have offered anything to compensate me for my damaged toy.
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That sucks, @eternalmetal! Maybe not the kitchen then? Nor anywhere near a cat either? #catsarejerks
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It’s us. We know you have a decent collection, and like to try before buying. Since we’re in a rush before you get home, dings happen, sorry. Put fresh string on to save time. jj
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Yes, I occasionally look at my collection and feel embarrassed about how many yoyos I own. I plan to reduce the size of my collection in 2021, but we’ll see how that goes. There is one aspect of owning a bunch of yoyos that I have been enjoying lately, and that’s rediscovering yoyos I haven’t played in a real long time. I only play one yoyo at a time, usually for 2-3 days straight until I switch it up. This means there are yoyos I haven’t touched in a long time. I really enjoy when I play a forgotten yoyo and it blows me away with how good it is. It’s like getting a new yoyo!
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This is totally the funnest thing about having a collection. Its also fun to do those new tricks on those forgotten throws, it gives a sense of progression along with the nostalgia.
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II don’t think yo-yos can get much better. They will be different in the future, but the evolution has advanced to the point where improvements will be highly subjective. When a FHZ was still a superior yo-yo, designs and materials were still evolving. This has probably been discussed too much sorry.
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You may be right. We’ll see in 10 years. I wonder if people thought the same thing 30-40 years ago? Maybe there is an end to the improvements and like you said, there will just be minor tweaking but eventually will the ways a yoyo can be tweaked run out? Probably not in the same way that new ideas / hooks for 3 minute pop songs will never run out. I can definitely see a 5 year wave where a majority of people want to throw heavy plastic or plastic hybrid responsives. I am definitely in this hobby for the long haul and am curious what yoyos will be like in 10 years.
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The design trajectory of yoyos over the last 20 or so years has been away from narrow organics (and loopers) to wide V- and H-shaped throws. But I think that has largely been due to the ascendancy of 1A as the dominant play style. Yoyo designs have naturally evolved to cater to that style, and will probably continue to do so as long as 1A remains dominant.
Long-term changes to 1A yoyo design will happen in response to changes in string tricks and the style as a whole. Which basically means that yoyos 30 years from now will only remain “recognizable” to the extent that yoyo tricks remain recognizable.
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