I plan to sell any yoyo I don’t need but I’m having a hard time determining how many and what to keep!
I’m kinda thinking I keep and look for:
one competition throw (more rim weighted for stability i’m assuming)
one fun throw
one midsize
one small (popstar)
one plastic
Does this seem like a complete list?
So what about you guys? How do you determine what to keep?
I just keep buying until I feel content with what I have. This feeling last for about a week and then I see that some new high end has just been released. Then I gawk at it’s beauty until I have the money to purchase it. I don’t think that I’ll ever sell any of my throws.
The things I own and will most likely be keeping are as follows:
starlight
2 onestars
2 patriots
crazy d
speedaholic
protostar
OG one with fhz caps
tirade
dv888
pyro 3
custom ano barebones
irony jp
TE g5
checkmate
leviathan
Throws I’m stuck with until further notice
black unreleased crazy d
die nasty
konig
trident
eager
sumo
loop 1080
master galaxy
You’ll notice I’m 1 metal too many and that’s due to me getting something new today that I wasn’t expecting
I never planned to sell/trade any yoyos until I realized how many yoyos I had that violated these 3 “rules” I’ve now sort of set for myself.
Aside from yoyos on my BST I only own 1 yoyo that violates rule #1 (it is a custom ano, I can’t imagine ever letting it go), 0 yoyos that violate rule #2 and 2 yoyos that violate rule #3 (two 66g Chiefs, two 2nd run Peaks, not planning to sell one of either at the moment).
I have sold and will continue to sell a great deal of my yoyos that don’t violate any of these rules as well. For example, I enjoy playing with and looking at my Wrath, and it is the only one I have ever owned. It simply does not speak to me in any special way and has barely been thrown since I traded for it and therefore I have no reason to keep it. Yoyos like these are the hardest for me to let go since there is nothing to dislike about them, but when I have been routinely throwing the same 10 yoyos for the past 3 months and rarely touching so many others I really think I will be ok if I can whittle my collection down to 20-25 throws in the near future.
I recently upgraded to a 40 hole case from my 13 hole case (that I incidentally told myself would be my yoyo limit). It doesn’t really help that so many good companies pump out so much good stuff all the time.
But I tend to be very picky when deciding keepers. I’m big into trading, so quite a few yoyos pass through my hands. I have to like the colorway or else it goes. If it passes a visual inspection, then I have to adore how it plays. If I kept every yoyo that played “pretty good”, I’d be a much more broke man.
So my advice is to keep the yoyos you really, really like. I wouldn’t worry about having one from each category. About 95% of my collection is full-sized, 1A metals. The only thing that matters to me is that I like everything about it.