Completism, being a Completist: C/D?

I have completist notions but run up against my own laziness. At one point I had it in mind to collect CBRs of all Marvels from FF#1 until Jim Shooter's elevation to EiC, early 1978, but then I realized how much work it would be.

I was an aspirational Boards of Canada completist until this happened:

www.discogs.com/Boards-Of-Canada-XXXXXX-/release/4516654

Never got the Old Tunes tapes either, of course, but I still actually want those

Another example for me: these puzzles.

http://www.rediscoverjigsawpuzzles.com/

I bought the Dylan, Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, and Jackson Browne on sale about a decade ago, $10 each. I stupidly passed on the Johnny Cash, two or three of which would pop up in that particular store for the next year or two. Then it was gone, and I never saw it again. I started checking online a few years ago, but with shipping and exchange, it'd now cost upwards of $30 at least. I've also discovered the Hendrix, Bowie, and Nirvana puzzles make up the complete set. I keep checking periodically, and will probably still be checking the day I die.

I'm sure I don't even need to say this: I don't do jigsaw puzzles. They sit on a shelf downstairs unopened.

I have completist notions but run up against my own laziness. At one point I had it in mind to collect CBRs of all Marvels from FF#1 until Jim Shooter's elevation to EiC, early 1978, but then I realized how much work it would be.

The least I can say is that I do regularly engage with the spoils of my completionist impulses (like, I do keep watching the pre-Code movies I keep amassing). It's just that at a point I know I will have collected more stuff than I can read or watch within the number of years I have remaining. And I suppose I'll have to finally draw a line when/if I fill up the storage unit i rent to deal with the runoff.

clemenza, your puzzle example makes me think of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_OH78jHz6w

That's good! My puzzle quest makes me think of Damone ridiculing Ratner in Fast Times at Ridgemont High: "You bought forty dollars worth of fucking film, and you don't even own a camera."

Oh hey - Images of America - that's something worth being completist about!

I think I've only been this way about certain comics.