Collection Discussion Thread ♡ NEW Poll!* ♡

[Birdy]

saw some discussion a bit back and thought i'd chime in^^

i haven't gone for a "complete" collection (pets or items) in years at this point, but i remember it used to stress me out so bad. and that was before the downfall of the old list/things started to skyrocket as much as it did. i joined way back in 2010, and pretty much took cs seriously from the start, so i was at an advantage and moved my way up fairly quickly. still, a complete collection seemed so beyond unachievable.

eventually, my view on things started to change. even though virtually everyone at the time seemed to be going for a full collection, i decided to focus on specific things (i.e., a full lion collection, a full store collection, etc.) even then, after completing certain sets, i realized that there were handfuls of designs here and there that i wasn't even particularly fond of. once i sat on it for a while, it seemed weird to be collecting pets that i didn't even really care for, especially if there were others out there that did like them.

from that point, it went from full species/events/etc. to completing specific litters, and even that has mostly fizzled out for me. at this point, i just collect the few pets that i really, truly enjoy from the bottom of my heart, and that seems to have taken so much of the pressure off. the only real intentional "collection" i have now is a completed set of store pets (2011-current), and even then i'm considering breaking it up solely because there are those in there that i just don't really enjoy. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

long story short, i can't imagine trying to go for a full collection these days. as bad as it was before, it seems virtually impossible now. still, it's awesome to watch the progress you guys make, even if it's from a distance lol.

[lpsemilly]

What are your goals on CS? my ultimate goal is to achieve a complete pet collection, but on a smaller scale, my current goal is to collect all omg so commons, very commons, commons, and uncommons. I have achieved this goal in the past, but preceded to take a hiatus that spanned from 2019-2022, setting me back tremendously. I have spent the past month attempting to obtain the outcomes I missed from my time away, but still have a long way to go. I also plan on setting species-specific goals in the future once I figure out which are the most obtainable and/or which ones I'm the closest to completing.

How close are you to completion? my total pet collection is approximately 86% complete. if I had not taken a 4 year break, it would likely be much closer to completion. excluding 2023, I have collected 11908/13775 outcomes total.

How long have you worked on this goal? around since I joined, but I didn't start taking it seriously until a couple years later. very early on I added all of the pets I was missing to my wishlist, but it did not seem to decrease at a rapid pace for a while. it took quite some time for me to fully grasp the concept of trading on chicken smoothie, and I can't say I ever fully have to this day. I have all of my pets sorted by year and month/event, which has helped me to keep track of exactly what pets I'm missing, how many pets I'm missing, etc. yesterday I spent the day filling out Thornes' collection count spreadsheet and edited it a bit to work for me. I'm very happy with the results!

I wish everyone the best of luck on completing their collections! I'm glad we have each other for support <3

[FreddyCenobite]

COMPLETED store pets.

I can’t believe I finally finished it. I didn’t anticipate my offer actually working out, but the person I traded with, we each gave up some pretty pennies.

I’ve actually only been missing five (one from 2009 and four from 2010) for years. A friend helped with a lot when I retired for around four years(ish?). It’s funny because when I first joined, I never saw myself buying a store pet at all. I stayed like that until the alien dogs in 2012; I still own my first store dog, too. I am missing pets that I’m sure are harder to find, but now all my “nightmare” pets (ones that will be such a nightmare to find) are all capable of being rereleased!

[Spearow]

Man I'm so overwhelmed my place of work is super understaffed so I've been working a ton of overtime and now my collection is ALL over the place because I haven't had time to keep up with sorting. Like, look at my groups. It is so disorganized I need some motivation ^^, its giving me a headache just looking at it lol

And i'm on my phone which makes everything a little more tedious haha

I have about 500+ recent months pets to sort into groups. I'm missing so many random pets from the tail-end of 2022 and also 2023 pets now. Not sure what to focus on. Like I want to trade for missing pets but to do any swaps I'm gonna have to dig through my mess of monthly and event pets and my ungrouped pets. My ungrouped pets are the biggest confusion because I'm like which ones are from trades and which ones are random pound adopts I don't want to accidentally place multiple in my collection groups so I have to double check everything.

Collectors I have some questions about some recent lines. How are you guys sorting these guardian cats? In a cat group or did you make a new group for this lineart? Also, the otters. Do we think we'll get more otters? Not sure where to place them either. I love them though I hope we get more!


I'm so conflicted about my group set up I have so many groups. Dancing with the idea of making a main collection group and throwing all true-date pets in it except for my favorite species collections I'd leave separate. I don't know. How do you guys organize your groups?

Edit;; been organizing my collections for over an hour and its still a mess haha

[Lilymouse385]

Man I'm so overwhelmed my place of work is super understaffed so I've been working a ton of overtime and now my collection is ALL over the place because I haven't had time to keep up with sorting. Like, look at my groups. It is so disorganized I need some motivation ^^, its giving me a headache just looking at it lol

And i'm on my phone which makes everything a little more tedious haha

I have about 500+ recent months pets to sort into groups. I'm missing so many random pets from the tail-end of 2022 and also 2023 pets now. Not sure what to focus on. Like I want to trade for missing pets but to do any swaps I'm gonna have to dig through my mess of monthly and event pets and my ungrouped pets. My ungrouped pets are the biggest confusion because I'm like which ones are from trades and which ones are random pound adopts I don't want to accidentally place multiple in my collection groups so I have to double check everything.

Collectors I have some questions about some recent lines. How are you guys sorting these guardian cats? In a cat group or did you make a new group for this lineart? Also, the otters. Do we think we'll get more otters? Not sure where to place them either. I love them though I hope we get more!


I'm so conflicted about my group set up I have so many groups. Dancing with the idea of making a main collection group and throwing all true-date pets in it except for my favorite species collections I'd leave separate. I don't know. How do you guys organize your groups?

Edit;; been organizing my collections for over an hour and its still a mess haha

personally I think we will get more otters, they're very cute and there is an official section for them in archive now! and I would put my guardian cats in the regular cat group if I didn't also have holiday tabs
You can look through my pets to see how I organized, though I'm still working on it. I am going to have monthly pets sorted by species and special pets sorted by holiday. Honestly I feel like there are infinite ways to organize and I might never find 'the one' for me ;-; but I try my best!

[beemo]

omg i didn't realize how close i was to completing my malk horse collection!? i only need this last one and i'm done. owo



i was lucky enough today to get a date swap for the penguin pps horse. ;u;

[Lady_Lycana]

I think I'm only missing the very rares now for my tess dragon collection and I'm only missing the ur lion from my lion collection

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[beemo]

got a td!




wasn't a swap tho, someone randomly traded it to me!! malk horse collection COMPLETE. :D

wait jk, i just checked the archive and i'm missing another onee nooooo


lol oops

[FreddyCenobite]

I’ve lately come to realize I’m very good at not paying attention because I may have just completed the full CS dragon set while being completely unaware of it.

✨🎊✨ You have collected all of the Eastern Dragons ever released! ✨🎉✨

✨🎊✨ You have collected all of the Malk Dragons ever released! ✨🎉✨

✨🎊✨ You have collected all of the Tess Dragons ever released! ✨🎉✨

✨🎊✨ You have collected all of the Western Dragons ever released! ✨🎉✨

The one who I think ended it all…

[lukes]

honestly wishing they release more dwarf hamsters soon since i finished my collection a year ago?
we only got them 3 times last year and its such a crime </3 the hammies deserve justice!!
and especially the ones where they get edited to look like tiny mice.. fav