I am of the “buy less” variety.
I make lists.
- Lists of games I want (see my geeklist in the anticipated games thread, not linking here)
- Lists of games I have: https://delusions.de/boardgame-collection/ completely wip as of now. I need to see which of my personal categories are already overflowing and I need to do this away from BGG
- Lists of games I play or don’t play
- List of games to trade for instead (especially older games )
And I’ll just have to do my very best to not do impulse “bad day” buys.
I have all the best intentions of trying to play games before I buy them. 2020 was bad for that and I do badly teaching myself things on TTS… but after a 2 (one and a half) year game buying spree I need to slow down and one way to make sure that games I buy are at least no terrible surprises is to learn them before I buy them. Rules are usually always on BGG and even if there is no TTS mod reading those may help convince me not to buy something.
And in general I am starting to trade away or donate about ~50 games from my collection…