Do you have a standard of living you want to upkeep without having to work around your pile of stuff?
Do you consider some items not of good enough quality to be owned and maintained by you?
Do you not want to see the world burn and the source of your collection to fail so you can’t collect anymore?
Congrats you have standards and can collect away.
Nice.
That means my thousands upon thousands of Magic the Gathering cards languishing on my shelves are a collection, since they’re organized into labeled binders, right?
Honestly… If you know where they are, and how they are being kept… Yeah.
You can have a silly collection of thousands and thousands of rocks you picked up, but if they were in binders labeled what they are it would be a collection too.
Come back to me when you have a pile you sleep on and we can talk about upgrading you to Hoard.