How much kept of what you've bought?

[star-phoenix]

I probably kept about 25% of my entire collection. With the years, my taste changed a lot and my collection became a lot more specific.

[frozentime]

I haven't kept up with the actual numbers, but I think I've kept well over 90% of the cels I've bought, and probably 100% of the sketches.

[kizu]

From the main series I collect, I think I've kept over 95% as long as I don't count the pieces I've traded away to get a cel from the same series. If it's not something I collect there's a 50/50 chance of me letting it go so turnover in my "other anime" section is higher. However I feel that keeping or not keeping isn't really that important because I view the collection as something organic and grows with taste or distaste. So I wouldn't worry about how much I've kept. Most of the pieces I've let go were ones I bought early on while my taste weren't as defined yet.

[Cordelia]

I've kept about 97% of my collection. My taste hasn't changed much coz I hardly expand the titles I collect. Like other collectors, the ones I sold were the ones I bought in my early stage of collecting. Sometimes I think abt trimming down my collection but am just too lazy.

[bran-chan]

I've only sold two of my cels and that was very early on in the first year of collecting. I've also thought about slimming down my collection, I may give that some more serious thinking.

[Xelloss]

I think I've kept around 98% as well. I haven't let anything go since 2002.

[tenzink]

Hm. Kept (or rather, intend to keep) 60%. As some items came in sets, I would end up buying one and selling four. I didn't really mind, sometimes the sources were not publically available and this was a way to get cels out to people who wanted them more than I did. I tended to character specialise (valgarb from slayers, dilandau from escaflowne) so people often got really nice Linas or Hitomis/Vans while I got to keep my pretties to myself.

[Kata]

I really don't know an % amount of how much I kept or sold. Compared to what I own at this time I really didn't sell that much over the 12+ years.

I actually regret selling several pieces that left my collection over the years.

[Gonzai]

HA - for a long time there, my gallery was like a revolving
door. A lot of things went out as fast as they came in. Just
ask Anime Obsessed and Baylor, they both have alot of
items that I once had in their galleries now.

I don't do that as much now that I am more focused,
however, I will still at times with Vampire Knight and
some Samurai 7, so apparently I am still rather wishy
washy, but no where near as bad as I once was.

So, with that in mind, I would say I have sold about
70% of what I have owned. The only reason that is
not 80 or 90% is only because of the sheer volume
of sketch sets I currently own compared to the overall
cels and sketches that I have owned in the past.

[duotrouble]

I don't really keep track of cels I've sold. I like to let go. No regrets that way. But if I had to guess, I'd say maybe 50%. That's mostly because my real life took over. Plus, I've been fine tuning what I really like and want to collect/keep.