"Sic Transit Gloria Ludi" Topic

Of the stuff you haven't kept, what would you say is your average interval between "gotta get this new army/rules/terrain" and "Sell this stuff in the flea market to make room for new stuff?"

Myself, I'm thinking maybe five years.

I have sold off very little. Usually it's when I move to a larger scale in the same period.

A very, very, long time – you never know when you'll need it and it would be incredibly irritating to have to buy it again.

Four decades and counting?

If I didn't paint it and haven't seen it in a few years let alone played with it, it gets sold …. which of course then means a new rule set comes out for the period. ; )

What do you mean sell ?

5-7 years unless a project simply dies.

I bought Spanish Civil War figures in the 90s, getting the last of them around 2000. About 2017, I realized I hadn't gotten them out or painted any of them since 1999. After two years of thinking about the issue, I sold the unpainted figures off in 2019.
Somehow, I could never bring myself to paint more than half a dozen of the Bull Dancer Bronze Age Greek figures I bought back in the early 90s, and finally, after much thought, I sold the unpainted figures off in 2014. I promptly replaced them with Foundry Mycenaeans, who weren't going anywhere, either, until the past month.

Grelber

Never. I recently painted miniatures I bought in the 90s and thought I would never paint. Some of these figures I thought would be incompatible with newer ones but with thoughtful painting and basing they worked very well. I realize that my lead mountain keeps giving me little treasures even decades after I thought I would never paint them.

Rarely. I don't sell much stuff, only if I've not played with it for years ans unlikely to in the future.

Sell?

What is this Sell of which you speak?

+1 Legionarius – I've also just painted some stuff that's been waiting for decades. It's time had finally come to go from pristine to devalued by a bad paint job

A bit longer an interval. My two major divestments were in the early 2000s and mid-2010s, and involved stuff acquired in the late 1980s to mid-1990s.

As I mentioned in the related discussion, found objects for kitbashing get purged every couple of years.

If you sell it and then rebuy it, the paint job on the new figures will be better!

Almost all the stuff I've gotten rid of was acquired in the late 1990s and sold around 2005, so about seven years.

(Though I didn't sell it to make room for new stuff but to raise money, so depending on how literally we're supposed to take the OP's wording it may not count.)