Hi everyone my name is Gui and I'm an heavily diseased OCD completist.

The long time members remember me as the guy with 2 opened SteelBooks™ in my collection less then 14 months ago. (IAL and Iron Man) You have been thru the xradman-tiger saga, than the the crashkelly-tiger competition, you have learned the 5 levels of OCD completism and level 5 was rising recently...

Today is the first day of the rest of my life.

I dropped the towel monday. 2009/11/23
I can't take it any longer my OCDness is eating me alive and I'm totally joyless, disgusted and broke since long enough, I'm not letting the SteelBooks™ control my life ever again! I played with fire, Ive been burned and I'm taking my life back! There's many reasons and I'll try to do my best to explain what's going on. I have thought this thru and I realized many things over the last 2 weeks, even if my ocd completism was still rising. (I guess I was fighting against the inevitable)

Here's the reasons why I'm doing what I do.

1. Finance.

I said this many many time: "I'm not rich" and it's so true. I earn my life pretty well but over the last 3 months I spent over $8000 in SteelBook™. (I kept ordering duplicates and got over 200 steels in less then 3 months)
I can't take it anymore. A year ago I was the guy with enough money in my account to live for 3 months (at least) without working and keeping the lifestyle I had back then. Today I'm unsucessfully struggling to get my head over the water and I figured I was going to drown sooner than later. Money is the first thing that came to my mind.

2. Happiness.

You guys sure heard "the fun is gone" from me more than once. I'm am not happy anymore and that's not me, I'm hiding behind a mask. I created a monster and today I'm slowly going back to what I used to be. I'm disgusted, fed-up, joyless, mean, rude, selfish and my obsession is the main reason why I turned that way, I always reach the top and bottom of everything I attempt and should have learned by now! If you want to love your pairs you got to start with yourself and that's what I'm going to do.

3. Health

Ok I know I'm only 31 years old but a true obsession can destroy more than your mental sanity and I'm sadly speaking with experience. I'm in a risky and hard busisness (carpentery) and it's pretty dangerous to work with only 3-5 hours of sleep or less. I'm continuously thinking about my collection, I stopped to live and it make it hard to sleep because I have hard time to control my emotions. (on top of things!) I'm getting older way too fast and my friends are telling me!

4. Time

Since I start collecting SteelBooks™ for "real" it took all the time I had and more! I used to built furniture, watch movies, keep my house clean and party a lot with my friends. Now I don't remember what "free time" means... My life is leaning toward my obsession and I'm not doing anything useful or fun anymore. Time is precious and I have to get back on top of the things and live.

5. Future plan.

I'm planning on selling my condo (4½ half appartement) and buy a 3 appartement building soon and will move every year since I'm looking to buy a project and invest a lot of time and money to make luxuary appartements out of a sh**hole. I want to get good tenants and my time is free of charge and paying off in the end. Moving isn't a good idea when you own every SteelBooks™ released and I'll be changing my address a lot in the upcoming years. Working 12 hours+ everyday and keep on track on the forums will be impossible. Investing thousands and thousands of dollars to rebuilt and buying every SteelBooks™ worldwide can't be used in the same sentence period.


Question and answers:

Where this lead me to?
I'm going back to my roots and will get 1 copy of each Canadian SteelBooks™ in the future and will only collect Canadian SteelBooks™. I'll keep both version of the Disneys too.

What will I do with my non-canadians blu-ray and remaining DVD SteelBooks™?
Sell, I will be updating my trade list soon. (I'll probably start tomorrow)

Is it hard to stop?
Not at all and I'm totally serious. I tought this thru for real!

What will happen with all the active SteelBook™ trades I'm working on?
Don't worry I'll finish everything I started. I'm not leaving just yet!


I truly connected with many members in the SteelBook™ community and made true friends, I had a lot of fun and hope you got entertained. I will stick arround but not as much as I used to. It might sound strange but I just got a load of weight off my shoulders.

I had a blast over here thanks to all of you guys!

Cheers,
Gui.

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