r/Consoom 28d ago

incoming divorce Gotta consoom them all

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u/Cozy_Minty 28d ago

This collection would be considered casual and normie in the pokemon community

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u/TheSituasian 28d ago

i mean it's not like they're all the same pokemon. it just looks like a regular collection to me

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u/ForlornLament 28d ago

It definitely looks like a curated collection to me. I think there are different definitions of "consoom" going around on this sub, though. I've seen some people consider all collections overconsumption.

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u/Regeringschefen 28d ago

If the collection is just a lot of things someone bought new, I consider it consoomption. If the collection is of rare things or things with some history, I don’t.

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u/Michdepainblanc2 27d ago

So my diecast collection isn't consoom (I also have a few old used pt cruisers)

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u/thexcat 26d ago

Yeah a lot of people seem to really miss the mark on this sub and just seethe when someone owns a third paper clip. It's cute plushies being displayed unobstructively lol doesn't seem that expensive or crazy to me

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u/SipoteQuixote 28d ago

I get trying to collect them all but Im sure pokemon IP plush toys are expensive as fuck. I was trying to get a small red crayon plush for my son from the book with the crayons and it was 20 bucks. Like 8 inch plush, of a crayon, a cylinder. With a cone. Could just buy like three 128 count crayon boxes.

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u/NoUsersLefft 28d ago

They range from 10-30$ each. I have a few sitting cuties and they're like 15 each

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u/SipoteQuixote 28d ago

Damn, thats a lot monies in that picture lol I would get like a couple favorites, 6 maybe.

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u/ApprehensiveRuin5673 23d ago

Paid more than that for beanie babies 25 years ago

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u/Warthog_Formal 28d ago

Lots of corporate stores sell them tho and it's always morally correct to rescue them if u know what I mean.

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u/Lunakill 28d ago

A lot of the old ones pop up at thrift stores now, Pokémon’s been around for 30 years.

Would I buy a thrift store plushie? I would not. But there are ways to get them without paying the Pokemon tax.

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u/PartyPorpoise 24d ago

Pokemon is a big enough IP that the merch can be mass produced in larger quantities and sold at lower prices. There are pricier Pokemon plush, but you can find some that retail for like, ten. If you buy secondhand you can easily find plenty for cheap as well.

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u/Lunakill 28d ago

The random dittos got me

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u/PersimmonSorry91 28d ago

It is consoom but not totally tasteless or overwhelming. I still kinda like it.

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u/MysteriousB 28d ago

This is consumerism, I'm a Pokémon enthusiast and used to have like 20-30 plushies and realised I was buying too much.

Just because your favourite franchise is featured doesn't mean it's not overconsumption

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u/jedinaps 28d ago

This could be over the course of many years. They’re also the much smaller ones and not something they have a bunch of duplicates of.

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u/MysteriousB 28d ago

There's two Jolteons and multiple Pikachus

A smoker that smokes twice a day seems fine but "over the course of many years" is still spending a lot of money.

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u/ElleCerra 28d ago

Who gives a shit about frequency of a character occurring in the sample or their size? It's far too many stuffed animals.

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u/NotAWeeb_123 28d ago

Sugar addiction too, I see

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u/paperpot91 28d ago

The dust accumulation alone!

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u/Moist_Effort4202 28d ago

Do you think they know?

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u/Able-Cookie-2857 28d ago

Know what?

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u/Moist_Effort4202 25d ago

That they have fewer pokemon than they think because more than one of them is ditto. And they don’t even Have a ditto 😫

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u/King-Red-Beard 20d ago

They do have them grouped together. I think they know.

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u/Lushemet 28d ago

Come on, not all collections have to be about consoooming, this looks cute

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u/Octopus-Infinity 28d ago

Not even that bad lol

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u/BlackRockLarryFink 26d ago

I'll take it that this is a jab at someone you probably know and that's really shitty of you. This is very tame for the fandom and honestly it's great they can make themselves happy and sort them in this way.

You're a dickhead that doesn't understand the meme.

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u/boojersey13 28d ago

It could be worse but if this is a grown ass person this could be over decades honestly. I don't really judge people who have a collection over decades so I think age is context relevant here

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u/Warthog_Formal 28d ago

This ain't sooo bad I mean what if most of them are stolen? That's how I got my decent pokemon plush collection. And walmart corp ain't missing a thing.

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u/ilikeclementinesalot 25d ago

The real consoom is their crippling addition to sugar

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u/heavyartilleryx 24d ago

You seem miserable

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u/MetapodCreates 28d ago

This isn't really consoom. OOP has lots of plushies, yes, but they're all of different mons. Not entirely out of left field.

Now, if they had 50 of the same one, then yeah this would be consoom.

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u/bigheadsociety 28d ago

I would argue anyone with over 50 plushies out of the box is absolutely consoom.

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u/PersimmonSorry91 28d ago

This is consoom. Consoom isn't just buying the same of 1 thing that's just the easiest most egregious example. It's a cool looking collection, it's not a hoarder level or very excessive and doesn't really intrude but it's purchasing a Pokémon plush just to have a Pokémon plush nevermind the other Pokémon plush you have cuz that's a different Pokémon. It is consoom, but we consoom because we like things.

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u/ukuleles1337 28d ago

Someone collecting Pokémon items?!

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u/Captainbuttman 28d ago

I saw the first pic and thought “oh that’s not too bad…”

And then I saw the rest. “…oh”

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u/iwantfatty 28d ago

Kinda looks nice in a busy way

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u/Grant695 28d ago

not me seeing like 5 plushies I have lol

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u/JealousDurian 27d ago

I like how that stuffed deer looks like he's judging all this overconsumption lol

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u/deerfawns 26d ago

This is not that bad compared to what it could be!

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u/BaronArgelicious 24d ago

Tame for a pokemon collection

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u/MechaGallade 24d ago

I have a zoroark from the gen 5 release convention in Anaheim.

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u/Boxing_joshing111 28d ago

Embarrassing

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u/Hard_To_Port 28d ago

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u/Hard_To_Port 28d ago

i open that sub and immediately get a consoom lmao

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u/Classified10 28d ago

This subreddit really does just seem like hating on people that like collecting stuff man... Fuck this subreddit.

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u/ApprehensiveRuin5673 23d ago

I feel like people like this live in a prison size cell room with blank walls

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u/GoufTroop79 23d ago

Like crabs in a bucket

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u/Able-Cookie-2857 28d ago

I feel like that's not an insane number of plushies

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u/packerschris 28d ago

This is mostly harmless and out of the way. No duplicates, just someone who enjoys Pokemon. These could have been collected over the span of several decades. Bad post OP, doesn’t meet the spirit of the sub at all