Prince_Sunbeam:  Is your pic in the show? wich one is yours?

And thanks for the congratulations 

Yes, the very first image in the credits. White bookcases lined with colored lights. I also recognized the photo of your collection and knew it had to be an arena member! 

New additions

Hey pony pals,
As some of you may have seen in my prior post- Im downsizing! Was super anxious to start but now Im on a roll and feeling great about it.

I've decided to part with all of my petites. I have all of the molded hair petite ponies and no clue how to price them!
I was planning to sell them in small lots:

Pretty Pony Parade (10)
Sunsparkle Ponies (5- translucent)
Pretty 'n Pearly Ponies (5- pearlized)
3 cottage ponies- Puddles, Little Flitter, & Flurry
3 shoppe ponies- Floater, Tabby, & Misty
Prancing Pretty Carousel- no bows, seasaw, or ticket booth. Only 2 cup train cars. Includes Topper & Whirly
Happy Hearts Cottage- complete w/box & instructions, mismatched green grass instead of pink. Includes Puddles.

EVERYTHING MUST GO!

These are from my personal collection. All ponies are in good or better display condition. Ponies may have slight trims to manes or tails as I cant tell very well about that stuff. No major DS marks. There may be small NDS marks or on bottoms of feet/hidden under manes. Cross Posted

G1 LOT. $100 SHIPPED. NO BAITS
16 Ponies + Paradise Estate bits
Cannot split. This box is packed and ready to ship! Over 5lbs of G1 

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G3 LOT $20 + Shipping
Lickity Split has all accessories

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I feel like I dont want my ponies anymore?! Or at least not the majority. I even feel ashamed/embarassed- that I have them at all, and that now I dont want them!
I've been collecting for about 6 years now- theres always been ebb & flow. But I've never gone this long (8 months) feeling soooo distant from my collection. Even feeling regret for "wasting" the money? Especially as I had just gotten into pricier ponies before this happened.

I can appreciate the fun Ive had with my collection over the years but I genuinely feel like its "Time to move on" although Im worried that if I do that I'd ultimately regret it.
The advice Ive seen is typically- pack them away for a while as opposed to selling incase of regret. But I really dont even want to deal with packing the space up, its a whole (small) room! But even the thought of trying to sell them is also extremely daunting. I kind of just want them gone. [Im sure there are some I would keep regardless]

Its causing me some distress. I know it is also part of a greater feeling of needing to downsize my belongings. (Which is also why packing up doesnt help)
I always used to purge my material items at least annually but since living in single family homes vs apartments the past 5 years I feel like Ive accumulated far too much material "stuff" mostly in the form of collections or hobbies (which always fall to the wayside after a big financial dump)

I dont know what to do. I worked so hard to make my perfect pony room- I think that in itself was a hobby. And very soon after it was feeling completed, this crisis started to sneak in. I shifted to buying fewer, more expensive ponies- thinking I was just feeling like there were no more "common" ones on my want list but that quickly turned into no ponies. No logging into the arena. No posting in my mlp instagram. No longer even checking my mlp instagram. No setting foot in my pony room. And now theres literally been bags of clothing to donate blocking the entire doorway into the pony room for months....

I never knew I could feel so much weird guilt and shame about a toy collection. Its like Im embarassed that I ever started. I think it mayyyyybeee has to do with the way I used pony collecting to cope through a rough period of time in my life and mental health? Now I cant imagine justifying spending that much time or money looking for plastic to make me feel better... Its really rather distressing.

So... been completely unsuccessful so far.
Super depressed this time of year, makes it difficult for me to do anything beyond go to work and get the basics accomplished.

I went off my low-inflammation diet for 2 weeks and gained 15lbs (mostly water weight) So I've spent this week going back to being strict with my eating and getting the inflammation out of my body. I think it should help with my mood too. I'll definitely be happy to just not have gained by the end of this healthy pony, even though Id like to lose about 8 more lbs since I started my diet on 4/27/18.

I do feel a bit better so far focusing on eating healthy. And have gotten more typical tasks done around the house like keeping up with laundry and dishes.

I'm hoping to be motivated to list and sell my unwanted MLP stuff. Ive got a bunch of PE accessories from a lot, as well as handful of G2s (since I splurged on some rarer ones) I'm going to a game convention (PAX) in a few weeks and Id love to have some extra spending money.

I got myself a little day planner, so far its been kind of counter productive. Im sort of stressed about exactly how I want to use it to keep track of things, and be consistent. But its been a hurdle.

Im going to lower my expectations and simply use it to write down what I want/need to get done that day (vs tracking progress on multiple things)

I also reduced my goals for this round. Ive been feeling more and more compromised in my productivity and I think setting the bar too high will stress me out. Last round I set the bar high and was really motivated and met all my goals. This round Im barely feeling able to stay on top of my normal tasks so I hope that lowering my expectations will allow me to feel accomplished in meeting my goals. Maybe that sense of accomplishment will motivate me to go above and beyond.

For some reason, in the past 2 months I have stopped getting an email when I receive a new message from someone here.
I also tried following a thread, hoping to receive an email when it was updated and that has not worked either- though Id never tried that before to know if it ever worked.

I know CrowingGlory is also not receiving emails, as she mentioned in the Healthy Pony forum.

Is there a reason to this?