![]() While this part of my packrat journey is not the largest portion, it is a significant one. This is probably everyone’s least favorite stage of packrating. It is always a rewarding feeling to make an addition to a collection and these additions have the added bonus of increasing your Safety Deposit Box size as well! However, that is not necessarily a bad thing! The sense of self-accomplishment can be just as valuable as admiration from others. Now, if you place these items in your Safety Deposit Box instead of your Gallery, the collection will only be for you to look at and admire. When going through my own Safety Deposit Box, I notice that I have quite a few different collections growing in there, some intentional and other unintentional. Another type of collection could be items that have similar characteristics, such as a collection of red items or a collection of spooky items. This item is not incredibly expensive so whenever the mood strikes, I buy a few and add them to my collection, which has grown substantially over the years. For example, one of my favorite collections is simply a single item, Ghosts of Days of Giving Action Figures, of which I have collected a large quantity. Starting a collection is an excellent way to grow your item collection while adding a sense of purpose to the equation. ![]() There is also the added bonus that these exclusive prizes could increase in value over time so it might just be well worth it to stick them right into your Safety Deposit Box and leave them there for a while! However, if you want to keep up a large packrat collection, keeping these prizes will be a big help. It is very difficult to resist the urge to make some quick Neopoints by selling these prizes. Since site event prizes often require some sort of effort, they are usually quite exclusive and often very valuable. However, with unique site event prizes, the difficulty arises in not selling your hard-earned rewards. Over time, keeping these prizes in your Safety Deposit Box will quickly grow your stockpile and help solidify any packrat collection. Site events will often offer unique, event-specific items, both throughout the event and as final prizes. Site events are a great way to gather up items for a packrat collection. Dailies are a fantastic way of quickly getting many unique items to start up your packrat collection. However, for those aspiring packrats, keeping items from your dallies in your Safety Deposit Box is essential. Items from dailies can sometimes be worth quite a bit and can be great Neopoint generators. I will almost never sell any items I get from my dailies, which is a concept that does not necessarily appeal to or work for everyone. The trick here is that I will always immediately put all those items in my Safety Deposit Box, regardless of their worth or utility. Including my winnings from the Battledome, I will typically receive around 25-30 items per day by simply going around Neopia and doing these simple daily tasks we all know and love. Over the years, I have diligently done my dailies all across Neopia in order to rapidly accumulate items. This first step to becoming a packrat is pretty simple. Either way, I hope this article will be a fun and entertaining read about one user’s experience into packrat-dom. The second is as a cautionary tale of how not to become a packrat who hoards all their items in a Safety Deposit Box. The first is as a guide for any aspiring packrats out there to finally achieve the strenuous Packrat avatar or any users who themselves would like to be considered “ultra” packrats. I expect you could read this article in two ways. ![]() In this article I will go through the process of how I became the packrat I am today. The majority of these items are essentially worthless but I have simply not had the desire to empty out my collection of items. I won’t reveal the exact number of items I have sitting in down in the National Neopian, but it is safe to say that I have enough items in there to get the Packrat avatar many times over. The question that arises after finally achieving this avatar is what comes next with all the items? Well, in my case, I just continued collecting and the amount of items in my Safety Deposit Box kept growing… and growing… and growing until the point where I consider myself not simply a packrat, but an ultra packrat. However, finally accomplishing this avatar is a reward in and of itself. Accumulating 1,000 unique items is not a simple task and often times will take quite a bit of time and effort. There comes a point in every avatar collector’s life that they decide to go through the onerous task of stockpiling items for the Packrat avatar. How to Become (Or Avoid Becoming) an Ultra Packrat ![]()
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