Collecting strategies

[Optimist]

What is your collecting strategy? Do you collect randomly, stick with specific types, buy-buy- buy and run out of room them sell the overload?

I think it would be neat to hear different pros/cons and opinions on this subject.

I will probably always be a "casual" type orchid owner. I want easy to care for orchids, and I do not have a ton of room, or a green house, so I am not too interested in "special care" type orchids. I'd like to be able to take off for a few weeks and not be worried about my orchids dying, or have to get a "plant sitter."

I thought about what I would get next year, and only feel the pressing need for 2 orchids, a Sharry Baby and a Cockleshell. At some point I would like to get an ondontobrassia Kevin Bivens, but it does not have to be soon. So, I told myself to get these two, and maybe one "impulse" purchase, like a real 'dancing lady' type. That would give me 3 more orchids, and a total of 19 orchids over 2 years. I still think that is a little steep, but I compare myself with people who buy dozen per year. Not sure where they put them all.