Wow - 120 CDs by one band?! Which band is that, if I may ask?
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I did the same thing with silver charms and a bracelet. Now I never wear the bracelet (I type for a living and its jingling bulk gets in the way). However, I am keeping it. My mom started it for me very young (around age 12) and I finally have no more room on it. I think I'll start one for my dd (age 13) this year.
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Yeah, I was out of my mind. They were a childhood favorite (I'm 28 now, and should have learned way before 28 that I didn't need that many, but I had started collecting them when I was 15). The band is called Hanson. Their big hit was "MMMBop" back in the 90s. They are indie rock now, and a lot of their older promos and singles and independent albums from their "early years" sell for a fortune on eBay. I'm debating selling my last two rarities. I just don't know if I can part with that part of my childhood yet though!
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bandicoot, I hear and understand your suspicion of collections. I was just so taken with the coffee mugs in all their variations and could not resist. That was about 25 years ago. Then, the character glasses began to attract my eye.
My mugs are displayed, but the glasses are awaiting judgment!The tshirts were from when the kids were young. I did not use them if they were too worn out, generally. For a couple of ones, warm and fuzzy memories trumped a little wear.
Tshirts and coffee cups are the medium for our pop culture images. I think that reusable shopping bags are the new tshirts. There are beginning to be so dammed many of them that they are beginning to accumulate in cars, closets and at yard sales. I am surprised that it took corporate America this long to see the blank advertising space that they provide.Those old tshirts that so many of us acquire and give away end up in the third world. Just look at about any picture of poor people in the third world and they are wearing our cast off tshirts. Sometimes, the art work or advertising on the shirts is so painfully ironic on the backs of theses poor folks who did not attend the family reunion or frequent the advertised tourist attraction that is promoted. Also, many of these shirts are made in the third world. We buy them, wear them and then ship them back to the third world to be worn as cast offs! What a world!
What a sight to see someone who is hungry, displaced and has no clear future wearing a shirt that advertises such a trivial lifestyle on their chests and backs! Something is seriously wrong here!Posted 9 months ago # -
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If we don't count books and CDs, I've got two collections at the moment: one active and one inactive.
The inactive one, at least in terms of making additions to it, is Apilco Bistroware Green and Gold crockery. I bought a couple of pieces for myself about 20 years ago and then people started buying it for me for birthdays and Christmas. I use some of it regularly, other pieces very infrequently. These days it's difficult to get hold of in the UK and I haven't bought or otherwise acquired a piece in over 10 years.
The active collection is of fountain pens. Mainly vintage. They live in my desk drawer, about 50 of them at the moment. Plus a shelf of inks in various colours to go with them. Latest purchase was 3 different colours of ink just launched by Montblanc (red, orange and turquoise). The thing is, I use them. All the time, practically. I have a rotation system and at the moment there are about 10 loaded with various colours of ink and ready to use in my pen pot on the desk. Another 10 or so are being flushed - they have been emptied, rinsed, filled with plain water and are currently being left to soak to clear any molecules of colour out before being emptied again, dried and put away safely in the drawer until their next rotation.
In the past I had a tendency to collect magazines. I had about 15 years' worth of 'Byte' magazine dating from the early 80s to mid 90s when I left home, plus a complete set of 'Personal Computer World' for a similar span, plus various car-related magazines (think teenage boy!). They all remained in my mother's house in my old room, until she died about 10 years later and we had to clear the house to sell it. It was, let me tell you, an enormous wrench to get rid of those magazines. They all got recycled - I had nowhere to put them. 28 crates of paper went to the recycling centre, and I will admit I had a good cry about it afterward - it felt like losing a massive chunk of my history, and a colleague a few months later compared the loss of the Byte archive particularly to the burning of the great library at Alexandria. Strangely enough, a few years later McGraw-Hill published a one-volume 'best of Byte' which I still have in my library for historical purposes.
These days I rarely buy magazines, and most of the back issues I've still got lying around are in imminent danger of being recycled. Without the set, odd issues just don't have any appeal really.
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paul...what is the montblanc turquoise like?
i was very attached to the beautiful parker turquoise when growing up and by the time i got my grail pen (such a great name, thank you!) they stopped making it.
#firstworldproblems, i know.Posted 9 months ago # -
I had a conversation with my 11-year-old daughter about the difference between hoarding, collecting, and keeping useful things. For instance, her dad saved some of his childhood comic books, and now she and her brother are enjoying them. If her dad had kept them but refused to let anyone read them for fear of ripping them, that would be collecting (for no good reason if we could neither read them nor sell them.) If he had so many comics that we couldn't pull out comics to read, or if they were damaged because we had too many to store properly, that would be hoarding.
My daughter is a born collector, and we are working hard to convince her that it is better to have a few things that you can access and enjoy than to have piles of junk. Or in her case, piles of junk hiding the things that she would otherwise enjoy. Any tips for convincing a young collector to stop collecting?Posted 9 months ago # -
STLMom, anecdotally I hear that a lot of kids have a sort of anti-hoarding epiphany after working on a project like Toys for Tots. Most kids just have No Idea what constitutes "enough" and No Idea how their life looks in relation to others' (well, how could they? we only know what we see). But also, most kids respond with a sort of instinctive generosity when they are put in contact with others less well-off.
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@bandicoot - the new Montblanc turquoise is officially 'Ink of Friendship' although the bottle has a label on the base saying 'turqoise'. :)
Here's a link to a post on Fountain Pen Network where someone has taken scans of swabs of the three new inks.
I've got it in an old Parker at the moment and so far it's a very nice ink - a bright, friendly colour, flows well, some shading, and as a typical Montblanc ink it seems likely to be quite well behaved (neutral pH and a low maintenance, non-clogging nature are common attributes of most Montblanc inks). Downside is that so far it's only available in a 30ml bottle (rather than the large 'shoe' shaped bottles they usually use) although I think cartridges are also available.
If you like turquoise inks you could also look at Sheaffer Skrip turquoise, which is probably easier to get hold of than the Montblanc inks. My other favourite turquoise/blue ink is the Pilot 'Iroshizuku' series ink called 'Kon-Peki'.
...we now return you to our regularly scheduled programming!
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o, they are gorgeous!
thanks for the link, paul.
i shall look out for the turquoise when i am in tokyo next month.Posted 9 months ago # -
I have amassed a lot of Blue Willow china over the years. It was my daily dinnerware until I married and moved into the rustic style of the Arizona territorial house and out of my mid-century cottage. For a time the dishes were brought out for family holiday gatherings, but my mother downsized her wedding china to me and I use it to honor her when they are over at holidays. I like it, but it isn't my beloved Blue Willow...
Another collection is vintage tablecloths. I have about 20, and can now afford to cull the ones I really never liked, or the ones that are stained or of a size I can't use. I use some quite often and enjoy them.
Just reading this thread reminded me that I had been collecting ball-shaped jugs, from the '30's and '40's. I have about 8, and boy, are they hard to store! All empty space! It's like storing globes! I am going to cull them down to two that came from family and are in colors I love.
I also have way too many science textbooks, leftover from the time when I had to create a lot of curriculum from scratch and the school did not use any textbooks (charter school). Those have got to go!
And then there are the wrought aluminum trays from the 1950's. I have reduced the collection by half, since I couldn't justify having so many huge flat things that weren't solar collectors! They decorate a soffet in the craft/mudroom and I haven't noticed them for months now, they must have lost their magic.
A lot of people collect purses, I tend to collect bookbags. Luckily a lot of them are reusable grocery bags now, but between hubby and I, both teachers, we have an armoire full of cloth and cordura bags of all sizes. The quest for the perfect teacher tote bag never ends, so it seems!
Time to think about another e-Bay cycle!
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