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The Bizarre Language & Psychology Of Collectors
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The Bizarre Language & Psychology Of Collectors |
07/10/09
When I was elementary school age, I had this bestie friend, and every once in a while, when we were at her house, her mom would drop us over at her grandmother's house for safe keeping.
Said grandmother was a doll collector. Now, I don't mean she had a bunch of dolls in boxes and then lined the shelves.
I mean there were dolls everywhere. ABSOLUTELY everywhere. Every room of the house. There were aisles where you could walk, but the rest was taken up by dolls. The one that sticks in my head the most -- that is, in my nightmares -- is the life-size wax doll she had of friend's mother (it was, well, elementary school child sized) that had, in its mouth, ALL OF HER REAL BABY TEETH.
Sleep on that, m*therf**kers.
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But, I've put it on display on my desk at pretty much every office I've worked at. So, the box is not in very good shape. Oh, it's a good one though. Stocked on the shelves in 2001 and a totally awesome display of bad creative decisions and co branded opportunities. I've worked with Mattel as a vendor before and I can say that after, I won't ever again for this very reason (though I got the doll after the project).
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Most of my makeup at home is still in the original packaging (especially if its something I designed but also if it's just really pretty).
I am a weird weirdo, I know.
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And vagina=box?
There's something to be said for a mind firmly in the gutter but where did that come from?
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But I'm also 30 and not about to play with dolls.
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I am obviously not much like these barbie people.
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It's torture on the same level as that Twilight Zone where a bookish Burgess Meredith lives through the apocalypse - only to break his glasses, leaving him unable to read. Horrors!
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...A reason we may never understand, of course.
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On the one hand, the box is important. Not only does it preserve the object, it shows it in context. I get that.
I however, take joy in actually being able to interact with what I collect. I know this ruins it's value to other collectors. I don't care all that much, however, because to me I am willing to pay the value for the object, and lose the resale value.
If it is something I think I will want to sell in the future, I will buy two, and store the second.
Dodai, I'm pretty sure, though, if this was a conversation about how you treat your handbags, you'd probably have something to say about that. It would probably strike the outsider as weird. Right ;).
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Exactly! If it's brand new, it has no history!