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more about #consumptionjunction more comments → pleppy: Just that picture gives me horrid flashbacks: When I was elementary school age, I had this bestie friend, and every once in a while, when we were at... more » communistspy is spying: I own one of these in a box: 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 sha... more » Breamworthy: I understand the idea of collecting something because you love that thing, but so much of big-C-Collecting seems to be about arbitrary rules that have... more » ladyjaye75: I'd make a bad collector because, while I do like vintage toys, I'm like you Dodai in that I like them loose with traces of their past lives. I also p... more » hannapdx: I've a good friend who collects Hawaiian shirts and Tiki stuff to a crazy degree. Whenever I make fun of him, he tells me, "It's a collector's thing,... more » sassy: I have a few Kozik limited release toys, but the first thing I did when I got then was take them out of the package and giggle. Right now Lenin-dunny ... more » SharonTaint: Oh man, I so get these people. These people are my people. I used to do packaging design for cosmetics and in my world, the outside is just as impor... more » Yahtzii: Everything I know about collecting, I learned from The Little Mermaid. So it doesn't matter if your whosits and whatsits galore are in a sunken chest,... more » notthemarimba: I think comparing Barbie collectors who only want Barbies in undamaged boxes to men who only want to have sex with virgins is hyperbolic and makes nex... more » geekgirlliz: It's like keeping your comics in plastic, or your baseball cards. There are people who do it for the love of collecting things, the value, prestige a... more » anibundel: The one doll I have is the RuPaul doll, and I got it because the box said "99% plastic, 1% woman." Naturally it has never come out of the box. But I... more » AmericanSplendor: I have a Smith-Corona with big suction cups on the bottom of it from when my grandpa was in the navy (keeps it in place when the boat rocks). The man ... more » truckasaurus: Could there be anything worse than being the young child of a compulsive toy collector like these folks? All those boxes and they're all untouchable, ... more » NerD: Blattella: As a collector, I have mixed feelings about other collectors who only collect boxed items. On the one hand, the box is important. Not only does it p... more » token_illiterate_commenter: The same kind of debate is going on in car collector circles right now. Some favor restoring cars to be better than when they were new and others pref... more » -
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The Bizarre Language & Psychology Of Collectors
Today's Washington Post has a piece about the "box debate" at the recent National Barbie Doll Collectors Convention. You would not believe some of the sentences that come out of these people's mouths! More » -
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As The Economy Tanks, What Good Is The Pile Of Stuff You're Left With?
In Newsweek, Pulitzer-prize winning writer Anna Quindlen is waxing philosophical about something some of us know about all too well: Accumulation of "stuff": -
