Okay if I came off as preachy I am sorry but that was not my intent I was sharing my opinions and my feelings.
I only said there were "some" uppity ups..not everyone posting. And when I say uppity up I mean someone who believes they are better than everyone else for one reason or another. My reasons for using uppity up in this case was a person who only believes high dollar epherma is worth collecting and anyone who collects new posters "newbies" is not worth doing business with. I have come in contact with a few people asking about posters and they refuse to deal with me cause it's just not worth their time basically. So I have flat out stopped buying posters.
And David you say you dont' consider yourself a "have". Anyone who loves what they have is a "have" Including myself. It is the person who thinks their collection is better because it is worth more money who rub me the wrong way.
I don't know if you noticed but I said whomever the person who won that expensive item is not a bad person for paying that much and that perhaps they paid that much because that was a goal for themself in their collecting habits.
And lecturing was not my intent. You lecture to a class full of students. I (hope) I am talking to fellow friends who are as passionate about epherma as myself and venting my frustrations to my friends in hopes of support in a way.
Give give give you rich bastards? Did I not say I give myself (I am obviously not rich) in money and in time. And that there has to be a balance between who are able to give in the actual funds and who can give in their time.
And I covered two topics in my email so as not to clog up everyone's email boxes with tons of emails and on mopo you max out at four posts per day. The two topics being 1. Everyone needs to respect everyone no matter what their collections may be and 2. We should all get together and have some sort of charity in the MoPo name.
And may I ask..what is the point of collecting stuff? To make one happy right? But to me collecting is also a somewhat selfish attitude in all areas of collecting. Everyone wants that one piece for themselves and will fight tooth and nail for it in a sense.
How can someone simply bringing up the idea of a charity or to support a family or two through the holidays make one feel guilty? Honestly when my grandmother brought up the idea instead of the adults in the family giving gifts to eachother and take that money and donate and buy things for people in need I thought it was genious. I did not have any money to give at that point but it did not make me feel guilty cause I could not give which I think that would be the ideal situation in feeling guilty: not being able to give when you so want to and you are not able to.
Being broke most of the time sucks yes but I'd rather buy someone else that cd they wanted than get myself that new computer chair. My chair works fine...sure everyone yells at me cause it squeaks up a storm but for 6 bucks it was worth it. It's a classic..all made of metal and nice cushioning. I'll give to someone else before I think of supplying my needs. Yes I do get greedy and go through stages where I keep saying "I want this, I want that" sometimes going as far as "I NEED to have that britney cd" but in my head I know it's just a lame cd and when the time is right I will obtain it under the right circumstances.
I was too selfish as a child (I was an only child) and was spoiled rotten by all family members and I would literally throw fits for things I wanted. It is now my turn to spoil them. And I feel guilty asking so much of my parents as a child. Yes they could provide it but still one has to draw a line of what they need and want. I went as far as going 2 years without asking for a haircut in my teen years cause of guilt. I am full of guilt and from what I have been told often for things I shouldn't be guilt ridden over.
I am buying at least one thing this year for a child who I will never meet or even know their name. And donate to "cute lil fluffy animals" in hopes they will get a home and be well taken care of and not have happen to what happens to tons of animals daily by being put to sleep. There is three kittens that are hanging out under our trailer and I seriously think I should take them in and get them spayed and nuetered. that is 40 or more dollars a pop and if I could just catch one of them it would help. fast lil buggers *hehe*
Every other group I have been part of has some sort of charity they help..even my size acceptance group has get togethers all around the world and they donate money to charities. I have never heard of this join effort amongst movie poster collectors. And in all honesty movie posters are expensive compared to other collectibles and the prices I see thrown around in this group have led me to believe that quite a few of you have a good chunk of change you could spare...by good chunk..I mean anything more than say 10 dollars. I see prices in all these ads for posters for a few hundred dollars or even thousands.
And one thing I realized...the four people who chimed in on donating to a charity effort are all active participants on style-b also...no one else spoke up. If one can afford a payment plan for a poster you've got money to spare.
I have come across many a gracious person on this however..don't think I haven't forgot who you are. And Sue my boyfriend hung up my autographed poster in that awesome frame you gave me for my birthday. It's hanging up next to my craft desk in the extra bedroom..it's beautiful. Thank you again.
People have given to me on this list when they didn't have to. I wanted to let you all know I am willing to give my time and efforts for a charity auction...but honestly I think JR or Bruce would be able to pull it off better...but say if presents need to be bought with the funds collected...I will gladly do the shopping and the wrapping of gifts.
In jr high..they picked the honor roll students to do the shopping and gift wrapping for their donations....Most of these kids were mainly chosen because they did extracurricular activies like sports especially. I was never chosen to help with this kind of thing because I stayed to myself in the library during lunch or in the classroom or waiting by the door to go inside after the bell rang not talking to anyone. No one knew I existed it seemed and it kinda honestly made me peeved.
However when I got sent a special educational school in my last few years of highschool...they had us make a wishlist for each of us on what we wanted for christmas...on mine I said..."I want to help with the shopping and wrapping" that is all...and sure enough the head teacher for the project took me shopping..just me and her buying gifts for around 50 kids or so...and then we got back and I wrapped all of them by myself. And on the day everyone got their gifts...they were all trying to get me to tell them what they got and they were actually coming and paying attention to me. But that experience...I crave it again. I love giving to people...shopping for others is my high. I admit I am addicted to shopping. I mainly shop online though since the walking thing can only be done for a short time around town. My mom said yesterday when she stopped by..."I think I have the only daughter who doesn't like going to the mall".....maybe that's true I have no clue.....the mall is expensive and too many people are around...there are much better deals at target and such. Plus more places other than the mall cater to plus size individuals in their clothing lines so that is where I have to shop when I need clothes so I'll give them my business on other items as well.........I just don't buy cds at walmart...they edit them...*LOL*
Now I am off to do my checkbook and then go wrap the presents I bought yesterday. Ron is busy playing red faction yet again...hehe....today we decided to just stay in the house..but neither of us have a buck to spare so we just have to. He was going to take back some extra pieces he had from the deck he recently built..but the van that is big enough to hold the stuff won't start cause the battery is dead..fun fun. I guess that's what you get when you buy a van for 1500...*hehe*
Take care all and give graciously this year to whatever charity you believe in. However an auction maybe if arranged for next year would be a good idea and a good source for funds to share even more than we thought possible.
Laters, Amanda in the potato state...*hehe*
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