Nathalie,
I must confess, the only flack I've ever received over poster collecting
was from my wife and that was more along the lines of "Can we afford
that right now...." which I'm sure we've all heard (though some of us
hear it from husbands rather than wives! ;) I /have/ gotten those
question-mark-eyed looks followed by, "Wha tha!?" But what collector
hasn't? hehe
What I was eluding to is that I believe there is an actual "pack rat
gene" that causes people such as myself and many other "collectors" (and
it seems, more often than not, left-handed people for some reason). I
believe this theory has been validated by a 60 Minutes episode I saw
some time ago. I have been packing rats since I was 5 or 6. :) The
first thing I remember collecting was free rest area maps and
brochures! By the time I was 12 I had probably 200+ maps! I started
collecting comic books around age 7 or 8, baseball cards in 1987 (on a
trip across the country with my dad from Baltimore to San
Jose...somewhere in the middle I bought a pack of 1987 Topps
cards...mostly for the gum; after that day I believe I had my parents
spend well over $2000 on cards on top of every cent of my allowance over
the next 5 years; I ALWAYS had more cards than any of my friends;
there's nothing like the thrill of opening 36 packs of cards having no
clue what you will get!), movie posters at 18 when I started working for
Bruce, music CDs (at one point, had around 500, BMG hated me!), guitar
magazines (if you have any to sell, I'll pay $2 per for the ones I
need), wooden tobacco pipes, plastic promo cups (from McDonald's,
baseball stadiums, etc...I had over 100 at one point), and too many
other things to mention. Luckily most of these collections don't cost
much. I reserve the money for movie posters. :)
So what about everyone else? Seems to me the Pack Rat gene/collections
history is a great on-topic topic that we can all chime in on.
What'd'yall think?
Phil
Steven Yafet wrote:
Just had to reply to a portion of Phillip's last post.
As a movie paper collector and collector of too much stuff for too many
years, no one has ever in my entire life given me any kind of flack
about my habit or implied that I was somehow different because of it.
The only problems I had were when my relatives (NOT my immediate
family) thought it was very odd for a girl to have "monster stuff" all
over her room. Then, years later, some dealers were condescending to
me when I tried to buy Universal horror paper (and other such) Some
even assumed I was trying to buy a gift for my husband because how
could it be for me - right?
Nathalie
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