:-)
Allen Esterson
Former lecturer, Science Department
Southwark College, London
allenester...@compuserve.com
http://www.esterson.org
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[tips] Collecting
Mike Wiliams
Sun, 31 Oct 2010 07:48:30 -0700
My 2 cents on collecting. I have a rather long comment because I h
My 2 cents on collecting. I have a rather long comment because I have
been a collector
ever since I started a coin collection when I was 10. I now have a
large collection of
Japanese woodblock prints, original news photographs, original props and
costumes
from Star Trek and books and other eph
Depending on the culture,my thinking is that just as we utilize the term
"comfort foods" as underlying obesity,men's
collectibles could come under the umbrella of "comfort spending".Men
probably define themselves by the amount of "stuff" they accumulate.My idea
of comfort spending parallels
This is a great study waiting to happen ! Someone needs to encourage a student
to do it.
Annette
tay...@sandiego.edu
(nancy, you can use this email, I have a hard time with lots of replies from my
cellphone)
Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone
William Scott wrote:
I have two pairs of shoes
I have two pairs of shoes and 13 guitars. My wife has ~50 pairs of shoes and no
guitars. Both of us see one of these "collections" as reasonable and the other
as a waste of time and money.
My wife points out that I only have two hands and therefore can handle only one
guitar at a time. I point
Stephen Black writes on the question of male/female collecting:
>But if Allen is right, and men are more likely to collect,
>perhaps the cause is economic rather than genetic.
>Collecting is an expensive habit to indulge, and men
>have more disposable income available to spend on it.
There may be
Allen's interesting conjecture below seems not to have attracted
any takers. Perhaps it was overlooked due to its header, or
perhaps all he really wanted to do was discuss anything but
horse archetypes.
So I'm trying it out with a more descriptive header.
On 26 Oct 2010 at 4:12, Allen Esters
