My CollectionDo you have display cabinets full of stuff? With it all neatly labelled, cross-referenced and entered into a database. Have you been to a convention? Do other collectors look up to you in awe?
I thought I was above this one. I'm not that autistically geeky that I have a Collection with a capital C. But no, I remembered I'm hoarding away every version of "Inside Macintosh" ever published.
What do you collect? And why? I mean, what makes you do it?
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chthonic, Thu 11 Jan 2007, 16:52)
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I collect nothing, almostI used to be a serious, serious hoarder. My Grandmother started me off when I was about six by "tidying my room" and burning all my treasured comics and any other flammable objects she could find. After that I couldn't bear to throw anything away and started accumulating collections of anything that came in my direction.
By the time I left university the objects I had gathered would have filled a lorry, though I didn't own anything as substantial as furniture. It was around this point that I found myself living in Prague with my precious belongings gathering dust in a huge locker in a storage facility in the UK. Over the next couple of years I lived out of a rucksack and when I returned I just looked at the piles of crap (and the huge storage bill) and said "fuck it". 50% went in the bins, 30% to charity shops, 15% was worth selling on ebay and the kernel of memories that were left I taped up and put in my mum's loft. Honestly it's made me a lot happier - it's like a weight has been lifted from my life, especially the responsibility of having to pay safestore every two weeks. I might still have a music collection, though it now exists as fifteen dvds full of mp3s, and I can put it in my pocket.
Sorry for length, and possible boringness.
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Zuowan, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 11:59,
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