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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Hoarding is a word that scares me......my late grandad was an engineer all his life and obviously felt that ANYTHING "could" be useful. So upon his death we had to clear the house and worse still the loft...
... we found pretty much every electrical appliance he'd ever owned, along with what I suspect may be every magazine he'd ever bought. No less than 150 albums of stamps (sold at auction, including every "first day cover" for 50 years). It went on and on. Even encompassing the remnants of some projects he'd worked on in the past such as an early plastic explosive (buried it!) and a working steam train about 2 ft long.
Most was junk so we had to take it to the tip by car. I kid you not we loaded the car full, making multiple trips all day every saturday and sunday for 8 weeks. I reckon we made just over 100 trips. It got to the point we were friendly with the guy at the tip who would pretty much unload the car for us to see what we had.
Subsequently my mum is SO terrified of accumulating "stuff" she has hardly any furniture, allows NOTHING to be put in the loft at all. Only gets books from the library and regularly turns out the cupboard etc.
She's pretty much told me her aim is that when she dies we can put everything in 1 cardboard box and drop it off at the charity shop. At least it's gonna make my job easier!
(, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 12:21, Reply)
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