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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My Mum......collects beads. Yes, beads of the strung-on-a-necklace variety. She does a sideline in buttons too. She's been hoarding them for years.
She goes to car boot sales and buys anything beady she can find, then meticulously dismantles her acquisitons and harvests the beads. She now has quite literally millions of the fucking things, and has organised them using almost a dozen of those workshop-type screw-drawer units.
When she has time, she makes (admittedly quite cool) necklaces, bracelets etc for family and friends. But she doesn't have the time often, and the collection just keeps on growing.
I've actually figured out why she does this - it's the same reason as why I got into IT. Thing is, life is chaos for us and always has been (I doubt we're unique in that respect), and it seems that those things over which we can impose some semblance of order are a comfort to us.
I love my mam, but I worry about her sometimes. I didn't return a call from her for a couple of days this week, and three of my mates texted me to tell me that she'd called them asking if I was okay - I'm 34, FFS :)
(, Fri 19 Jan 2007, 9:36, Reply)
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