Yes … I’m a Collector...

For some reason this kinda feels like a confession. “Hi, my name is Alona, and I’m a collector”. So just when does an interest in something suddenly turn into collector status? I figure if you have 1 or 2 items in your collection, it is an interest. Item 3-5 … there’s twinges of a collector starting, 5 and after … admit it, you are a collector. And after 10, you’re a die-hard. Some people seem to have more of an affinity for collecting, others probably start because of a certain something. Me … well I’ve sort of been a collector for a long time. The Cambridge Dictionary defines a collection as: “a group of objects of one type that have been collected by one person or in one place” I guess my parents encouraged it by buying me Mr Men books and Smurfs when I was little, so I had quite a collection of both back in the day. I remember that back in primary school I used to collect stickers, and I had a whole book with them stuck in. There was brand stickers, places I’d visited stickers, slogan stickers and so on. I was proud of my sticker collection, and yet I have no idea what happened to it. Then I had a rubber collection (note: that’s erasers for my US readers). It was quite a collection, as I had probably over 50 of them. And I had pretty much every novelty one that you could get. Again, I don’t remember what happened to that. But I do remember the excitement of going to the city, and going to my favourite shop and looking for more. Another thing I collected was sew-on badges. You know the ones you...

Two More Convicts in the Family...

Last week was very exciting as I added to more convicts to my family … woohoo, yippee, happy dance 😉 Well it was almost as exciting as that. Last week I received two more convict smurfs to add to my collection, which now brings my total to eight. Back in my childhood, when Smurfs they first came out I was a collector, and from memory I had about 30 or so, I’m really not sure what happened to that collection. But anyway recently (in the last year or so) I have resurrected my interest in Smurfs, but have now narrowed my interest to ONLY the convict ones. I’m not really sure why I chose convict ones, expect they seemed very appropriate and a family historian who has convict roots. Also it saves me money since they don’t come up for sale that often. Anyway when TWO came up for sale on ebay within the one week, they had to be MINE!!!! Long story short, auctions won, items posted, and Smurfs arrived … so here’s my little convict smurf family. Thanks to my two new convict smurfs, my collection of eight of them is actually starting to look like a collection ;-). Anyway what is it that you collect? And do you find it super-exciting when you get something new that you can add to your collection?...