February 24, 2005

Collecting
posted by Skrik 19 years ago
  • Was I the only person waiting for the flayed human faces section?
  • Too much visual stimulation . Brain .. overloading ... Bzzzzt
  • His books appear to be organised by TV tie-in. Do you think they are alphabetised within that? And can you spot any that have been opened?
  • His collections are invalid, as I'm pretty sure I saw some tar Wars stuff in with his 'TV sci-fi collection'. The guy knows NOTHING!!!!
  • I was thinking I'd hate to roll home sauced to a house like that - half his treasured memories destroyed in one drunken lurch.
  • Star Wars, I meant, obviously.
  • Any bets on how often he dusts? but... i do feel sane now... i guess everything IS relative!
  • OMG! Marry me mister and let's go to eBay together. We'll discuss pre-nup's later. *counts avidly*
  • I wonder what his porn collection is like...
  • Okay. I feel much better about my collection of paperclips now.
  • It's not that bad. Oh, I'm not saying that I would ever be foolish enough to collect all that, but as long as most of those were purchases of opportunity rather than active searching (Though I suspect the Dr. Who stuff would have to have been some of the more expensive acquisitions, as it very rarely ends up in auction houses or antique stores...No, wait, it's UK. I take it back, shouldn't be difficult to find), and presuming he has the space for it, it's not all that excessive. The tricky thing with collecting only one thing is that you're tempted to make the collection complete, or as complete as possible, and that leads to heavy expenses when you find something particularly rare. With multiple collections, you can just go until you find a good deal on something you don't have in one of those collections, which probability indicates won't be that difficult once the number of different collections approaches what we've seen above. Of course, finding a partner who will put up with that will be its own challenge, except in the case of dxlifer, of course. However, the Internet means never having to think "I'm the only one..."
  • nice display style for the keychains!
  • I feel sorry for him if he tries to move. Also, I didn't know there were that many of those little Whimsies... My collection is rather small. Though it's only one of very many.
  • Two comments: 1. Either he spends a LOT of time dusting that stuff, or it gets absolutely filthy. During my brief action-figure collecting period, I found that the little plastic nooks and crannies were dust-catchers par excellance. I made up for this by severely limiting my collection "space" (keeping undisplayed items in storage) and rotating the display items regularly and frequently, giving the pieces going into storage a good clean. 2. I've had collections of two things: action figures and video games. In both cases, when the collections started going into obscure or rare items, I wound up having to carry a list detailing my collections, in order to avoid forgetting exactly what I already had and buying multiple "missing" items. (And believe me, a "Chase the Chuckwagon" cartridge costs enough just for one of the things.) This, in the days before cheap PDAs, meant that I had to carry the list on paper. A friend of mine, another collector, helped me design a page on his Macintosh which contained my entire collection, just barely, with something like 1/16" margins. It was printed in the tiniest type his laser printer was capable of (something like 4-point, as I recall.) Just imagine the lists this guy has to carry. AND keep track of. A PDA would be a very good investment, I'd guess.
  • MightyClaw, what if this guy also rotates his collections? Imagine the storage! I couldn't imagine living in a house so full of knick-knacks. I'm not a minimalist but I don't like clutter. I think I'd go completely insane.
  • I asked Mrs Skrik if she wanted me to get a new hobby. Her face glowed; I use far too much time on the computer, she thinks. So I showed her the collection page, and now she is happy that I don't have any hobbies other than those I already have.
  • Was I the only person waiting for the flayed human faces section? Nope.
  • So I showed her the collection page, and now she is happy that I don't have any hobbies other than those I already have. Thanks again, Internet!
  • I don't know why, but some of the pictures made my skin crawl. Especially the ones with shelves and shelves of...toys. *shudder* But man, oh man, I would kill for that much shelf space!
  • *blush* I have the same proclivity for collecting things, however I go after things like 1940's - 60's casserole and baking sets, which I keep using all the time. Then there's my weakness for glasswares, especially blown and signed. And old copper and pewtar and pottery. A lot of it is in boxes for when I get the urge to 'renovate' my immediate possessions. I spend a lot of time prowling charity and second-hand outlets. But! I am currently negotiating with a friend to consign some of this to eBay. That should fund my next obssession.
  • I'll add that link to my 'obsessive-compulsive twits who gather too much plastic crap and feel the need to brag about it' collection.
  • I imagine him panicking every time a visitor comes over. DON'T TOUCH THAT! OR THAT! OR THAT!
  • i felt sorry for the mr men - they all looked so squished. i think i saw several items in copper in his brass collection.
  • We didn't get the blame for it, but the bloke has now withdrawn his site. He blames B3ta, which is reasonable.
  • His site is back up, with little blurbs about each collection.