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Collectibles, everybody has them. I think that the truest saying I ever heard was that one person's trash was another person's treasure. I have seen people collect things that I never would have thought anyone wanted. Some collections even attract bugs, such as a potato chip collection. Oh you never heard of anyone collecting potato chips? It seem that every once in a while someone will spot a potato chip that they think looks like someone, or something and they put it into a collection. One lady says she is the world's only potato chip collector, but I have seen several talked about on the Internet. Anyway, she was a former potato chip inspector. She says that her most famous potato chip is her Bob Hope chip. He always was a little salty. She keeps it in a velvet box lined with cotton. She says that if anything ever happens to it, it can never be replaced. I guess she is right about that. Some of her other chips include Rodney Dangerfield, Mickey Mouse and Moby Dick.
Eyeball Another lady is into collecting eyeballs. Oh not real eyeballs, that would be gross, these are replica eyeballs and objects that have eyeballs on them. An example would be her plastic bowl with a big eyeball painted on the bottom for all to see. She is even saving an eyeball cake that must be petrified by now. She has eyeball key chains, candy dispensers, toys of all sorts and a nice eyeball camera. You can never have enough of these. She has a flaming eyeball that she says is supposed to go atop a car antenna, but there are not many cars with antennas anymore. One eyeball has arms and legs and another hangs from a necklace with matching earrings. For those of you that are into sports, she has eyeball ping-pong balls. For the well dressed she has a nice pair of eyeball socks to keep you tootsies warm in the winter. There is a man who lives in Sweden that has an odd collection. He collects Barf Bags from the airlines. I don't know how many he has, but I hope that are all unused. In years gone by some people used what were known as calling cards. They were in the form of business cards, but were personal with you name, address and phone number, if you had one. These cards have become valuable collectibles. When I was a kid we all had bottle cap collections. We would go to the local grocery or candy store, where soda was kept in a cooler of ice water. You would buy a soda, and use a device on the side to pop off the cap which fell into a drawer. The kids would all go in to the store and ask if they could take the caps. Today people still collect bottle caps. Some old bottle caps are worth money. A 1950 Coke cap that had Coke on it sells for $2.00, if it has Coca-Cola on it it sells for $3.99.
Toilet Paper There is actually a collection of toilet paper on line. It is divided into a Contemporary Collection, the Vintage Collection and Toilet Paper Art. The Contemporary Collection houses all the modern brands in sealed glass containers. The Vintage Collection has toilet paper that dates back to the late 1800s. It seems that rolled perforated toilet paper appeared in the late 1870s, or early 1880s. In the old days the process of making toilet paper sometimes left wood splinters in the paper. OUCH! There is a guy that actually collects fingernails and toenails. He carries the box with him where ever he goes. I think that enough is said about this. There are people that collect everything lollipop. They not only collect the sweet confection, but lollypop buttons, pictures, songs, art and lollipop shaped gadgets. There is even lollypop shaped jewelry. One collection that seemed strange to me was a brick collection. I guess when you think about it, it does have historical value and goodness knows it makes more sense than a toenail collection. It turns out that a lot of bricks have markings on them to indicate where they were made and because of this, you can know about when they were manufactured, because a lot of these companies went out of business. You certainly wouldn't want, or be able to carry your collection with you, but thanks to modern photography, you certainly could carry a disk with photos of it or a USB storage device.
Celebrity Trash Celebrity trash has become a collectible over the years. People go out and raid a famous person's garbage can and take things like used napkins, dirty cups and even worse things and sort of venerate them. I personally think that this is disgusting, but there are many people who would love to get there hands on a used tissue from someone like Madonna. If I were famous, the last thing that I would want is someone going through my garbage. The more average collectors collect things like stamps, coins, match book covers, ornaments or Star Trek memorabilia. I myself have a habit of picking up any Star Trek Item I see, but none of them ever got to be worth anything. I have a Star Trek watch, remote control, telephone, computer game, ring, cassette holder, a few ornaments and the catalog from the big Star Trek auction. I couldn't afford to bid on any of the items, so I bought the catalog as a keepsake. The catalog alone was $75.00. There are marble collectors, art collectors, sculpture collectors and Egyptology collectors, just to name a few. It probably turns out that we are all collectors in some way. |
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