Collecting The Past
The height of my geek-collecting, was in the 90s. Monies from National Service and subsequently a paying job, helped fuel my obsessions through the decade.
Folks on TOYSREVIL know me from my adventures in 1/6 and urban-slash-designer vinyls from 2000's onwards, but a decade before that, I had a unusually robust relationship with my comicbook shops, as I over indulged in my passions and addictions on a weekly basis.
And while comicbooks was a Way Of Life, Trading Cards were my addiction. The current concept of "blind boxes" is not new to me, in fact it revived my fond memories of blind packs, as I am surrounded by stacks of loose and hand-collated non-hobby trading card surrounding my immediate space...
There were Coca-Cola cards and memorabilia too, but I was a mere pedestrian in the larger scheme of things. I collected movie memorabilia as much as I adored watching and eventually working on them, for close to a decade too. I've since stopped both Coke and cards collecting tho, and comicbooks too, but for "toys" ... and the EVIL they transgress on my miseried bank account!
All of these came round the bend and re-flooded back into my life, as I repack my hoard, and most currently prepping for my upcoming flea market, which essentially is focused on retro revivals, and hence gives a renewed "meaning" to my hoard, and justification on their existence thru the years! Unless I am, unable to move them at the flea market, then I'll have to admit that they are only "treasures" in my hearts but junk to passing memories.
The law of 20/20 vision extends to then embedded memories of before, which might have served to romanticise the past, but in this day and age now? Maybe some memories are better left forgotten, or items abandoned with time, so we could engage with the new?
Instinctively I do not beleaguer my abject lack of finances the past decade-plus, as I know I would have little self-control to have continued to feed my addictions LOL
Come may flea market the coming weekend Friday December 20th to Sunday 22nd (Details HERE) and help alleviate my geekery, if not to share and reminisce, before "2024" ends!
Cheers,
Andy TOYSREVIL
Folks on TOYSREVIL know me from my adventures in 1/6 and urban-slash-designer vinyls from 2000's onwards, but a decade before that, I had a unusually robust relationship with my comicbook shops, as I over indulged in my passions and addictions on a weekly basis.
And while comicbooks was a Way Of Life, Trading Cards were my addiction. The current concept of "blind boxes" is not new to me, in fact it revived my fond memories of blind packs, as I am surrounded by stacks of loose and hand-collated non-hobby trading card surrounding my immediate space...
There were Coca-Cola cards and memorabilia too, but I was a mere pedestrian in the larger scheme of things. I collected movie memorabilia as much as I adored watching and eventually working on them, for close to a decade too. I've since stopped both Coke and cards collecting tho, and comicbooks too, but for "toys" ... and the EVIL they transgress on my miseried bank account!
All of these came round the bend and re-flooded back into my life, as I repack my hoard, and most currently prepping for my upcoming flea market, which essentially is focused on retro revivals, and hence gives a renewed "meaning" to my hoard, and justification on their existence thru the years! Unless I am, unable to move them at the flea market, then I'll have to admit that they are only "treasures" in my hearts but junk to passing memories.
The law of 20/20 vision extends to then embedded memories of before, which might have served to romanticise the past, but in this day and age now? Maybe some memories are better left forgotten, or items abandoned with time, so we could engage with the new?
Instinctively I do not beleaguer my abject lack of finances the past decade-plus, as I know I would have little self-control to have continued to feed my addictions LOL
Come may flea market the coming weekend Friday December 20th to Sunday 22nd (Details HERE) and help alleviate my geekery, if not to share and reminisce, before "2024" ends!
Cheers,
Andy TOYSREVIL
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