Collections are amazing things. For 10 minutes or so this morning I looked though a person’s collection of badges that a foolhardy parent was selling at a car boot sale. They were officially awesome. And 5 pence each.
There is a moment in High Fidelity when the protagonist can’t bring himself to buy a collection of rare records from a women who is selling her ex’s collection. I felt like this today. There was too much love and time invested in these badges for them to be sold off for peanuts in a field on a Sunday morning.
Although I wanted them all, I allowed myself just 50p’s worth.
Here are some of them:
Hey, There’s egg on your teeth!
Surely, nationality should not be the only criterion.
Can you imagine the co-op in Lapland?
ButterflyPolite’s motto.
So, what collections have you started today?
Andy
5 responses so far ↓
Andy // July 1, 2008 at 8:05 am
I wore “C.D Ask me?” yesterday.
And people do.
Badges work!
Jon // July 1, 2008 at 10:29 am
That’s kind of heart breaking isn’t it? I wonder what the former badge collector is doing right now? Hopefully he or she is still around and collecting other things that will comfort him/her when they find out that their mum sold all their childhood memories for sweet feck all…
Klaus Barbi // July 1, 2008 at 3:56 pm
“Einfach bitten Sie mich, mich zurück zu stoppen oder zu küssen” said the fraulein when I wore the “Kiss me I’m German badge”. (Just tell me to stop, or kiss me back).
Doug // July 1, 2008 at 6:45 pm
A friend of mine lost ALL of his star wars figures, including the millennium falcon, and an at-at walker via his mum’s car boot activity without his consent/prior knowledge.
Harsh reality of life, precious things can be taken from us without warning.
As for my own collections… I picked up a bargain star wars set, loads of figures, millennium falcon, at-at walker, the works; all from a car boot, some woman didn’t really know what she was selling… what a steal!
Siobhan // July 2, 2008 at 8:24 pm
This is really sad but I used to collect the lids of the Smartie tubes to see how many it would take me to get the whole alphabet. It took quite a few which I kept in an old Christmas card box until my mum found them and threw them out. Shame, they don’t even have lids anymore! Although I doubt they’d be worth anything anyway.