Must Acquire for my Collection

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We all surround ourselves with “stuff” that makes us happy. It is how we are trained in consumerism.

Books, music, photos, toys and even necessities give us the comfort called “home”.

Familiar faces of family and friends surround the walls as if they were always present.

And when the time comes that the fundamentals of life are satisfied, we explore for more. We start collecting.

Each collection may have some personal meaning like the place where you met your true love or that special honeymoon at the beach or maybe your college traditions or a special animal or artist style or song. There are hundreds of sites and sounds that can make us happy or remember a time gone by when things were happy.

So we connect with an item or style, which begins to define us. Guests come into our space and we display our collections to impress them.

After many years of pleasing another then cleaning out the house, I realized just how much stuff I had been buying. It amazed me.

Then I started to look around and see everyone does this. Must be a human trait to collect things and store them in a safe place so we can have them at the ready anytime we want to see them.

Really?

Beatle records, lighthouse porcelains, sewing machines, balls of yarn, screwdrivers, old magazines, historical memorabilia, old children’s clothes, awards and accolades, pet toys, shoes that don’t fit, boxes of old school papers, guitars, event tee-shirts, books, ticket stubs, family jewelry, hundreds of photos, and even automobiles; the list goes on and on detailing the amount of “stuff” we keep

Since our collections define our lives, they become birthday presents or Christmas presents or holiday gifts or just special purchases to make someone happy. They accumulate and can overwhelm, as they seem to multiply. Sometimes they lose appreciation but they keep coming.

And the next generation will have to decide if they want to expand their collections or turn your collections into trash.