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<blockquote data-quote="Signorina" data-source="post: 609922"><p>I am not one who is drawn to collecting. I have quite a few collections started for me by other people -and the problem with that is that people see you have a "bunch" of something so they add to it and the collection grows...even though it isn't particularly close to one's heart. Not that I am ungrateful...</p><p></p><p>H gave me a Christmas Teddy Bear - which I loved - when we were first dating. He has since bought me a bear (sometimes 2 or 3) for every Christmas since then. They were great Christmas Decorations when the boys were small - because they were festive and child friendly and I could group them in our 2 bay windows and up our stairs in our former home. When we moved here, we no longer had little ones or bay windows or a stairway... and H was hurt that the bears didn't get put out. So I put them out and they drive me a bit batty - there are over 40 bears now and there's nowhere to put them unless in a mass pile in a corner and they topple over each other & look a mess! I finally, gently had to ask him to stop adding to the collection in leaps and bounds, especially the large bears. He still loves them and still wants to add to them and is talking of building/buying benches so they can be displayed under the eaves in our finished attic. Of course, people who have seen the bears over the years think that I collect them and have added to them. ugh (shhhhh)</p><p></p><p>My mom always thought I should collect something - and has started various collections over the years for me. I have a clown collection, a foreign doll collection (remember those? Small dolls dressed in the national costume? Great for show & tell in the 1970s), a lladro collection, a crystal handcooler collection, a music box collection, my grandmothers "Franklin Mint plate" collection (I am dating myself), a demitasse cup collection (hand me downs from her own demitasse cup collection) and probably many others over the years that I can't think of! </p><p></p><p>My own? Really only Christmas Angels. I like Angels. So for a while, I bought an Angel each year. Not the tree top kind, mostly just decorative - glass usually. I have about a dozen. I like the idea of angels watching over us. Also, H and I try to buy a Christmas ornament or an angel every time we travel to a new place - and if we can't find one, we buy a Christmas ornament at Christmas time to represent where we went. We started that on our honeymoon and it's a great souvenir of our (few) travels. (I'm not much of a souvenir person either) </p><p></p><p>Oh, and apparently I collect black tops. If you look in my closet, you will find that way too many of my blouses, shirts and sweaters are black . If I find a shirt I like, I tend to buy it in black. I am trying to stop doing that. It just goes with everything, can be slimming and doesn't show dirt. What can I say?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Signorina, post: 609922"] I am not one who is drawn to collecting. I have quite a few collections started for me by other people -and the problem with that is that people see you have a "bunch" of something so they add to it and the collection grows...even though it isn't particularly close to one's heart. Not that I am ungrateful... H gave me a Christmas Teddy Bear - which I loved - when we were first dating. He has since bought me a bear (sometimes 2 or 3) for every Christmas since then. They were great Christmas Decorations when the boys were small - because they were festive and child friendly and I could group them in our 2 bay windows and up our stairs in our former home. When we moved here, we no longer had little ones or bay windows or a stairway... and H was hurt that the bears didn't get put out. So I put them out and they drive me a bit batty - there are over 40 bears now and there's nowhere to put them unless in a mass pile in a corner and they topple over each other & look a mess! I finally, gently had to ask him to stop adding to the collection in leaps and bounds, especially the large bears. He still loves them and still wants to add to them and is talking of building/buying benches so they can be displayed under the eaves in our finished attic. Of course, people who have seen the bears over the years think that I collect them and have added to them. ugh (shhhhh) My mom always thought I should collect something - and has started various collections over the years for me. I have a clown collection, a foreign doll collection (remember those? Small dolls dressed in the national costume? Great for show & tell in the 1970s), a lladro collection, a crystal handcooler collection, a music box collection, my grandmothers "Franklin Mint plate" collection (I am dating myself), a demitasse cup collection (hand me downs from her own demitasse cup collection) and probably many others over the years that I can't think of! My own? Really only Christmas Angels. I like Angels. So for a while, I bought an Angel each year. Not the tree top kind, mostly just decorative - glass usually. I have about a dozen. I like the idea of angels watching over us. Also, H and I try to buy a Christmas ornament or an angel every time we travel to a new place - and if we can't find one, we buy a Christmas ornament at Christmas time to represent where we went. We started that on our honeymoon and it's a great souvenir of our (few) travels. (I'm not much of a souvenir person either) Oh, and apparently I collect black tops. If you look in my closet, you will find that way too many of my blouses, shirts and sweaters are black . If I find a shirt I like, I tend to buy it in black. I am trying to stop doing that. It just goes with everything, can be slimming and doesn't show dirt. What can I say? [/QUOTE]
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