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I'm in the same boat with my goofy collection of firecracker packs and labels. The big problem there is on eBay where a rarity shows up and goes for an outlandish price. Then if the seller has duplicates a wealthy collector will swoop in and buy everything the seller was going to put in his next offerings. Poof! Gone. Good for buyers as they pick up trading stock, but bad for them as if they try to resell no collectors will pay nearly as much as the original sold for, now knowing that more examples exist. Collecting is still fun though, and we have a fairly long list of "one-offs' that includes the only known examples of some of the 'brands' once on the market.
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A key aspect of my staying grounded in a world gone mad is that Ive never lost the sense of what it's like to struggle...to be a "have not." So even after achieving a fairly uncommon success level in life, I'm simply not wired to want to 'acquire' things beyond some point.
It varies, of course, based on what that 'thing' or 'experience' is. But I always know it when I'm there.
Dropping 20k on a beautifully engraved gun, or a painting, or a Tiffany lamp, or even a once in a lifetime experience...those things I get, and have done, and consider part of allowing yourself to enjoy life.
But 20k for a cardboard box is just...
He's been gone a long time, but I can perfectly imagine my father's ice blue eyes glaring at me in astonishment. *lol*
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I have always admired a man more for what he could do than for what he had.
Nonetheless, sometimes it's fun watching other people part with their $$$.
May God bless America and those who defend her.
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As Lord Kelvin famously said science is physics and the rest is just stamp collecting. Lots of truth there.
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I have always admired a man more for what he could do than for what he had. Might maybe be a correlation there. _________________________ I spent half my money on gambling, wild women and alcohol. The rest I just wasted. W.C. Fields
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It gets to the point where you have too much stuff.
We all have the same amount of time each day, for some of us we can get all the stuff we want but we really don’t have time to enjoy it.
I don’t need five houses. I don’t need 10 boats. I don’t need 50 shotguns.
Some people do.
if I had tens of millions of dollars, and wanted to have the rarest and most desired thing to sit on a bookshelf that I probably would forget about a week after I bought it, it would be no hardship to do so.
I prefer that when people reach the point in life where they really have far more than they’ll ever need, that they choose to do good things.
Sometimes on the way there people surround them selves with objects. Sort of reminds me of a hermit crab, and the way they decorate their shell with stuff as they scurry around on the ocean floor.
Out there doing it best I can.
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It gets to the point where you have too much stuff. Reckon the feller buyin’ h’aint there yet. ___________________________ Seller prolly sure glad for that ol’ hermit crab though. Figure he’ll give the proceeds to a worthy cause.
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Reminds me of Dr. Barnes in Philadelphia. World’s biggest collector of Renoir paintings. I have to say, Renoir must’ve got a good deal on green paint when he was selling those things to Dr. Barnes, because there is row after row of them in the museum, and the background in every one is green.
Dr. Barnes had plenty of money, but there must’ve come a time when interest transitioned into obsession.
If you don’t have someone telling you how great you are for what you do, or what you have, having all kinds of stuff goes hollow pretty quick.
Out there doing it best I can.
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The box might contain Geraldo Riviera's empty whiskey bottle.
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If you don’t have someone telling you how great you are for what you do, or what you have, having all kinds of stuff goes hollow pretty quick. Spoken from experience? I have the opposite problem. Let’s me know I must be doing something right. ____________________________ People say I’m no good and crazy as a loon. Charlie Daniels
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