Rambling
Reminder: helptheproject.
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I got into Transformers four or five years ago. Coincidentally, four or five years ago was when my grandfather died and Hurricane Katrina hit. (Those two incidents are unrelated, except that they both happened in the same year.) Now, I'm not saying I would never have gotten into Transformers if neither of those things had happened, but I don't think I would have become a toy-collector if they hadn't.
Let me explain. I shop to deal with grief. I shop to deal with depression. "Treating" myself, even if what I'm buying isn't always a treat and will just make me unhappy later when the bill comes.
Well, I have a whole bunch of Transformers toys these days, and I find myself looking at them and wondering what to do with them. Heck, most everything I've bought as a Transformers toy in the past two years is still in its box.
Some of the toys I love to death (you will pry boat-Elita from my cold, dead fingers), some of them are just... Signs of completism, I think. I've mostly sold those off by now, but there's still a lot of toys that are somewhere between "MINE!" and "what the heck was I thinking?".
This afternoon, I'm moving them and my Star Wars toys into my closet, to go with the rest of my Transformers and my GI Joes. There are way too many things in boxes, but it'll feel good to have the space in my room again.
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I got into Transformers four or five years ago. Coincidentally, four or five years ago was when my grandfather died and Hurricane Katrina hit. (Those two incidents are unrelated, except that they both happened in the same year.) Now, I'm not saying I would never have gotten into Transformers if neither of those things had happened, but I don't think I would have become a toy-collector if they hadn't.
Let me explain. I shop to deal with grief. I shop to deal with depression. "Treating" myself, even if what I'm buying isn't always a treat and will just make me unhappy later when the bill comes.
Well, I have a whole bunch of Transformers toys these days, and I find myself looking at them and wondering what to do with them. Heck, most everything I've bought as a Transformers toy in the past two years is still in its box.
Some of the toys I love to death (you will pry boat-Elita from my cold, dead fingers), some of them are just... Signs of completism, I think. I've mostly sold those off by now, but there's still a lot of toys that are somewhere between "MINE!" and "what the heck was I thinking?".
This afternoon, I'm moving them and my Star Wars toys into my closet, to go with the rest of my Transformers and my GI Joes. There are way too many things in boxes, but it'll feel good to have the space in my room again.