When I was thinking about this prompt, my "stripe collection" popped into my head. It seems I have a thing for striped shirts. I don't purposely go shopping to buy stripes, it just happens.
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When I was younger I collected post cards like a fiend. I bugged everyone I knew and asked them to send me a post card from wherever they travelled...or from wherever they lived at the time...or...or free post cards they found in magazines or at the doctor's office or the free ones from budget hotels...you get the point. ANY post card. I proudly tacked them up on my bedroom wall (along with my Bop and Tiger Beat posters of New Kids on the Block, Corey Haim, Troy Aikman and the likes). I didn't collect a particular genre like cityscapes or food - I was happy with anything.
Deltiology - is the study and collection of post cards.
Once I moved away from home I took them all down and packed them in my cedar chest where they've remained for the past 15 years. I have continued to collect, just not as wildly. When we go somewhere new, fun or exciting I buy at least three postcards - one for each of the kids' baby books and one for me. If someone else is going somewhere and I remember I'll ask them to send me one.
I pulled a handful from my cedar chest this morning for this photo opportunity.
And from that pile (which is just a small sampling) I pulled a few favorites.
L to R:
1. Happy New Year from Around the World - from my junior high Japanese pen pal. Hi Masako!
2. Man ballerina, black and white - from a dear friend who supported my post card habit!
3. Hedgehog by Anne Geddes - loved the message on the back from another dear friend: "Nothing new here - just work and run around and never clean my house, oh well!"
4. This was a post card I picked up advertising a free lecture series at the college I attended, but I sent it home to my parents. I wrote very random blurbs all over the back between the lecture info, like "big hair-->" (pointing to the lecturer) and "I broke the zipper on my Guess jeans...AGAIN!" Freshman 15, anyone?
5. I was a HUGE Friends fan. This one was of Joey and Phoebe.
Phoebe, what do you think a good stage name for me would be? --Joey
Flame-boy. --Phoebe
6. The last one with the tortellini salad recipe on the front was from my vehicle service department reminding me I had a service appointment coming up. Ummmm, OK.
What do you collect? Snap a picture and head over to Adventuroo to link up and Capture the Everyday!
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11 comments:
What a great collection of post cards! My daughter LOVES to receive mail (she's 4), so my sister (in the UK) sends her one regularly from places that she visits, and we send some (from my daughter) to some of her little friends overseas - it's a nice way of remembering places and sending a little memoir to someone else:)
Thanks for sharing your collections,
Kristina :)
PS. I had to laugh at your "clutter" comment above - I'm constantly cleaning at home because I don't like clutter, yet sitting among someone else's makes me feel so comfortable... I don't know why that is:)
I collect pens. I love pens of all kinds. Bright ones, smoothe writing ones.Markers. All different colors and what not to match all the little notebooks I collect. I have gotten better with the notebooks though.
Jill from vb
What a fun post!! I love your post card collection! I'm not much of a collector, I do have a pink glass collection though that I started when I was about 19, I have a fair amount although I have also given some pieces away. It is fun to have something that you love to remember special times or people. Thanks for a great post!
Funny! I have a plethora of striped shirts too and I don't go looking for them either, actually I am now at the point where I try to avoid stripes yet they still find me. Past that I am not a big collector, I have a lot of books, does that count? Some people might say I collect kids I have six of those :)
Mandi, I love your post. Too cute. I have a thing for stripes too, I call them my Grandma clothes because she wore a lot of stripes.
Seriously, I was that girl with the Bop and Tiger Beats all over her wall. Now I am that Mom with the daughter posting Bop and Tiger Beat pics on her wall.
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Julie
Love your stripe collection hehe. And the postcards are awesome! I don't actually collect anything, believe it or not. I've had collections in the past, but none that lasted.
Like Cheryl, I do have a couple thousand books, so we'll say I am a collector of books =)
wow what a great collection! I was never a huge collector. my husband and I collect disney mugs but we don't have a huge collection yet and then we have little things we have started to collect but I don't have a big collection of ANYTHING from when I was a kid or for that long. That is so neat and I can tell they bring such good fond memories. coming to you from VB. take care, new follower.
kathryn
I'm terrible at collecting, unless collecting clothes and shoes that I wear once and forget about is a collecting hobby. I tried to start collecting magnets from everywhere I visited, but it turns out they're so damn expensive, and also, I forget to look for them sometimes, so I failed epically at that intended hobby. And my oh my, you sure do like striped! :-)
Post cards are a great thing to collect. I like how you got your friends involved. It's great to have the messages on the back too.
Just the mention of Tiger Beat sent me zooming back to the 80s! I also love postcards-- I feel like I have to get them when we go places! And your #6 postcard was funny-- I mean auto service and recipes? Ummm okay is right!
Postcards! I frame them in collages to brighten up my sitting room. And yarn. And probably notebooks, I have a thing for beautiful stationery and blank pages! :)
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