The Joy of a Collectible

When I was a little kid the coolest thing to do was own a collectible of one sort or another. Every year I had a new collectible I was obsessed with, that I would want to collect and show to all of my friends. I don’t know why, but this hobby consumed me when I was little and landed me with a whole assortment of different things.

The biggest collectible I was fascinated with as a child was erasers. Don’t ask me why, because I have no idea, but I thought erasers were super cool. No matter where I was, whenever erasers were sold or given out, I had to get at least one. I kept all of these collectibles in a big shoebox and I would often get them out and count them, arrange them by size and color, and categorize them. Never were they actually used for their erasing purpose. No, instead, they were something to look at and admire. I guess I thought they were very pretty and exciting. To this day I am not sure what I did with this assortment of erasers. I don’t know if I gave them away, sold them in a garage sale, or still have them (which is the most likely scenario).

Although my eraser obsession continued throughout my childhood as my main collectible, there were many other collectibles I tried to come across as a kid. Although erasers always triumphed as my favorite, I did have a sticker phase when I though stickers were the coolest collectible ever. It seemed like every little girl had a fascination with stickers and it was fun to trade them and wear them. Stickers were harder to keep new and clean because I always liked sticking them one place or another. My friends and I all had huge sticker collections and it was never difficult to find a sticker I liked, that I wanted to add to my collectible sticker collection. Stickers were also fun to play with whenever we played school because we could stick them on our “students’” papers for a job well done, just like our real teachers at school did. To this day, I still hold on to stickers for one purpose or another.

Another collectible I liked as a little girl was headbands and bows. Some people might argue that hair things cannot be a collectible, but I beg to differ. How is it not a collectible if you do collect it? Who is to say what is a collectible and what is not? In my opinion, it is all subjective. Whenever my mom and I went to the store I always found a new headband or bow I wanted to buy that would match one of my outfits. I loved going to school and showing off my new headband or bow and by the time I was ten I had so many I could not keep track of them. This collectible interest faded however, as soon as I went into middle school and frilly hair accessories were no longer acceptable.

No matter what I was collecting as a child, finding a collectible of one kind or another was always fun and exciting for me.  Having a goal and working towards something taught me the importance of trying and achieving and I hope that one day my own kids have an interest in accumulating one collectible or another.

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