A collection is born
Why do some people live for collecting and others just see them as clutter?
Out of my four sisters, 2 of us are die hard collector's, (never met a collection we didn't want to start and master) while my other two sisters seem very happy to take or leave them, ...preferable probably to leave them. Now part of this came from necessity, my youngest sister moved several times in a row, so it seemed optimal not to have too much to move. And my oldest sister, having been to her house recently, seems to have mastered living the clutter free life- but the other two of us find such meaning in our pursuit of perfect collections, that you can hardly walk into our houses without finding one in each room- from dolls from the 70's, to PVC plastic figurines, and everything in between.
Maybe it is genetic. We got the gene from my dad who loves to collect with such a passion, that he has dozens of unopened VHS movies in his collection. He does not keep them unopened b/c of collector value, but just b/c he enjoys owning a full collection! My mother on the other hand, has a certain glee about organizing, alphabetizing, shrinking, and then hopefully removing his collections!
I think there is a pure, and possibly unexplainable, joy to some people in collecting things they love. I myself get an undefined pleasure out of looking through my collections. They have meaning to me in so many different ways. Most of them begin b/c they represented some memory to me of childhood. But other collections having meaning in my current life of something that I love to look at, making me smile every time I see them. I think that all people have these possessions that they drag with them from house to house, and apartment to apartment, not quite being able to let go of them. Even though they don't look at them often, there is some comfort in knowing they still own them.
It is a meaning I hope people find with my baseballs. My latest line that I have created really speaks to this idea. It is centered around great moments in baseball that will have such special meaning to people who were at these events, or are fans of these teams. Seeing them will bring back that joy, because we all have a soft spot for collections that remind us of something we loved.
Small business advice for the day:
If you create a product that is purely decorative, be sure that it speaks to people, that it touches some part of them that when they look at it they smile and think, I'm glad I still have that.
And by the way, I just remembered that in my parent's front hall, on a small wood table, stands a collection of a half a dozen little penguin statues that have been there for years, a favorite animal of my mother's.
http://www.unforgettaballs.com/
Out of my four sisters, 2 of us are die hard collector's, (never met a collection we didn't want to start and master) while my other two sisters seem very happy to take or leave them, ...preferable probably to leave them. Now part of this came from necessity, my youngest sister moved several times in a row, so it seemed optimal not to have too much to move. And my oldest sister, having been to her house recently, seems to have mastered living the clutter free life- but the other two of us find such meaning in our pursuit of perfect collections, that you can hardly walk into our houses without finding one in each room- from dolls from the 70's, to PVC plastic figurines, and everything in between.
Maybe it is genetic. We got the gene from my dad who loves to collect with such a passion, that he has dozens of unopened VHS movies in his collection. He does not keep them unopened b/c of collector value, but just b/c he enjoys owning a full collection! My mother on the other hand, has a certain glee about organizing, alphabetizing, shrinking, and then hopefully removing his collections!
I think there is a pure, and possibly unexplainable, joy to some people in collecting things they love. I myself get an undefined pleasure out of looking through my collections. They have meaning to me in so many different ways. Most of them begin b/c they represented some memory to me of childhood. But other collections having meaning in my current life of something that I love to look at, making me smile every time I see them. I think that all people have these possessions that they drag with them from house to house, and apartment to apartment, not quite being able to let go of them. Even though they don't look at them often, there is some comfort in knowing they still own them.
It is a meaning I hope people find with my baseballs. My latest line that I have created really speaks to this idea. It is centered around great moments in baseball that will have such special meaning to people who were at these events, or are fans of these teams. Seeing them will bring back that joy, because we all have a soft spot for collections that remind us of something we loved.
Small business advice for the day:
If you create a product that is purely decorative, be sure that it speaks to people, that it touches some part of them that when they look at it they smile and think, I'm glad I still have that.
And by the way, I just remembered that in my parent's front hall, on a small wood table, stands a collection of a half a dozen little penguin statues that have been there for years, a favorite animal of my mother's.
http://www.unforgettaballs.com/
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