What Do You Collect? My Collection Thoughts

Happy Friday! I've been thinking a good bit about collecting. Over the past couple days, I've been going through my Webkinz collection to decide which ones I can let go of. (I have quite a few that I haven't adopted virtually onto the game.) My little sister was getting rid of her My Little Pony collection and I bought some off of her. She's saving up for Breath of the Wild so that's going to be pretty cool to see her play. ^^

I collect mainly Littlest Pet Shop figures, My Little Pony (generations 1, 3, and 4), Webkinz, and Folkmanis Puppets. I've loved Littlest Pet Shop since I was in 5th or 4th grade. It didn't start that way though. When I first saw them, I wasn't impressed XD My first exposure was from my younger sister Amanda who was given a pug and a chihuahua figure by some girl at school. I thought for lack of a better word that they were derpy and didn't compare to my favorite toy at the time, Furryville. Furryville was tiny stuffed anthro animals with moving joints and clothes. They usually came with some accessories and were bundled together in family packs. I still have my collection but it's pretty small. I was converted to Littlest Pet Shop when I started making videos with them on our old Mac's webcam. A lot of those old videos were deleted when the Mac ran out of memory and the files were corrupted, but at least I saved some of those videos on LPSkool. Besides all of the fun times playing with my sisters, I'd have to say watching the early 2006-2007 videos on YouTube of Littlest Pet Shop inspired me to look at my collection in a different light. To this day I still enjoy LPS, but would I still have the same connection to them that I do now if I hadn't made videos of them? I'm pretty sure that I would've stopped collecting them a while ago. Maybe a few here and there that I liked, sort of similar to how I collect new ponies for my MLP collection.

I started collecting puppets after I got Maggie for my birthday from my late Papa. She opened a whole new world to me. I loved to carry her around everywhere. When I brought her into stores, I could convince people that she was real by making her cock her head at them or by simply licking her paw. I loved getting a new puppet for Christmas or my Birthday because I was in love with making new characters- giving that puppet a story and a life of its own.

The ponies date back to when I was little. One of my first memories is my unicorn birthday party that I had for turning 4 years old. Unicorns have always been a favorite, so I guess it was natural for me to attach my interest to MLP.

My Webkinz collection started on Christmas day of 2007 when I found Leo the lion in my stocking. From there it became a tradition since my sisters and I loved that first time we found Webkinz in our stocking.

An overarching theme I'm getting here is that I personally love to collect what I do because I can give each member of my collections a character and a story. Something with a face. Not just some random object. Yes objects have stories, but I like to be a part of the story given to a particular item that I own. Also, I love animals. XD I think that may be pretty obvious.

Collections are pretty fascinating in my opinion. I'm aware that some people do not like to collect stuff. If you are that person, why? I'm curious. Also, you can collect things virtually. Collections don't have to be physical. For example, I like collecting stamps for my DA profile! So what do you collect? Do you collect some of the same things as me? For the same reasons or different? Why do you collect what you collect? Let's talk about it!

Kandace