Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Crazy Collections

That's right! Today we are talking about crazy stuff people like to hoard like it's going to be worth millions of dollars some day! People's collections (not to be confused with those crazy people that call and harass other persons for not taking care of a certain financial obligation, I know, they are "just doing their job") these are collections, or a group of items which have something in common. What makes them crazy is, it's really not worth anything!

For example, one type of collection which may be semi crazy is the hording of bottle caps! I'm not talking about the fancy metal ones like in the image I've posted. I'm talking the plastic caps w
hich can come off of soda pop, bottled water or any other plastic container. I know, some of these caps have "secret codes" on the inside where someone might win a special prize, like a pair of Adidas Response 16 running shoes! But most caps do not! Worthless!

Even better, someone might decide to collect gum. No, not the wonderful
ly wrapped gum that comes in that small piece of metal MacGyver uses to defuse a bomb. We are talking ABC Gum! (For those of you that did not participate in grade school lingo, or cannot remember that far back, ABC Gum is Already Been Chewed Gum!) I know, CRAZY! People think they are collecting some great reward, but in fact it is nothing more that some rubbery-(which eventually gets super hard) -sugarless-gunk swarming with the original owners DNA. Unless it was swapped during tonsil hockey. (Ok, so if you don't know what that grade school lingo is, head back to grade school!)

Now for one the most craziest examples of collections is...

Sample Credit Cards! No, not the real ones people actually use to incur insurmountable debt obligations causing other persons to possibly call and harass for some type of payment to repay the owed dough. Nope, we are talking
fake ones. You know the ones, which look like real ones, sent to the world so everyone can get in debt! Sometimes they come in as a thick paper type, others are actually plastic and others can even been tossed upon the refrigerator, yep, magnets!

So next time you look at throwing some crazy thing away, think "One person's junk, is another person's treasured junk." Matter of fact, the crazy thing is always going to be junk!

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