2026-02-27
It's funny how collections evolve. I've been collecting things for a while, heck as a kid I collected pamphlets. What of? Anything really. In hindsight this must have annoyed many stores. This has led me to think of how you can define a collection. My current thoughts are;
- Starting: You have a few of a certain thing in a certain genre but you don't see it as a collection.
- Acknowledgement: You've decided you have a collection.
- Organisation: You have enough of collection that you've decided you need to organise it for order/protection/display.
- More organisation: The last stage isn't enough. You've now, for example, got better ones that need to be displayed better, and others that are archived.
- Reduction: Selling to put back funds into the collection and/or to reduce display volume.
- Specialisation: Realising that you're so into one certain aspect of the collection that you'd rather focus on that rather than the whole.
- ????
This whole train of thought was brought on as I'm back in the military and I've got a growing collection of velcro patches and I bought a display board....
