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03-12-2012, 06:19 PM #1
WHY do we collect?
I'm worried a lot about that question actually. I sure can come with answers, but I would like to know why you, the others, are collecting these hockey cards.
I mean, in psychological reason.
Pretty funny thing that evolution granted us with.
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03-12-2012, 06:29 PM #2
I gather you're talking about the act of collecting anything rather than hockey cards?
If that's the case, you do see collecting habits with some other animals. Squirrels will take just about anything shiny they find back with them and keep it. Dogs bury things as a means of keeping what they've collected. It's quite interesting when you really think about it. Perhaps the act of collecting is actually a less evolved aspect of our being instead of something that came about once we did evolve.
Personally, I collect hockey cards because I'm trying to chase down my childhood to some degree psychologically. I get it, I understand it, I accept it. There are far worse ways to chase down one's childhood, which I believe we all do to some degree or other, than collecting cards.
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03-12-2012, 06:31 PM #3
I like making my GF angry...
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03-12-2012, 06:33 PM #4
I get it, I understand it, I accept it.
Yeah, a lot here are probably fully aware of the reason of their behaviour. It's kind of fun to talk about. For me it's probably a lot of things subconscient and some also conscient. Well, everybody have an inconscient. I think.
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03-12-2012, 06:33 PM #5
I like making my GF angry...
Witch has a lot of others ramifications...
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03-12-2012, 06:34 PM #6
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03-12-2012, 06:34 PM #7
After spending 7 years working in the bar & restaurant industry, I became......anti-social. Instead of spending time with people, I started and reading & collecting comic books. Then all the comic books were stolen from my storage locker. So I turned to hockey cards, which I'd collected and thrown against the school walls back when I was a kid. Now, after my 13 hour commute/work-day and a couple hours with the gf and kids, I can go into my little room for an hour before bedtime. The walls and shelves are covered in hockey history. I can forget about work, my family, the bills, everything. And it's quiet. That's the short version :D
I've been to the card shows, there's a wholllllle bunch of us who don't fit in 100% or even 90 or 80 or 70. We're all slightly "off" and we love hockey. The younger collectors are scared of girls and us "men" refuse to grow up hahahahaaa
This is all just off the top of my head, and I've probably insulted a few people, sorry!! I'm honest enough to admit to myself and all of you that I'd rather hold an auto'd Maurice Richard card in my hands than my ex-wife tho.
Cheers!!
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03-12-2012, 06:36 PM #8
Hello! I'm anti-social, too! I never talked to my ex and now that we are broken up i talk to her more over the computer...
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03-12-2012, 06:51 PM #9
We collect out of a sense of self worth. Often time we like to use the words..."I have a very rare something or other" it gives us an in with others and allows for conversation and allows us to show that we take initiative in some things.
"Hey come over and see my"
1. 1956 Chevy that I'm restoring
2. Donnay fibre-wood Bjorn Borg Wimbledon Tennis Racquet.
3. Autographed Hockey Card of Gordie Howe
4. 1908 Canadian Dime
The perception of rarity and it's acceptability in our society provides the fuel of Social acceptability as well.
If you are a confident collector, it shows both organizational skills, passion, and perhaps an element of caring.
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03-12-2012, 06:54 PM #10
I have the best relation in the world with my exgirlfriend, mother of my childs.
But what if I collect to channel a bad side of me. To put in what I believe is a nice thing to do a lot of energy, a lot of anger...
And I'd prefer a Maurice Richard auto to a lot of things, but not my childs. But one day I'll have a Maurice Richard auto.
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Originally Posted by Hilfiger1975 
