JG> I can see it now!  You inherit a bottle of 1895 Chateau LeFeit, worth 
 JG> thousands, carefully preserved by your grandparents and 
 JG> parents.  It's a bottle that came from the wedding of your 
 JG> great-grandparents in 1897 - they saved one bottle as a 
 JG> souvenir, and handed it down to your grandparents, who 
 JG> handed it down to your parents - each generation taking 
 JG> great care never to damage it or cause it to spoil.   And 
 JG> the day you inherit it, instead of protecting it as 
 JG> everyone else has, you break out the wine goblets to 
 JG> celebrate your inheritance!!!  Gawd, I can just see it now.
 
 Pffffffffft.  Use a better example.  I don't drink wine (or champagne, or
 whatever the heck that stuff is).  Besides, if it was an inheritance,
 that'd be an entirely different story.  If I was told to preserve it, of
 course I was.  I'm not THAT vain.
 Why must you make every post to me a nasty one?  Granted, I haven't been
 particularly nice to you, but you've just become downright nasty to anyone
 who dares to disagree w/ you.  Gawd, I'd hate to get you and my Dad in a 
 room together.  The way you two would argue, buildings would shake and fall
 off of their foundations.
 
 SB>> I much prefer the value of enjoying a great Disney film or reading a
 SB>> wonderful book or listening to an incredible recording. FEH on never
 SB>> opening and enjoying these items -- and FEH on people who gouge
 SB>> others who want to enjoy the contents of something the gougers have
 SB>> manipulated into "rarity" & an expensive sticker price...
 JG> I've never met a person who disliked the very notion of 
 JG> "collecting" or of "collectables".  Congrats, you're the 
 JG> first "anti-collector" I've ever met.
 
 I am NOT "anti-collector."  I have friends who collect tons of Star Trek
 memorabilia (for personal enjoyment, not for resale), and if they enjoy 
 it, fine for them.  I personally collect candles, carousel horses, and
 musical figurines.  I used to collect keychains too.  Don't put words in
 my mouth.
 And for what it's worth--I've actually considered buying the Star Wars
 figures that are out now.  I don't have the space for them tho, so I
 probably won't.  
 
 CA>  Of course, I can understand my brother not wanting to take the
 CA> shrink-wrap off the last album that Lynard Skynard did before the
 CA> accident that claimed some of the members' lives.  But, he didn't do it
 CA> out of greed. He did it out of mourning and in tribute.
 JG> I wonder, if that album were worth $250.00 and someone wanted to buy
 JG> it from  him and he needed money, if he'd take the money.  You have 
 JG> to wonder.... ~smirk~  If it was *your* album and you took 
 JG> the money, you'd be a hypocrite. Ah well, no one will ever 
 JG> want that album anyway, too many were made.
 Pfffffffffft...there's no way in hell you could pry that album
 away from him.  And no, *I* would not sell it.  Hey, I have a personally
 autographed Star Trek trading card signed by George Takei.  I also have
 autographs from other various celebrities.  Contrary to your thinking, I 
 would NOT sell them.  And for what it's worth,  my brother, sister-in-law, 
 and Dad are major Harley-Davidson memorabilia collectors.   I'd be 
stonished
 if you could convince them to sell any of that stuff to you.  My dad has
 been known to give things away as Christmas and Birthday presents, but not
 sell them.
 Carin
... Shaddup you twit...yer getting on my nerves!
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