BEDA # 26 Collections

Hello Blog!

Do you guys collect things? I do, and I collect a lot of different things, below is the order in which I started collecting them.

1. Coins or bills. My grandad collected coins and my mom gave me a small bag that had them, every time thy were going to change the shape or something about a coin he would keep one of the ¨old ones¨ and one of the ¨new ones¨. Now I do the same with coins and bills that change, to that I've also added foreign coins. I have British coins, a Peso from the Philippines, and I also have a collection of the quarters that the US made, the ones that have a state in one of the faces of the coin. I think I'm only missing 5.

2. Postcards. When I was younger we used to drive a lot, and because I didn't have a camera of my own to take pictures at the buildings I wanted and instead I had to be in the picture, so I started buying postcards. I always buy at least 1 postcard wherever I go, this includes theme parks. I always have a hard time just picking 2 at Disney and Universal.

3. Key rings. One of my uncles used to go out on weekends a lot, and he would always bring something from where eve his parties had taken him to my sis and I, he used to bring this funny and awesome key-rings. I was 7 and didn't have keys so I started keeping them in a box. Then I started looking at nice key-rings while looking at the postcards. And so I began my keyring collection. I have some fun ones, a key-shaped one that has one of the coins from the Pirates of the Caribbean movie, a dice one from the science museum in London, a friend bought me an Eiffel tower shaped one when she went to Paris, and I had one that my aunt bought me in Alaska that had a small seal, a polar bear, that I lost.

4. Cups. Concerts are expensive and buying at the concert is too, so instead of buying T's that are around the 250 pesos, I buy cups that most of the time have the same print of the shirt for 50-80 pesos. They look really nice in my bookshelf, and if needed could be used by guests as my dad says (but mom always has extra cups or disposable cups, if guest needed them, its quite possible they'd be drunk and could smash it).

5. Pennies. You know those machines at theme parks (most of the time) that print something into the penny and makes it longer? Well those pennies I collect. I've got some from Disney, Knot's Berry Farm and a few from Boston, there was a mall like an hour or so walk away (I realized that when I got back on the 3rd day and the concierge was worried because I looked really red and wanted to know if I felt OK, and then asked why didn't I take the subway) the LeakyCon hotel, and in that park they had a few of those machines that had important buildings. The small bag containing those coins and some cash got lost in the Atlanta airport.

6. Bookmarks. My favorite bookstore-chain in Mexico (called Gandhi) makes bookmarks that have clever/funny lines and some quotes, so I started collecting those, an independent bookstore near my old elementary always had bookmarks that had pictures/scenes of books turned into movies, I have like 8 or so of HP&GoF, my aunts and friends started bringing me bookmarks (instead of postcards) of the places they went. The ones I like the most are a London Eye one that has all the info of it in the back, one a friend brought me from Veracruz that has my name, one I bought from a native in Tajin and ¨Give yourself another page¨ by Gandhi.

Days until LeakyCon: 77

Phineas Nigellus: You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts ... but you cannot deny he's got style....