Beyond My Geeky Life

With the truth that everything can be a collectable, I often enjoy seeing what kind of things pick up in popularity for collecting. Right now, one of the more interesting collecting fads is novelty popcorn buckets. The old popcorn buckets, which I do have few of, were just your basic bucket with whatever franchise printed on them. In recent years that has changed. Popcorn buckets have become far more interesting and collectable. As far as I can figure out it all started at theme parks, Disney and Universal Studios. But due to the fact that people were not too aware of them, there was not the big demand for them. When I learned there was a Millenium Falcon bucket at the time we were planning to go to Disney World, I knew I had to have it. I've picked up a few others as well. And while they were collectable, it was not that big of a thing. Even after the same kind of popcorn buckets started showing up in movie theaters, people picked them up as just fun things. Then came D&D Hono...

I worked in the toy department at Wal-Mart for several years and even after I moved from the department, I still had people hunting me down because they knew me as a serious collector. My first piece of advice for anyone wanting to collect, is make sure whatever you collect you have a passion for. One big thing so many people do not understand is that most pieces in anyone's collection are not worth much and no matter how one tries, there is never any guaranty of value. If you do not have a passion or interest in what you are collecting, then you're gonna be upset when you collection has no value. This is what happened with Beanie Babies and now there are a huge amount of people who collected the Beanies Babies because of preconceived value. Lots of people are now stuck with hundreds of worthless Beanies Babies that no one is buying or interested in. And since these people only collected thinking of it as an investment, they have a bunch of the things taking up space that they ...