Tag Archives: nostalgia

Do limited edition food products appeal to the collector mindset?

(A look at some of the weird and wonderful product variants that make supermarket shelves a bit more fun.) Why are there suddenly so many flavours of Jammie Dodgers? Be honest, we’ve all been wondering this, even if we’re not all as incensed about it as my friend Alix is. I didn’t have good answers for AlixContinueContinue reading “Do limited edition food products appeal to the collector mindset?”

20 months and a lifetime of mixtapes

At the beginning of last year I started compiling a monthly public playlist on Spotify. My interest in new music and artists has been renewed in the first half of this decade and I felt inspired to share the songs that have been soundtracking my life, much like I did over two decades ago. All that’s reallyContinueContinue reading “20 months and a lifetime of mixtapes”

How two Pez dispensers led to a collection of over a thousand

Although my first collection was the set of NatWest piggy banks in the late 1980s (I wrote about those here), the one I’m probably known best for is my two decade long haul of Pez. You know, the character topped sweet dispensers.  As the years go by, what becomes removed from the story told toContinueContinue reading “How two Pez dispensers led to a collection of over a thousand”

The NatWest pigs may have made me a collector for life

I’ve been a collector for as far back as I can remember. With a little extra time on my hands in the past few years to lean into some retrospective thinking, I’ve become interested in where the collecting mindset is born from. Being a child of the 90’s I barely stood a chance against theContinueContinue reading “The NatWest pigs may have made me a collector for life”