All Mashed Up

It’s the year of the Potato! Serious! So in true celebratory spirit, I thought I’d write about our other favorite potato, Mr Potato Head.

Visit Potato Mash a gallery of custom Mr. Potatoheads from movies, video games, TV and pop culture.

Have Some Fun! play potato head online…

  (Hot Potatoes)

If you’re reading this because you’ve come from Kollecta.com, you’ll notice that we put a new Mr Potato icon on our Items Tab, to help direct you to the Items that we all know and love. Don’t think we’ve got an actual collectors group for him yet.

Why not create one?

Phone Cards: The stamp of the postmodern collector

Phone Cards are back, I say. As collectors items at least.  Once upon a time, millions of people around the world were collecting them. Apparently, over 2 million were collecting cards at the height of what was more or less a craze.  My parents included. It seems that the craze began after novelty cards started hitting the shelves. I remember special edition sets being advertised on TV, luring aspiring collectors into purchasing them as an investment. They were a hit! Where previously cards had been a means to an end, a convenient utility for people to make a call – companies started to produce cards with more flair.  

“A Toast to Collecting”

Kelly Singer began collecting Toasters 35 years ago.  At 82, he has a Toaster Museum.

“The first toaster in his collection was one like his mother’s that he spied at an antique-type mall in the Dallas area when he was visiting his son 35 years ago.

“Several months later, I saw another one a little different” and thought it would be good to have a pair, he said. “Collectors always kid each other that if you have two of anything, you’re a collector. From there, it just got out of hand. I never stopped. That’s the fun part of it.”

 

 

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Via courierjournal.com

Unintentional Collecting

 “Many collectors are unintentional collectors. Unintentional collecting is when someone notices that you might have two of something in your home, and they jump to the conclusion that you “collect” them. I think that is how some of my friends thought that I collected grocery store generic gin bottles.”

 Ellen Degeneres, Comedian.