A general discussion of collecting cool things.
Check out this auction up on eBay… Having just took this picture I now have quite some cleaning up to do… For sale is like 100~ pieces of plastic related to like comic books I guess. These are all broken as crap. You got a bunch of mini figures not pictured. These are not mint. [...]
A Collection a Day #64 – Space Men, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. I can’t get enough of these bubble-headed astronauts. There’s a lesson to be learned here — the next time you are abducted by a UFO, just plop a fishbowl over your cranium and you are ready to take on any alien [...]
A Collection a Day #63 – Star Wars stuff, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. So, after 63 collections, I’m getting a little desperate for source material. I raided my son’s toy bin for most of these items. As I mentioned in my last collection’s description, I never really started a Star Wars collection, despite [...]
The economy is apparently taking its toll on Antique Archaeology. Danielle calls and informs the guys that things are slow at the shop, and there’s not much money coming in the door, but plenty is going out. Mike and Frank need to find a big ticket item fast. They do some freestyle picking in Illinois and [...]
A Collection a Day #62 – Star Wars trading cards, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. I’ve made it to 62 collections without a single reference to Star Wars, but that changes now! As someone who collects pretty much anything cool from pop culture, it might seem strange that I don’t have much from the [...]
The original Friday the 13th movie was the first true horror movie I ever saw and it has lodged itself in some dark corner of my brain ever since. When I was in high school, I went through a phase where I wanted to grow up and be an FX makeup artist so I could [...]
A Collection a Day #61 – Starlog magazines, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. Hey kids! Once upon a time there were these things called magazines. They were plentiful in the days before the interwebs but now they are threatened with extinction, which is sad because they are an absolute treasure trove of knowledge. I [...]
This week’s episode of American Pickers had the guys picking in Illinois, and they started at the home of Lester, lovingly referred to by the neighborhood kids as the “spooky collector.” I can’t imagine how he got that nickname. Maybe it was the decaying taxidermy monkey in the Hawaiian shirt. Or maybe it was the [...]
A Collection a Day #60 – More Superman stuff, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. Look, up on the shelf, it’s Superman! I don’t actively pursue Superman items for my collection, but it’s hard not to find them, and some are just too hard to leave behind. The man of steel has been leading the [...]
A Collection a Day #59 – Buck Rogers trading card stickers, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. Man, did my mom hate these things. These stickers were included in the wax packs of trading cards and were more prized than the cards and even the gum. The manufacturers of these stickers used some kind of [...]
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