NEWS: Children and Collecting Artifacts of Our Culture

CULTURE: Children and Collecting Artifacts of Our Culture

The New York Times has an article detailing children's collection habits from the benign the extraordinary. Most children collect comic books, beanie babies, Pokemon cards, etc. A thirteen-year-old at a Sotheby's auction bid on a drawing of a horse that sold at $300,000. His parents were at the opera.

While most of want our children to be as bright as young Tenenbaums, it is interesting to note the disparity between the children who collect Warhols and the children who collect marbles. It is as though money itself is no object when collecting these priceless works of art, and the process of bargaining replaces the aesthetic value of the piece collected.

I collected X-Men figures. My brother collects rocks. I wonder what that means about us.

It means that you rock because you collected X-Men. I collected worms. They were my pets because my parents wouldn't get a puppy. I was a strange child.

I collect toys from video games, and movies I like....

that and I collect video games....
and movies I like...

and I used to collect comics...

I also collect dust... I have tons...

I still have them all. Can you say the same?

I don't think I really started collecting things until I was in college (and had enough life under my belt to start being nostalgic). Unless one considers "crap" a specific enough category for a collection, I suppose.