Intro
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Back in the day, children collected stamps and coins. It was common for families to pass down collections from generation to generation. When it comes to this popular hobby today, the sky’s the limit. If you can think of it, someone probably collects it.
Baseball and Pokemon cards, seashells, stickers, action figures… anything and everything is collected, sometimes obsessively. With the invention of online shopping, it’s all too easy to spend time and money searching for rare additions to one’s collection. What do you collect, if anything?
Dialog
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Lily: Mason, do you collect anything?
Mason: I absolutely do. I’ve gone through many different collecting phases in my life, and my current obsession is Magic cards.
Lily: Oh, those are really big right now!
Mason: They are really big, and I kind of got sucked into it. Now I’m spending all of my spare time tracking down weird and obscure Magic cards… looking for garage sales where’s there’s hopefully some hoarder person who just doesn’t know what he has and I’m going to get a great deal. It’s terrible. It’s an addiction. I have a problem. Do you have anything? Do you do the stereotypical doll collection?
Lily: No. Well, I used to collect these horse figurines. I had a whole fleet of these horses. Then I got older and I didn’t want them anymore, and so my dad just started handing them out to little kids that he knew without telling me.
Mason: How did you start getting into those?
Lily: Because I liked horses and then one of my parents bought me one. Then I was like, “I want all of them!” It’s kind of like Beanie Babies, too.
Mason: Terrible.
Lily: Yeah, it’s just… once you start, you can’t stop collecting.
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Discussion
Mason and Lily are sharing personal experiences with collecting. Mason collects Magic cards and really enjoys finding obscure cards for his collection. Lily collected horse figurines when she was a girl, but it’s not really her thing anymore.
They both agree that collecting can become an obsession if you’re not careful. Mason even calls his interest in Magic cards an addiction. Without a little self-control, collecting can take over your life.
Have you ever collected anything? Do you still collect stuff that you collected as a child? Do you know anyone who collects anything strange?
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