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I play with labels as I did with my father's label machine when I was small. I took it and affixed multiple labels to everything, making it twice as confusing, to try and read them all. "Joanie's Drawer." "Secret." "Do not open." "Warning!!!!!"

I have a collection of attitude buttons at home, pins with sarcastic slogans. I think my favorite (at the moment) is "My Life Is An Open Comic Book". I have so many of them... I have this purple hat, a rather silly one with a brim and plenty of space on it to pin all these pins, with all these slogans that describe attitudes I do hold or have held at some point in time. You can read my hat and tell quite a bit about me, if you take the time.

I collect labels. I subscribe to the Mr. Potatohead school of pop psychology. There used to be a childrens' toy, a little potato-shaped doll with holes in him. You had eyes, a whole different bunch of eyes, you could put on him. Big eyes, little eyes, silly eyes... I think he had glasses-eyes too. Different mouths. Different ears. Different shoes. You could mix and match each of his little body-part accessories, and come up with not an infinite number of different looks for him, but a decently large number. There are so many different labels out there, if you collect a sufficiently large number about yourself, you can create an image that, if not exactly you, will pass for you on close glance.

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There used to be a childrens' toy, a little potato-shaped doll with holes in him.

Used to be? My youngest son's favorite toy. Almost everything you owned as a child, you can purchase brand new at Toys R Us these days.

...but not Construx.

Yes you can. I bought Construx, at least a few years ago, for Christian. //looks confused//

When where how? Besides E-Bay, that is. Where?????!!!

Like I said, it was several years back (I mean, kinda obvious; he's been dead for two years), but there was Construx, or at least something very Construx-like, at the toy stores about 4 years ago.

Hmm. I may have to do some more delving about in the obscure places, when I get the time/transportation.

I have a collection of attitude buttons at home, pins with sarcastic slogans.

You mean I'm not the only one who does this? I have about half to two-thirds of a goldfish bowl full of them... rarely wear them, though. Maybe I need to get a silly hat.

A silly hat is vital to proper display of one's buttons. Go for surface area and sturdy fabric and comfort. Some people advocate the backpack as a canvas for buttons, but I believe that's a great way to get them scraped off.

I used to have two buttons on a mini-backpack that I used as a purse...I lost one of them, and decided from then on that backpacks/purses/whatever that were carried were, in fact, a lousy way to carry buttons.

Never been a big button collector; I feel like my life speaks for itself, but I got these two soon after my entire life turned upside down. I don't even remember what they both were now. One of them was "born-again pagan"...

I rarely wear any of the buttons, unless there's something I feel like sharing with the world in particular. If I'm going out to someplace like Denny's, or equivalent, I do toss on the hat, but otherwise I don't usually get much wear out of them, not anymore.

Odd, these phases in life you go through. For a while I collected Star Trek books; for a while I collected sex toys; for a while I collected buttons; now I think I'm collecting rocks. Pretty ones. Fluorite, especially.

I collect rocks, to a certain extent. Certainly there are a dozen or so on my altar. Occasionally I'll pick one or another up during ritual or during magical working. Have some carved totems made out of different rocks, too. I have rocks in a medicine bag in my purse. Chris has two rocks in his pocket at all times ("his" stone is smokey quartz and "my" stone is moonstone; we both have one of each on our persons almost constantly), and some of the larger rocks on the altar are his.

Mostly they're of specific content for specific uses -- moonstone, amethyst, tiger's eye, quartz, etc. I have four rocks that got picked up for quarter-stones during an outdoor ritual, just because they called to me...occasionally pretty rocks just decide I need them.

I guess I sort of collect feathers the same way. ^_^ I see them from time to time, pick them up, wrap them carefully in a tissue, and stick 'em in my purse 'til I get home. They get used from time to time, or they decorate things, or I put them in dreamcatchers. But mostly they sit in my magic box until a ritual calls for them. Which, with my affinity for air magics and birds, is oftener than one might think. I use 'em for spreading incense during cleansings, for instance.

Yes, it is. I tried it once, and lost half the buttons I'd put on it by the end of the day.

Hat shopping time! Hmmm, maybe one of those fishing hats designed to hold flies... If I can find it in white, I cn dye it burgundy...

Oh, yes, those are excellent.

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