I Have More Toys Than You

If a person were able to watch a complete recording of my life from beginning to present, they would discern that I have a strange affection for toys, so distinct and refined that I could be labeled a toy savant.

If you think you are too old to play with toy's then you are a liar and I pity your closet lifesyle.

I keep every toy from my childhood in bins in my basement. I don't play with all of them, but I like to keep them around. When I was young I used to imagine that all those Batman's and Beanie Babies had feelings and opinions, but were unable to express them because they were toys. Toys can't move. Yet I made sure to play with each one equally over the course of a week... so they wouldn't become lonely, of course!

My two favorite movies from back in the day were Toy Story, and Indian in the Cupboard. Why?
Because how freaking awesome would it be to open a cabinet in your house and see mini Darth Vader going blade to blade against a Fisher Price knight?! I KNOW RIGHT?!

I'm in my twenties now and I know none of that could ever happen, but the old me trapped within my drained and addled mind still has hope that one day his Lego's will come to life, build a colony in my basement, and wage war on every other being in their land of boxes and old clothes. Essentially becoming like the Moria goblins in LotR, using mice and squirrels as cave trolls, and I will live among them. An honorary and well renowned member of their society, like a village shaman... but the corrupt kind, that uses the people to bring him all the luxuries in the world for free... because they fear me and my knowledge...

If heaven was based on materialism that would probably be an accurate description of what my section would look like.

This being said, it can be assumed that I like to spend my free time doing absolutely nothing productive, and I feel that's how all people truly want to spend the end of their day after work or school. Even if someone says they love their work, or going to school, or doing endless amounts of research for their own personal benefit which happens to benefit a paying organization; again, anyone who says that they love to work is a liar. Nobody likes to work, work isn't fun. That's why its called work, and not called fun. It should be called not-fun. "Hey honey, im off to not-fun, so if u need me, I wrote my private not-fun number on a piece of paper and stuck it to the fridge, byeeeee!"

Clearly more descriptive and accurate than saying work.

I imagine a perfect life having a moderately productive job, 9-5 with two days off a week at least that will send me home each day feeling as if I've accomplished something, or helped someone. Then going home to my own house, to see my wife and give her an affectionately light kiss on the cheek, then prepare to make/help make dinner. After dinner relaxing in a hot shower followed by watching tv, playing a video game, surfing the web, or going out to meet friends for some shenanigans, but most days would be sharing these activities with my wife.

I believe that my inner child would be satisfied in life, if he could share his toys with the inner child of my future wife. 

It sounds silly, but if you think about it everyone is driven by that one thing they they couldn't have when they were young. For me that would be someone to share in the joy that my action figures and video games brought me, then and now. Its not actually the toys that make me happy, but the innocent pleasure that made me, still makes me, feel whole. It's not enough to experience that feeling though, I want to share it with others to make them happy, and when you use your innocent pleasure to give others pleasure, that's a whole other level of enjoyment man.

Why wouldn't you want to tell the world when something makes you happy?

I read it somewhere once that the biggest turn on a person could experience is knowing that they turn someone else on. ( don't ask me where I read that, its not for the ears and eyes of the public... yes I realize I've been talking about how much I enjoy toys this whole time, but its not like that. You're reading too much into it! Innocent pleasure! Think innocent pleasure!!)

Well, I probably just ruined this whole thing, but whatever it was good till you got down here, right?

Lol... gimmi sum feedback bros and brahs.

Magic the Gathering: Case Study on Flipping Cards for Profit

Hey, I just noticed the "Title Bar" at the top of the page!

I am a hobbyist, if you have not already read that. I consider myself to be an expert on having hobbies; there is nothing I enjoy more.

Would it surprise you to know I am 22 and only recently discovered the wonders of Magic the Gathering?

It should... from the information I provided about myself in the previous post, it should.

When I open a pack of cards I find more value in actually having the cards rather than playing the game. When I was 9 I went mad with Pokemon and Yu Gi Oh (I almost never left the house without a deck...). With the release of Hearthstone, I began to relive the schoolyard days of playing for keeps during recess. My only need for improvement in Hearthstone would be expanding the library of cards available to the players.
     Don't get me wrong, I believe the current set of cards works so well that the whole thing could be a board game ( which Blizzard was most likely trying to do ), but playing with the same cards over and over and over... makes me feel drone-like after about an hour of play time.

My roommate eventually introduced me to the wonderful world of the Multiverse ( for those of you who are not familiar, the Multiverse is the setting for Magic the Gathering ), and sure enough my addictive personality drove me to purchase booster packs, starter decks, and at least one bundle box ( 36 packs of cards, 13 cards in each pack... you do the math ).

I love it. I'm having a very hard time exercising my self-control when I see them. 

Being a college student, money is hard to come by. Work is harder to fit into an already tight schedule. Having a money sink for a hobby complicates the situation even further!

So I am playing with the idea of flipping cards for profit. My reasoning:
   
     If I enjoy having the cards, and these cards hold monetary value to many individuals other than myself; why not buy a booster box, sell all of the cards on ebay, save the profit for the duration of this experiment and allocate some of it to buy another booster box, and repeat the whole process?

-I will receive the satisfaction of pulling the hard to find cards every time
-I will make some side money for my own expenses other than my bi-weekly pay from work
-Many rare cards will be available on the market for purchase by collectors and players alike
-Information data will be acquired from the entire process for future use
     -> should this information become published it would be available to others looking to gets started making a profit from trading card flipping.

             If I have any readers yet, feel free to lend me your thoughts on this idea

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