I’ve got a few years before 40, and I’m 4/4! Finally, I’m ahead of the curve for once
Tell me about your collection
It’s instruments… I can play a little bit of all of them, but none of them very well lol. I just like playing with them
An acoustic guitar, an electric guitar (I had 2 electrics, but gave my dad one with a small amp), 2 soprano ukulele’s (in case a friend wants to join), a piano keyboard, electric drum kit, harmonicas, a violin (I got it for my wife, but we both like to mess with it) and… I think that’s it. I kinda want a bass guitar one day too, just because it looks like fun
Also a small collection of cacti, and a small collection of amateur radio equipment (as well as other electronics that I like to mess with)
Do the ashes of friends, and family count?
Yes, yes they do
Shit
Time to visit my far away friends and start a collecting of their ashes
Swap out the pet ashes with my Dad’s and I am 100% (I buried my pup and planted a tree there :( )
check, check, check, check
2 out of 4 ain’t bad, but there’s still a little time left for me.
Yes to all of these, although my current friends and wierd collections are both relatively newly acquired
nah, buried them all. Gotta dig the full 6 feet trust me
I have a pet buried in the back yard, does that count?
No, because you have to take your Lil buddy to the vet to get euthanized before you get ashes. Part of the fun trauma of this age is having to be old enough to make that decision. That today is fluffy’s last day on earth. Then you get to be guilted by the vet into buying some sort of memorial package in a moment of weakness.
Having your pal turn up toes at home is what gets you a backyard burial. Not awful enough, sorry friend.
Nope we did that. Vet just came to the house.
And yes that was the absolute hardest thing I’ve ever done. We scheduled it on a Friday and had to wait an entire weekend for it to happen on Monday. I am a 54 year old man and I cried like a little baby the whole weekend.
And they did indeed have a brochure of things to memorialize your pet. This was pretty recent so the brochure is actually still on the mantle.
So I’m thinking it does count 😏
Oh, you can have them cremated even if they died peacefully at home, either through a vet or by dealing directly with a pet crematorium. And you can take the body home to bury in the yard even if you’ve put them to sleep.
If you have a collection of pets ashes, does that count for both? Also, did they have to be my pets?
A weird collection of chronic mental illness, am I right?
Slight variations (dog’s collar, I support my kids weird collections), but based on this list, I’d say I’m a successful 40-something.
Out of curiosity what weird things do your kids collect?
I have 2 kids. But between the two, we collect: Fans, scary jack-in-the-boxes, sprinklers, inflatables, and pencil sharpeners.
I’d fuck with a scary jack in the box collection that sounds neat as hell
scary jack-in-the-boxes
You and your kids are cool.
He’s 9 by the way. The line between cool mom and terrible parent is thin here. 😉
I do my best to walk that line, as well!
No such thing as a weird kids collection.
Whatever a kid is excited about is fuckin awesome man!
edit: as long as something isn’t being unalived to add to the collection obvs
You mean killed?
Yes?
No such thing as a weird kids collection
That’s right. I made mine weird by keeping it into my adulthood. I regret nothing, except for a different weird collection that I believed I had grown out of.
Do I win something for achieving it all a few years early?
You do, but it’s just another item for your weird collection, that you obtain for yourself, to celebrate.
Source: I bought myself another item for my weird collection, to celebrate this milestone.
42
- 15000+ kms
- Yes but undiagnosed
- two but one’s not mine
- shards of flint
You collect “shards of flint”? Are you a geologist or something?
Amateur flint knapper.
That’s cool!
Over achiever
I’m sure you will be surprised to learn after reading that picture of success that I am barely even an achiever.
