What Possessed You to Buy That Thing???

For one of my writing projects, I’m trying to delve into the mind of the collector. Collectors of old things are almost never portrayed in a positive light. They are cultural criminals, like Nazis art thieves. Or they are bloated and ultimately lonely egotists as in “Citizen Kane.” Or they are psychopaths, like the dweebish coin collector in Stephen King’s “A Good Marriage.” Or they are pathetic hoarders requiring intervention (see reality TV). Or perhaps they are the stereotypical, obsessive-compulsives portrayed throughout mass media as people who melt down when someone disturbs the alphabetical order of their vinyl collection–small, brittle people….. Continued here>>>

If you’ve already read Part 1, it continues to Part 2 and Part 3.