How do humans come to Ue-Ei-collecting?
Human´s nature is hunting and collecting and I am human from nature.
When I was a child I piled up lots of gewgaw. My mother was very tidy (I wasn´t!) which led to the fact that my "collections" -whatever items I collected- took mostly the way of all mundane things.
In the middle of the 80's - due to my former "period-of-life-partner" - I came on the idea that model cars would be dinky items to collect. Of course not such boring as certain brands or certain scales, no: I collected every brand and scale, if they only represented the model of a Citroen. That was the first time I collected something properly and seriously (even in show-cases). The end of the mentioned period of life came and thereupon the end of my desire to collect Citroens. And -by the way- eversince I´m driving Fiat with utter satisfaction.
Well, I was older now and quite tidy . And now my children`s natural impulse to collect things was suffered for that. My first born son (born 1978) was interested in "Ue-Eggs" for a short period of time in 1993/1994, predominantly in the chocolate and the HPFs. He preferred to blow up the other contents with remaining New-Year´s crackers and sank them in the frog pond. Only a nearly complete set of the Happy Hippo Company and two little toys outlived my son´s adolescence and his mother´s vacuum cleaner. Up to the outbreak of my Ue-Egg-Mania - about one and an half year ago - this outlasting figures had been kept in a paper-bag with the label "inexpressibles".
At least it was not the retrieved paper-bag but my youngest son´s (born 1997) addiction to chocolate which made me a Kinder Surprise collector. Why, oh why have the eggs always been placed in the reaching area of a three-year old midget´s hands? What consequentially means: Each shopping one egg or two ….
At all times I was keen to assemble the little toys and at all times I found the HPFs so nice. In order that this toys and figures shouldn´t come to an end like the others -in the trash can or the vacuum cleaner- I huddled them together in a big crate. I guess one can call that almost "collecting" (or is there any regulation that one must keep collections in showcases). At least this aroused my human nature (see above) again. "The Lord of the Ring" vol. 1 was the first set I´d consciously looking for (and the BPZ still thrown away - oh my goodness).
The rest of the story will be told shortly: I spend lots and lots of money for Ue-Eggs, told to everybody that I´m collecting Ue-Eggs and searched and found a like-minded people´s forum at the www. The eggs I bought made material for swapping with forum members and it was amazing how many people brought along Ue-egg-contents which had been found somewhere in a
corner. Today I would say "standard figures" but just one and an half year ago was that everything I had.
Fortunately I promptly found really nice trading partners and have actually now nearly everything starting from 1991. Recently I began to collect also HPFs from other countries because my exchange material is not yet sufficient to give in exchange for former editions.
If I will be filthy rich one day I will surely own Schlumpfe and Pumuckls. For that reason I collect 100-Euro bills as well but that´s a tough nut to crack ………
Human´s nature is hunting and collecting and I am human from nature.
When I was a child I piled up lots of gewgaw. My mother was very tidy (I wasn´t!) which led to the fact that my "collections" -whatever items I collected- took mostly the way of all mundane things.
In the middle of the 80's - due to my former "period-of-life-partner" - I came on the idea that model cars would be dinky items to collect. Of course not such boring as certain brands or certain scales, no: I collected every brand and scale, if they only represented the model of a Citroen. That was the first time I collected something properly and seriously (even in show-cases). The end of the mentioned period of life came and thereupon the end of my desire to collect Citroens. And -by the way- eversince I´m driving Fiat with utter satisfaction.
Well, I was older now and quite tidy . And now my children`s natural impulse to collect things was suffered for that. My first born son (born 1978) was interested in "Ue-Eggs" for a short period of time in 1993/1994, predominantly in the chocolate and the HPFs. He preferred to blow up the other contents with remaining New-Year´s crackers and sank them in the frog pond. Only a nearly complete set of the Happy Hippo Company and two little toys outlived my son´s adolescence and his mother´s vacuum cleaner. Up to the outbreak of my Ue-Egg-Mania - about one and an half year ago - this outlasting figures had been kept in a paper-bag with the label "inexpressibles".
At least it was not the retrieved paper-bag but my youngest son´s (born 1997) addiction to chocolate which made me a Kinder Surprise collector. Why, oh why have the eggs always been placed in the reaching area of a three-year old midget´s hands? What consequentially means: Each shopping one egg or two ….
At all times I was keen to assemble the little toys and at all times I found the HPFs so nice. In order that this toys and figures shouldn´t come to an end like the others -in the trash can or the vacuum cleaner- I huddled them together in a big crate. I guess one can call that almost "collecting" (or is there any regulation that one must keep collections in showcases). At least this aroused my human nature (see above) again. "The Lord of the Ring" vol. 1 was the first set I´d consciously looking for (and the BPZ still thrown away - oh my goodness).
The rest of the story will be told shortly: I spend lots and lots of money for Ue-Eggs, told to everybody that I´m collecting Ue-Eggs and searched and found a like-minded people´s forum at the www. The eggs I bought made material for swapping with forum members and it was amazing how many people brought along Ue-egg-contents which had been found somewhere in a
corner. Today I would say "standard figures" but just one and an half year ago was that everything I had.
Fortunately I promptly found really nice trading partners and have actually now nearly everything starting from 1991. Recently I began to collect also HPFs from other countries because my exchange material is not yet sufficient to give in exchange for former editions.
If I will be filthy rich one day I will surely own Schlumpfe and Pumuckls. For that reason I collect 100-Euro bills as well but that´s a tough nut to crack ………
