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The end of an era . . .
shmokes:
Just kidding . . . but as some of the long-timers here may remember, I have a pez collection. When I was 16 or 17 (about 15 years ago), whenever the Pez episode of Seinfeld came out, two of my friends and I bought Pez dispensers as a joke and started "Pezzing" people at school (the first Pez dispenser I bought was the Tweety Bird featured in that episode). Then some more of our friends started doing it and it became this kind of hilarious thing that went on for a few weeks where if someone pezzed you, you had to take the Pez and eat it. Even though, of course, Pez candy is gross. Because to do otherwise would just be impolite.
Anyway, during that time I bought more pez dispensers to mix things up, and by the time the whole thing had worn off I had like 8 or 9 pez dispensers sitting on the dresser in my room. And a few weeks later I looked at them and I suddenly decided that it looked sort of like the start of a collection. I was only ever a casual collector. I never once purchased a pez dispenser anywhere other than retail (though I did seek out European-only ones on a couple of trips overseas). I never bought any antique Pez on Ebay or anything like that. But over the years whenever I passed Pez dispensers in the stores, I'd look to see if there were any I didn't have, and if so I'd pick them up. After I got married my wife began doing the same.
But a few years ago I realized that I was bored of it and had been for a long time. Over the last few years I stopped even paying attention. My wife did all the checking of dispensers in stores and I frequently didn't know off the top of my head anymore which ones I had and which I didn't. When we moved into our new place in D.C. last October I didn't even unbox them, and I finally told my wife I had lost interest long ago but hadn't said anything because she still seemed into it. She laughed her ass off and was like, "Why didn't you say something earlier? I only bought them because I thought you wanted them."
I hope that long story was at least somewhat interesting, cos long-story short is, I'm ditching the collection. I'll put it on Ebay and see if I can pick up a couple hundred bucks or something. But in order to do that I had to finally pull out my boxes (yeah . . . plural) of Pez dispensers, set them up, catalog them and photograph them. The collection is pretty big--more than 500 unique dispensers. A quick search on Ebay shows a few "huge" collections, but I didn't see anything over about 150. Unfortunately it doesn't look like there's much demand for Pez collections, though, so I don't expect to get much. I'd maybe get more selling it piecemeal, but I don't know. That seems like a PITA. I suppose I'd just end up selling all the ones that have any significant value but I'd still have a huge Pez collection--just slightly less huge. I'd rather just be rid of it altogether in one fell swoop.
Photo attached.
Anyway, here's what it looks like.
Howard_Casto:
Man that's a huge collection. It might be worth it (if you are glutton for punishment) to setup a marketplace. It could take a couple of years to sell them all, but you would probably get more for individual pez than the whole collection. Bad economy you know.
But what's this about PEZ being gross? PEZ are great! I used to buy those crazy refill packs sans dispensor (where you get like 10 packs) and go through em in a day. What did you guys do, only buy lemon?
shmokes:
Lemon, in my opinion, are the only ones that could remotely be considered almost tolerable, lol. I actually took a ton of pictures. Individual pictures for each set, e.g., a pic of just the Marvel heroes, a pic of just the Hello Kitty characters. I'll set up a gallery on my website. When it's done I'll post a link here for anyone who's curious.
Le Chuck:
Oh man, I wouldn't sell. When they are all set up like that they are really visually stunning.
I'm not a Pez fan, candy or otherwise, but I think that multiple rows of narrow three tier shelves would give you an effect of all these colorful little heads poking out. Doesn't have to be all, maybe pick out your 200 favorite or something.
Hope you sale goes well either way.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: Le Chuck on February 25, 2012, 09:58:24 pm ---Oh man, I wouldn't sell. When they are all set up like that they are really visually stunning.
--- End quote ---
Maybe you should buy it. :P
I know what you mean. When I moved here in October I finally had all of my belongings shipped to me, which had been in storage since I left Miami a year prior. Once I had them all set up like that I was sort of like, "Jesus Christ . . . that's something else." And of course, the first thought was, "Should I really be getting rid of this? This was a long time in the making and . . . well . . . look at it." But, you know . . . that's sort of nostalgia playing tricks on me. Because during the entire time I lived in Miami they were displayed in a really cool combination of glass cases and shelves that showed them off very well. But I just didn't care about them at all. I wasn't impressed by them. I wasn't inclined to add to the collection. And if I were to turn around now and decide to keep them I know the same thing would happen. The novelty will just wear off and I'll have this big albatross I need to either make space for or just, like, keep boxed up which makes even less sense.
Honestly . . . I suspect that more than growing bored of it, 30 year old me just doesn't think a Pez collection is nearly as interesting or fun as 20 year old me did.
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