Life Of A Blogger is hosted by the fabulous Jessi from Novel Heartbeat where we let people know more about our lives outside of blogging so they can get to know us better!
Ohh, I collect A LOT of stuff! Basically, as long as it’s cute, I collect them. The end. Okay, that’s not really the end. My parents are the ones who throw away all my collections without asking me, like the toy collection I had in fifth grade that they suddenly threw away without warning. However, these collections I’m showing you are the ones my parents don’t really know about or don’t know where I put them because if they know, they’ll probably throw them away because they’re “useless” and “take up a lot of space.”
There’s so many animals in my animal eraser collection and they come in different colors. I have hedgehog erasers in every color, whales, cows, ducks, polar bears, and yes, that’s a pig’s body that got chopped off you’re seeing in the picture. I don’t know if you guys can see it, but I’ve never opened a single animal eraser out of its packet.
Collecting these animal erasers could be expensive. In New York City, they cost $1 for one, or $3 for 4. I probably spent at least $20 on these, which I could have used to buy books.
I’ve never bought any animal erasers for a long time – it must have been at least two years since I bought one – but I’ve been thinking of starting up my collection again.
As you can see, I have a lot of Strand bookmarks (they give you one every time you make a purchase there) and a lot of swag bookmarks. In fact, I have a lot more Strandbook bookmarks than the ones pictured here since I took this picture about two months or three months ago. I’ve also never noticed how much bookmarks I have in terms of swag until I was putting them together all in one place. Like the Strand bookmarks, I have more swag than the ones pictured above.
Some of you might have already expected this, but I collect everything Pokemon. Pokemon cards, Pokemon plushies, Pokemon books (not pictured), Pokemon figures (also not pictured), and Pokemon games (obviously not pictured). I basically collect everything Pokemon that is cute. Yes, “cute” is the important word here.
Anyway, enjoy the Mudkips!
What things do you collect? I’m sure at least one of you guys also collect Pokemon cards and bookmarks and animal erasers. I want to know!
I recently started collecting mugs. It’s not like I need every cute mug/cup out there, but all my mugs – so far – are different. I started doing this because I simply LOVE tea and thought it’d look cool if each person had their own mug, so yeah… Mugs are kinda my thing now. Lol
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OMG! I love the animal erasers! LOL What a unique collection item. I used to love getting all the fun erasers when I was in school, but I never kept them. I used them… always feet or tail first to keep the head the longest. Unlike the chocolate bunny when I eat his ears first. LOL
I used to collect so many different things when I was younger… hopefully I’m not dating myself too much, but Holly Hobby was one. Stuffed animals, books, skipping ropes, piggy banks, tigers… OMG you name it.
Now it’s just books and teddy bears.
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My mother is also a huge fan of throwing away things I collected when I was little. Shame, because a lot of my collections would be worth a lot of money nowadays. I still get mad when I think about the moving wizard cards I got with those chocolate frogs and you can’t buy those in the store anymore.. And all my Pokemon cards. And.. and..
*rage ends*
Those erasers are too cute! I like seeing different things everyone collects. I’m also starting to get more book swag and book marks. I especially like to collect the ones from TBD.
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I collect everything kawaii. If it’s pink, pastel and cute I buy it. I have a lot of letter sets, cute pillows, towels and mugs. I only have one rule, I won’t wear it. Everything else is possible. I love your collections, especially the erasers! It’s too bad you have to try to keep them safe, hopefully all of these will remain in your possession…
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Mudkip is so cute!! I used to collect My Little Ponies, as in the original good 80s-90s Hasbro branded MLPs, I had something like 160 of them but alas, I discovered Ebay around age 12 and sold them all. Goodbye My Little Ponies. I have no idea what happened to my Pokémon cards but I used to collect those as well!
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Those animal erasers are adorable!
I love the bookmarks and swag. I have found myself slowly building up a bookmark collection- I feel like every time I walk into a bookstore I always find myself at the bookmarks thinking that I will need a bookmark for whatever book I’m buying even though I have so many at home. Endless cycle…
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Oh wow, what nice little thingies! I didn’t know they existed, but they’re indeed really cute! :) And I know how you feel about your parents. When I moved away, I had to leave 6 boxes of my stuff behind, which they keep in their storage room. I’m always afraid they’re gonna throw everything away (my dad would be really capable of it) so the last time I was there I threw away some stuff myself (even though it was really hard!) and managed to downsize to four boxes. I’ve now got left some books and other memories, plus my snow globes collection.
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I used to collect erasers, too, but I collected the ones shaped like food.
I was more into the games than the cards, but I have a lot of Pokemon stuff in my house. There’s a little, chubby Pikachu plushie that always sits on my desk. I also have a lot of Hello Kitty stuff.
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Ooo, my mom would throw things away and then act like she just had no idea where they went. Beanie Babies though, we hoarded those suckers in our closets. Don’t touch the Beanie Babies!!
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Wow those animal erasers remind me of my grade school days! Haha! I remember not using them as erasers because the shape will be gone and they won’t be adorable anymore lol. Well in my case, I collect mugs. I love drinking tea and my friends kept on giving me mugs as gifts so as time passed by, I realize my mug collection have grown. :)
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OMG I love the erasers! They are so cute, and make me want to collect them too. I haven’t seen any around here though :(. I used to collect Pokemon when I was younger, like a lot but I don’t know where everything went. My parents probably threw them in the bin :(.
Mine would be books (obviously), bookmarks/postcards (SWAG in general) fairies, dragons, cross-stitch kits and funky shoes. Maybe I’ll have to look into the erasers and add that to my collections too :P
Thanks for sharing Kelly! xD
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Haha, your animal eraser collection is so random but cute!
I really like your bookmark collection, they all look awesome and It’s so cool that you have that many.
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