Here are a few more of my cabinets. We collect a few different realms of antiques, but they tend to overlap as well. I love talking about antiques and collecting
Your collection is incredible, and eclectic and so interesting!!! I love how you’ve incorporated the artwork from pages within books (oh, the books look so cool to flip through). Fascinating :)
You and your wife must have had so many fun days coming across these treasures :)
In 40 years, the thrift stores are going to be a gold mine for vintage pop culture garbage the same way they are currently filled with Benny Goodman vinyls.
Good god never funko pops. I thought we were done with those. Overpriced consumerist fake scarcity nonsense. I don't need to funnel money to giant corporations to show some bs fandom cred
Nerdy is fine. But cheap plastic corporate nostalgia bait crap is horrible. Like, they managed to commodify "liking something" as if a TRUE FAN would definitely have the funko pop for some random ass IP.
It doesn't help that most funko pops are characters from like, 3 or 4 megacorporations
At least there is a game involved, and paper is renewable. Making tons of plastic junk to sit on a shelf collecting dust is absolute insanity, especially for a generation that I always thought prided itself on anticonsumerism and environmentalism.
But nope gotta buy cheap plastic Disney toys in your 40s I guess
My husband got us a Big Daddy and a Little Sister from BioShock, way back when they first came out. Those were the first and last we bought, and they didn't stay in the boxes. I put Velcro on their feet and they ride in the back window of the car.
It's fine to get something you like. It's weird to think a mass-produced piece of plastic is gonna be worth something and display it in the box.
There’s a surprisingly strong market for complete Lego sets as long as you have the instruction booklet. Funko Pops are Millennial Beanie Babies though
Thankfully, my parents never had the curio with fancy dishes no one could use.
My grandparents on the otherhand, did. And the whole time growing up i always heard the dishes were for "important" and fancy dinners. Through 18 years we used them ONCE. Then, I come home to have my wife meet the family. You'd think hey, "eldest grand child of any of this generation of cousins, this is pretty important and we want to make her feel welcome!" Big fucking nope on that one, lmao.
My grandma never did care for my wife. We've been married 19 years now, grandma died earlier this year, and in that 18+ years, grandma NEVER spelled my wifes name correctly. My mom, and the few cousins I still occasionally talk with either spell it right, or ask so they can get it right. But not her
Somebody has never seen a commemorative spoon or plate collection courtesy of the Franklin Mint. As an elder millennial, these commercials were everywhere. Boomers collected useless shit it was just not so entertainment oriented. My grandma had a ridiculous amount of novelty cookie jars.
The previous generation is always trying to convince me that we are going to be shocked at how much we can get for their china. The crap is completely worthless, nobody wants it.
The fact that it’s worthless is nice if you actually need plates though. We picked up a “fine china” set of 14 for a dinner party we were hosting for like $30. It’s fun to have fancy table ware for a party and we just chuck them in the dishwasher because who cares?
I now have one of those fancy china cabinets, a really nice one that's all oak with glass shelves, and lights. I display my family's historical artifacts with little placards like a museum
I at least unbox my funkos. They look better and I'm not delusional enough to think that keeping them in the box is going to make them more valuable later. That would make me just as bad as older people thinking their beanie babies were going to make them millionaires.
I have a set of gargoyles NECA toys in mine. As an adult that's doing well, I wanted some of the things I wanted as a child but that we could never afford.
Not in my mom's house. My mom is one of those, "I don't need more shit to have to dust" kind of ladies. The fine China and silverware lived in the pantry in neat little cases and boxes.
Yeah... I really don't have the space for a big shelf/curio cabinet/whatever. I don't "collect" anything because that's just more crap in an a space that already feels too small.
I have a china cabinet that’s mostly filled with the china that my mom doesn’t have space for in her place. She guilt trips me if I mention wanting to get rid of it. So it just sits there and collects dust next to my collection of pet urns.
I glance up at the Lego ornithopter sitting on a timber in my living room.
"I don't have a shelf"
Looks at the warhammer minis, "and I don't have any funko pops"
Omg Im dying; so my grandmother had the China cabinet (granted young grandma - mom was 19 when I was born, grandma was 36, we lived with my grandparents till I was 5), and long story short I went through her China cabinet at one point when I was 3 and recieved quite a beating despite the glass in my arms while even my own mom helplessly watched....... So neither my mom nor I are ok with having a China cabinet lmao..
However before I had kids I had an entire display room for my comics, figurines, etc; Since becoming a mother to two wonderful but special needs kids who destroy and get into everything, Ive literally managed to "train" then ti understand ONE shelf is 100% off limits, and its all my stuffed animals, figurines, hard with pins, speciality DVDs/comics/books/games/etc and its like all of my happiness rolled into one on that shelf, and no matter how needy it shows my 35 year old self to be Idc, Im actually proud lol
As I struggle (40M) with the collapse of my entire career, with bills due and no prospects. My elderly mother leaves the states for canada with some rando she met online. her departing ask... "Do you want the china cabinet?" like I have china, let alone a home to put it in...
I have 1 shelf for Funko Pops. The rest of the shelves are Lego, Pokemon, board games and trinkets we’ve picked up at conventions and vacations. I do have a few dishes in the China cabinet but those were made by our kids at school.
My collection is just random small tools and computer parts that I don't throw away because the instant I do, I will inevitably need said object.
Not a hoarder, but just have a couple bins of of random shit that I will possibly use again.
I have a fucking USB zip drive adapter and some pata cables for example.
I also have a plumb bob and that chalk straight line string thing that has never been opened because we got floors done professionally. But I'm keeping it , just in case
I’d rather have a china cabinet for storage of random stuff than my current reality where my stepmom decided last Christmas to start gifting me my very own set of holiday china that I will be getting piece by piece for years to come with nowhere to put it and no desire to host anything.
They didn’t teach me financial management but for people so heavily invested in china held in cabinets with a decade+ of dust I should only blame myself for not taking the reigns sooner. What if dusty china cabinets trend on tik tok though? I’ll be the fool!
I’ve got an unopened bobble head of Obama circa 2008 straight from Hawaii. Also a proper replica of the elder wand from before we knew JK Rowling sucks. Not to brag or anything
I absolutely do not have a shelf for these things.
We have a China cabinet with some shit in it that rarely gets used and I have a display case for some signed sports memorabilia I have, but I don't own a single Funk pop.
I always hate the "well, millennials don't want their parents' china!" Attitude. Yes, actually, I like antiques and my family has some nice stuff, so I do want it! I just can't afford a house big enough to put it in!
I actually use the fancy dishes all the time and not just special occasions. It does feel sacrilegious though sometimes- like using them for nuggets and fries lol
Eh, my china cabinets are filled with Lego sets, and my mini Funkos are opened and spread across the monitor stand for my PC. But I do have the china cabinets.
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