Cabbage Patch Kids collections
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Ive been looking through 'obsessive' collecting videos on youtube as part of this collecting task and came across this one, i think its almost slightly freaky and weird! A man and wife Collecting Cabbage patch kids and almost treating them like children! within the video is states that there are many clubs in america that are cabbage patch lovers and within these groups they have meet ups, where they are initially meeting so that their cabbage patch kids can play with each other and sort of act like real human children?!
After the first time of watching i could only think that these people may not have children of there own for many reasons so they are trying to treat there cabbage patch kids like there own kids? But after doing a bit more research and watching many more videos i then found out that the main couple featured in the video do in fact have grown up children.
When reading though Baudrillard's 'The system of collecting' one quote really stuck out to me. ' Thus any given object can have two functions; it can be utilized or it can be possessed.' I think this is a very true and fair quote, The youtube clip shows people collecting and keeping hold of these collections so why not use them and take it to the next level rather than just sitting them on a shelf letting them colllect dust. With some certain collections they might not be usable collections but if they are why not use them the way you want to? I think with this certain clip because they are middle aged men and women its almost sort of a regression, going back and visiting your child hood and the child hood memories you have and trying to re live them as you are now.
I have secret collecting obsessions too, Tins, all shapes, sizes and patterns and key rings! which are not going to be so secret now! :)
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