Since I posted about the notes on my phone last week, I’ve needed to expound on a couple of my lists. A few days ago, I wrote about my list on my phone about the kind of person I want to be. Today I’m going to give more details about another topic: Little People sets I want to buy.
As a kid, I had a lot of Little People sets - the farm, the car garage, the zoo, and more. In fact, I think I might have had all of them that existed. Or maybe between my family and my extended family, I played with all of them. When I look back at photos of the sets, they are all familiar and I remember playing with each of them. If I owned all of them, I was truly a spoiled child! I wish we still had them! I didn't know what a treasure they were! I think all that remains - and it's at my mom's house - is the Little People airplane.
Sidenote: I had no idea they were called "Little People" when I was a kid.
As you probably know, Little People have been completely revamped for the modern-day child. Nothing will ever compare to the originals, but I like the current Little People as well. When Nicky was little, we had Noah's ark, the farm, and the nativity. Then when we had Daisy, I couldn't resist the Disney princess sets. We still have the nativity and the princesses (though I donated some of their castles to the Church nursery).
In recent years, they have come out with a lot of fun collectors Little People sets, and I confess, I've been a sucker for them. I've seen them online and felt a great desire to start my own Little People collection (I've had the same urge for Polly Pockets). For years I've thought, "Should I start a collection?" but I never did because 1) I didn't want to find somewhere to put them and 2) I didn't want to spend the money.
But that all changed when the Lost set dropped.
My heart longed for Little People, and my friend Christie ended up giving me the Lost set for my birthday this year. Then my friend Lynsie gave me the Golden Girls set for my birthday, and that secured my fate - I was going to start collecting my own Little People!
With some birthday money and leftover funds from selling pumpkin rolls last fall, I started investing in my collection. I didn't go hog wild - I just started watching the prices on a few sets I liked, and I bought some when I saw good deals. My collection now consists of:
Up
The Notebook
Back to the Future
E.T.
Nightmare Before Christmas
Golden Girls
Lost
and as of this week, Beetlejuice.
And then there are the princesses as well that we have from Daisy, which are currently in storage. She doesn't know this, but they will not be going with her when she leaves this house. They will stay in my possession for future grandkids.
As my Little People sets started rolling in, I found myself in a predicament. Part of the fun of the collection is the boxes that they come in, but I don't want them to just sit in boxes looking pretty because the other part of the fun of the collection is to unbox them and play with them. This made me more understanding of my friend's husband who has a massive toy collection and has made a habit of purchasing two of everything - one to keep in the box and one to play with (I originally thought he was a little extreme. I get it now).
I decided that I am going to keep the Little People sets in their boxes, but only temporarily. I am going to build my collection for a while, and then, when I become a grandma, I will open my Little People sets. That is going to be my "grandma prize" when my first grandchild is born. There is no timeline for this yet - I could be a grandma two years from now, twenty years from now, or never. (If the answer is never, then I'm going to have to do my opening for my 60th birthday party or something).
And that is why one of the notes on my phone is titled "Little People" - because I am keeping a running list of the sets I want to buy so I can watch for sales and build my stash.
It's finally happening, folks.
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