Happiness...

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Collecting Breyer model horses used to make me happy :-D They say people collect things to fill a void in their life and apparently it was a not a horse shaped void in my life that I was trying to fill. Collectors of anything get caught up in the consumption cycle--daydreaming about acquiring the object, placing the object, caring for the object, showing off the object--is what it is actually all about! I still have hundreds of Breyers even though I have sold or given away a lot over the years. We don't have kids and I doubt my nieces and nephew will eventually want their aunt's stoooopid toy horse collection.

It was a surprise to me that Breyer actually made a commercial. Judging by the horses in the commercial, this ad is from 1996-1999.