ZAPPED! David's right, some people don't listen!
So Poohlady5 (Crystal) put out a thread about collecting the state Trader Joe's bags. So when Colorado finally got theirs, I bought one, asked for her address and then sent it off. She asked if I wanted to trade, but I said "Don't worry about it, that's what the community is for." So imagine my surprise, when this showed up today!
She included a nice little note, and apologized for "no grails." But here's where I differ from others in the community. For me, grails aren't the most expensive pins. They are the ones that you look and look for, but just can't find, anywhere. Fans of Indiana Jones, remember the dialog when Indy and Ilsa reach the chamber and have to identify the "real" grail. "It won't be made of gold." "That's the cup of a carpenter."
Many, many years ago, I started a private pin group on Pinpics with my "Pins I need to complete sets." I lived in Washington when I started it, and being that far from the parks, and a twentysomething with not a lot of disposable income and only a couple dozen traders, that list just kept getting longer and longer. Sometime about 2006, I got so frustrated with how many pins were on the list, and some bad experiences, I basically gave up following pins online. I had my first "scrapper" experience through Ebay in early 2005, so I had stopped buying pins, making myself content with the pins that my parents and my friends would pick up for me in person.
Fast forward to the end of 2010, Dizpins had closed, and this place was just getting started. I took the opportunity to reintroduce myself, since so many people were doing the same. My old traders had some value, so I made some trades, found out about pins I had missed and started shopping on Ebay again. So I dug out that old Pinpics Group, and it probably had about 120 pins on it. And I started trying to track down the pins on the list. So here we are in 2015, and via Ebay, sales threads, and many, many trades later that list now is down to just 13 pins. It's been since last April that I was able to knock a pin off that list. I'm down to the ones that don't show up very often, or at prices I'm not comfortable with, or when I already overspent my pin allowance.
So look back up at that picture, the unassuming rectangular Disney Records in the upper left corner. It's just a simple little DisneyStore.com LE 1000 boxed set pin. Only 16 people even want it. But it is one of the 13 pins on my list! So now its down to 12.
Secondly, the Hidden Mickey Peter Pan Completer pin...do you know how many lanyards my Dad has looked at to try to find that pin! And inpics has a ridiculous over 200 people wanting it. When I went room hopping and the DFC show & sale, I looked for it, and couldn't find it. Ebay, makes me nervous because I didn't know if there were fakes or not.
So both of those pins make me ridiculously happy, and the Cinderella pin is great too.
So thank you so much!
She included a nice little note, and apologized for "no grails." But here's where I differ from others in the community. For me, grails aren't the most expensive pins. They are the ones that you look and look for, but just can't find, anywhere. Fans of Indiana Jones, remember the dialog when Indy and Ilsa reach the chamber and have to identify the "real" grail. "It won't be made of gold." "That's the cup of a carpenter."
Many, many years ago, I started a private pin group on Pinpics with my "Pins I need to complete sets." I lived in Washington when I started it, and being that far from the parks, and a twentysomething with not a lot of disposable income and only a couple dozen traders, that list just kept getting longer and longer. Sometime about 2006, I got so frustrated with how many pins were on the list, and some bad experiences, I basically gave up following pins online. I had my first "scrapper" experience through Ebay in early 2005, so I had stopped buying pins, making myself content with the pins that my parents and my friends would pick up for me in person.
Fast forward to the end of 2010, Dizpins had closed, and this place was just getting started. I took the opportunity to reintroduce myself, since so many people were doing the same. My old traders had some value, so I made some trades, found out about pins I had missed and started shopping on Ebay again. So I dug out that old Pinpics Group, and it probably had about 120 pins on it. And I started trying to track down the pins on the list. So here we are in 2015, and via Ebay, sales threads, and many, many trades later that list now is down to just 13 pins. It's been since last April that I was able to knock a pin off that list. I'm down to the ones that don't show up very often, or at prices I'm not comfortable with, or when I already overspent my pin allowance.
So look back up at that picture, the unassuming rectangular Disney Records in the upper left corner. It's just a simple little DisneyStore.com LE 1000 boxed set pin. Only 16 people even want it. But it is one of the 13 pins on my list! So now its down to 12.
Secondly, the Hidden Mickey Peter Pan Completer pin...do you know how many lanyards my Dad has looked at to try to find that pin! And inpics has a ridiculous over 200 people wanting it. When I went room hopping and the DFC show & sale, I looked for it, and couldn't find it. Ebay, makes me nervous because I didn't know if there were fakes or not.
So both of those pins make me ridiculously happy, and the Cinderella pin is great too.
So thank you so much!
congratulations for an awesome zap, hope, and thanks for sharing your story about how special it is for you!! =)
