I won Tom!

[gerisullivan]

He's a piper's son, doncha know? This particular Tom has been running since my days when my 85-year-old father was running around his grandfather's tag factory where Tom was made.

Tom, Tom the piper's son This is the first Twinzy Toy I've won in standard, online eBay auction. (Skater Doll came from a life auction linked to eBay.) You can see the rip in the seam on top of his head. He looks like the same era and material as Skater Doll, and he has the same Twinzy Toy logo on his back as Skater Doll has on his leg. [Photo from eBay listing; to be replaced with my own after he arrives]

One of the hardest things about being deeply in debt is allowing myself to buy anything that isn't an absolute necessity. Twinzy Toys clearly aren't necessities, and if they start showing up more often I expect I'll opt to collect photos only. But for right now, bidding on him was the right choice for me, and I'm glad my bid proved to be the winning one!

Comments

[papersky.livejournal.com]

He's lovely! And I'm so glad you've got him.

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[thirdworld.livejournal.com]

Us too, though for money a bit tight reasons, not debt, and mostly because our house is tiny at 630 square feet, so we just don't have the space for "stuff" anymore.

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

I doubt that I'll ever join the Small House Society, but I also croggle at the notion that I "need" or "want" the 1,965 square feet I currently inhabit, or that I'd welcome more space. Twinzy Toys fall clearly into the "Treasure of Stuff" category, and I shed a lot of the "Burden of Stuff" items when I moved east. But I immediately took on more "Burden of Stuff" by buying a comfortable house and taking on all of the bills and debt that came with that decision.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

You're lucky.

My grandmother made dynamite.

I haven't looked for it on Ebay, but I suspect it's not to be found there.

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Now that's a different sort of toy, albeit one your friends and mine truly love playing with.

As far as eBay goes, you never know. I certainly didn't expect any Twinzy Toys to turn up there.