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Once again I have found myself at the mercy of a multi-national company. This is not the first time either, on three other occasions I have been in exactly the same situation, involving Pokémon, Star Wars Episode 1 and now more recently Lord of the Rings. What am I talking about?
I am talking about stickers. You know the 56 page albums with the spaces, which so generously accommodate what seems like a million of the buggers, but what in reality is only about 260-280. I find the problem is that it’s so addictive, it’s almost like drugs.
You are usually started off with a free sample, perhaps consisting of the album and a pack of stickers for free in the paper. So along we go to the shops and collect our free goods, after all a freebie is a freebie. So we tear open our sticker packet to find 5 sticker each with their own notable interest, and 1 "rare", "shiny". The shiny sticker are and always will be the best, the way they catch the daylight and refract their image onto the retina is a modern marvel.
But you see now you are hooked, after your fist shiny you need to see what a few of the others look like...Out of curiosity at first, after all for 30p you can get 6 stickers. A bargain some would say. But after the initial curiosity is gone it is replaced with the greed and the want, the greed for more shinies and the want to fill up the rest of the book, after all you have got 6 stickers why not finish the rest of the book.
You find that the once plentiful stash of pocket money is dwindling and you are starting to live from sticker packet to sticker packet...Your skin becomes bad because of your forgetfulness to wash, and you are round the back of the bike sheds trying to swap away your "doublers". After about your first month of collecting you find that you have acquired around 100 doublers, nobody is willing to swap because you are becoming to possessive, and everyone knows a shiny Charmander isn't worth a shiny Ash and Pikachu.
This is the most depressing part, due to your high growth of doublers, and your infamy with the traders; you are dreading the next packet of stickers. The feeling you get when every sticker in the pack is one you already own feels like your spinal cord has just been severed. But you MUST have more stickers, the book is only 2/3 complete and it’s too late to give up now. It is now you realise that your initial projected capital investment wasn't strictly correct.
After all 280 stickers at 5p each only comes to £14 and with the book on top of that £15.50 doesn't seem too steep, considering the final reward. But due to doubler numbers you now see you have spent £25 and are still far from completion. A few more weeks pass by, the end is in sight and with only 26 stickers left to finish the book you feel great.
You now realise shop supplies are critically low, in short there are none, to those fortunate the web site is a saviour 25 stickers can be individually ordered, but wait! I have 26. And there it ends, with one sticker left to fill the book the sticker go out of production and the book is never completed. A depression grabs at your soul, but hey there is always the next sticker book. And I will fill that one for sure!
I am talking about stickers. You know the 56 page albums with the spaces, which so generously accommodate what seems like a million of the buggers, but what in reality is only about 260-280. I find the problem is that it’s so addictive, it’s almost like drugs.
You are usually started off with a free sample, perhaps consisting of the album and a pack of stickers for free in the paper. So along we go to the shops and collect our free goods, after all a freebie is a freebie. So we tear open our sticker packet to find 5 sticker each with their own notable interest, and 1 "rare", "shiny". The shiny sticker are and always will be the best, the way they catch the daylight and refract their image onto the retina is a modern marvel.
But you see now you are hooked, after your fist shiny you need to see what a few of the others look like...Out of curiosity at first, after all for 30p you can get 6 stickers. A bargain some would say. But after the initial curiosity is gone it is replaced with the greed and the want, the greed for more shinies and the want to fill up the rest of the book, after all you have got 6 stickers why not finish the rest of the book.
You find that the once plentiful stash of pocket money is dwindling and you are starting to live from sticker packet to sticker packet...Your skin becomes bad because of your forgetfulness to wash, and you are round the back of the bike sheds trying to swap away your "doublers". After about your first month of collecting you find that you have acquired around 100 doublers, nobody is willing to swap because you are becoming to possessive, and everyone knows a shiny Charmander isn't worth a shiny Ash and Pikachu.
This is the most depressing part, due to your high growth of doublers, and your infamy with the traders; you are dreading the next packet of stickers. The feeling you get when every sticker in the pack is one you already own feels like your spinal cord has just been severed. But you MUST have more stickers, the book is only 2/3 complete and it’s too late to give up now. It is now you realise that your initial projected capital investment wasn't strictly correct.
After all 280 stickers at 5p each only comes to £14 and with the book on top of that £15.50 doesn't seem too steep, considering the final reward. But due to doubler numbers you now see you have spent £25 and are still far from completion. A few more weeks pass by, the end is in sight and with only 26 stickers left to finish the book you feel great.
You now realise shop supplies are critically low, in short there are none, to those fortunate the web site is a saviour 25 stickers can be individually ordered, but wait! I have 26. And there it ends, with one sticker left to fill the book the sticker go out of production and the book is never completed. A depression grabs at your soul, but hey there is always the next sticker book. And I will fill that one for sure!
I did a similar thing about 6 years ago when I was 14. I don't think I ever completed a sticker book completely. It's strange how people turn stupid when you ask for stickers.
I ended up selling my swaps. Made quite a lot of money out of it.
I ended up selling my swaps. Made quite a lot of money out of it.
===SONICRAV---> wrote:
> Did you say "it's worth it in the end"? WHY!? WHY WHY WHY!
Why is a
> 17 year old guy buying pokemon card sticker things! WHY!?
I finished with pokemon ages ago, its the lord of the rings stickers now, it may be sad but iam at least keeping up to date.
> Did you say "it's worth it in the end"? WHY!? WHY WHY WHY!
Why is a
> 17 year old guy buying pokemon card sticker things! WHY!?
I finished with pokemon ages ago, its the lord of the rings stickers now, it may be sad but iam at least keeping up to date.
Did you say "it's worth it in the end"? WHY!? WHY WHY WHY!
Why is a 17 year old guy buying pokemon card sticker things! WHY!?
Why is a 17 year old guy buying pokemon card sticker things! WHY!?
RastaBillySkank wrote:
> cookie monster wrote:
Iam 17, i know
> iam sad.
Hehehheheheh
>
Hey what the hell, as long as you enjoy it!
I do, i just want the feeling when i finally complete it, i was thinking of selling the completed book on ebay. But i don't know if i could part with it.
> cookie monster wrote:
Iam 17, i know
> iam sad.
Hehehheheheh
>
Hey what the hell, as long as you enjoy it!
I do, i just want the feeling when i finally complete it, i was thinking of selling the completed book on ebay. But i don't know if i could part with it.
cookie monster wrote:
Iam 17, i know
> iam sad.
Hehehheheheh
Hey what the hell, as long as you enjoy it!
Iam 17, i know
> iam sad.
Hehehheheheh
Hey what the hell, as long as you enjoy it!
RastaBillySkank wrote:
> Hmmm... How old are you, Cookie?
Iam 17, i know iam sad.
> Hmmm... How old are you, Cookie?
Iam 17, i know iam sad.
Hmmm... How old are you, Cookie?
Smooth Criminal wrote:
> Muahahahahahahaha!!!
You weak minded fool! Only now, at the end, do you see
> the futility of your struggle!
Muahahahahahahaha!!!
========
Sorry but i
> just had to say that.
Yes i have inflicted this upon myself, however my fortune has turned for the better. Afte 3 days of collecting i have ammassed 192 stickers. Only 88 to go!
> Muahahahahahahaha!!!
You weak minded fool! Only now, at the end, do you see
> the futility of your struggle!
Muahahahahahahaha!!!
========
Sorry but i
> just had to say that.
Yes i have inflicted this upon myself, however my fortune has turned for the better. Afte 3 days of collecting i have ammassed 192 stickers. Only 88 to go!
Once again I have found myself at the mercy of a multi-national company. This is not the first time either, on three other occasions I have been in exactly the same situation, involving Pokémon, Star Wars Episode 1 and now more recently Lord of the Rings. What am I talking about?
I am talking about stickers. You know the 56 page albums with the spaces, which so generously accommodate what seems like a million of the buggers, but what in reality is only about 260-280. I find the problem is that it’s so addictive, it’s almost like drugs.
You are usually started off with a free sample, perhaps consisting of the album and a pack of stickers for free in the paper. So along we go to the shops and collect our free goods, after all a freebie is a freebie. So we tear open our sticker packet to find 5 sticker each with their own notable interest, and 1 "rare", "shiny". The shiny sticker are and always will be the best, the way they catch the daylight and refract their image onto the retina is a modern marvel.
But you see now you are hooked, after your fist shiny you need to see what a few of the others look like...Out of curiosity at first, after all for 30p you can get 6 stickers. A bargain some would say. But after the initial curiosity is gone it is replaced with the greed and the want, the greed for more shinies and the want to fill up the rest of the book, after all you have got 6 stickers why not finish the rest of the book.
You find that the once plentiful stash of pocket money is dwindling and you are starting to live from sticker packet to sticker packet...Your skin becomes bad because of your forgetfulness to wash, and you are round the back of the bike sheds trying to swap away your "doublers". After about your first month of collecting you find that you have acquired around 100 doublers, nobody is willing to swap because you are becoming to possessive, and everyone knows a shiny Charmander isn't worth a shiny Ash and Pikachu.
This is the most depressing part, due to your high growth of doublers, and your infamy with the traders; you are dreading the next packet of stickers. The feeling you get when every sticker in the pack is one you already own feels like your spinal cord has just been severed. But you MUST have more stickers, the book is only 2/3 complete and it’s too late to give up now. It is now you realise that your initial projected capital investment wasn't strictly correct.
After all 280 stickers at 5p each only comes to £14 and with the book on top of that £15.50 doesn't seem too steep, considering the final reward. But due to doubler numbers you now see you have spent £25 and are still far from completion. A few more weeks pass by, the end is in sight and with only 26 stickers left to finish the book you feel great.
You now realise shop supplies are critically low, in short there are none, to those fortunate the web site is a saviour 25 stickers can be individually ordered, but wait! I have 26. And there it ends, with one sticker left to fill the book the sticker go out of production and the book is never completed. A depression grabs at your soul, but hey there is always the next sticker book. And I will fill that one for sure!
I am talking about stickers. You know the 56 page albums with the spaces, which so generously accommodate what seems like a million of the buggers, but what in reality is only about 260-280. I find the problem is that it’s so addictive, it’s almost like drugs.
You are usually started off with a free sample, perhaps consisting of the album and a pack of stickers for free in the paper. So along we go to the shops and collect our free goods, after all a freebie is a freebie. So we tear open our sticker packet to find 5 sticker each with their own notable interest, and 1 "rare", "shiny". The shiny sticker are and always will be the best, the way they catch the daylight and refract their image onto the retina is a modern marvel.
But you see now you are hooked, after your fist shiny you need to see what a few of the others look like...Out of curiosity at first, after all for 30p you can get 6 stickers. A bargain some would say. But after the initial curiosity is gone it is replaced with the greed and the want, the greed for more shinies and the want to fill up the rest of the book, after all you have got 6 stickers why not finish the rest of the book.
You find that the once plentiful stash of pocket money is dwindling and you are starting to live from sticker packet to sticker packet...Your skin becomes bad because of your forgetfulness to wash, and you are round the back of the bike sheds trying to swap away your "doublers". After about your first month of collecting you find that you have acquired around 100 doublers, nobody is willing to swap because you are becoming to possessive, and everyone knows a shiny Charmander isn't worth a shiny Ash and Pikachu.
This is the most depressing part, due to your high growth of doublers, and your infamy with the traders; you are dreading the next packet of stickers. The feeling you get when every sticker in the pack is one you already own feels like your spinal cord has just been severed. But you MUST have more stickers, the book is only 2/3 complete and it’s too late to give up now. It is now you realise that your initial projected capital investment wasn't strictly correct.
After all 280 stickers at 5p each only comes to £14 and with the book on top of that £15.50 doesn't seem too steep, considering the final reward. But due to doubler numbers you now see you have spent £25 and are still far from completion. A few more weeks pass by, the end is in sight and with only 26 stickers left to finish the book you feel great.
You now realise shop supplies are critically low, in short there are none, to those fortunate the web site is a saviour 25 stickers can be individually ordered, but wait! I have 26. And there it ends, with one sticker left to fill the book the sticker go out of production and the book is never completed. A depression grabs at your soul, but hey there is always the next sticker book. And I will fill that one for sure!