Useless garbage that you paid way too much for is still useless garbage, whether it’s a PNG or a Funko Pop. Gacha games (and more generally speaking, skins in video games etc.) are stupid, but at least excess PNG’s only fill up your computer, not your house.
Funko Pops at least give me the fantasy that some day, someone will start a service where you can send in your Funko Pops and they'll melt them down and send them back as a coil of 3D printer filament
I consider them equals. A funko consoomer is no better than a gacha consoomer. To say that one is different than the other is a really low bar.
I like this because you literally described NFTs
Consooming is a pattern of behavior, not what you buy.
Yeah Ron seems like he has a good sense of humor. 32 gnomes a year is definitely excessive, but there's something charming about him.
The other thing with an old guy like him is that he (probably) has both children and grandchildren and I can promise you that a number of those were Christmas, birthday, and probably also Father's Day gifts. I think Yvette probably also falls into that category. Although with tins you can usually find a good number of those at estate sales and swapmeets/flea markets for cheap. Every time a grandma dies a Goodwill gets a Jesus picture and a crafts fair gets a biscuit tin.
Once you have a dozen garden gnomes, your family starts giving them to you for Christmas.
Oh yeah for sure, especially with funny shit like gnomes. There was an elderly woman that lived near me growing up that had quite an extensive gnome collection outside of her house. Everyone I knew who saw them absolutely adored seeing them, so I'm sure she got a lot of gifts.
She at least makes sense since she makes porn for a living.
"On Wednesdays, we wear gnome costumes."
Use his ashes to make a clay gnome in his likeness.
Think about if you inherited some of these collections. The Pokemon one would be easy to sell off, since you could look at tags and find out exactly what you have, and exactly how much they go for. The garden gnomes and tins would be a little harder, though feasible to sell in a lot or donate to a museum.
I'd buy a couple of tubes of superglue, wait until evening, then head over to where the rich bastards with their Lambos live. Do a little improvised ride pimping.
Fuck that, the Lambo and Ferrari drivers around here never bother anyone. Vandalize city busses.
