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A shelf of children

The best $1.99 I’ve spent

Oh snap look what I found A blast from the past, I totally forgot that we had these guys, they’re so cute ^_^ and they all work surprisingly!

iDog, iPenguin, iFish, iTurtle, 2005

WHEN DID THEY DIE AND WHY THEY WERE THE COOLEST THING EVER

Growing up is one of the most expensive and wasteful experiences of a life time. We waste so much money on the short lived passions of youth. Whether it be the hot wheels and polly pockets, the set of paints and brushes, or the electric guitar sitting in the corner, we indulge the whims of children. And all it leaves us with later is nostalgia and a pile of crap in the corner - or the trash if you don’t have issues with admitting you won’t ever use the object again… And this speaks to why there is so much used crap everywhere: few people want to admit that what they once held value in no longer means anything to anyone but them from ten years ago. eBay and Craigslist make their money off of the idea that there are people who think someone else cares as well as someone at the other end of the exchange who is either unable to afford the new version, nostalgic over the same item, or a hoarder. It’s a problem. It’s capitalism. It’s all of us post-modern kids being told by our recession parents that everything we get we better really want so we convince ourselves that we NEED it, that we are nothing without it, that, “yes mom, I promise I’ll wear it.” All lies that we learned to tell ourselves that made us grow attached to material objects that will one day end up in the corner (or the trash).