Pens and pencils are another collectable that I don’t collect.
I simply amass. I don’t go out of my way to get a Red Sox pen. I don’t buy a
pencil just because I don’t have one. I just come by them, and don’t get rid of
them when I do. I use them, for the most part. But, most of them are displayed
with the rest of my Red Sox stuff.
I seem to get lots of them as gifts. Family members are
notorious for slipping a pencil or two into another present to spruce it up
just a bit. Sometimes when I’m at a game, my pen will run out during scoring.
So, I’ll need to buy a new one to finish out the game. I even have a few pens
that the Red Sox handed out at a game so we could fill out a survey. (Yes, the
Sox had market research before the Henry group bought the team.)
Once I have them, they fun to collect. They serve a purpose.
They’re colorful. They’re small enough that they’re easy to display. They sell
holders for them all over the place, if you’re so inclined. What could be better?
They’re also nice as a collectable to seek out when you go
places. I’ve mentioned before that for a while I collected pins from places I
visited. I liked having a record of the placed I’ve been. But, they started to
get expensive, and a bit hard to find everywhere. I’ve since moved on to
baseballs. They seem to pop up everywhere I want to find them. The same can
definitely be said for pens and pencils. Especially at ballgames. When I went
to a Phillies game, they were even nice enough to give me a free Phillies
pencil when I got my scorecard. It was perfect. I’m going to score the game
anyway. Why not get a team pen or pencil to do it with? It’s a great way to
collect a little history.
Anyone have a pen or pencil display in their house?
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