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To: Rambi who wrote (57223)	12/16/2000 3:50:55 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 71178

I think we are programmed to collect necessary articles for survival. After all, if you have the most firewood of anyone, and a hard winter comes, you will survive all winter. You probably have to be a bit compulsive to do that- and of course, in this society, where we don't really need to do compulsive things to get our needs met, we have to find other outlets (so to speak, pun intended).

To: Rambi who wrote (57223)	12/16/2000 7:22:12 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

I remember buying Power Rangers. I had congratulated myself for years that my kids didn't want any fad toys. And then it hit. They had to have Power Rangers. If you didn't have to buy Power Rangers, take it from me. They were hot. I had to prowl the toy stores during the day, because as soon as the shelves were stocked, moms with cell phones were calling each other, and they stripped the shelves bare like piranha working over a calf. I was working a lot then, more than 40 hrs a week, so I had lots of money, no time, and plenty of guilt. So I bought right into the idea of buying my way into being a good mother. Oh, Lord. It was ugly. I am not sure when I hit bottom. It might have been when I made a map of all the Toys'R'Us stores between Fairfax and Baton Rouge and hit at least half a dozen during a trip home. Charlotte, North Carolina. Atlanta, Georgia. New Orleans. It might have been when I was paying 100% markup to scalpers with pushcarts in Tysons Center Mall.Or it might have been when I finally bought every Power Ranger known to man except for the early ones that you couldn't find for love or money, and the kids told me that what they really wanted was Nintendo. All of a sudden, they had zero interest in Power Rangers. It had to be Nintendo. We put the Power Rangers into the basement, and eventually the Nintendo followed, and then one day I said, can we give these to the poor children? And they said, yes. So I took them all to the Salvation Army. I hope some little boy got his heart's desire, but I doubt it. Probably what he wanted more than anything on earth was Pokemon.