A Few Too Many

Lunch Boxes

Over the past week I’ve picked up three new vintage lunch boxes: The Fall Guy, Annie, and the Care Bears. In the picture above, you can see the The Fall Guy and Care Bears lunch boxes stacked in front of some of the others. The cube holding the Annie lunch box is three boxes deep.

I’m really good at collecting things. What I’m not really good at is limiting my collections. Or, for that matter, paring them down.

When I first moved those upper shelves out into the hallway, I only had a handful of lunch boxes — four or five at most. Completely by chance, each shelf is exactly the width of four lunch boxes with a Thermos in between for spacing, which means they’ll hold exactly twenty lunch boxes. That was the limit I set for myself. “I’ll collect twenty lunch boxes,” I proclaimed. “No more, no less.”

I currently own thirty-seven.

The set of white cubes were a hand-me-down from Mason, who no longer wanted them in his room. That gave me room for nine more, for a total of twenty-nine.

Again — thirty-seven.

Are there a couple I could part with? Sure. I wasn’t a huge fan of “The Real Ghostbusters,” the animated series that followed the movies. And, truth be told, Sigmund the Sea Monster was a little bit before my time.

But the reality is, I’ll never get rid of them. eventually I’ll find another empty wall and add another set of shelves. You can’t see them, but six feet to the left of these shelves are another set of shelves filled with vintage boxed Star Wars toys. There’s another set of shelves the other direction.

They say rules were made to be broken. In the case of the rules I set for my own collections, that definitely seems to be the case.

3 comments to A Few Too Many

  • Paul in AZ

    I recently bought more shelves for my record collection. All the records have shelf space, and so do some skateboards and other miscellany, but eventually, all shelves will have records and those other things will be become clutter. I just like collecting records. It’s my collection and I buy what I like (either to listen to, or the artwork, or the record is just so odd it has to be owned by me – e.g. Kentucky Fried Chicken Christmas Records or “The Waltons’ Christmas Album”).

  • Sounds like it’s time to queue up Judas Priest – Breaking The Law for your theme song haha. If you need, and I use use the term need loosely here, I’ve got a Ducktales lunch box with Thermos that could be a nice edition to your upcoming lunch box shelving unit ;-)

  • and actually correction, it’s a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lunch box with Thermos… you can’t have my Ducktales one :-p

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