Kitten's Zippo Obsession

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Welcome to my blog. This isn't my actual first post since I have already posted my "lists". The lists will be updated frequently, so feel free to keep checking them. I originally started these posts on my other blog. But after some thinking I knew that it would eventually draw away from the original focus of that blog and I didn't want that. So, here we are. A blog of it's own. My Husband is the one who started me on Zippos. He bought me my first one for my 21st birthday. Just shy of our 1 year anniversary. He has had a Zippo since the day I met Him almost 4 1/2 years ago. I have even bought Him two, after He lost His first one. His first one was a plain silver Zippo, that He lost one day when we went hiking on some trails. I felt so guilty, since He had been showing me the trails. And I knew He really loved His Zippos, in fact He can't really stand the taste of a cigarette lit by any other lighter. So I bought Him a Jack Daniels lighter. Then, when the lid started getting loose on that one, He retired it (He still has it of course) and I bought Him one that has a buffalo nickel on the front, and His initials on the back. Well, my Zippo has a Wolf on it. And one day I started thinking of how I haven't had a collection in a long time. Not one that I have felt passionately about. Then another thought struck home. I always see Zippos that I want. Always. There are so many designs that I love and I see all these really kick ass accessories for them. So I have decided to start a collection of Zippos. Ones that I will never use. If I decide to retire my wolf one at some point, I will buy a duplicate of one I have in my collection and use that.

I know what you might be thinking, well since you only have one Zippo, you aren't really obsessed with them. Remember though, every collection has to start somewhere, as does every collector. To be honest with you ever since I had my first one, I have wanted more. But I couldn't bring myself to buy a new one just because I liked the design when I have a perfectly good lighter at home. That was before the idea of collecting them entered my head. No more! Now, I will buy any Zippo (that I have the money for) that I want. I am not looking to collect every Zippo on the face of the Earth. I just want the ones that hold an interest to me. I have never been, and will never be a collector of anything where I buy everything having to do with it just to say I have it, even though I personally do not find pleasure from that particular piece. I don't honestly understand collectors like that, but to each their own. I also plan on joining the Zippo Click membership as soon as I have the money. I think that would be not only beneficial financially, but informative as well. I am not going to be including the Zippos that my Husband already has. Those are His and His alone. Although I may end up buying new ones, because I do enjoy the designs on them. Well, I'm not sure what else to write at this point in time, so... I'll leave it at that, for now.

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Age: 24
Status: happily married
Height: 5'1
Weight: 100 lbs.
Size of Collection: 2

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