Collecting Tanning Bed Catalogues
Although humans share about 99.4% of DNA with chimpanzees, we share about 100% of our mental workings with pack rats. We are a species that tends to collect for the sake of collecting, especially if the things collected do not contribute to our survival in any way, shape or form. You will be hard-pressed to find anyone that collects grains of barley. However, you will find people who avidly collect salt and pepper shakers, jars of mustard and tanning bed catalogues.
The Attraction Of Collecting
What would drive someone to go about devoting a chunk of their life to stocking, maintaining and organizing a tanning bed catalogue collection? There are actually many reasons, with each person collecting as a result of a combination of circumstances. With tanning bed catalogues, you can look at high-end luxury items without being chased out of a store. In some way, collecting tanning bed catalogues can be a cost effective way to fulfill your fantasy of owning a tanning bed.
Through collecting tanning bed catalogues, you do in some way own all of the tanning beds ever made. There are some societies that believe a photograph of an object is just as powerful or has the attributes of the object pictured. You also will become somewhat of an expert on tanning beds.
The World Needs Experts
Collecting tanning bed catalogues is a lot cheaper and more practical than collecting tanning beds. Not only that, but you become part of and learn a very specialized part of technology and fashion history. Not many people decide to chronicle the evolution of a certain product that impacts the lives of a lot of people. In learning more about how our modern objects came to be, we also learn about ourselves.
You will be surprised at how many people will be interested in your tanning bed catalogue collection, whether it is hard copy or digital. They could be freelance writers working on assignments about tanning beds, certain companies or about tanning and health. You might also be contacted by inventors or current engineers for all kinds of companies that want to see what has already been done with tanning beds.
And, after decades of painstaking but personally rewarding work, you can always donate your invaluable tanning bed catalogue collection to the one place that will give it a proper home - The Smithsonian. They are the world's most avid collector and rely on self-taught experts in order to help chronicle the story of mankind.
