Here we are with another Milestone! This post analyse the status of my passion collecting Icon Mugs.
The Vegas was the first mug that I bought online on the eBay and was the beginning of the end… Initially I would collect only the mugs of the place that I visited but then I don’t do it… I had collected all. Let me explain better, there are many phases in the collecting mania and every collector start from the initial phase when his collection it’s under control until arrive to the final step when its collection is terribly enormous and bloody out of controll, at the moment I’m in the middle of the evolution: my collection it’s big but not too much and I can choose which mugs I want obtain soon and which others that I can wait. I desire to obtain all the Americans and Canadians mugs cause they are now discontinued and hard to find, after they I will focalize my research on the mugs that will be discontinued or are very rare like the Mexican, the South Korean or the Japanese mugs. I also heard that the Malaysian, the Indonesian, and some middle east mugs will be stopped for indefinitely times (they are sold out in many store just now), and it make me very sad cause I like a lot the Icon series. Probably, after the Icon, I’ll stop my collector obsession. Probably not, I repeat not, certainly.
Down there I listed the various phases of my personal collector mania:
-ZERO: One apocaliptic day a devilish force create a damned mug! The makumba on the mug force me to fall in a horrible loop of obsession but I don’t know it now…
-FIRST: One day when I was drinking in my mug, the only one that I have for the moment, I find it very nice.
-SECOND: Another day I ask to myself if my mug fell itself alone and I bought a friend for it.
-THIRD: When I was passing near a Starbucks store I saw a mug displayed in the store and I decide to buy a memorabilia of my travel. Now the loop start and you’re done!
-FOURTH: I start to go to Starbucks every times that I can and offcourse I start to buy Icons for every travel.
-FIFTH: I start to think that my mugs may decorate my home.
-SIXTH: I start to ask to friend and relatives if they may buy the Icons for me when they travel in a new place.
-SEVENTH: I start to search on eBay and Amazon if some discontinued mugs are avaiable on the web.
-EIGHT: I start to love my mugs cause they are important and beautiful in my head. (PS If you live with someone the person that live with you start to hate your mugs at the same moment that you start to love them.)
-NINETH: I started to trade mugs on sites like FredOrange.co
-TENTH: I started to study a stopover time at the airport that gives me the time to pass by Starbucks and buy all the mugs that I need for myself and for trade.
-ELEVENTH: I started to study a holiday trip in places where there are Starbucks, otherwise if there are only common coffe and so it’s not in my interest.
At the moment I’m there…who knows which will be the next change in my life…?
But buy mugs on the store or on the Internet isn’t the only way to collect the most rare or most far mugs, there is also the trading, a secure and affordable way to contact collectors and swap mugs with others people around the world. In the next post I will explain better how works the starbucks mugs trading.
ICONIC STYLE 