RM - this may or not be within the pervue of your potential list's range now, but what of letting Gordon know his fans would NOT feel exploited and would be VERY happy to be able to buy t-shirts with album covers, concert artwork, the poster photos, etc, whatever...I'd buy 5 of 'em right now at $20/per and if on Beefy -T's, not feel a bit exploited ! - as was his concern, I know, watching out for his fans' intereset, he thought we'd get ripped off I believe was his concern.
BTW -
Oh Linda!
A thought regarding your rhetorical Q of "what do our mum's do with all that stuff?" - or something like that. I'm 50, but still "young Steve" thankfully to some - cool, makes me feel younger ! - anyway, 2 of my collections of my most precious, but worthless, upon initial inspection, 'STUFF"that my Mom got her hands on when doing her famous Draconian house cleaning:
I had not heard that word "Draconian", until I heard my Dad use it in reference to my Mom's cleaning....vigorous, and thorough, furious, lol.... she really got into it. But not from an OCD thing... it was actually Doctor's orders. She had some kinda lung condition when we lived IN the heart of Cleveland when I was VERY little (3), Ohio, not suburbs, but the big city, granted; it was in a subdivision of little cracker-box houses, but still a subdivision in the heart of the city, factorys 5 minutes way.. And all that pollution.
A doc told Mom and Dad that if we did not move to an outlying fringe Suburb out of Cleveland proper, she'd die. I heard this many years after we'd moved and old enough it would not scare me. 2 or 3 years ago. j/k
lol... well... she was ordered still in the outlying suburb on the forested fringe outside of Cleveland to clean DUST, MOLD, and MILDEW very vigorously, including walls (I never saw anyone else scrub walls with sponge, soap, and water before for just dust....., SURE - the Kitchen, etc, where you get debris on the walls.... but in the living room ? big house...huge job...once a week...Dad called this Draconian.
Well how this ties together in reference to your Q is that she was also to rid the house of all unneccesary pack-rat stuff - tied bundles of newspapers in e basement, old knick-knacks that were gifts from Mother-in-law, etc....things that had to be dusted or collected dust without remedy - i.e. the newspapers... and mildew..
So she finds 2 of my "collections" she did not recognize as such in my "cubby closet" - my childhood bedroom was at one corner perpendicular to the stairwell under it, and the space over the stairs above head level in fact was my sticking-out cubby closet. When I was real little I climbed in there and it was a dark fortress.... but as I grew older, i stopped playing and hiding in there, at least 3 years ago.. lol.. and started putting more cogent things in there like my "collections" - some dubious, some not even recognizable as such - especially to my Mom.
They were both collections of destination-of-travel-oriented "gimme's" - freebies at restaurants, hotels,airlines, etc., with place names or hotel/restaurant/airline names, To me, from my Father's travels in his work, whom I idolized as I grew up, these were precious little orts from his "important outer-space work" - I thought as a child, when he traveled in his job with NASA. The stuff eventually paired down to 2 collections, sugar packets with names/places/establishments printed on them, and match books with same.
Years later, when i was in my 40's and mom & dad were getting ready to move, she did a "Dracon" the ancient character draconian was based upon -cleaning job, saw the two boxes of sugar packets and matches, and not knowing of their story or importance to me, threw them out ! Ahhw Mommmm ! oh well... she told me a few more years later when I was looking for them, and she got a funny look on her face, and said something like "i...uhh..didn't know.... I am SO sorry ... " I re-assured her it was an innocent mistake but went home deflated a little over a piece of my childhood memories regarding my now-departed father. Such is life.. , but man-o-man - what a cleaner ! lol
