What do your parents think of your hobby?

[palitoy]

Neither of my folks get me, my dad was supportive of my toy dealing when i was young. Taking me to the warehouses, helping me at toy shows but he never got the whole collecting thing in any way.

My mother is a classic "thrower awayer" I'm not surprised she doesn't get collecting.

My sister took her hobby and made it her job, it's much more expensive and time consuming but it's more mainstream than mine, so they brag about hers to friends. Oddly, none of that bothers me.

[Mikey]

My old man died when I was 5, so he's out of this survey totally...

My mom (she's gone now too) used to refer to my Mego collecting as "Michael collecting his little men"

To this day, i'm not exactly sure how to take that --- but knowing my Ma, it was probably not exactly a complimentary statement

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[monkey tennis]

My Dad back in the 70's used to cut out the backing cards from my Mego's and stick them on me and my brothers bedroom door (I had a couple of Fist Fighting Mego's to) and he even painted around them a few years later.
Now 30 years later my Dad and my Mum just shake their heads and say
HOW MUCH and that they saw the same ones down a carboot sale for £5.00