davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2025

[davidd]

Feeling nostalgic for da islands?

Yup. Srsly nostalgic. As a result, I now have three of these PoP Mart figures. I had a plan, you see, to create a mini diorama as a "visualization tool" representing my years in Hawaii, during which I was originally a postal letter carrier and then a teacher (hence the postal carrier and the scientist) and when I lived only a couple of miles from the beachfront park where Baywatch: Hawaii was being filmed (hence the lifeguard).

And then, of course, there was the time my snapshot-while-driving-to-work of a dashboard hula doll ended up as a book cover:

https://readherlikeanopenbook.com/2014/0...-dont-see/

(Dig that: a book review that actually mentions the photographer who snapped the cover photo! There's my ten minutes of fame, right there!)

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7 September - A Doll A Day 2025:

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Hasbro #6947 G.I. Joe Capcom M. Bison Street Fighter II 1/6-scale Action Figure, circa 1993 release

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Why? Whyyyyyy? Why did I buy this guy a few weeks ago? I mean, he was inekspensive -- about twenty bucks shipped. But still, that's twenty bucks pretty much flushed away!

Maybe I coulda won that $1.8-billion lottery last weekend if I'd invested the twenty bucks in lottery tickets.

It was an impulse buy. I saw the hat -- yeah, the hat -- in a pic on an action figure forum. One of the forum members used the hat on one of his girl action figures and it looked really cute. 'Natch I hadda have a quick look at eBay to see if I could find the hat. I found the hat... with the complete figure.

The figure includes all his original weapons and accessories and even his "I.D. card" which was carefully clipped from the original packaging.

But still... why'd I do it?

I seriously need to get ahold of myself when it comes to impulse control.

(I think maybe I finally figured out why I've been on a low-key spending spree lately. Not enough to put myself in dire financial straits, but enough that I'm accumulating crap I don't need and don't really want that's starting to put a squeeze on things I really need and want as well as taking up space I don't really have. I'm pretty sure I can stop now that I've figured it out -- and now that the junk that's showing up in the mail is more annoying than fun.)

((It's not even like I can say, "well, yeah, I didn't need this action figure, but it's pretty cool." No, it's a toy-like figure from the early 1990s that doesn't fit in with anything I have that's based on a Capcom video game franchise that I never played and in which I've never had any interest.))

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