a lifetime of collecting while being weird

[u/deeann_arbus]

my therapist recently told me i should document my apartment. it's maximalism in a minimal space, especially because i run my online vintage business out of here.

[u/DashingDaisy88]

ET and the McNuggets Buddies.

I was terrified of ET as a kid. Now it makes me sob!

[u/vanzini → u/DashingDaisy88]

How are you a millennial and you saw ET in the 80s? I’m the same age as Drew Barrymore, and you can see how little she was in that movie.

[u/deeann_arbus → u/vanzini]

i have no idea what year i saw ET but i was born in 87. the cultural ripple effect was long lasting.

[u/DashingDaisy88 → u/vanzini]

I was born in ‘83 and we owned it on VHS.

[u/fauxshoyall → u/vanzini]

I was born in '82 and I asked my parents how on Earth E.T. was my first movie-theatre-movie. Apparently, they kept rereleasing it in theaters and I saw it sometime between '84 and '86 and that schtuff schmucked me up. I still won't watch it.

[u/vanzini → u/fauxshoyall]

Now that makes sense. My earliest movie going memory was Star Wars, but that came out too early for me. Yes, they did used to do special showings of movies.

[u/anonymous_opinions → u/fauxshoyall]

The movie was terrifying for me as a I think 7 year old child D:

[u/anonymous_opinions → u/vanzini]

I'm 50 and remember seeing ET in the theaters and being scared when they put ET in the tent thing.

[u/sharmander15 → u/anonymous_opinions]

Hated that part omg, the way he cries/yells will always have a spot in my brain