My eternal cleaning challenge is getting a bit of attention this evening. I stumbled upon a box full of cardboard tubes holding posters. Lots and lots of posters.
As I went through them to try to sort them out I started wondering why I’m keeping some and pitching others. Why do I hang on to any of them? I don’t plan to ever put them up anywhere. Will they be worth something someday? Maybe, but I’m sure it won’t be enough to make it worth my while to take care of them for that long.
Posters I’m keeping: Apple Think Different Campaign (15 different people), an autographed poster of the Sports Night TV show, a poster from one of the all time sci-fi one year shows (Earth 2), and a poster I had on my door for many, many years as I was working towards my thesis. That one is a small version of the mural that was done for the Smithsonian that shows the entire evolution of life: from simple organisms to humans. The joke of course was to put a post-it note a few inches above the human and write, “Thesis completed on this date.” Get it…ha ha…
While typing this I decided to go look around for the Apple posters I have (you know us Mac people…we never pitch stuff). I’m a bit shocked. The posters tend to run between $150 to $400 depending on which person is on it. I’ve got 15 out of the 20 they released. I guess I was wrong about that not being worth much statement…perhaps it is good I’ve held on to these posters for so long!
Think different.
