Before technology hijacked childhood,
hobbies were more personal - such as collecting variety of perfumed erasers,
colourful pencils or pens, stamps and old coins. The coin and stamp collectors
would feel more endowed for the economic value of their assets. As we grew up;
amidst the consistent seeping of ‘savings’ as a way of life by our parents; the
stamps & the coins became much like the school slam book - something you
come across, have a spurt of nostalgia, and then move on again.