[Jocelyn]

Hi... in fact it is the question wich i rather often ask me.
Am I insane to collect schtroumpfs at my age ???

I will like to know which is the reaction of your friends and your family when you to tell them your passion for these "blue dwarves".

For me, i think my friend and my familly perceive that like childish.
Perhaps also that French is caught too much with the serious one
.

Jocelyn

[Michelle]

Hello,

The first time I told my boyfriend he said 'what do you collect? SMURFS?' and I said yes, the blue small guys you were playing with when you were little. He was in a small shock. But when he saw the collection, he was child again, and this I had and this one and this one.....
And this is the same with my friends. But now they like them more, I ever could dream of. Sometimes I'll get some for present of them.
My family knows all the smurfs, my sister is collecting to and my other sister loves gargamel and my mother get smurfs for motherday, birthday, for getting better, best mom,.....so she's collecting to.

Everybody looks to you like you are a little bit crazy, but once they know, they like them. Some friends even collect them self. That's great.

Just be yourself and love the smurfs. You are not the only one.
Let's smurf like you always were dreaming off.

Michelle

[Jocelyn]

Thank you for your response Michelle

[steveparkes]

People always think I'm crazy collecting smurfs Jocelyn, but I don't care..I love them

[Syd Smurf]

I think a female can get away with collecting smurfs as an adult a little more than the males can....at least that's how I feel.

I have no credibility with my family or friends when it comes to smurfs....infact I think I have lost all credibility full stop since I started collecting them. They have no idea that I have so many and hardly any of them know about my website either as I would just get hassled by it...I guess I am a bit of a closet smurfer but it's just not worth sharing with people who don't appreciate how much fun it can be.

Dyar

[Jocelyn]

Collect smurf it is a way of not being caught with the serious one...

[Guest]

Well people really laugh at me for selling smurfs!

I just had an interesting thought, imagine if smurfs suddenly took over the world and they started collecting humans? I can just see Brainy Smurf in his room, a shelf on the wall holds Dyar, Rachel, Jocelyn, Staci, David, Gerda, Attom and more. Every so often Brainy picks one of them up, turns them upside down and inspects them for markings. He would soon put me down if he got his nose near my feet, that's for sure!!!!

[Syd Smurf]

oh no...I'm ticklish

[Jocelyn]

lol Karen !!!

[Guest]

Are we insane to collect smurfs ?


A big fat No !

But then again, maybe a little Yes !

[Tojo]

What's the difference between collecting little bits of paper used for sending post (stamps), cardboard containers for holding little sticks of wood (matchboxes) or coins, postcards, coke bottles.....etc etc. Basically nothing. People collect the things they like & for different personal reasons. The difference is that smurfs are childrens toys (although most children can't afford to buy them which is a bit contradictory!).

I do get funny looks when people first discover that I collect smurfs but I don't let it bother me. I enjoy waking up in the morning & seeing a cupboard full of happy faces I don't consider myself insane. People who collect belly-button fluff are insane, or the ones who collect underwear worn by someone

Happy smurf collecting everyone.

[attombomb7]

hi!

I'm sure everyone I know thinks I am insane anyway
the smurfs make it look like I'm non violent

and less dangerous... as I'm harmless. it does puzzle them

some outright laugh! others giggle and then some go WOW~!

everything I do is not really like others..which I am glad about

so don;t worry..enjoy them..life needs a little blue fun

[Syd Smurf]

well said Attom.....smurfidarity brother

[Guest]

Lots of people laugh but don't you find they are delighted if you give them a smurf as a present? I gave a work colleague a smurf and she bluetacked it to her computer monitor. She was the receptionist in the office so every visitor that came in saw smurfette in her mushroom car before anything else!

My brother and his friends begged me for a golf smurf to give to the landlord of their local pub who they think looks like a smurf, it now has pride of place in the bar. The landlord was not insulted, he was delighted.

There are closet smurf collectors everywhere you know!

Note to the general public: "Be afraid, be very afraid....."

[Little lucie @ Simon]

Hi Guys, yes people's first reaction is to laugh. My work collegues did untill i took some in one day. Now every time i get a parcel they cannot wait to see whats inside. Simon's work collegue thought he was realy childish, he went to Geneva and Si told him to look out for smurfs. I wont type his reply. We got a phone call from him that weekend Shrieking down his mobile " Ive found smurf's, a shop full of them, i'm so happy for you !" . We nearly peed ourselves in laughing hysterically at him. He even bought some for his daughter. Simon sent some kinder footballers for his young son which his daughter stole instantly.
The truth is, they all laugh, but as soon as they come into contact with them , they fall in love with them, just as we have all done. My father collects them, and now my god daughter does, and always when at Aunty Lucies plays with our smurfs Lucie,Polly and Pudsley

[eggie smurf]

...I guess I am a bit of a closet smurfer but it's just not worth sharing with people who don't appreciate how much fun it can be.

Same with me too - definitely a closet smurfer...my hubby actually got me onto ebay to look at smurfs and that was it. He is the only one (other than you guys of course!) who understands my love of the blue guys. At first my dad thought I was crazy when I pulled into his driveway with my big train display but lately he has become fascinated with how big the collection has gotten. He saw my smurf room for the first time this year and thought it was cool....my mother on the other hand doesn't get it And most of my friends don't know LOL!!!

[Cool Smurf]

My Dad and I are both fans of the Smurfs, so I don't feel insane collecting them.

[Brainy's Babe]

Well people really laugh at me for selling smurfs!

I just had an interesting thought, imagine if smurfs suddenly took over the world and they started collecting humans? I can just see Brainy Smurf in his room, a shelf on the wall holds Dyar, Rachel, Jocelyn, Staci, David, Gerda, Attom and more. Every so often Brainy picks one of them up, turns them upside down and inspects them for markings. He would soon put me down if he got his nose near my feet, that's for sure!!!!

I'm thinking he would have a display of varriation Claires on his bedside table

[Brainy's Babe]

But to answer the question,

most of my female friends like them, but think I'm burning money where as my male friends laugh at me and think I'm crazy. I'm reguarded as a mad woman anyway and smurf collecting is far from the top of my list of oddities!

I look at how mad and passionate soccer fan are, and I can't see a difference between them and us. Yet being a football supporter is sociably aceptable. Go fig.

[Jocelyn]

wowwww !!! thank you al for your participation...