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Sep. 13th, 2014 01:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreToday, I have been cleaning. Know what that means? For one thing, it means that I vacuumed for the first time in an embarrassingly long length of time. And for another, it means an excuse to rotate the PEZ displays!
So here are all my PEZ dispensers. Yes, there are 68 of them. Yes, they are all full of candy. What is the point of PEZ dispensers if they're not full of candy? Most of them are standard flavors - the kind that come in the packets with the dispensers, but there's some mint, some of the sour flavors, and at least one cola and one chocolate in there.
(Yes, I have doubles of some of the Star Wars ones. The Chewbaccas are slightly different molds, which is kinda cool, but I should probably weed the other doubles at some point.)
These are the most vintage-y dispensers in my collection - they came from thrift stores or garage sales, rather than new-in-the-package. I think the bunny is my favorite. I like the way it's faded.
This is talking!Yoda (shown with a normal sized dispenser for scale). He dispenses whole rolls of PEZ (making him handy for storage) and does, indeed, talk when you pull back his head. Or sometimes he plays the Star Wars theme. They also made talking!Vaders, which I would love to own one day.
I have way too many dispensers to have them all out at one time, so they get rotated according to my mood. These are the current displays: All The Halloween PEZ* and Let's Pretend It's Sparks Nevada.
Mostly, I tend to buy PEZ when I see a dispenser that's cool, rather than seeking them out in any kind of organized way. They're fun because they come in all kinds of different designs, they dispense candy, and they rarely cost more than a couple of dollars. (Except the Star Trek ones - those came in a special collector's set thing and so were a little more spendy. And didn't include any candy, which feels a bit like cheating.) Someday, though, when I'm in a particularly ridiculous mood, I'm going to spend the money it would take to purchase a PEZ gun. And some of the psychedelic ones. And maybe the third presidents of the United States set, mostly because I find the idea of a PEZ dispenser of Millard Fillmore to be entirely wonderful.
My collection will never be worth anything (since I take them all out of the packaging, actually use them for candy, and just store them in giant ziplocks when they're not in use) but they make me stupid happy.
*I could have sworn I had a PEZ witch, but I cannot find one in any of my normal storage spots. Which means that I'll have to acquire one this year. 8)
So here are all my PEZ dispensers. Yes, there are 68 of them. Yes, they are all full of candy. What is the point of PEZ dispensers if they're not full of candy? Most of them are standard flavors - the kind that come in the packets with the dispensers, but there's some mint, some of the sour flavors, and at least one cola and one chocolate in there.
(Yes, I have doubles of some of the Star Wars ones. The Chewbaccas are slightly different molds, which is kinda cool, but I should probably weed the other doubles at some point.)
These are the most vintage-y dispensers in my collection - they came from thrift stores or garage sales, rather than new-in-the-package. I think the bunny is my favorite. I like the way it's faded.
This is talking!Yoda (shown with a normal sized dispenser for scale). He dispenses whole rolls of PEZ (making him handy for storage) and does, indeed, talk when you pull back his head. Or sometimes he plays the Star Wars theme. They also made talking!Vaders, which I would love to own one day.
I have way too many dispensers to have them all out at one time, so they get rotated according to my mood. These are the current displays: All The Halloween PEZ* and Let's Pretend It's Sparks Nevada.
Mostly, I tend to buy PEZ when I see a dispenser that's cool, rather than seeking them out in any kind of organized way. They're fun because they come in all kinds of different designs, they dispense candy, and they rarely cost more than a couple of dollars. (Except the Star Trek ones - those came in a special collector's set thing and so were a little more spendy. And didn't include any candy, which feels a bit like cheating.) Someday, though, when I'm in a particularly ridiculous mood, I'm going to spend the money it would take to purchase a PEZ gun. And some of the psychedelic ones. And maybe the third presidents of the United States set, mostly because I find the idea of a PEZ dispenser of Millard Fillmore to be entirely wonderful.
My collection will never be worth anything (since I take them all out of the packaging, actually use them for candy, and just store them in giant ziplocks when they're not in use) but they make me stupid happy.
*I could have sworn I had a PEZ witch, but I cannot find one in any of my normal storage spots. Which means that I'll have to acquire one this year. 8)
