Collective Crazes

Growing up everyone went through those collecting crazes. The ones where everyone was collecting and trading stickers or figures and had to collect all of them. At my school it was Tamagotchies and High School Musical stickers one year. The following year it was football stickers and Doctor Who figures.

I was thinking about this as recently our sixth form was part of a collective craze, the Princess Kinder eggs. If you have not heard of Kinder eggs where were you? In the UK they are a part of people's childhood. Kinder eggs are chocolate eggs that have a suprise toy in them. Occasionally they do themed eggs. This time it was Marvel Avengers and Disney Princesses. Our Sixth Form has a lot of Disney fans and we were all desperately trying to collect all the Princesses and swapping with each other. Must have been quite a sight seeing groups of Sixth Formers rush to the local shop to buy Kinder eggs while reminiscing over their childhood. The shops soon realised the popularity and started special offers to persuade people to buy more Kinder Eggs. But don't worry us Sixth Formers are not spending all of our money on these chocolates.

Have you or do you still join in any collective crazes?

My Disney Princess collection is still missing Cinderella