Hi everyone,
I am a new member from Sydney, Australia who has re-started collecting smurfs in October 2003. Since I am new I will tell the smurf story for everyone....here goes...
I started collecting smurfs in Sydney when I was 5 years old (1979) and probably had about 50 over the next couple of years. They stopped selling smurfs in Australia around 1984 so I held on to the ones I had and was going to give them to my children when they came along in latter years.
Unfortunately my sister-in-law stole my smurfs when I lived with my brother about 5 years ago, although I didn't know where they went at the time.
Then last October I bought a couple of smurfs on Ebay and was telling my real sister about the new smurf purchases and the fact I had lost my old ones somehow. She then told me that she now had them at her house because she stole them back from our sister-in-law because she knew they were not hers. Finally I would be re-united with my favourite childhood toys
. She gave them back to me but unfortunately they had all been chewed by the sister-in-law's cat and were all really dirty...I mean really filthy. I cleaned them up by dunking them in a bucket with warm water & Nappy-San which improved them a lot except for the chewed pieces. I was so heartbroken because my smurfs were in great condition when I last had them and now most of them were useless....and some handicapped.
I overcame the devastation and started buying anything blue and white anywhere I could find them and now I have around 700-800 (I think..don't ask me to count them) different smurfs from the last 8 months. Needless to say I am very poor but also very happy and the good thing is the little blue guys do not eat very much.
There that's my smurf story....everyone can wake up now..... it's over. I hope that didn't bore any one to tears but I thought I should introduce myself since this is my first time, please be gentle.
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