by Shawn Robare | Dec 11, 2024 | Branded in the 80s, Read
This is a classic piece I wrote back in 2011 for my defunct site Branded in the 80s that I felt like sharing again. The post was supposed to consider and defend why I choose to more or less stick to covering 80s era stuff when I was writing for Branded. Sure, 80s was...
by Shawn Robare | Feb 25, 2023 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I’ve talked about this before, but as I get older it’s kind of weird and interesting to step out of my own mind for a second and watch as my collecting habits morph and change. Though I’m still heavily leaning into nostalgic items when I add to the...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 15, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Pretty sure I’ve addressed this a million times on this site, but one of the aspects that makes me so hungry for revisiting my childhood is the simple fact that so much of what I had as a kid lives in the various landfills in Florida, Georgia, and New Hampshire...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 14, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
So, these Dumpster Diving pieces were not essays I had planned to write, and they’re more or less the equivalent of me sitting at my PC, looking around the office and then just letting letting loose until I’ve exorcised some personal demons. The last one...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 9, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
In the last part I talked a bit about how I came to a point where I started trying to pick up some 30-40 year old food packaging, and shared a scan of a box of DC Super Heroes cookies I acquired recently. In this piece I want to share a few more pieces in my...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 8, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
When it comes to collecting and nostalgia, there is almost nothing that’s off the table. We all have our own personal reasons for curating the collections we cherish, and because obsession is a weird and twisted beast, it can lead us into places we never...
