Toys vs Clothes

To clear up any confusion about the last topic, I want to give all a closer look at my life so you know exactly what is a toy and what is clothing. I have always liked toys. Ever since I can remember, I always need to be doing something. Sometimes I can be content just listening to something or just watching something, but not often. That thing needs to be really important to me, otherwise I tend to lose my focus on it. However, when I combine listening with watching, it is commonly much more entertaining. Similarly, just being about to hold an object isn’t really fun, I need to be doing something with it. The more interesting parts on an object, the better it is for me. It can have sides that move like a Rubik’s cube or things that move on their own like magnets or an interesting exterior like a koosh. So anything that can occupy my time will probably entertain me and is therefore a toy. Also, sometimes toys need to be combined in order to work properly. Allow me to give some examples:

·         Juggling balls: toy

·         Book: toy (note at one point in time books were not toys because I didn’t like them and they were not fun)

·         Gameboy: toy. Game boy is a toy because it can be played with when added to other toys such as pokemon games

·         TV series on DVD: toy. TV (toy) + DVD Player (toy) + DVD (toy) = fun for me (toys!)

So that’s toys. On the other hand we have clothes. Now I’m a man (like not a XX (pronounced double X)) which means I was a boy. I won’t say I didn’t like clothes because that was only true twice a year. I didn’t care about clothing at all. There were two requirements I had for clothes: they covered me and they weren’t uncomfortable. Beyond that I did not care about clothes enough to throw them out if they were too small. This lead to a healthy amount of clothing in my possession, which means I never had to get clothes for myself, nor did I have the desire to. I got all my clothes from two sources twice a year: parents and grandparents on Christmas and my birthday. I always felt like my receiving clothing inhibited my receiving toys. I would always think to myself why don’t they forget the clothes and just give me double toys. So as a kid I didn’t like clothes gifts and I did like toys gifts. This can lead to some confusion about what is toy and what is clothes. If I didn’t like it, no matter how much of a toy it was, it went into the clothing, for example:

·         Clothes: clothes

·         Books: clothing until I was about 15

·         A watch box: clothes, and not because it holds watches that could be considered clothing, but because when you get a watch box when you’re younger than 19 it really sucks as a gift. Luckily, then you turn 19 and it’s pretty awesome.

·         A crazy watch that lights up to tell time: trick- both, fun to play with and wearable. Clothing and toy

I hope this give people a clearer picture of what is a clothes gift and what is a toy gift. I would also like to reiterate that I actually quite enjoy receiving clothes now because, as I said, I don’t get my own clothes. I’ve bought myself maybe one outfit of my wardrobe, but I really like it all. So the people that have been getting me clothes are doing a good job, which makes me excited to get more clothes. I also still like toys. I will never stop liking toys.

So Scott Thought.