From the article: Incredible Collectors
Have you made friends through your collecting pursuits online? Perhaps it's someone who lives across the country or even someone nearby that you wouldn't have met without connecting through the Internet. Have you taken the time and travel to meet in person? What's your friendship story? Share Your Stories
20 years of friendship
- Some of the friends I met about 20 years ago through cookie jar collecting became my best friends to this day. From California, to New York, Chicago, Ohio, Iowa, Florida, Oklahoma, here in Texas, & many other states, our friendship remains. I miss the days when we'd meet up at the cookie jar conventions, going out to dinner together, & the laughter we shared. Some of the cj friends I've made have visited me in my home, & I've visited them in their homes. Collecting cookie jars is not what keeps us together now, our friendship has grown into so much more than having that in common. Most of you are more like family to me now & I love all of you.
- —Guest Loretta
Internet buddies
- I met both Barbara and Nancy at the same time on Prodigy. Garage sale swap as I recall. I lived in Sacramento area and they were clear across the country. I did get to meet them both and travel with them to a cookie jar convention a few times. Memories I am sure none of us will forget. Losing my luggage off the top of Barb's SUV in the middle of the freeway. And of course the time Nancy got Barb and I hooked on Beanie Babies. We dove into the craze like mad women that day scrambling on the floor of Cracker Barrel trying to grab as many as we could. Great fun and two of my favorite people. Has to be about 20 years ago I believe that it all started. Love you both!
- —Guest Carolann Williams
Collecting jars and dear friends
- I started collecting cookie jars and soon found other "jarheads" as my family called them on this wonderful chat room at About.com. Twice a week we'd chat about our jars, and our families and we quickly became close friends. After travels to Nashville and Belleville for conventions, I found that the cookie jars were no longer the main attraction, it was the dear friends we'd made. We've traveled to TN and OK twice to visit collector friends, and I now refer to them as "the crumbs". We've celebrated life's high points and shared in the losses of loved ones. Unlike our cookie jars, our bond is unbreakable....and it all started with those wonderful cookie jars.
- —Guest Gwen Pahl
Nancy, the Cookie Jar Collector
- My "oldest" online friend is Nancy who lives about 100 miles from me. We met in the early 1990s on Prodigy, in the dinosaur days of the Internet. We talked about cookie jars on the forums and when we realized we didn't live that far apart, the seed took place to meet each other. That still took some time, but we've since become close friends, usually chatting several times a week. We've traveled together, helped each other grow our collections (a bit too much), and our families have also become friends. If it wasn't for the Internet and Prodigy, we would have never met and my life would be much duller without her happy presence. ~barb c.
- —ab-collect
