The More family certainly tried to help keep the economy green this Christmas. After a marathon wrapping session Christmas Eve, it struck me that there is a common joy in opening presents as there is when getting a neat find in a group of Scout patches.

It doesn’t really matter the value of the find. Its just a certain psychological “kick” from the unknown. We enjoy receiving estates and and large lot groupings just to see what’s in there. Now for us this happens on a regular basis so we are jaded. It usually takes something pretty special to get us to notice. Still, we can enjoy going through a collection and seeing the things we’ve not seen before. This happened recently with a little grouping of 1983 World Jamboree participant pieces. Nothing killer but it was just fun to see things we had not seen before.

Much of the joy on Christmas morning is seeing the group of presents and the sense of expectation and excitement of the unknown. Then comes the un-wrapping which is often a frenzy and the sense of discovery of what was inside. If we keep that with our patch acquisitions, we’ll be doing alright.

Occaisionally we host guests in our office and warehouse. The look on their eyes are like that of a kid in a candy shop. They don’t know where to begin nor what they’ll find. I read an article prior to the holidays that there is some of this when people go shopping. Its the sense of explorartion and then the excitement of finding something new or different that they weren’t expecting. The researchers have been able to prove that it gives off a chemical reaction that makes us feel good. Its all about dopamine and adrenaline.