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    I don’t feel like a “senior citizen” even though I will be 67 in March. I saw my first Windstone in about 1986 in a gift shop in Old Sacramento. He was a peacock male and I thought “That one!! I want THAT ONE!!!” I took my best friend down there to see it just to admire it. Well, he bought it for me for Christmas!! I bought a Ki-rin family-male, female, and baby soon after that and then stopped for about 20 years, then came back about 3 years ago. Due to ebay, shops, even yard sales, and this forum, I now have at least 370 Windstones in 10 display cases in my office (I haven’t counted lately). I am so proud of the collection and to be a Windstone collector! I carry some pictures around with me to show off to anyone who will stand still long enough to listen and look!! It is so much fun!! I think it is also wonderful to have a group/forum to talk to about Windstones that understands and shares the distinctive language that collectors develop among themselves and teach others about. Hurrah for us!!!

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    WolfenMachine
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      I’m 23 now (Turn 24 in May) and have been collecting Windstones since maybe 2006? If not 06 then 07 for sure. I first saw a peacock male at Ashley Avery’s at my local mall. I fell in love with him and the ruby scratcher. Every year I asked for the Ruby Scratcher for Christmas but never got him (I’m still missing that crazy guy!) I figured I’d never get a Windstone, so I asked my (then) friend the artist (http://www.elfwood.com/~rajidae) to draw me one. Actually the picture she drew is in her elfwood gallery. Its called “I’m not a Windstone” lol

      But anyway, yea. For a while I didn’t have but 1 small bill a month, so I bought LOTS of Windstones….and then my car went crunch and I had to get another one, and well, car payments put a damper on dragons! Im going back to school and going into the medical tech program, so in 2.5 years, WATCH OUT! heheh

      #565350

      22 here! I bought my first windstone when I was somewhere around 15-6. Hopefully some day I’ll finally be out of various educational systems (heading into grad school soon) and actually have a job and the money to get a decent collection! XD

      #565351

      Hello. I’m 38, but I started collecting Windstones when I was about 21, in the brief space between college and vet school. By the time I graduated, Wicks N’ Sticks had all gone out of business, and those are the only stores I ever saw Windstones in. Now, in the 2 weeks since researching wolf colors and accidently finding that my black griffin Navarre had a (wolf-colored) family, I’ve literally doubled my collection! I now have 7 old, 7 new (to me, at least; one is the brown dragon that was sold by the time I’d saved enough for him), and 1 in transit. I think I’m temporarily done, 4 pieces every week is a bit beyond my budget.

      And I think there’s a typo in the poll, I’m in two of the categories.

      #565352

      Hey wait….When I posted my vote, I was in the 25-35 range…Now I am going to be 2 years past that soon! 😮 🙄 😈

      #565353
      Bodine
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        WindstoneCollector wrote:

        Hey wait….When I posted my vote, I was in the 25-35 range…Now I am going to be 2 years past that soon! 😮 🙄 😈

        XD XD

        Every act matters.No matter how small💞
        (Wanted......Brimstone Lap)
        Male Hearth....one day🤞Dream on.

        #565354

        My first windstone was a pyo fledgie (fledgeling) or whatevar those small pyo dragons are called. Mom painted it for me for my twelfth birthday. Now i just bought myself a blacksunset croucher. hes just a beauty. 😉 8) 8) 😀 🙂 🙂 😮 hes the best. Now im 14.

        #565355

        I don’t know how I missed this thread all this time……

        I got my first Windstone back in the mid 80’s–a Peacock young. Then my husband bought me the Peacock male, and I believe they both came from Wicks N Sticks; I *loved* store! I remember seeing the Browns and Greens. I was really into the Anne McCaffery books at the time.
        That was all I had……until I found this forum! Talk about “aiding and abetting”? 😆 Now I’m up to 23, (not counting my PYO’s) with my last one being the Blue Ribbon Curlie. Most are either Peacock or EmPea’s. I do have a couple eBay pieces, but by far the culprit to blame for the empty bank account and full shelves would be the online store here and the forum. 😉
        And as for age, I’m old enough to know better, and young enough to still not care. 😀

        #565356

        I`m turning 22 this year…

        #565357

        I’m 42…..but I don’t feel 42. 😀

        -- Angie

        #565358
        Skeeterdeee
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          In November I will be celebrating the first anniversary of my 29th Birthday!! (turning 30 😆 )
          Ten years ago I bought a small spirit wolf in a Nature’s Habitat (now closed 🙁 ). It came with an advertisement for the Grimalkin. I loved it and had to get one! The Grimalkin came with an advertisement for something else that I loved and just had to get……10 years later I have a room full of pretties!!

          #565359
          Sarah
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            I’m 20 years old, myself. Got my first Windstone, a peacock Scratcher, when I was 15. He was something like $200 when I got him, so needless to say my parents weren’t thrilled.

            I love my “Scratch” and have taken very good care of him. It’s always funny to see a friend’s expression when they walk into my room and I am petting him, praising him for his beautiful, colorful scales.

            “Who’s a pretty boy? You’re a pretty boy! Yes!

            #565360
            WolfenMachine
            Participant

              LOL Kayami you’re too funny! 😆 😆

              #565361
              Diana L
              Participant

                Well, I looked at the poll and tried to pick something…do I go real date time, how I feel today time, or pick something with my eyes closed? Real time won out and do I have the whole category to myself? Yes, I’m in the 60+ XD group and will be more so next year on my birthday. You youngsters. 😀 have a way to go but you all are doing well despite challenges with jobs and boyfriends.

                #565362
                Illith
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                  I’m 24, and I have loved Windstone (the dragons especially!) since I was 10. At that age, one doesn’t really have $200-$400 just laying around, so I waited … and waited … a decade and a half later, and I finally have my first one! A PYO Secret Keeper!
                  More to come as the money (and stock) flows!

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