'Til Death Do Us Part

I knew Matt liked Star Wars when I married him. He always had a couple figurines on his desk and I think I watched Episodes 4-6 with him in college. I knew he dressed up as Obi Wan when he started his job at Safeco after college (On a side note a woman he worked with thought he was dressed as Puss 'n Boots. Awesome.).

Other people knew it too and gave us Star Wars related gifts when we had Charlie. Below he's in his "Jedi in Training Pants" onesie from Brenda, holding his first light saber from Tristi.A few weeks ago Charlie saw part of Empire Strikes Back on tv and was glued to it. Ever since then Matt and Charlie have been spending about an hour each night downstairs playing with Matt's Star Wars figures that he saved from his childhood.

Then they come upstairs and fight with light sabers for a little while.

Then sometimes they cap off the night by watching a little bit of one of the movies.

So Charlie's obsession was progressing nicely. What I didn't realize until last night was that Matt's obsession was progressing even faster than Charlie's.

Matt posted an ad on Craigslist looking to buy vintage Star Wars toys "for his son". A woman responded saying her husband had boxes and boxes and she'd love to get rid of them. She sent pictures and said she didn't know what the stuff was worth and would leave it up to Matt.

Matt looked at the pictures and decided there was way more than he was looking to buy. He said she probably had $700 worth of stuff, although he told her a slightly lower figure.

She wrote back and said if you'll take it all off my hands you can have it for $275. At no point has she really mentioned what her husband thinks about all this. My guess is he's on a business trip and when he notices it missing in a few months we're going to get a call.

Before Matt agreed to buy everything he called me and said we could sell 1/3 of the stuff and make our money back. He was actually asking my input on whether or not we should do this. A very thoughtful gesture on his part.

I say fine. Lets do it. Seems like a hassle to me but if that's what he and Charlie are into then fine. Sounds like we'll break even when we sell some of it off and Charlie will end up with some very cool stuff to play with.

Matt came home last night with 7 boxes of stuff and a ridiculous smile on his face. Our whole downstairs is covered with spaceships and robots now.

The best part for me is that Matt clarified his earlier statement after he caught me rolling my eyes as he unpacked the Ewok Village. He had said he could sell 1/3 of the stuff. He didn't say he was going to.

Oh and the other great part is that all this stuff is valuable and breakable and not appropriate for a 2 year old. Pretty much the only thing Charlie can't break is Jaba the Hut. So basically Matt got about 30 toys out of the deal and Charlie got 1.

All I know is the next time I come home with a new pair of shoes and I get any flack from Matt I'll be referring him to this post. And if its still a problem I'll just sell a spaceship or 2 and make my money back.