TL:DR : For those who have used magazines / newspapers / whatever that are quite rare to the point of destruction…. do you feel excited or anything doing so?

This popped into my thoughts some time ago when I found a tabloid with a particularly striking cover that I really liked. So I used it, and because it was a tabloid with that kind of paper, it pretty much ruined when I was done with it. It wasn’t until much later when I was using the various pages to clean up the mess when I realised that it had a special coverage of the Queen’s passing in it, an incredibly rare coverage that would never come up again in the future. I didn’t know it when I was full force doing it with the cover, and when I found out, the pages were already wet and mushy….

I thought… that particular tabloid might be collector’s stuff in the future…. and I just used that for something so mundane… The thought of using something so valuable to pull one off… somewhat excited me…

Not to mention some of my favourite newspaper / tabloid publishers had either already folded or completely moved on to digital format… I’ve been forced to buy them from collectors (or paper recycling warehouses), and the thought that I’ll never see that particular edition again if I were to use them…. does tickle me a bit…