Collections - What do you collect?

[serious crayons]

The hometown newspaper still carries inserts from supermarkets advertising prices or sale prices of items. Is that done elsewhere?

My paper still has some advertising inserts, I think, although back when I took the print edition I thew them into the recycling bag so fast I didn't have time to examine them. (I switched to digital only when I moved to an apartment. Of the 200 units in my building, two people subscribe to the print edition of the local paper. I know them both, and they're both around 80.)
 
They may still have grocery store inserts, and the interior pages may still contain department store ads. But the size and volume are vastly reduced from what they were in the 1990s.

It's kind of counterintuitive, or at least it was for me, that while the loss of advertising is what led to the downfall of print newspapers, the biggest part of the loss was classified ads. Now people go online to look for jobs, cars, used items, etc.

[serious crayons]

I'll give the editors of the hometown paper this much: they publish syndicated columns from both Liberals and Conservatives.

Yeah, that's kind of standard newspaper practice, or is supposed to be (even the WSJ may have some liberals). But what I always noticed was, at least historically, there've been more extremely conservative national columnists than there are extremely liberal ones. That even applies to papers with liberal-leaning editorial boards.

It's a little vaguer today, because few famous conservative pundits outside Fox support Trump. Not George Will, not Bret Stephens, etc.

[Jeff Wrangler]

I thought you collected model trains and accessories. No more?

I'm trying to work through the inventory to list those I want to sell--and then find someone to buy them.