I love this thread and reading everyones replies! I rarely post anymore, but I am hoping to become more active again. Here are some things about me.

~ I am an emergency department nurse and a paramedic.
~ I have been a vegetarian for nearly 20 years.
~ I got married last year and we bought a house in spring of this year! Ironically, we now live directly across the street from my parents.
~ I wrote a nail blog for 3 years, but unfortunately stopped updating it when I was going through nursing school.
~ Sadly, the majority of my MLPs are packed away in storage and at last count I had around 350 G1s.

Favorite Color(s)?
I like a variety of colors, but two "groups" are teal/seafoam/grey and another are jewel tones.

Favorite Animal(s)?
I have a jack russell dog who I love so very much!

Favorite MLP?
Baby Starflower and Baby Stripes always come to mind. I also love Sugar Apple, Chief, and the nurse ponies.

Other tidbits of information?
I am a nurse and a paramedic. My hobbies include baking, nail polish, and knitting. My husband and I just bought our first house this year!

Your winter holiday?
I celebrate Christmas, but I am not offended in the slightest by other holidays! I actually like more of the winter aspect of Christmas (e.g. snowflakes rather than Santa).

What got you to start collecting in the first place?
I had My Little Ponies as a child. I only had a few to be entirely honest, and most I did not buy new. I must've gotten them from cousins or at tag sales or something. Then in the 90s when they weren't being sold anymore, I started seeing them at Goodwill and tag sales. I started buying them as I saw them. I even had a volunteer at Goodwill save them for me when they came in. I joined the online communities in the late 90s and made my first pony eBay purchase around 1999-2000.

Why do you collect MLP in general?
I always joke because I'm not a big horse fan and I don't collect any other toys. But something about My Little Ponies is not only nostalgic for me, but I like that it's a well established community and Hasbro produced a product that is easily collectable (they came in sets, they spanned out over years, they weren't initially a collecting fad like beanie babies, etc).

Does your family or friend group know about your hobby? What do they think?
Oh gosh, everyone knows and has known for years! I always add this in to any of those "random facts about you" things, and I've flat out told people. I am only a G1 collector, and I try to make that well known because I know people would be tempted to get my G4 things (which I am really not familiar with). But my friends and family are so funny about it. Last week one of my friends posted an MLP thing on my Facebook wall. Everyone gets a kick out of it!

Did you like ponies when you were a kid?
Like I said above, if we're talking actual horses, nope. If we're talking MLPs, I had a few when I was a little kid, but started collecting when I was around 9 or 10 (this was in the mid 90s after G1s stopped selling and they started selling G2s).

Do your ponies have sentimental value? Are there specific ones that stand out? (Probably things like childhood ones or grails etc)
They literally all have sentimental value. I wished I had kept a detailed list of where every one came from. For a long time I was able to remember, but most of my ponies are in storage now and I have SO many I lost track. But I know who my original ponies were (Baby Bows always stands out), and I have a few favorites that I keep around. Baby Starflower I've always called my "lucky pony" and she came with me in my purse when I had an interview for work, exams for school, etc.
The toughest thing for me right now is that I don't have my ponies displayed or anything. I have literally hundreds of ponies neatly packed away. It's sad because I don't want to part with any of them because I am such a sentimental person, but I feel like they would be better appreciated by those who would display them. We'll see what happens.

Good luck in your class! Hope I'm not too late answering =)

Still looking!

Hi everyone! I'm graduating nursing school this May and as a gift to myself, I'm hoping to collect all 3 of the G1 nurse ponies with their hats! If you have any of these ponies (or even just the hats), please let me know. I am very interested.

I can also trade if you would prefer. I don't sell/trade often, but I have a massive collection of G1s. If you're looking for a pony in particular, let me know.

In my siggy! I did those for the 2011 convention =)

I received all of my postcards! I actually received the last 2 last week I think? Possibly the week before. I literally have had no time to sit at a computer and upload this photo. I tried from my iPhone, but I couldn't get it to work!

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Here are all my lovely postcards! I had to pull them down off my card display to take this photo =)

Thank you so much to xeevee, katgyrl, Moondancer1073, sweetscoops, and Eldarwen!! All of your postcards were so sweet!