Qhen France was eliminated from the Euro, children cried. And some parents worried. “What do we do for the Panini albums? “ These are the Panini parents. Thirty years ago, the sticker publisher still considered his albums to be aimed at 8-14 year olds. Today a generation of parents arrive on the label market eager to relive with their children what they knew as children; who, when they enter a tobacconist, expect to find a vignette by Dominique Rocheteau.
But, as opening the pouches seems accessible to juniors, their parents feel essential for exchanging them online or for escorting their children to collectors’ purses. Having become particularly nimble during these transactions, Panini parents refuse to calculate how much it all cost them from the start. With each new album, they promise each other that it’s the last, but their offspring only need to bring back from school some doubles that a friend got rid of during recess for them to get back on track. in the race for 600 labels.
King of these Panini parents: Hugues Morel, who created the echangermesdoubles.fr site when his children were 12 years old in order to help them finish their collection. He did not expect so many parents to be active there or that children, who can post anything as an ad, become the source of complaints to the moderator. His idea, by creating the site to systematize exchanges, was to avoid spending too much money. He is flabbergasted by those who spend a fortune to complete their albums. His children have moved on, he does not succeed. “I would like to unplug the plug and finish this story, but there is a whole community behind it. “
How do we recognize them?
They keep the doubles on their desks, it’s too precious to be left in the little one’s room. Once their children are in bed, they log into their Facebook group and post a photo of the grid sheet on which they wrote their missing numbers.
They open an account on laststicker.com or echangermesdoubles.fr, but under their child’s name. Their hearts beat when they find the envelope in the letterbox. They feel like they are taking revenge on their childhood by buying their pouches ten by ten. They spent Saturday afternoons going on dates to exchange vignettes with young strangers under the watchful eye of their parents.
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