Wishing everyone a happy and healthy Thanksgiving.

On behalf of the entire Collectors MD community, we are incredibly thankful for your love and support. 🤍

Happy Thanksgiving to the @MantelHQ community!!!! 🦃❤🙏🏻

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Published November 27, 2025 | By Alyx E, Founder of Collectors MD

There is a quieter form of gratitude that lives beneath the surface—not tied to praise or momentum, but to perspective. I find myself deeply thankful not only for the community surrounding this movement, but for the lived experiences that shaped the person standing inside it. The missteps. The discomfort. The moments that required accountability over avoidance. Each layer of my journey has become the understanding I now carry forward with intention and humility.

What allows me to show up with clarity isn’t perfection—it’s experience. It’s knowing firsthand what it feels like to move through misalignment, to sit with consequence, and to choose growth anyway. Those moments don’t weaken the mission; they help refine it. They turn instinct into awareness and struggle into empathy.

In the quiet space between who we were and who we are becoming, there is a moment of pause—a recognition that reflection is not weakness, but the beginning of wisdom. It’s in that stillness that understanding takes root, allowing the past to soften into perspective and the present to move forward with intention.

There is something grounding about recognizing that growth isn’t born from erasure, but from ownership. That the path doesn’t become meaningful in spite of our mistakes—it becomes meaningful because of what we learned from them. Paying it forward is no longer about fixing the past. It’s about honoring what was lived and using that experience to create safer space for others.

I’m thankful for the version of myself who stayed present in the discomfort, who chose reflection over defensiveness, and who kept powering forward when clarity and hope felt distant. Because without that version, this work would lack its depth. And without that story, the support and empathy I now extend to others would not carry the same authenticity and meaning.

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Published November 26, 2025 | By Alyx E, Founder of Collectors MD

On this Thanksgiving, I find myself overwhelmed with genuine gratitude—from the bottom of my heart—for this growing community and every single person who shows up inside it. The ones who speak gently. The ones who challenge us. The ones who support and share openly and honestly. And yes—even the trolls and keyboard warriors who found their way into tonight’s live stream with Professor Sports Cards. Every voice, every presence, every reaction reminds me that what we are building matters enough to be felt, debated, questioned, and witnessed.

There is something profoundly human about the good, the bad, and the ugly coexisting in the same space. It means people care. It means this movement is alive. It means Collectors MD is no longer just an idea—it is a living ecosystem of people navigating their relationships with collecting in real time. And for that, I am thankful beyond words.
Even when the comments sting or the energy shifts, I choose to see it as proof that we are touching something authentic—and authenticity doesn’t always arrive in a neatly wrapped package.

And somewhere in the middle of it all—the noise, the passion, the differing voices—there is still connection. Still humanity. Still a shared love for something that once brought us together and, when handled with care, can continue to do so.

I’m grateful for the ones who lean in with honesty. I’m grateful for the ones who quietly observe. I’m even grateful for the friction that reminds us growth isn’t always comfortable. Because at the heart of all of this is intention—over ego, over noise, over defensiveness. What we are creating together is a space rooted in awareness, accountability, and compassion—and that is worth celebrating.

So today, on the eve of Thanksgiving, I say this simply and sincerely: thank you. For your presence. For your energy. For your willingness to show up exactly as you are. Whether you join with encouragement, curiosity, critique, or even skepticism—you matter in that space. You help shape the conversation, the culture, and the heartbeat of what this community is becoming.

From Collectors MD, we are grateful for you—all of you. The supporters, the challengers, the quiet observers, the ones still finding their footing. Every voice is proof that this movement is alive, evolving, and deeply human. And for that, we don’t take a single moment for granted.

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Gratitude doesn’t require perfection—it recognizes every voice that reminds us this movement is alive.

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