Mike Rebuilds Life

On the morning of January 21, 2020, I woke up to the smell of smoke and wood burning. Just minutes later my whole world was flipped upside down. Everything I had was destroyed in an apartment fire at the Sherry Lake Apartments in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. With such a sudden emergency at an early time, the shock was so crazy I did not think to start saving anything or tossing stuff off my balcony. I lost nearly all of my belongings, what was left was destroyed, and had literally only the clothes on my back- including shorts in 20 degree weather! I am left with nothing else. I was just sleeping only minutes before having a fireman knock on my door telling me to get out immediately. To have this whole scenario happen in real life, I couldn’t believe it- and still can’t. I thought I was still sleeping and living a nightmare.
I had insurance coverage give me only enough money that will cover 1/10th of the loss of all the other things in my life- all of my clothing, furniture, televisions, work computer, hard drives. I am left with nothing after spending all my free time in building a collection. This was eventually to be moved into my house when I finally moved out of the apartment complex into my dream home of a pro wrestling/vintage pop culture museum. That dream went up in flames and left me with nothing. I am absolutely thankful for my life and to be alive. Sadly a cat and pet fish were killed but all residents made it out alive. My life and my parents having me still alive is worth more than everything I had in materialistic items put together. 
However, the one immense passion I had in my life was my collection of vintage toys and collectibles and every little pop culture branded item I can find from the 80s and 90s. It brought me such joy that nothing else can bring me. It gave me a reason to live to have a unconditional love for something finally. And to have it all taken away from me so sudden and so cruel is something I wouldn’t wish on even my worst enemy.  I am asking for any help in getting my passion back together again and thus as cheesy as it may sound, it will be helping put myself together again too. I still wanted to make a book where I take pictures of all the figures I had in the mint packaging so that otherscan at least have that whole display in print formlike the Tomart’s Toy Encyclopedias. My hope is to still one day make that book a reality. 
As of this typing I still do not know the cause of the fire and I still have no answers to what happened. There are few answers to the question- ‘What happened that everything I ever worked for in my entire life is gone?’ 

I am someone who never asks for help, but I have always loved to help others as people who know me can tell you. Right now I am at a point in my life where I humbly have to ask for help in getting 35 years worth of a collection back together. The collection was worth if I was to honestly make an educated guess about $75,000 because so much of what I had was from when I was a kid or I got it years ago before the prices on so many of these collectibles skyrocketed. Over a thousand figures on card and many more loose. And sadly insurance will cover $0 of that as I explained. I just received enough to cover some of the other items in my home. This money will go to help cover costs of some items I am setting up deals with people to sell me items at cost only. Any donation will help me out in easing the enormous task of having to tackle this massive beast. I am currently taking a break off work while I mentally heal and get my head back together so funds currently are limited. I am so genuinely and sincerely thankful to anyone who helps turn this nightmare back into my regular routine life again. I was just living a normal, humble life before having my world flipped and I just wantto get back to where I was.
I have set up this Go Fund Me Page after multiple suggestions from friends on how they can help out in my time of need. Thank you so much for your help. It is appreciated with so much love in my heart that you would care to help me out in this time of need. I still cannot really fully process in my brain how I even got here and am typing this out, but step by step I will get there.