What do you collect?

[youthere]

I'm always surprised to hear some of the interesting things people collect.
I personally don't "collect" anything, but I always thought it ould be neat to start a collection of old carriage lanterns.

My MIL collects damn near everything. Stamps, character cups, snow-babies, ceramic flowers, keychains, coins,barbies,beer cans,snow globes, marvin the martian, slinkies,avon bottles,mickey mouse and elvis items..you name it. Her latest collection binge is "homies" and "trailer trash". They are little plastic characters you get out of a machine for about fifty cents (you know those machines outside wal-marts and pizza parlors?). She loves those machines and is forever collecting crap out of them.I swear going to her house is like walking into Pee-Wee's Playhouse.
My dad used to collect beer steins. Had quite a collection, but my mother wouldn't let him display them anywhere.
My mom has a vast collection of angels.
My stepfather used to collect roadkill..seriously. He was an avid flytier and would use hair from the carcasses when he would tie flies. After he died we hauled away no less than 20 boxes of various hides and bundles of fur he had gathered from different roadkill across the state of Wisconsin.
So what do you (or what do you want to) collect?

[Patiod]

1. Mesh handbags

Although I've given it up for the time being due to:
- no money
- price of mesh handbags
- no place to wear them anymore - used to attend a lot of formal affairs, but not so many anymore

[1gobluedem]

2. Tacky souvenirs

I have three shelves of them in my office.

[youthere]

11. What (in your opinion) is the tackiest one you own?

[1gobluedem]

50. One that I DON'T display...

A 'pickaninny' eating watermelon.

One I do display is a commemorative Pope Benedict coronation bottle opener.

[reyd reid reed]

3. Coupla things...

I've got about a gazillion coffee cups...every time I go somewhere, I get a cup. I collect crystal animals...sadly, a lot of them suffered when the kids were small -- Bonehead alone was responsible for shattering several little lives.

Other than that...books. Lots and lots of books.

Can't have too many books.

:hi:

[youthere]

8. My oldest daughter likes those little blown glass animals...

there have been a number of casualties thanks to her little brother and sister.

[Raffi Ella]

22. "Can't have too many books"

I agree!I *LOVE* books;old leather bound ones with that certain patina on them...I especially love the smaller ones.
There is a town north of here that has a wonderful old musty book store,I could spend all afternoon looking through all those books.




I also have a small collection of antique painted wooden boxes.Other than that I don't really collect anything else.Unless you consider hoodies and jeans things to "collect". :o

[reyd reid reed]

56. I've got four shelves filled with old books...

not so many leather-bound, though. God, I love the old ones. I love the new ones. I love the small books of poetry and I love the big, heavy atlases. If it's got printed pages and is bound...I love it.

Old, new, doesn't matter but you're right...there's just something...I dunno...magic there.

:loveya:

[Dora]

4. Dust.

[youthere]

7. If only you could sell it on E-bay...

I'd make a fortune.

[wavesofeuphoria]

5. a few

fridge magnets from places we've visited
fonts
recipes

[seemunkee]

6. Flipbooks, comics, action figures and smashed pennies

I have way too much crap.

[ganeshji]

9. Religious art and books

I mainly am interested in south Asian and Russian religious texts and paraphernalia. I also collect stamps, a boring hobby, but an interesting one.

[youthere]

10. Stamps are interesting...

my MIL collects them and I always enjoy looking at her collection, as well as the catalogs she receives.

[Phillycat]

12. Books, CD's, and I also like extremely tacky souvenirs.

The tackier, the better.

[youthere]

13. Give me an example..

what is the tackiest one you own? Let's see if you and 1gobluedem can compete.

[Phillycat]

17. I have a Boston fridge magnet with a huge plastic lobster on it.

Also a plastic New York snowglobe. Stuff like that. I love it! I really want a black Las Vegas ashtray with glitter "Las Vegas" in gold.

[Rob H.]

14. Surf music

Most of my collection is 'Third Wave' stuff like Los Straitjackets and Slacktone. I don't really know why, but I just love it!

[BarenakedLady]

15. Men

:evilgrin:

or so I've heard :eyes:

[miss_american_pie]

16. ...

:applause:

[MethuenProgressive]

18. Old AT maps and guides from New England, Maine Civil War, &

Especially stuff concerning the Appalachian Trail and Baxter State Park in Maine.

[youthere]

19. That's interesting...

It's a very specific collection, what got you interested?

[MethuenProgressive]

62. a thirst for knowledge of the history

about the trails and areas I grew up hiking, backpacking, and camping in. I'm curious by nature :D

[KyndCulture]

20. dust nt

[Initech]

21. Music CDs, and I have a large collection at that.

Mainly I collect classic rock, death metal, progressive music, jazz, funk, hip-hop, and, well, just about everything in between.

Currently listening to: Liars - Drum's Not Dead

[B3Nut]

23. 70's stereo gear and vinyl records

I love vintage hi-fi...old Pioneer, Sansui, Yamaha, Marantz...more personality than today's disposable black plastic. It's fun to drag a piece home from the thrift or yard sale or the curb and plop it on the bench and bring it back to life.

And LP records are wonderful, I've gotten them for as little as a quarter a pop. Hard to beat the sound of a good, clean album on a well-set-up turntable. And you can get a huge variety of music on the cheap.

Todd in Beerbratistan

[texanwitch]

24. Nothing anymore, I have to much stuff now.

I did collect things in past, not any longer.

[Whoa_Nelly]

25. Vintage/Antique nesting salt & pepper shakers...

1920s-30s Peruvian oil paintings, Palmer Cox Brownies books, other Palmer Cox art

Nesting shakers are the ones that fit together like a puzzle like this one:

[Book Lover]

26. Tarot decks and language-learning books

If you want to know some Sanskrit, I'm your woman.

[youthere]

29. That is extremely cool....

Tarot decks are neat. I know nothing about how to read them, but the art on them is amazing. DO you display them in any particular way?

[Book Lover]

32. I have constructed boxes to hold them

and one of those has a plexiglass panel in front to display the top card. If I remember, I'll take a photo when I get home if you are interested...

[youthere]

38. very neat. I'd love to see a picture!

[unsavedtrash]

27. a few things

baseball cards
baseball figurines called Starting Line up or SLU
The Dearborn Independent which was the newspaper started by Henry Ford.
first edition books

[MissMillie]

28. cat hair

it's all over my house

[marzipanni]

54. You need a pet hair sponge

I got one at the hardware store, one at the fabric store. They are great for sofas, bedspreads, and for my dog's hair on the fabric car seat upholstery. The sponge is used dry, and gathers up fur easily.

http://www.amazon.com/Bramton-Hair-Lint-Remover-Sponge/dp/B0000V78B8

[Beausoir]

30. Hangovers. Been adding them since 1978.

[ceile]

53. Me too.

Wanna come over and compare? But I must warn you I've only been collecting since 1996. I'm sure my collection is not as expansive as yours.:evilgrin:

[Broken_Hero]

31. Well, first and foremost...

Superman stuff...Yeah, I'm a big kid. I like comics, toys, key chains, shirts...basically anything with the S symbol on it, or superman stamped on it. You can check my journal to confirm this collection if you want to. But in whole, I collect a lot of comic book stuff...comics, the toys for the superhero's...like I do for Superman items, but not all Gung Ho like I do with Superman merchandise.

I also collect/and play Magic the Gathering...its basically a compicated game of War...War, the plain jane card game...:)

My wife is HUGE into turtle stuff...like porcelian figures, lawn ornaments, tshirts...anything basically...she even likes TMNT stuff...:) She is also very heavy into american indian art, and crafts....:)

[FedUpWithIt All]

33. I have been collecting coloring books since i was a kid...

It actually started to die out about 4 years ago when it became evident that it was cruel to have coloring books in a house with three kids and not let them mangle them. :P

I still have many of them but they are MORE special now.

[reyd reid reed]

61. Oh, that's VERY cool...

:thumbsup:

[rhiannon55]

34. My hubby has a "bad art gallery" in one corner of his office

filled with really awful stuff he picks up at garage sales. His prized possession is a velvet painting of a crying devil holding a smoldering cigarette and sitting on a toilet....

I love that man, but the weird stuff he collects!

I, on the other hand, try not to collect anything that is not useful. Our house is already too full of junk that does nothing but collect dust. Like that devil picture.... :silly:

[WannaBeGrumpy]

35. Baseball cards, anything Detroit Tigers or Magglio Ordonez related,...

purses and friends!!! :hi:

[Radio_Lady]

36. Blue glass objects.

I never heard of anyone collecting road kill. Your stepdad must have been somethin'!

[youthere]

37. He sure was!

He was an extremely nice, incredibly odd man. He was weird and wonderful..I miss him a lot.

Blue glass objects, now that's one I've never heard of...any particular reason why?

[Radio_Lady]

39. I can't remember really having a reason. We had a pretty blue in one

of our sofa sets. Lighter than cobalt, but darker than baby blue.

I guess we must have picked the first piece up at a yard sale. Now we have dozens of them all over the place.

I used to collect ducks, but gave them all away when we left New England!

[Little Wing]

40. Souls

[youthere]

42. Well I'd give you mine...

but I already sold it for a chocolate fix.

[elfrangel]

41. I like to collect angels,

but I think my family missed that memo at some point. I used to collect unicorns, but I quit a while back. They just don't do it for me anymore. Angels/Faeries are much better. ;)

I also collect coins with my Dad. He's always been an avid collector and we started when I was a kid collecting coins from each place we visited on vacation. Now we just collect what interests us.

Right now, we are working on collecting the state quarters. He has a US map that we are filling in, the plan is that it will go to my son when he's older.

[YankeyMCC]

43. I used to collect Hockey Cards

I also used to have a pretty cool collection of Pins, all kinds of pins. I had a few score from around the world. Stupidly I pined most of them to a bandanna and hung it around the rear view mirror of my 1972 Nova that DID NOT LOCK :banghead: Stupid, stupid, stupid

Now I just collect books much to the annoyance of my wife. ;)

On Edit: Funny thing about the pins and the Nova. Not only did the doors not lock the ignition was broken and I installed a push button start. So I never had to worry about loosing my keys because none were need to open the door and drive away. So whoever took the pins could've easily stolen the car. But I guess they realized the pins were much more valuable ... actually the bandanna without the pins might have been more valuable than the Nova. :)

[yellowdogmi]

46. Do you still have the hockey cards?

[YankeyMCC]

51. Packed away in the cellar

They should be safe, it is dry and they are packed in waterproofed crates. I haven't bought any more in years.

[Rosco T.]

44. 1/18 Diecast cars...

from the 30's to the late 70's...

[yellowdogmi]

45. Golf course pencils, redwing bobleheads, and hockey cards

oh yeah and beer bottles.

[Zomby Woof]

47. Music, books, commemorative coins, a few stamps

My music addiction has spawned hundreds and hundreds of CD's and vinyl for over a quarter-century now. I once worked for a bookstore, and although I love my collection, it sure makes moving a bigger chore thna it already is. :D

I am something of a geek. I collect the state quarters, and have the entire set of Louisiana Purchase/Lewis & Clark/Jefferson nickels, and some great .999 silver commemorative coins. I also collect a presidential series of stamp ingots and medals, the ingots are .999 silver and layered with 24k gold, and the medals are bronze, also layered in 24k gold. It's through a joint venture between the U.S. Mint and the Postal Service. The craftsmanship is unbelievable, and the dies used for the medals are original. Each time a president is inaugurated, a new medal is created and struck. So the George Washington medal is cast from a die over 200 years old.

Speaking of which, the presidential dollars will start being released next year. :bounce:

[Ptah]

48. Produce stickers

[ThomWV]

49. Fin Nor Fly Fishing Reels

[QMPMom]

52. Cookbooks and Neiman Marcus Christmas Plates.

[Parche]

55. collect

Airline timetables i have over 4000
anything airline, newspaper clippings, stories, bags etc

[Redstone]

57. Dust.

I'm pretty lazy.

Redstone

[reyd reid reed]

58. Heh...in my house, the dust isn't so much a collection

as it is a constant Presence. With a capital "P".

Which rhymes with "T"
Which stands for...

Oh...wait. Wrong thread.

:blush:

[Redstone]

59. Robert Preston was a truly great actor, wasn't he?

Redstone

[graywarrior]

60. Freaks

[photogirl12]

63. Penguins and vintage needlework books