Halanna

I used to know a woman who collected mushrooms. From lamps to salt and pepper shakers, if it was shaped like or depicted a mushroom, she had to have it.

A woman at my local bank collects the yellow happy faces. She has two bookshelves full of yellow happy face stuff. Her office is quite . . . bright.

I collect pre 1900 cookbooks/housewife books.

My husband has apparently begun collecting golf balls with logos on them, because they keep popping up everywhere. He denies it.

What do you collect?

ametc

Old coins and foreign coins.. but I'm not a coin enthusiast. I just like how they look and feel different than from what I'm used to.

Also, I collect crystals and gems. I have amethyst, different kinds of quartz, a ton of clear ones that I swear look the same and I've gotten them all mixed up now... and a tiger's eye. Really pretty stuff. :>

squeeeb

i seem to have a pretty kickin collection of internet porn.

__________________
onward to mayhem!

Fotzlid

I have a small collection of pewter dragon figurines. She has a small collection of glass dolphin figurines.
We share a DVD collection of around 700 titles. Haven't counted them in awhile but they are all over the place.

Wrexify

Anything created by Pixar animation studios. I don't really have an inner child, it's more like an outer child.

__________________
"Nitwit! Oddment! Blubber! Tweak!"

iwst99

Pictures of people eating. :-\

-deathboy-

skulls.
of all shapes and sizes! i'm up to 56 now. my wife just rolls her eyes each time i come home with a new one. they litter our bookshelves and my computer desk. the pride of my collection is my 2 nuns holding skulls.
got a friend who is considering passing on his human skull to add to the collection. *crosses fingers*

__________________

lostgirl

I also like old coins and foreign money. I always keep a wheat penny if I find one. I used to have coins from 24 countries, but I have no idea what happened to them.

I used to collect swords and daggers, but I haven't for many years.

__________________
We're about to go through the crucible, but we'll come out the other side.
We always arise from our own ashes. Everything returns later in its changed form. - Children of Dune

SabrinaFair

Political buttons from campaigns I've supported/worked for and refrigerator magnets.

My magnet favorite is from the Obama campaign--the infamous "fist bump" picture with "Yes We Can" under it. My favorite button is also from Obama--a special Obama/Derby 134 button made for the Obama campaign here in Kentucky. There were only about 50 made, so it's very special.

__________________
"With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy."
-Desiderata

Halanna

I used to go to a flea market about 20 years ago. You could buy a bag of sand, I think it was from N. Carolina. They had little hand held boxes with screens in the bottom and running water so you could "pan" for gems. They were small, and I don't know if they were genuine, but there was a lot of quartz, small amethyst, green gems that looked like emeralds, red gems that looked like rubys. I used to save them all, they were rough but pretty. Unfortunately, in a move 15 years ago, they mysteriously dissappeared.

I liked those gems, I had small glasses, shot glasses, etc. filled with them.

---------- Post added at 07:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:11 PM ----------


Like the original artwork from the story boards they sell, like Disney does, or the finished product?

---------- Post added at 07:15 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:14 PM ----------

Ahh Squeeeb, I'm new here, but I did expect your reply!

---------- Post added at 07:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:15 PM ----------

700? Wowza! Do you spend a lot of time watching movies or just like to collect them?

---------- Post added at 07:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:17 PM ----------

Really? That's different! Are you lying?

---------- Post added at 07:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:17 PM ----------

LOL! Wonders if that is legal . . .

So that doesn't creep you out at all?

---------- Post added at 07:20 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:19 PM ----------

My son collects coins, but I'm not sure if he really collects them, they are all stuffed in mason jars sitting on his bookshelf.

ShaniFaye

Avon cape cod dinnerware (so if you or anyone you know is looking to get rid of anyone hit me up lol) penguins and fairys

I also like to look for old (and Im mean OLD) photographs of people and find the families they belong to....as well as family bibles with genealogies in them at yard/estate sales and antique shops and find living descendants to give them back to

__________________
I want the diabetic plan that comes with rollover carbs. I dont like the unused one expiring at midnite!!

Halanna

Nice! So it's only from campaigns you've worked on? Not old ones like "I Like Ike" or the "Nixon Agnew" split?

Fotzlid

Both actually.

ColonelSpecial

I collect celestial things. If it has a sun, moon or star on it, I will probably want to buy it. Celestial has always been popular but in the last few years even more so. It is nice because I can find good things that match my decor.

__________________
"Mommy, the presidents are squishing me!"

"Using the pull out method of contraceptive is like saying I won't use a seat belt, I'll just jump out of the car before it hits that tree."

Sara

wooÐs

This is Pedro. I'm fascinated with him:



And this is Max. He's a naturally mummified deer head. I bought him off ebay years ago. Some sort of minuscule bugs keep feasting on what's left of him. But they die quickly. I find them scattered around his head on my bookshelf. Strange, as he doesn't smell or anything. Sorry for the crappy lighting but I'm poor white trash w/out a digital camera:





I collect incense from all around the world as well as essential oils. Unusual decor like some concrete and glass lanterns I have and this basket is my favorite decorative item I have in my home:

Grasshopper Green

The closest thing I have to a real collection is refrigerator magnets. I also have a very small collection of hotel ballpoint pens. I leave the shampoo and soap but take the pen - more as a memento than anything else. Other than that, I quit collecting things. Hubby is a packrat and I am becoming averse to "stuff".

__________________
"They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings; steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king"

Formerly Medusa

mixedmedia

music.

__________________
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

Magpie_1

I like to collect plush Eeyores. I was given the nickname of Eeyore a long time ago from my family. After a while I got quite attached to the character.

__________________
"Art is what you can get away with."
- Andy Warhol

SabrinaFair

The old ones are very expensive, so I've stuck to the ones I can get for free for now. :-) Maybe in a few years I'll start collecting the older ones. You know, when I'm not underemployed with student loans. :-)

My grandfather's got a great collection of antique political buttons--I Like Ike, Franklin Roosevelt, and the like.

__________________
"With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy."
-Desiderata

squeeeb

now that i think about it, i collect experiences.

i willingly search for and try to do things i've never done before, to go somewhere i've never been, to experience something i havn't experienced. i will do just about anything just to be able to say i've done it, to feel it, experience it. material things come and go, get lost or broken, and are a hassle when you move. my experiences, once had, good or bad, stay with me no matter what (unless i forget them, in which case they weren't that great to begin with).

but i still collect internet porn.

__________________
onward to mayhem!

lktknow

I have collected marbles for about 14 years now. They have marble shows all over the United States, and I try to attend as many as possible.
The history, behind these little balls of glass is amazing and I find fascinating.

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e.../MASS999-1.jpg

__________________
Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about. ~

Fremen

I like collecting smooth rocks, pebbles, and stones.
I bought a rock polishing kit to make my own, but it wasn't the same as the ones I find by accident.

If I had money, I'd buy semi and precious stones, just to fondle, but as I'm not rich, I make do with fondling nature's own smooth stones.

*this post took a weird turn

__________________
Google

biznatch

Seems like I end up collecting stems and seeds from rolling joints. Anything that's left over gets kept, for whatever reason.

Other than that: USB cables, audio cables, blank DVDs, whatever's around my computer "workspace."

__________________
Check it out: The Open Source/Freeware/Gratis Software Thread

saintlypan

I Used to collect bells..all shapes and sizes. Then I had to move to a smaller apartment, so I had to leave those in my mother's house. Now, they are my mother's collection.

Dentist Santa Clara Dental Simi Valley

wooÐs

oh oh oh I also collect windchimes and whirligigs. Not pink flamingos with spinning wings but copper and glass:

darkangel

Mine isn't too weird, but Stephen King books.

__________________
"I'm gonna die when it's time for me to die.. so let me live my life the way I want to." - Jimi Hendrix

silent_jay

Rocks and old bullets.

Got a few pieces of polished iron sulfide, some nice archean gneiss with garnet and quartzite veins running through it. Some ultramafic rock with sulfide and chalk veins, a coprolite, just stuff we found around the drills and underground, or around the shop from core samples.

As for old bullets, got some unfired WW1 bullets made in 1917, and some WW2 bullets from 1942, a German casing from WW2 as well complete with eagle and swastika. Old shrapnel balls, a 25mm casing, inert .50 cal round, electrically fired .50 cal casing, just old shit I found in the amnesty boxes around base when I worked at the ammo compound.

__________________
Absence makes the heart grow fonder

Eweser

Teddy Bears/stuff with Teddy Bears on them...they're all stuffed on a shelf right now. I hope to arrange them better when we get our house built.

__________________
"Whoever wrote this episode should die!"

Halanna

The Stand.

n0nsensical

Vinyl records, primarily late 90s to early 00s trance and house. I have about 400, and I've never listened to a quarter of the tracks.

__________________
"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." --Abraham Lincoln

Tully Mars

I just got three e-mails from a friend who also called me this afternoon. After thinking about the phone call and re-reading the e-mails several times I realized what I most often collect- CRAZY People. Crazy people who seek me out for help and advice. Crazy people who will not go away.

I must give off some scent. Or perhaps I have a tattoo, visible only to the insane, that reads "Talk to this guy, he can solve all your problems."

__________________
I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo

Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

Reese

I collect dust. I have it piled up on almost every shelf in my house, I'm running out of places to put it, I have tons of it just setting on the floor and some on my TV and a little on my computer. I'm running out of place to put the shit.

__________________
“It is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick” - Dave Barry

ItWasMe

*note to self: never ask Tully for advice*

I have collected teapots for years. I never tire of them. Love 'em.

I have a Pillsbury Doughboy collection that I bought from my aunt's yard sale last summer. Cute, but I'm getting tired of it already. Thinking of getting rid of them.

POWER TOOLS!! You guys are so lucky to have them on sale for Father's Day. We get flowers.

Anything scented. Soaps, air fresheners, scented oils. I usually have between 5-7 different scented dish soaps open at one time.

__________________
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .


"Ok, no more truth-or-dare until somebody returns my underwear" ~ George Lopez

I bake cookies just so I can lick the bowl. ~ ItWasMe

Xerxys

Tully, you must help me ... they are after my brain, my toaster told me to be on the look out for he who hath the sign, and that mark right above your left butt cheek is not a birthmark, it is THE sign!!

jujueye

I'm also in the music collector group. Now that I've got my old turntable back up and running, I've found some great old vinyl for cheap. During the 80s, many record companies realized that it would be pretty neat to sell the stuff you already owned on vinyl to you AGAIN on a CD. However, lots of stuff never made it to CD. Anyway, my latest vinyl grab was at a local record store tha bought up the jazz collection from a local radio station that has converted all of their music to digital. $3.99 each. What a bargain!

Tully Mars

Pfft, I'm not buying it. Only a coffee maker would tell you something like that.

__________________
I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo

Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

CinnamonGirl

Vinyl, but not actively. I have a decent selection, but it's only from a few people who let me look through their old records before donating/selling them.

I also have a nice little collection of Faerie Glenn figurines, but I don't believe they're being made anymore.

__________________
"...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world."


"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

carrot glace

i collect junk apparently. not that i buy them, i recieve them. "hey son, we bought some new crap, so you can have our old crap, see you at christmas."

__________________
"blaine is a pain and that is the truth"

DaniGirl

I collect lots of things. I like to collect glass bottles. Deep dark blue ones are my favorite. I go to thrift stores and find the coolest glass bottles for really cheap. I also collect candles. I probably have over 200 candles everywhere in my apartment. I also love sculls, I make quilts with scull fabric. I know I am weird.

Plan9

Misfits t-shirts.

__________________
Whatever you can carry.

"You should not drink... and bake."