What do you collect?

“To hear what everyone collects, if anything. I, myself, collect pottery(handmade only), and Abalone items. Other than bills, who else collects odds and ends?”

“Children's literature
Backpacking Gear
Dirty dishes (lol)”

“I've been collecting music for many, many years. I started, of course with vinyl, cassettes, and reel to reels. Then moved into the CD market and ultimately into mp3's, etc.”

“Used condoms

Prescription Antibiotics

Porn

Bibles”

“I bet you make popsicles out of those used condoms”

“penguins ( no they are not real)
lighthouses
gear
coffee cups from all the places ive visited


Mapleleaf”

“Nah, Ewker, he uses 'em for chewing gum...”

“t-shirts
lint”

“dust”

“books.”

“cathair”

“feathers i find while walking...
to tickle cowboys with~~~~~:)”

“I keep feathers too, and rocks. =) I love feathers.

Mostly I collect junk, and can't seem to get rid of any of it.”

“lol sass....me too on the rocks!...thats funny...and sometimes i stick feathers in rocks with holes or cracks and create these weird sculptures...that then collect dust...:) but they are rocks..so i dont feel like i have to dust them off.....and if i do , i just use a feather.....%)”

“Rocks and fossils... Stephen King books... dated stamps (like big postmarks) of National Parks in the National Parks Passport Book stikmon gave me... way too many photographs and slides of my own... travel brochures and information...”

“How do you feel about broken milk bottles and rusty bits of metal? =) I swear I see beauty in some of the junkiest junk, and drag it all home, if I can. I have hens and chicks growing out of the milk bottle. It's cool.”

“i try to find a nice ordinary rock on all my trips, and pack it out. Nothing special about them, just indicative of what the area's rocks are like.
I have a lot of R2-D2's, he's everywhere!

I also collect porn (a 40 and 10 gig hard drive, a spindle of 700mb cdrw's, 20+ vhs tapes, 10 dvd's. years worth of mags..etc, etc)*grin*...and empty tissue boxes..i dunno why..but there are tons in my room. **stoopid grin**”

“Dude have you considered a decongestant?

I seem to collect Bills, Hiking gear, state quarters, star trek dvds and dust.”

“roaches”

“I collect turtles, carved from wood, stone, whatever. I was amazed at how many turtle Christmas ornaments I have. I try to get one every place I visit. Mexico, Grand Cayman, the Rockies, Monterrey, Seattle, etc.

One thing I've always thought about, but never really felt like spending the money on after I purchase a turtle, are wine glasses. I think it would be cool to have an ecclectic collection of wine glasses from different places.”

“I have a friend also who collects turtles and I made her a turtle table. Got the table off the side of the road, covered it with handmade paper of different textures and colors of purple like plum, lavendar, and then legs were covered in banana paper. Then ripped turtle images out of another paper for top and then put glass on it. Total cost was 25.00 for the glass top. She puts all her little turtle guys on that. I think I bought out "Dancing Eye Gallery" in N'ville one Christmas of all the turtle tiles there, too.”

“Sounds cool, wolfeyes! I'd like a nice curio cabinet for mine someday. Right now they're scattered all over various shelves.

I have two turtle bean bags on top of my monitor at work, and a turtle picture frame here also. It started when I was in college - our sorority mascot was a turtle (You never make progress until you stick your neck out! How cheesy!) and that's how the collection got started. My mom's even got a couple cool ones that I'll inherit. :)”

“I like maps. "You are here" maps, topo maps, hand drawn maps, but especially antique maps. I'd love to have a maproom where I can display them, too.”

“Slow and steady wins the race.”

“When I was kid I had a nice gallery of boogers on the back side of the headboard !!!! And nightstand draw full of retainers and rubber bands!

Presently, its hides, whitetail perferably. If I had the money it would be 'purdy' guns. I like collecting maps from my areas of travel also. Like all the NPS brochures and FS maps. I would really like it if I could wallpaper the study with alot of those Trail Ill. maps of places I need to get to and have been.

I got a kickas collection of matchbox cars I've been toting around for yrs.”

“I hope you don't still have that headboard, Briar!

I used to collect baseball cards when I was kid. They sat in boxes for decades and I finally took a few down to a card shop to see if they were worth anything. Just 3 of them added up to over $200 so I baught a bunch of plastic sleeves to put the rest in.

Now I have about about 500 running t-shirts hanging up in the basement making nice homes for the spiders.”

“I collect magic nose-goblins.”

“I collect Back payments, plus interest........pay the man or I'll break yer legs.....”

“Frogs. I have one staring at me right now. I also have one of those electronic alarm frogs, you know, the kind that goes "Ribbit, ribbit" when you walk in front of it.”

“i collect miniture parfum bottles, coffee mugs and of course gear. looking at my house I am starting to think that I also collect computers.

my kids collect rocks and cristals and of course those darn trading cards.”

“memories...

and friends”

“Books
Maps
and Turtles, funny so many people collect turtles. I don't even remember how it got started. Now it's kind of like my totem animal.

So on the clan thread if the Indiana/Illinios Knights won't have me, I'll start my own Clan of the Turtle. Slow and easy wins the race.”

“I collect Maps from every place Ive been hiking. Also one rock from each river or forest I step into. I have a HUGE collection going with some hard to find Starlights.”

“Maps
Unusual Antique horse bits”

“signed sports equipment/jerseys and autographed prints/posters”

“I collect books and rocks.
And you'll find little plastic replicas of turtles, frogs, lizards and bugs in a variety of places throughout my home.”

“chili: that is so sweet.

I collect blue glass..mostly bottles cause the "real" good stuff is spensive! LOL..I am terrible for picking things up when I'm outside. Shells at the beach, leaves, rocks and feathers in the woods. When I die if anyone goes through my books they are gonna find leave and flowers and heaven only knows what else! I have said I'm gonna make a little bag to carry all my treasures home in. I have also, after seeing the movie Dragonfly this summer, become obsessed (for a better word) with Dragonflies. I think that is it!!!”

“Monkey see, Monkey do”

“I collect gear and Pete Rose baseball cards”

“books, fantasy art cards... and animal hair”

“$200 every time I pass GO.”

“Rocks
Fossils
Some baseball cards
Coins
Antique railroad stuff
Some civil war ephemera
Other antique ephemera
Some old cameras
Sundry other old junk
Backpacking gear
Lots of dust bunnies”

“penguins ( no they are not real)
lighthouses
gear
coffee cups from all the places ive visited


Mapleleaf"


I need to add on,

Maps.
and I'm with lizs on this one,,,

"travel brochures and information"

I may never visit these places but I like to look!”

“Well shoot, don't we all have maps? lol. I even have some framed in my family room.

I also have collected jars full of cicada shells and sea glass. I found my first few olithos this autumn...I may need to find some more.”

“Yeah, I think backpacking gear is a given for this crowd as well...”

“I collect horse statues, most are antiques but I don't discriminate. I also collect blue glass, when my Grandmother died I inherited her collection. I also have Haviland Limogue china most all in the same pattern.”

“toys”

“The guy who sits to my left collects all kinds of crap (bottles, watches, cameras, knifes, etc.). The most interesting thin he collects is skulls. Yes, skulls. Apparently, they are not real but are replicas. ? I still don't get it.

For baseball card collectors:
What's the best way to sell cards? I've got tons from when I was a kid and would like to sell them. I collected during the late 70s and through the 80s plus I have old cards like Willie Mays, Duke Snyder, etc.”

“Do you have any Pete Rose cards?”

“lots of Pete Rose cards I imagine. Haven't looked at collection in years. Are those the hot cards now? I guess Gary Carter might be hot now. Who else just got inducted?”