What Do You Collect, If Anything?????

[buscadero]

Does anyone Collect anything out of the ordinary? Or Strange? I heard of a Guy who collected those Motel Paper Toilet Covers w/ the Name of the Motel on them!!! I thought that was Strange!!

[Gypsy Heart]

I don't know if you would call it collecting...but I sure seem to have acquired alot of items. Rusty iron seems to be high on the list. I do have quite a few Redwing and stoneware pieces, I like White Graniteware, and old vintage Beach items. I do have a library of old history and geography books, Love old Atlas's and maps. I like funky odd items that I can use for decorating for other purposes than it was intended.
I am trying desperately to collect gold bars and Spanish reales ,but somehow that isn't really working out quite as well as I had hoped.
Love
The Queen of Quite -A -Lot

[PBK]

In the past? Fossils, Hard Times tokens, Talbot Mundy novels...

Today? Information— the more obscure, irrelevant, and unprofitable, the better! In the words of Agatha Christie, "It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting!”

Despite the awesome efficiency of internet search engines, I'm still hopelessly addicted to old books, catalogs, and other print sources of forgotten lore.

[Michelle]

For some reason Elephants have began to appear in my Touch Me Nots....Frogs.....And these God aweful looking Baskets All kinds...(I never buy easter baskets) I keep using different ones I've picked up over the years....And Tins...Old Ones New Ones Big Ones Little Ones....Candles......The one that really makes people scratch their heads now are Scrap pieces of lumber (shelving board, trim stuff like that) never know...I just might get into a mood one day! Old books...Maps....Our local library gave away some old outdate history encyclpedias and I have a whole set of those....Never know!

[Gypsy Heart]

oh yes...I forgot...I do decorate my Christmas Tree for the Kitchen with old wooden handled kitchen utensils ,antique cookie cutters,etc. I started looking around after I read this and seem to have an ungodly amount of little oil cans...now if I had a Tinman(Not TinPan!)...I also seem to have alout of antique crock bowls and old mirrors.....dang I really need to have a sale.....

[hollowpointred]

back when i was a musician, i acquired quite a few guitars and amplifiers. i still have most of them, packed away in the closet. 8 electric guitars, one acoustic, a variety of amplifiers, marshalls, fenders, sunns. i probably should get rid of some of them. maybe someday!

[Michelle]

Record ALBUMS.....Jeez....What to do!

[Michigan Badger]

Like gypsy I have all sorts of finds tucked away here and there. I've got loads of Wheat cents I've never even checked the dates on yet. They're covered with hard-packed mud so I don't know what they are nor do I especially care.

While I get a little kick out of posting pictures of my great or meager finds, I really don't care much about any of them. Many will be given away or donated to museums. Things just bore me too quickly to ever become anything of an obsession with me. Stuff is just stuff.

So, what do I collect? I'd say memories of my happy experiences in life. I know, we're talkin major corn here but it's true.

My biggest finds, family, friends, people I've known for many years who share my philosophy of life--these are the memories I cherish. I keep them all in a book in my mind.

[packerbacker]

Badger, you can send me all of your good finds and you can remember that too. Whatdoya say?

[Michigan Badger]

Badger, you can send me all of your good finds and you can remember that too. Whatdoya say?

How many tons of iron can you use?

[Gypsy Heart]

Badger, you can send me all of your good finds and you can remember that too. Whatdoya say?

How many tons of iron can you use?

I can make that a two for one sale...Or buy anything of mine get one of Badgers free!

[ClonedSIM]

My wife collects frogs and turtles. Ceramic, stuffed, plastic, you name it. Well, I only collect them by default.

[TreasureTales]

My collections:

Litter Bags (only clean ones)
Bumper Stickers
Pinback Buttons & Lapel Pins
Advertising Give-aways (free stuff from business grand openings, business anniversaries, etc.)
Advertising Beer Bottle Openers
Old Bottles, Jars, Tins
Books about the Old West, Treasure Hunting, California, Natural History, Trapping
Fishing Bears (bears with fish in their mouths)
Indian Artifacts
Relics
Robert Service Poetry Books
Zane Grey Westerns

Truth-be-told I'm not a collector. Collectors are knowledgeable about their collections. I'm actually a horder.

[pgill]

I have a coin collection.
Phone card collection.
Keyring collection.

And my treasure finds

God bless
Peter

[Cannonman17]

I collect collections. In no particular order here are my favorites, perhaps not odd in and of themselves but more so in the number of collections:
Coins, Artifacts, Tokens, Militaria of all sorts from civil war documents to german WW2 belt buckles, bullets and shell casings- as many different as I can find, old books- U.S. History books in particular, religeous medals, paper money, soda, milk, and medicine bottles, salt water corals- alive, fishing lures, rough gems- no longer actively collecting but..., some fossils, rocks, butterflys and moths, old dishes, red and blue glass, rolled pennies, glass insulaters, and marbles. Don't think I have a collecting problem do ya? My wife thinks so...

[pgill]

Cannonball, where on earth do you keep all this stuff I though I was bad with having so much stuff.... must show the wife your message, I will be in her good books again

God bless
Peter

[Cannonman17]

You should see my garage and my basement, and my office, and my desk, and my living room, and my book case....I keep it spread about.

[Mighty AP]

I collect beer steins, ones with pewter lids, ones without. Have many of the Budweiser Christmas steins. Also skulls (none are real except a few animal skulls), my office looks like Halloween year round! Also Chicago Cub paraphernalia, autographs, bobble heads, baseballs, etc.

Almost forgot............PULLTABS!!! Ive got a large coffee can almost full of freakin pulltabs!

[Digginman]

I collect dust.

DM

[Michelle]

My collections:

Litter Bags (only clean ones)
Bumper Stickers
Pinback Buttons & Lapel Pins
Advertising Give-aways (free stuff from business grand openings, business anniversaries, etc.)
Advertising Beer Bottle Openers
Old Bottles, Jars, Tins
Books about the Old West, Treasure Hunting, California, Natural History, Trapping
Fishing Bears (bears with fish in their mouths)
Indian Artifacts
Relics
Robert Service Poetry Books
Zane Grey Westerns

Truth-be-told I'm not a collector. Collectors are knowledgeable about their collections. I'm actually a horder.

We call this Pac-rat.....hehe...nice though!