What do u collect?

[Lord DragonsWing]

It's strange how we get older and collect things. As a teen I collected the normal comic books and baseball cards. I've still got alot of them. The old spiderman and batman comics. They're all still in boxes. The Hank Aarons and other cards are boxed away also. At least those I didn't use in the spokes of my bike. lol As I got older and started writing I grabbed old books. One I found in an attic in Louisiana that is from the Lincoln era. Now, I collect glass. Carnival glass mainly. Memories of my grandmother having carnival glass in her cabinets or on a shelf bring alot of smiles. I guess that's why I collect it now. Memories. For me, I always remember my grandparents when I look at the collection.

What do you collect and why? Is it for the memories? Do you see old items and remember times as a kid? Or if you collect, is it more of an investment?

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

I'm actually more of an uncollector these days. My house and my mind are minefields of quaint curiosities and bric-a-brac

 

[Nirvanadragones]

Magickal beings: fairies, dragons, pixies, elfs etc. I have an entire wonderland that I have been creating since I was a kid. The reason? It keeps me believing in magic.

Art: It's beauty.

Cd's, dvd's and books: That which touches me and adds meaning to my life.

 

[rgraham666]

Hand-to-hand weaponry. And I learn how to use them as well.

I hope some day to have a set of daisho.

 

[starrkers]

Brass ornaments, books, and cats (both breathing and ornamental). By the time I'm kid free I'm planning on being the local crazy cat lady with full bookcases everywhere.

 

[Misty_Morning]

I collect mortar and pestle sets.

In addition, I also collect fossils. I only have a few that I have purchased, most I have found in nature in a variety of places throughout the US. It's a hobby of mine.

 

[R. Richard]

I collect music, mainly 50's 60's music.

 

[arienette]

I used to collect porcelain dolls; a collection that my godfather started for me as soon as I was born. Now I collect frogs; the living breathing and figurines.

 

[oggbashan]

Foreign Coins especially French

Playing Cards

Toy trains (NOT model railways)

Viewmaster

and far too many books.

I have given most of my collections to local museums - sewing machines; cameras; edged weapons mainly WWI bayonets; gramophones; ephemera.

Og

 

[vampiredust]

I collect books

 

[TE999]

Die cast fire engines, trucks, rescue units and ambulances.

I stopped counting at around two hundred.

They're a bitch to dust, though.

So I don't.

Peace.

 

[cloudy]

books, interesting looking rocks, feathers that are in my path when I walk (they're considered a gift when you find them that way, music cds.

 

[SeaCat]

Edged weapons. (RG You will be frisked upon leaving if you visit. )

Old Books

Books on religion

Nude Pictures

Old books on religion

Mermaids

Memmories.

My wife collects ornamental boxes.

Cat

 

[oggbashan]

What do you call 'old' for books?

Or 'old' for books about religion?

My oldest book, and oldest book about religion was a Bible of 1574.

My next oldest book about religion was 1630 - A commentary on Paul's letters to the Colossians written in Latin with Greek footnotes. The author took two quarto pages for the first two verses...

Og

 

[ElizabethWest]

I also collect books. I'm a biblioaddict.

 

[deliciously_naughty]

dragons, books, cds, dvds

 

[Munachi]

for a while i collected empty mineral water bottles. not just any, though, but those from countries i traveled to. from each country i would bring one or two home as an example. then i'd sometimes use them for my water to drink at university, and felt very cool to sit there with a bottle with, for example, cyrillic or thai writing on it.

stopped that now though.

else, trying to get a full set of euro coins...

and coins and bank notes from the countries i travel to.

but no really fixed collections, though i am a bit of a collecter person in the sense that i keep everything, can't throw anything away. it's all a memory of something.

 

[Explaura]

I collect lunch boxes, teapots, minerals, and i suppose books.. although I never thought of books as something you collect.. I always figured people have librarys that get bigger and smaller.. Oh and I collect cheap natural fiber yarn and fabric.. that is i get them when they are available so that I won't have to pay lots when I need/want them. this results in my having many boxes of these things and i guess that counts.

 

[MagicaPractica]

What do you collect and why? Is it for the memories? Do you see old items and remember times as a kid? Or if you collect, is it more of an investment?

Dragonfly items. I've had some odd experiences with real dragonflies and I collect things to remind me.

Things with red barns to keep my dream alive.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

What don't I collect?

crockery teapots and Illinois crockery, Limoges teacups and plates, Bavaria serving bowls, potato mashers, red handled kitchen utensils, cookie cutters, cast iron stuff, local memorabilia, world's fair stuff, Victorian art books and novels, cookbooks, arts and crafts copper stuff, antique baby pictures, postcards, old glass Christmas ornaments, sewing baskets, vintage linens, clothes and handbags.

There's more, but I just can't think of it right now. My SO is a collector(hoarder) too and collects totally different stuff than I do, so you can imagine how much shit we have. Everyone marvels that it looks like a 24 hour a day tag sale in our garage.

 

[TE999]

Oh yeah, I also collect books and vinyl records and newspapers and magazines and crystal doorknobs and...

Oh crap, one of the piles fell over.

Whaddaya' mean it's blocking the door?

Let me get back to to you...

Peace.

 

[SeaCat]

What do you call 'old' for books?

Or 'old' for books about religion?

My oldest book, and oldest book about religion was a Bible of 1574.

My next oldest book about religion was 1630 - A commentary on Paul's letters to the Colossians written in Latin with Greek footnotes. The author took two quarto pages for the first two verses...

Og

My oldest is a 1763 Bible in English. My next oldest is a 1780 book on MArtin Luther. (In German)

I tend to grab books that I an read as nothing ends up in my collection if I haven't read it.

Cat

 

[alyxen]

What do I collect? hmm...do emotional scars count? (OK sorry couldn't resist that one!)


Back when I had more extra funds available I collected pewter goblets/figures, always purchased at the renaissance festival. Still have them all collecting dust now, and been thinking of trying to unload em to pay off some debt.

 

[Misty_Morning]

When I was a little girl, one of brothers had a collection of rocks....

My mother couldn't understand why in the hell the "rocks" seemed to get smaller each week....

Turned out they were hash stones.....

 

[angelicminx]

Smiley people because my nickname is Smiley, I love to smile and make people smile, and the smiley people are adorable.

Unicorns because they bring to mind magic and wonder.

Dragons because they are fantastic creatures.

Wizards because of magic, of course.

Things in purple, green and blue (All those colors together, with no other color involved). I'm not going to explain this one.