What do You collect?

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: roopoo
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 02:57 AM

Anything and everything that takes my fancy, and consequently dust, much to the annoyance of Ian! I started collecting cheap Victorian wine glasses till I ran out of room. (Bill Sables knows the clutter I live in!) I have a number of old (19th century) books, from sheet music and song books to cookery books and novels. I've also got some womens' magazines from 1920s/40s/50s. The walls have run out of room to hang pictures. I started on bread boards, but resented paying a lot for the really nicely carved (old) ones, so I didn't buy any and stuck to fairly ordinary ones, and then I ran out of space (again). I like 19th century Staffordshire figures, but my conscience won't let me blow £100 (on average) a time for just the run of the mill ones.

The shed collects bikes. I must ask it what its intentions are as it's getting harder to cram all the bits my student offspring have decided they don't need "just at the moment" into it.

Andrea

Must cancel my National Geographic subscription. I'm running out of room for those too!

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: sledge
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 02:46 AM

My lists of shame and saddness are

Model aeroplanes. (just about under control)

Folk cd's. (out of control)

English medieval coins (just started but I can see rampant over entheusiasm looming)

Books (can't help myself)

Beer (never really seems to grow much, shrinks often though)

:)

Sledge

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Sorcha
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 01:35 AM

Weel, ya noo, shellac, lids, nails n' stuff......just sounded a lot like my garage.....which I lay NO claim to...except in spring when I would really like to find my gardening stuff.......which does'na include frozen, dried up spray cans.......

I hafta fight 2 motorcycles, 4 bicycles, several layers of lattice frames, coupla sheets of dry wall, 3 lawn mowers (2 dead), etc. just to get to my tulip plugger that I use for greenhouse sets........(MEN!!) It would almost be worth a divorce to have a garage of my very own!!

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: DonMeixner
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 01:33 AM

I collect fishing tackle, Musical Instruments and Comic Books and original comic art.

In fact I will trade some comics for silver or gold jewelry or combinations there of.

Don

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Metchosin
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 01:24 AM

ROTFLMAO Sorcha!

We have the dried up paint cans too, but I call it junk and I don't mean to collect it. Just waiting for the opportunity and energy to take it to the recycling depot. My collection refers to 331/3 and 78RPM records, was it the lid thing that also imparted the image?

The other stuff that we inherited was definely at one time, somebody elses prized collection, just not mine.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Sorcha
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 12:55 AM

Mets, you collect cans of shellac and plastic things? I would think that would be counter productive......I had this vision of cans and cans of shellac and vinyl finishes covering the garage shelves........all solidified beyond redemption. I do have a few of those, but I refuse to admit to "collecting" them.

On the other hand, we also seem to inherit all the screws, nuts, bolts, nails etc. buckets. After all, Somebody just might need one of those someday!!

We have a dead snow blower, too.......shovels etc. with broken handles, carpenter's measure tapes that don't retract, chalk lines without chalk, hammer handles only, various sizes of screwdrivers and allen wrenches tha don't fit anything........empty anti freeze and 10-30 oil bottles......(we can fill em up again) do these really count as collections? Oh, almost forgot all my 1 gallon jugs for making wine....probably a hundred or so of those.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Lyrical Lady
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 12:01 AM

Roosters, recipes, old sheet music and very old postcards! LL

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: GUEST,ursa
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 09:22 PM

My passion is jointed teddy bears, particularlly mohair, specifically German-made. Steiff are perhaps the best in the world. All the dinnerware and crystal have been taken out of the china cupboard to house the bears. A teddy bear collector is an arctophile.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Metchosin
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 08:53 PM

Of things I actively seek out, vinyl and shellac, athough I try to keep a lid on it.

arrrrgh! on the other hand........in this household, there is also a thirty year collection of stereo magazines (Hi Fi World/Hi Fi News & Record Review/Stereophile/Speaker Builder etc.)

It got so bad, a couple of years ago, we scrounged a tin garden shed, to house the less perused issues, pending an after the fact excavation of a basement under the front of the house. That has sort of diminished the number of cardboard boxes stacked up the bedroom walls and elewhere for the time being but....

We also seem to be the repository of things that other family members and in-laws couldn't part with after moving into smaller quarters, such as, old rototillers, boxes of nails and cans of screws, cans of woodstain, old tools, old tack, boxes of toys and stuffed animals.

To top this off, there has also been an accumulation of various musical instruments over the years.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 07:45 PM

1. Plastic model kits of airplanes, ships, and a few armoured vehicles; soldier figures in 1/6 scale; books about military vehicles and history. (Add to this picture the facts that I am a confirmed pacifist and a leftist peacenik radical wholly opposed to war under most circumstances, and you may begin to realize how strange I really am...)

2. Books on many spiritual subjects (what might be termed "New Age", in some cases) and spiritual philosophy generally...from various traditions.

3. Guitars and all kinds of music stuff.

4. Useless facts. Thousands of them.

5. Native American memorabilia of various types.

6. Any and all recordings by Dylan, Baez, and Buffy Sainte-Marie.

7. Too much stuff. I need a small warehouse in order to get my life back on track.

8. Wooden sailing ship model kits in real wood (they are gorgeous, but take a long time to build).

9. Books.

10. Model magazines (plastic display models, that is...).

11. Various little polished stones and other neat things which you can place on an altar or just here and there as you please.

That fairly well covers the obvious stuff.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 07:42 PM

erm...don't collect much except old prints, Arthur Rackham illustrations, cats and... cds

Ella

Oh and instruments

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: GUEST,Wavestar
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 07:26 PM

I am jealous, Quincy, I was just there last month and thought it an amazing place.

Mousethief, what sort of Arthuriana, says the Arthurian scholar?

I collect, erm... books, rocks, cards, people, other people's clothing, ex-boyfriend's boxers, knives (pretty pretty) and stuff. Coins for my mother. Got one of those neat plastic bills from Northern Ireland the other day. What wierd money. Shells. Boxes, and blank books. I love the potential. Recipes for stuff. Mostly books. Too many books.

-J

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: bill\sables
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 07:02 PM

I have a unique collection and one which I would say is the best collection in the world. I collect Mudcatters. Sofar I have met over 150 mudcatters in the UK, USA, and Canada. The best part about it are the memories of people like Art Thieme, Sandy and Caroline Paton, Dick Greenhause, Alice, bbc, Big Mick, Rick Fielding, Kat laughing, Max and of course Allan C. My one regret is that I always missed Catspaw but I will catch up with the bugger one day. (Keep looking over your shoulder Spaw) I can say also that they are the best people in the world and I have never met a bad one yet.
Bill

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 06:54 PM

Morty, I forget the exact title of that one, but O.S. Card shows up quite frequently in our Library Used Book sale. If I had the title, I could look for you. Next sale is in April. I could snail mail, Book Rate to UK isn't really to bad, couple dollars or so.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: sophocleese
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 06:43 PM

Dust, pieces of paper with stuff scrawled on them. Stuff, junk for use in creating strange other things. Books, more dust, pieces of bubblegum and hard candies to feed children when necessary, cheap woodwind type instruments, hats, CDs, songs.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Morticia
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 06:43 PM

Bill, you wouldn't happen to have a spare copy of the next book after Seventh Son,by Orson Scott Card would you?

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 06:39 PM

You betcha, baby. I sent Mbo a PM, couldn't find Matt....

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 06:38 PM

surgical scars

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Matt_R
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 06:34 PM

Do I count, Sorch?

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 06:32 PM

Adult web sites...

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 05:56 PM

Books, tunes (on paper, so guess it's books again),cookbooks (books again),chunks of precious/semi precious minerals (so I guess that is rocks), mice in any form except alive (a mouse is on my SCA arms), dust (mice again) animal hair, and lately, Butt wipes on the carpet (from the dogs--who knows what is wrong with their bowels??)

Then, there is all the stuff my mom and dad collected that I inherited 1/3 of.........tins, compacts, hat pins, spurs, Navajo rugs, AmerInd stuff of all kinds, keys and other small "printers tray" stuff, stained glass suncatchers, silver/turquoise jewlery, guns,beaded purses, "Western" art including bronzes,

It's an eclectic place, believe me. Oh yea, and computer acessories! Friends, I don't collect. I am extremely discriminating about who I actually call "my friend". Aquaintences, yes, many many, but not very many real "friends".

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 05:15 PM

SINSULL...nope..'fraid not....only have 600-700...and mostly older, since I can't read as well with my old eyes..(yes, the computer IS easier!)

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Llanfair
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 04:51 PM

Books, shoes, plants, teapots, husbands.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Skeptic
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 04:41 PM

friends, books, videos

Regards

John

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Grab
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 04:34 PM

Junk. I'm not sure I can categorise it. Just junk generally. Oh, and lots of books.

I do collect songs too, but I store those in my head. They take up much less space there, and of course there's not much else in there...

Grab.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: bill\sables
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 04:32 PM

Kendall So you are the one who pulled down Hadrians Wall. We in the North East of england have been looking for you for about 1,000 years. See what you did, you let the bloddy Scots come in with their bagpipes and men in frocks. Bill(who used to live near the wall)

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 04:31 PM

BillD,
You don't happen to have a copy of "A Planet Called Treason",do you? I generally dislike science fiction but loved this one enough to recommend and lend it. The rest is history. No idea of the author.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Matt_R
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 04:30 PM

I collect Oasis CD singles.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 04:22 PM

National Lampoon stuff,

F&SF magazines, and other Sci-Fi books

samples of wood from all over the world..(I actually belong to the society)

Beer bottles & cans.(that I have emptied...600+ now)

Folk Song books...(well, I mostly just acquire them..)

...now, you want a list of the things I simply 'accumulate', instead of having some sort or order and catagorization?..That will take awhile..

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: mousethief
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 03:22 PM

-Books:
--folk/trad songbooks
--Arthuriana (& pre-Conquest archaeology)
--C.S. Lewisiana
--Peanuts (Chaz. M. Schulz)

-Coins:
--Foreign coins from places I've been
--US Mint (proof) sets
--British 2-shilling pieces (just like 'em!)

-Recorded Music:
--Folk stuff
--Rock that I listened to in HS/college
--Classical
--Comedy (esp PDQ Bach)
--Blues (esp pre-ww2 stuff)
--Orthodox liturgical stuff

-Comic strips:
--from the paper or from the web, that tickle my fancy

probably other stuff that I'm not thinking of right now.

Alex

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Quincy
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 02:40 PM

I collect Scooby doo stuff....mostly beanies....sad I know!
Also cds, videos, unusual watches, fridge magnets, singing fishes(!!) etc....

Just to make you rock collectors up there a bit jealous, I have a piece of the Giant's Causeway carved into mini columns..... I believe by Finn MacCoul himself ;) It belonged to my great granny, during the time when bits of it were sold.

best wishes, Yvonne

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: CarolC
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 02:22 PM

Rocks. Different kinds of minerals and mineral formations. Semi-precious gems and stones.

I'm starting a collection of souvenirs from my visit in Canada. I've already got some Canadian money including two, two dollar coins (called toonies?), and a used Tim Horton's bag.

Carol

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 02:17 PM

Antique tins. Then I fill them with cookies and give them as gifts. Keep a few favorites but the collection is usually a "work in progress".

Also tumbleweed in the form of cat hair and dust.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: GUEST,jaze
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 02:10 PM

Go ahead and laugh, but I collect NUN nicknacks. They're not easy to find around here but it's challenging

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Mooh
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 02:10 PM

Guitars and other musical instruments, music in various forms, books of interest to me, fishing lures, odds and ends of stamps and first day covers, some coins, a handful or two of knives, tools, and probably other things I can't recall.

I like THINGS. Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Fiolar
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 01:08 PM

To Guest, Petr. Always useful if you want to end it all in some pool or other.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Amergin
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 01:05 PM

Thoughts....

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Justa Picker
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 01:04 PM

Guitars (what else?!)

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 01:00 PM

Why would a rock want to go swimming anyway?

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Kim C
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 12:57 PM

Dust! Aside from that... antique jewelry (usually under $50 a piece), books, stuffed animals, snow domes, yarn, beads, makeup, shoes, period photographs from 1850s-60s, reenacting gear, CDs, tunes, trivial bits of information.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 12:53 PM

hey Kendall, I do that too, I have a rock from the cliffs of Moher, (Im sure if everyone did that there wouldnt be anything left) My favorite rock weighs about 60 pounds, I try not to take it swimming.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 12:33 PM

Rocks. From places such as Colloden Moor in Scotland. Hadrians Wall, Daniel Boons grave...

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: simon-pierre
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 12:25 PM

songs...

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Katcina
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 12:23 PM

I would have to say that my largest collection is books, though many other things qualfy under your guidelines, including animals, rocks, driftwood, ideas, and people. My list of collections is much too large to complete in this forum.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Morticia
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 12:23 PM

my daughter from university.....the dry cleaning....dust bunnies :)

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 12:18 PM

crappy little crumbly bits of archeology in the form of pottery sherds; books; information (she said darkly).

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: InOBU
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 12:13 PM

Compliments... Larry (feel free to add to the collection...)

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: GUEST,guestguestguest(intruder)
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 12:10 PM

santa clauses and aphorisms

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 12:08 PM

Hats and coins.

Subject: What do You collect?
From: GUEST,petr, who really should get cookie
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 12:06 PM

I think the scientific term for a collection is 3 or more similar items. I collect names of women on television who are named after spices. Theres, Ginger from Gilligans Island, Pepper from Policewoman, Cinnamon from Mission Impossible. Not sure about Rosemary from the Dick Van Dyke show (could be Rose Marie). Theres also Basil on Fawlty Towers although hes a man. what about you?