What do You collect?

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Beccy
Date: 27 Aug 03 - 05:04 PM

Books, musical instruments/equipment, food and kitchen gadgets and, most importantly, kids (I'm up to 4)...

Beccy

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: GUEST,fred miller
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 09:37 PM

I have friends who collect really interesting things like old maps, and antique photos of kids with toys--really nice things. But I'm not much of a collector except of random materials I imagine I'll have a use for.

I mentally collect though, if that counts. I used to collect metaphorical phrases that were turned in on themselves, like when my wife worried about running a bath during a storm, and I said the odds were like being struck by lightning. Or when I went to a circus, and it was like a circus. Or when re-learning to ride a bike--it's just like riding a bicycle, etc. I remember it began at work when I sorted out a tangle of extension cords and found that one was complexly plugged back into itself, like a snake biting its tail, (or, like an extension cord plugged into itself.) And I thought it made a good metaphor for something, but couldn't think of what. Then I thought it was a metaphor for itself... and it slowly dawned on me that it was more precisely a meta-metaphor for something, including itself, being a metaphor for itself.

And I collect personal stories from people which they won't tell to other people, but for some reason, they trust me with. It's a nice gift to have.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 08:59 PM

Dust.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: jacqui c
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 03:12 PM

CDs. I have, probably about 700 of all sorts of music. Books - mainly fiction but some philosophy/psychology based as well as some on astrology and associated subjects. Stones picked up from various beaches (my 3 year old grandson is fascinated by these). Videos/DVDs. Sci-fi books and memorabilia, also signed photos of sci-fi actors that I've usually been stupid to queue up for for about an hour at Forbidden Planet. Guitars - still haven't learned to play! Songs - started with English traditional folk but am now exploring American folk. Pictures -I've just about run out of wall space but, as they say, every picture tells a story. Poems.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 09:30 AM

major collection - bears!! teddy & polar bear related things, fur & stuff to make bears, small second-hand & interesting toys, CDs,

on-going mini-collections - penguins, interesting old bowls & plates, children's fantasy books, old beads & beaded items/jewellery, Japanese stuff, jigsaw puzzles, mainly of paintings, boxes that I might be able to put stuff into,

past collections, still around, still interesting - sheep (toys & ornamnents), rubber (& plastic) ducks, old lace & ribbons, books on Historic Costume, Dolls dressed in historic costume (1066 to 1911), materials to use in dressing these dolls, lace bobbins & bobbin lace, including unfinished pieces, embroidery patterns & kits, including unfinished pieces! (refain), embroidery, bobbin lacemaking & craft books & articles & photocopies, small jugs & interesting small bottles

nuff for now

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Ely
Date: 25 Aug 03 - 10:16 PM

Horse figurines (Breyer, Hagen-Renaker, whatever, but the more realistic, the better)--I used to be really rabid but I've slowed down some. If anyone needs a fully-functional Western saddle in 1/32 scale, though, I can tell you where to find it. I've got a few cow, dog, and cat figurines to go with them.

Trivia--oh, my God, the useless facts I have filed away in my head!

And, of course, music (is there anyone in here who DOESN'T collect music?); mostly old American music, in any form (field and commercial recordings, written, in my head, whatever).

Designs and patterns--anything I can use as a basis for painting later on.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: open mike
Date: 25 Aug 03 - 09:43 PM

dung beetles/scarabs in any form,
strawberries,
widnmills,
c.d's (using the excuse that i have a radio show)
earrings,
shot glasses,
plates with U.S. states on them,
books,
scented geraniums,
songs and tunes,
kitchen tools & utensils,
cookie cutters,
hugs,
canning jars,
wide mouth Mickey bottles to put herbs in,
corks,
and i take lots of photographs...

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Bobert
Date: 25 Aug 03 - 08:49 PM

Oh danged, I knew this would come out some time and here it is. But, I will preface this with a statement that I have spent time in the Betty Ford Center for Compulsive Collectors since bginning my collection of: (Oh, where to start).... LP's (7000 at present), dead bugs, old toasters, red 'n white tin ware, unusual plants, old thread on wooden spools (over 400 at last count), thousands of bits and pieces of small things such as union pins, old photographs of folks in other folks families (???), pewter, old flywheels and cast train wheels, even a double decker bus, old Volkswagens and parts, windchimes, etc, etc.... Oh the shame... But not it's out...There, you have it.... Geeze.....

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Sooz
Date: 25 Aug 03 - 03:58 PM

I've just re-read this lot and realised how many instruments I've added to my collection since my last post! Anyone know how to play an eight hole occarina?

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Aug 03 - 03:07 PM

information in my mind to tool myself up for lifes highs and lows.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Chief Chaos
Date: 25 Aug 03 - 09:42 AM

I have just started collecting picks. As you can imagine my collection is rather small as I'm in Louisiana with very few stores to purchase unique picks from. I'm not into buying "collections" from internet suppliers although this would probably be the easiest.
If anyone would like to help me out (all you mudcatters from across the U.S. and across the pond) I'll send back what store picks I can get from this corner of the country. Let me know what you think.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Les from Hull
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 12:55 PM

Hangovers. Or should that be hangsover?

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Firecat
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 10:30 AM

OOOOOPS!!!!!

I forgot to add that I collect cats and butterflies!!

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: The Dane
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 12:12 PM

Commas. Every time I come across a comma in a book, I make a note of it.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: RichM
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 10:01 AM

Rocks, old bills, pocket fluff,guitar picks, old paint cans...

Any time I am more than 300 miles from home, I seem to bring back an interesting rock(s). They sit in my garden, in indoor flower pots, or if they are unusual enough in a displayed collection.
old bills: we all do this, don't we?
pocket fluff seems to be in all my pockets anyway, so I decided to call it a *collection*

Guitar picks: same excuse.
Old paint cans: well, I might need to do a touch-up, you know! Every few years, I toss 'em out. Usually they have solidied and are useless by that time.

Rich

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: granny
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 09:52 AM

...An odd assortment of mementos/keepsakes, rocks, old bee's nests, etc...but, the only singular items I work on as actual collections are:

Crochet patterns for hearts or things using heart motif

Crochet patterns for birds

Grab/Clip ephemeral pics -- from mags, catalogs, etc. -- of hearts and birds.

I would collect so much more -- I do love old books, and music -- but I don't seek them out deliberately, because they takes up so much space!

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Firecat
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 07:13 AM

bill, what about ME!!!!!!

Right, here goes, I collect:-

1)Porcelain dolls 2)Badges

3)Teddies

4)Stickers

5)Blue Peter books

6)Chalet School books

7)CDs

8)Doctor Who things

9)Useless facts

10)Small children!

11)Owls

12)Crystals

13)Useless information

14)Stories

15)Songs

There's a fair list there to be going on with!!

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Amergin
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 11:16 PM

Bruises received from irate women....

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 11:12 PM

Men


Little Neo

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: hesperis
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 08:04 PM

Stuff...

Mostly books. Much more stuff though...

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 06:27 PM

Dragons. Over 400 of 'em ranged about the house. I usually wear at least one, every day. Had 2 for wedding presents, 2 on the (chocolate) wedding cake, 3 on my veil (honest, although 2 came off, the third is still there, see, on the thing you thought was a net curtain.....), and about 50 books about them.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: mrmoejoerisen
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 02:18 PM

No new collections however I do have a stack of Rolling Stone Magazines from Late 60's to Early 70's. Nothing major just the Janios Joplin interview the Jim Morrison Interview and others like the Jimi Hendrix Interview Etc. I have had these 50 or so magazines for about 25 years and they were used when I got them; however they are all in Excellent condition. I used to collect and Read Stephen King Books but since my introduction to Robert Johnson & all of his fine music I have not been much of a reader of books. TNT Peace

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: kendall
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 01:59 PM

I collect quotable quotes. An idle brain is the devils playground.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Mr Red
Date: 12 Feb 01 - 03:48 PM

ex girlfriends (position vacant) and sympathy.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Bert
Date: 12 Feb 01 - 03:41 PM

Books, we have a moratorium on book buying at least once a week. Musical instruments which, like Sooz, I can't play. Anything musical. Tools. Things that I just have to have, like that antique Johnson outboard motor for $10, or that Centurian road bike that I couldn't resist for $20.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: GUEST,bflat
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 09:00 PM

I collect pocket watches, various clocks, sadirons, wooden ducks, wooden cats, old iron gizmos, carnival glass, pottery and old china pieces, antique linen and lace, records. I love old wood pieces. If I had more space then I would find more things that have the patina of life and surround myself with them.

Ellen

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Matthew B.
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 08:43 PM

Sea Shanties

So far, I have about 400 and counting.

But to be honest, I haven't added any new ones in nearly a year. Guess I should Go to Sea Once More and see if I can find any new ones.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 08:17 PM

I may still have an IBM PS I or II. I forget which. It works. So does the printer. PM me if you want it.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Metchosin
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 05:24 PM

Bernard, I have little Mac Plus here that you are more than welcome to, but shipping could be a pain in the ass.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 05:04 PM

Bill...I didnt do it..I'm innocent! never touched you wall! besides, it was falling down anyway.

Subject: Lots!!
From: Bernard
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 02:09 PM

Musical instruments - I have 60 or more, not counted recently.

Old computers, mostly in working order, and software.

Music CD's of various genres.

Grandchildren (haven't got any, yet, but I will have one in March and another in October...

'Executive toys' - things filled with coloured oil that you turn over and watch...

Daft ornaments - a flower that dances in time to music, fibre-optic lamps, candleholders of all sorts.

Television sets... I live on my own, but there's a T.V. in every room except the bathroom, and one of my PC's has a TV/Teletext video card... three video recorders that I almost never use...

Bottles of booze that people buy me as presents, but I never get round to opening...

Some of my collections are intentional - I'm trying to preserve old computers for posterity. Too many have just been thrown away, and they are an important part of history (in my opinion!).

If anyone has an old computer they want out of their way, get in touch - I'm particularly anxious to get an old Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81 - I've got all the various Spectrum models. I've an Apple IIe, BBC model B (not working), C64, Amiga, Atari 800 (thanks, JJ!), various Amstrads, the list goes on.

I'm mainly interested in working models, but 'duff' ones can be useful, too (I may be able to repair them, or use the bits to repair another).

I'm not doing this for money, though it's possible the collection may be of some value when my grandchildren are grown up. My intention is that people can call in on me and look at old computers either out of nostalgia, or because it relates to studies they are pursuing.

So have a look in your attic!!

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 12:08 PM

I have the first 3 or 4 books in a box in the basement. (I am not kidding.) I'm not likely to find them, though. In any case, the book doesn't seem to be out of print in the US.

Card's official website says the books are:

Seventh Son
Red Prophet
Prentice Alvin
Alvin Journeyman
Heartfire

There's a thingie you can click on to buy the book at Amazon.

You can also go to Amazon through Mudcat (The "Support Mudcat" banjofish), and Mudcat gets a percentage. I don't know if this clickie will work but try it.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 11:36 AM

Books, of course, and books and other media of music; videotapes (mostly foreign and oddball films); rubber squid (largest collection in New Hampshire; maybe ONLY collection in New Hampshire...); hippocampuses in any form; rubberstamps, antique printing tackle and marking devices; gravestone rubbings (but maybe that's research...); photos of interesting signs; information scribbled on 3x5 file cards; small mammal (and larger and reptile and bird) bones and skulls (I'm a closet naturalist); flamingo decoys heralding the approach of the flamingo season in New Hampshire (long, long story...); and then the accumulations of stuff that just interests me.

A friend once described our house as looking like the storage wing of the Smithsonian. I took it as a compliment...

Bat Goddess

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Morticia
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 10:18 AM

Sorcha, I can't for the life of me remember what it is called, if I ever knew, I just know it's a trilogy and long gone out of print here in the UK.If I find out I'll pm you , if that's okay?

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Sooz
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 10:00 AM

Musical instruments I can't play. CD's I haven't go time to play. Dust on both of the above.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Mooh
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 08:26 AM

What scares me is what I'd collect if I had the resources. Boats, hockey jerseys, art, property, and instruments more seriously. But alas, and with Her relief, I am detained by lack of cashflow.

Buy lottery tickets. Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Sorcha
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 12:28 AM

I like that, Jeri. Non-de aquisition.......good phrase! Rolls right off the tongue, and is so apt! I think that is what I do, too.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 12:20 AM

I don't actually collect anything on purpose. I have a whole lot of antiques that my ancestors bought as new things and never got rid of. I have a basement full of books that my ancestors and myself bought and never got rid of. I have a bunch of musical intruments because I bought new ones and never got rid of the old ones. I have stamp and coin collection, because my mother actually collected those things on purpose, and I never got rid of them. I have pattern glass from my grandmother, but I actually sold some of that. I've hung on to all the salt dips, though. I have quite a few 78 rpm records that I can't play, but those were bought new and nobody ever got rid of them. I have a bunch of crystal. My mother gave me a couple of pieces, so she assumed I was collecting it and gave me a bunch more.

I do have song and tunebooks, but I don't collect them to have a collection. (Joe, I just bought one a couple of weeks ago "Pearls if Music" published in 1896. I've never heard of that one before.)

In short, I don't collect anything. I just carry on the family tradition of non de-acquisition.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 11:39 PM

I'm trying very hard to amass the second-best Mudcatter songbook collection. There's no hope in matching the Sandy Paton Songbbok Collection, but Rich R and I are neck-and-neck for second place, I think. There may be some "sleepers" in the race that I don't know about, however. I have a feeling that people like Bill D may have huge songbook collections, but they keep it a secret because they don't want MMario and Joe bugging them to transcribe lyrics and tunes...
I also collect CD's, which I keep track of on a database....
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 09:46 PM

I have a few real weaknesses. Vintage guitars ,banjos and concertinas are the most painfull addiction but I do seem to buy old English 3 speed English bikes at tag sales. I love the old "Lever brake " three speeds. Also flags hit me for some reason..Oh anything written by Henry Hector Mallott. (Nobodys Girl or Nobodys Boy) Also I do love swords. ( Funny) I would'nt mind a conection of old Motorcycles as well( Maybe just an old R 69S with the Erls Forks BMW )all the best Guy

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: bbc
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 06:52 PM

that should have read "rocks."

bbc

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: bbc
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 06:51 PM

pigs, cookbooks, rock, folk music cd's.

bbc

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Grab
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 06:39 PM

A thought - there's a couple of ppl mentioned models. I've got a boxful of Games Workshop WH40K stuff free to a good home, if anyone in the UK wants to get in touch - I was fairly seriously into it for a few years. Much of it isn't painted, but I did a lot of modelling work so many of the models have some sort of customisation. Probably out of the age range of most of you lot since GW shifted their target age, but anyone with kids might be able to use them. PM me if you want details.

Grab.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Monashee
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 04:37 PM

Kharma ;)

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Amergin
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 02:59 PM

Yeah well, Pondering, my largest collection is all the mistakes I made in my life...

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Pondering It All
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 02:55 PM

My largest collection is LESSONS from all of the mistakes I have made in this life.

Still Pondering

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: bob schwarer
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 06:05 AM

Imperial Roman coins,old guns,aircraft books and prints.

Bob S.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: Monashee
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 05:18 AM

Memories....clothes..(all over my floor in a heaping mass)...songs...(all gathered up in me wee brain)....cat scratches....oh yeah...cats..*L*...emm..what else?...silver jewellery..(as much as I can wear ;)Stones from when I go on walks or trips...and driftwood..feathers if I come across them...Books..one can never have too many of 'em....instruments..(now that is something I would really love to collect some more of ;)..cd's, mp3's,....experiences.

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: BlueJay
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 04:33 AM

Little bits of colored, (or non), glass. Also transluscent rocks. Though I haven't made a stained glass window in fifteen years, I still search for found items, "just in case". Nothing thrills me more than to find an intact piece of plate glass made 50 or 100 years ago at a garage sale, even if it's only one square inch. I have found much larger pieces of awesome glass, at times free for the asking. I also cast a serious look at broken dishes and pop/beer/winebottles, as long as they transmit light.

At this point, I have quite a collection. Probably five hundred pounds of glass, in various forms. I recently unpacked it all, and found to my relief that all of my largest pieces survived my most recent household move unscathed. Some of the smaller ones broke, due to hurried packing, I suppose.

So, that's my collection. Plates of stained glass, old window glass, etc. A lot of the old clear window glass is quite unique, entirely unlike the standard thickness, generic glass sold today.

Whether I'll ever actually DO anything with all this beautiful glass is in doubt. Glasswork is very, very time consuming. And just about everyone you pass on the street makes something out of stained glass, these days. Don't get me wrong, I have not given up. But at fifty years old, it seems the best course of action is to try and pass this interest on to my KIDS, (ages four, and ten). They both seem enthusiastic. Thanks, BlueJay

Subject: RE: BS: What do You collect?
From: sledge
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 03:25 AM

Oh I forgot the aircraft prints that dominate most of the wall space in my house.

Sledge

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?