Friday lulz: What do/did you like collecting?

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

Artwork, autographs, cigarette boxes, beetles, sports cards, calendars, toy cars, dried flowers, coins, post stamps, spoons, souvenirs, beer labels, trains and railways, you name it... What sort of stuff did you use to collect, or are still collecting these days? Care to share? How big is your collection? Did you splash a lot of cash for all that stuff?

Me? I was mostly about those Matchbox cars. Cute little beauties made of metal, which everyone here was so crazy about.

We used to exchange one car for another, compare them, paint and re-paint them, and make races with them.

And we dreamt of having one of those cars for real. And some of us did. Because here's what I have now IRL:

Your turn?

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[luvdovz.livejournal.com]

Do books count? (Yep, I know, boooring!)

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

You Icelanders and your book obsession!

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

Amen to that. My house is probably going to collapse under the weight someday.

[comeonyouspurs.livejournal.com]

What do you most like to read/collect?

I haven't had much time to read recently, so I have mostly been reading short novels & short story collections, but my main literary passion is for poetry. I also like to read about history, however, & one of my bookcases is full of books about Germanic & Nordic mythology, Nazi Germany & Richard Wagner, so somebody looking at it who didn't know me already could easily get the wrong idea.

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

Me too :)

I've given up on just "everything I read/every book I've owned" on my shelf and started on rare and interesting. I've started a collection of Atlases (got about 10 from the 30s-90s and some 19th C maps and a 17th C world map etching).

[meus-ovatio.livejournal.com]

Books lack a central nervous system and cognitive capacity to count.

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

I've never really collected anything. It just never interested me, I don't know why. Adding a lot here, I know.


I tried collecting stamps for a little while because my grandmother gave me some extras she had, but it didn't last long.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Whacky Packages. A guilty pleasure from my childhood days ;) (http://www.wackypackages.org/)





Trilobite fossils. Not expensive, but can be! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilobite)





Roman imperial coins. Mostly bronze ones because gold and silver are too expensive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_currency)





CDs (I still buy them :-/), and books (whenever on sale, or via Berkshire's Outlet on the Internet). And a friend sends me his review copies free.

and I must admit, very naughty videos. (coughs).

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

Those fossils and coins, are they replica or original?

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

I've got a small handful of the Whacky Packages in the attic somewhere. Sadly, growing up I was no where near enough to a store selling them to make them a collection.

And I was a purist, peeling and sticking only those for which I had duplicates.

Fun factoid: The Kentucky Fried Fingers one was penned by the artist behind Zippy the Pinhead.

[luzribeiro.livejournal.com]

Audio cassettes (and now music CDs/DVDs).

[ddstory.livejournal.com]

Ehm, erotic souvenirs: small statues, engravings, towels, lighters, and stuff. I swear it happened unintentionally! ;)

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

Oh, I asked again about the erotic chess set at Dad's. Turns out they are so buried in collected stuff that they are having trouble navigating the house. The term "hoarder" can be applied.

So, yeah, that will be a while to say the least. Sadly.

[dexeron.livejournal.com]

I never actively collected Matchbox cars, but I ended up with quite a few over the years.

The one thing I actively try to collect are coins from around the world. I don't look for anything rare or particularly old, but I love finding coins from somewhere I haven't seen yet. When I worked in retail, this was always really easy, because tourists would always accidently pay with foreign money. I'd always be sure to keep a lot of change on me so I could "buy" any international coins that had ended up in the drawer later. It's a little harder now to find them now that I work in an office, but that's just more incentive for me to go travelling, and keep some of the money from the trip. :)

[rimpala.livejournal.com]

Have a small collection of this series


When I had money and a good job I tried to invest in some antiques, though really I think the only thing that has any value may be my arts-n-crafts era dresser. Also have a modest collection of swords plus a crossbow and a Roman legion helmet.

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of this very educational comic:



It opened my eyes to the world and made me incredibly thirsty for knowledge in many domains: from geography to history to science to literature. It was awesome, in that it was designed for children and teenagers, and yet it introduced them/us to an enormous palette of topics. It is where I heard about Lord of the Rings for the first time; it's where I read about the great geographic discoveries, and the founders and old rulers of my country, and so much about animals. The adaptations of popular sci-fi books made me curious to read them; etc etc.

[comeonyouspurs.livejournal.com]

Tottenham Hotspur football programmes (one of my guiltiest pleasures), DDR & Yugoslavian (& some other) socialist memorabilia, e.g. magazines, picture books, pin badges &c...

I can't wait to go to this exhibition in Belgrade (https://www.facebook.com/ZiveoZivot) in about a week's time.

I collect Monkey Grip Tube Patch kits

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

They were a local company before they went national. One of them things that was always around in our garage when I was young.

I have about 20 pieces, which is 80% of the repair kit collection.

I also like small unique boxes.

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

I love unique items people collect. I saw an oil can collection once in a guys barn.
I have a finish carpenter friend who collects planers.

[musicpsych.livejournal.com]

The main things I collect are books, CDs, and DVDs. I haven't been buying as many CD albums (I've mostly switched to mp3s for those), but I've started buying CD box sets - mostly of classical albums, but also some band/singer collections. The trouble is, I probably have more than I can use at the moment, and despite that, there is always more to buy and listen to/watch/read.

I have a mini-collection of turtle figurines. It happened by accident, when some friends went on vacation (separately) and brought me back some turtle figurines as gifts... which was funny again because I had bought myself a turtle figurine that same week when I was on my own vacation. None of us had consulted about it beforehand, and I've never had a particular interest in turtles, so it seemed like a strange coincidence, one of those times when I wondered if the universe was telling me something. I haven't gone crazy with it, but I've picked up a few more turtles here and there...

[cinnamontoast.livejournal.com]

I have a small collection of gargoyle statuettes that I acquired kind of by accident. I bought one that I thought looked cool, someone noticed it and got me another one - Rinse, lather, repeat. They were sort of a fad for a little while and easy to find. Not so much anymore, so people stopped getting them for me.

It's fun accidentally starting a collection, isn't it?

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

I had one signed by Julius Erving.

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

That is way cool.
One thing I really haven't collected since I was a kid, is autographs, but I have gotten my youngest a lot, mostly baseball.
I have a baseball with MOST of the Pittsburg Pirates, but of course NOT Clemente...My dad got it at a dodger game back in '60 (the year they won the WS).

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, what haven't I collected would be easier, I am a compulsive collector.
Starting with Straight Arrow Indian Utility cards (in Shredded wheat) and marbles way back in the 50s through comics (I had all but about 6 of all the Marvels thru '78) and trading cards til my present passion of pin-backs (mostly comic character driven like: http://www.marklansdown.com/pinbacks/index-frames.html) and Big Little Books.
My major problem is what to do with my thousands of books and records. Every time I manage to sell 4 boxes of stuff at a collectables show, someone gives me 6 boxes of stuff (or more).
Things I'd like to have, that are possible: Uncle $crooge 47-53, 4 different Disneyland games from the late 50s (complete) '56 Topps Football set, Civil War gum card set, an original Buddy Holly Album (I'd settle for a picture sleeve 45, if there were any) First edition first British printing Harry Potter Series. and a complete set of the Fawcett pin-back set.


(didn't we do this before...not complaining, it's always fun)

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

Dunno, maybe we did. I might've mentioned something on T_P_Nonsense.

[dreadfulpenny81.livejournal.com]

I have a small collection of Garbage Pail Kids cards (the newer ones - I get them as gag gifts at Christmas), tons of books, and a massive collection of writing utensils. Seriously, I buy pens whenever I can. Pencils, too lately because I've started getting into writing more seriously now. I also LOVE sterling silver jewelry (cause it's the only kind that doesn't turn my skin funny colors), especially rings.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

The Garbage Pail Kids are awesome!

[cinnamontoast.livejournal.com]

You all collect such cool things!

I collect coffee mugs. I ask people to get me coffee mugs from vacation destination shops. I get weird ones from dollar stores. I snag corporate gift mugs when ever I can. I love mugs with misspelled words. My husband and I give them to each other as gifts. He gave me a Doctor Who mug for my birthday.

We have hundreds of coffee mugs. We don't display them or anything. Most of them are in boxes in the attic.

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

Finally someone who collects something useful - unlike most of us! You could make a huge coffee party with all those coffee mugs!

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

stories about hoarding

;)

[cinnamontoast.livejournal.com]

Motherload!

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

Before I downsized seriously, I had a small collection of movie projectors and editing equipment in 16mm, 8mm and Super8. The straight eight stuff dates back quite a bit; I had some beautiful projectors from the 40s, real works of art.

And I collected sci-fi books, of course. I had thirty different P. K. Dick novels. CDs, over 30 Frank Zappa and several downloaded boot leg recordings of same.

I'm now trying to focus on autographed things, mostly books and CDs. I've got autographed copies of Terry Gilliam, Neal Stephenson, Michael Chabon, and William Gibson (of those books that come to mind), and a John Entwhistle CD.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Roleplaying games; Dungeons & Dragons, Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, Traveller, Rolemaster, GURPS, and many, many, many, more. I have around twelve bookcases worth, probably about three thousand books all up.

[brother-dour.livejournal.com]

O_O

I'm not worthy!

[brother-dour.livejournal.com]

Debt. Apparently, I collect debt.