What do you like to collect.
Hello everyone,
I thought it would be nice to take a break and talk about what you enjoy collecting now or what you collected in the past.
Part of the fun is looking for the things you really like.
I Collected and still do Older Barbies from 1959 to 1975. Barbie, Midge, Ken, Francie, skipper and more.
I also collect Liddle Kiddles from the 1960's as well.
My older sister and I started years ago, and when she passed, I kept collecting them.
So tell us what you all like collecting! 
Please...No politics, or religion, be polite and try to stay on the topic. Lets have fun.
Ohhh, My daughter hates barbies... She liked The littlest Pet shop.
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Now that is one big rooster!!!
I have a 4 week old rooster in the brooder right now and he's already 12" tall and about 1.5 lbs.
I taught him to sit on my shoulder like a parrot.
My wife said, "Ya know, he's going to want to do that in 6 months and will dislocate your shoulder"
I'll trade you 10 lbs. of dog hair 'dust bunnies' that appear in my house every day. My 90 lb. dog keeps my in constant supply...
Just wondering because that sounds like something he would say.
Over the years, I've collected shot glasses from each city, state, and country I've traveled to for business or pleasure and have some unique, old ones that I bought at estate sales.
I was almost thrown out of a gift shop in Hot Spring Arkansas in July of 2000. I was looking for a shot glass, coffee cup or other momento with all of the women that Bill Clinton had affairs with. Apparently, the clerk wasn't amused by my warped sense of humor.
Lamborghinis, Ferraris and Bugattis … in my mind.
Seriously though, I've got a friggin huge collection of masks, busts, and statues. Hundreds of them and they are all on display in my mancave. Whenever I show it to someone they are speechless. When you sit in my cave, there are hundreds of eyes on you, most of them very creepy.
A/noon Butter..Cowrie shells..will walk kilometres to find them..thought they were mainly found in the Tropics but last year found they are at my own back door...Walk about 2 kms to get to the beach, slide down sand dunes and small cliffs and usually have the whole beach to myself..Just the way I like it...Bugger climbing back up though..but it is worth it..Hope all is well your way as we get blown off the face of the earth at the moment...Roll on summer...sigh....
I don't really collect anything.
The only thing I have really, is sort of a wine collection. My Aunt (rip) always bought me bottles of Elvis wine from Graceland Cellars. She was a huge Elvis fan. I ended up with sets from years, special additions and even Blue Christmas wines. They quit making them I believe, if I recall correctly Graceland Cellars is no more.
Then I always seemed to get other wines. I have several vampire wines and wines like Dreaming Tree from Dave Matthews.
I try to collect wine. It never lasts long because I love to consume it too much. Probably a good thing since most wine does not age well beyond a few years. I think I read somewhere once that something like 0.1% of wine varieties actually age well beyond that point. I’ve been disappointed more than once to open a bottle that I’d saved for years for a special occasion, only to find it had turned to vinegar.
read somewhere once that something like 0.1% of wine varieties actually age well beyond that point
Kinda surprised by that, I came back from Germany about 10 yrs ago with about 400 bottles of various wines and while I'm now near the end of them (7 bottles left) I have yet to open one that's gone bad. I do keep them in the basement where it's cool and dark and store them top tilted down (so the cork stays moist) so maybe that has helped.
it is estimated that 90% of wine is meant to be consumed within a year of production, and 99% of wine within 5 years.
Cool guess I'm just really lucky, well I'm off to buy a lotto ticket.
Books.
I am addicted to books. After I read them, I hoard them. I have walls of bookshelves, some of which are two books deep. I especially love old bound hardcovers. I get most of them at Goodwill, I suppose from estate donations.
Of late, some of my longtime friends that have passed have willed me their books, much to my wife's consternation. One of my friends put in his will that I could take any book from his library that I wanted. I gravitated to his entire collection of Audubon plates, his three books on the American Indian [beautiful], the Tokugawa Collection of No robes and masks and every book on illustrators/painters that he had, including Beardsley, Rockwell, Toulouse-Lautrec and the weirdest book I have ever seen, the Codex Seraphinianus. His gift was a gold mine that I will forever treasure.
On a yearly basis, I do a gut wrenching cull of books that I must part with because my wife has informed me in no uncertain terms that no further bookshelves may be constructed in our home. NONE and she means it.
For me it's old Silver Dollars like the old Morgan & Peace Dollars, old currency like silver & gold certificates. I also have Poker chips for every casino I've ever been in from Las Vegas to Connecticut. I just thought of something else, not as things I collect but things I keep, which is photos. I have em all: family pictures, x-wives, old girl friends and the places I've been. I never throw them away.
Dear Friend Kathleen: Mrs. E. and I collect artwork.
When I lived and/or worked in a foreign land (minus military service) I either both or commissioned oil paintings, pottery, loomed art work, or other items that reflected the local culture(s).
As well we collect religious expressions and items for rituals from various places we have been individually or as a couples.
These we use for home and Congregational Services and observances.
Great discussion topic.
Lots of interesting responses.
Thanks for posting.
Peace and Abundant Blessings Always.
Enoch.
Autographed baseball cards
Match boxes/books of places i have visited, although that is not as easy as it used to be. Few places have them anymore. I've got three or four big cashew jars full now though.
Hard-rock Cafe pins from all the ones i've visited. I'm up to about 40 of those.
My latest is pint glasses from microbreweries i've visited throughout the country. Good stuff inside and out .....
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model trains, diecast cars and miscellaneous things I find interesting
Living close to the mountains here in Colorado, I collect rocks. I try to identify the formation which will tell me about how old it has been a rock. Some of my oldest specimens are piece of the Idaho Springs Formation, collected at Red Rocks Park, which is about 1.7 to 1.8 billion years old, and Pikes Peak Granite, which is about a bit over a billion years old. It's really cool to find rounded rocks next to a sand layer in sedimentary conglomerates that are nowhere near a river now, which indicates they were deposited during some ancient flash flood.
Refrigerator magnets and coffee mugs
I have coffee mugs from the various colleges that I have attended to for both formal classes and continuing education. I also collect Far Side coffee cups.
I have a small collection of fountain pens.
I try to collect pens but Mr Giggles takes them and calls them his
I found a decently nice knock-off pen on eBay that I carry with me because it is cheap enough to lose or have stolen.
I don't know if I trust fountain pens
They aren't as bad as they used to be. They do take more work than a ballpoint or rollerball pen but I like the feel of them.
Same here. I prefer the fountain pen to anything else. As you say, they have been better made today than those in previous years. I use them at home, as I often forget and leave my pens elsewhere, so I carry cheap ballpoint pens to use away from home. That way if they get left it's no big deal. I also like to write in Calligraphy at times and have some different pen points for that as well.
I like the Uni-Ball deluxe rollerball as my daily writer. I save my fountain pens for home or for signing documents.
The Lamy is a great pen for introducing people to fountain pens and its very tough. They make a bulletproof roller ball that would likely survive a nuclear war. The Waterman Phileas is another great pen that won't cost a bundle.
I like those too. I have developed a unique style of writing, especially, my signature, and it just does not look the same in any other writing tool than the fountain pen.
I'm sorry but I'm not sure that I understand your reply. Are you referring to my collection of coffee cups or the pens?
A green Phileaus was my first fountain pen. My mom bought it for me for my 25th birthday. It is still a favorite.
Thanks for that clarification.
No, I don't have any pens with feathers on them. Most are either solid colored or have a marbled appearance.
I write with a heavy hand, I love good fountain pens but after a few letters they look like a fork in the road.
Gel pens have worn their welcome out for me too. I love tailored shirts and I've ruined more than one from a gel pen wicking.
In the 90's I worked for a huge Chevy dealership and snatched traded corvettes a lot...I had 16 at one point and rented a warehouse with A/C to store them in. My wife started hounding me about paying for a warehouse and power bill for 15 cars I wasn't driving when I was driving the 16th. They ranged from 1961 to 1998.
She bellowed at me one day "Can't you collect something smaller?!?!" So, I called a collector in NYC that was bugging me to sell the collection, He snapped at the chance and I made a serious profit..
A week later a tractor trailer pulls up, opens the doors and drops a ramp. One by one he rolled out a 1958 Indian, several Harley's from the 60's and 70's, A Hyabusa, and some newer Yamaha's and Kawasaki's...She stared at me and I said "You said smaller!"
Now? Heh, heh, heh....I collect and breed exotic chickens! Still the same problem...my latest fetish is Brahma and Jersey Giant Chickens. My Brahma girls are just now 4 months old and are 22 and 24 inches tall, weighing 8 lbs. I feed them a cooked very high protein diet, buy special worms, and they eat roughly a lb. of commercial feed a day (a standard chicken eats 4oz. a day) and will end up almost 3' tall weighing 18-20 lbs. or better. I have a bunch of other crazy looking chickens too. A Polish rooster, and Amerucauna chickens...they have mustaches.
My present wife keeps telling the neighbors that I'm going to put a laboratory attachment on the house with a roof that opens and conducts lightning to create my monsters. lol
Polish Chickens
Ya gotta see this rooster!