Any collections?

[azsnowman]

So, do you collect anything (besides dust )? I collect ANYTHING with Peanuts....Snoopy, Charlie Brown etc., I'm also collecting golf balls, especially since my golf vacation to Sedona!

Dennis

[blizzard]

I guess I would say I collect Junque. (notice the spelling, it means good junk..lol). Being an Auctioneer. I see unique items all of the time at sales, so if no-one is bidding, sometimes I will open a bid (only if I could stand to own the item) and alot of times, I will be the high bidder. My garage is full of such items. I also collect Harley-Davidson memorabilia.

[Lindaloo]

I collect all the Precious Moments figurines. I also collect Porcelain Bells.

[azsnowman]

Don't you have an animal collection too Linda? "LOL!" J/K

Dennis

[Lindaloo]

Don't you have an animal collection too Linda? "LOL!" J/K

Dennis

ROFLMBO!! Don't get me started on that tribe. LOL!!

[streetsoldier]

A small collection of combat knives, a little militaria and some family papers are all I have. Debi collects glass figurines, and coppertop has video game cards, Matchbox cars, some fantasy action figures and assorted junque all over his room....and two combat knives of his own (kept under lock and key).

[breeze]

Elephants! (NOT the real ones - costs too much to
feed!)

[pawlee]

hey dennis, do you remember the plastic adhesive toy called ColorForms? it's pretty old so maybe you do or maybe you don't but i have a mint condition one featuring Snoopy and Peanuts at fourth of July. i also have a wind up hopping Woodstock from the 70's as well as numerous ViewMaster Peanuts slides... jealous yet? p

(somehow i managed to get through youth with most of my toys intact. still have all my LEGO's!!!)

(these days i collect fossils, Golden Guides and Paul Oakenfold cd's)

[coriolis]

I have a modest collection of old and not-so-old soft drink bottles, mainly bottles with painted-on labels. (Glass bottles nowadays have plastic film labels) I have some of the commemorative Coca Cola bottles that come out from time to time, like the olympic, christmas, and (gasp) NASCAR editions.

I am trying to keep a collection of state quarters going, but dangit, when we're broke on the day before payday, they have a way of getting spent.

I'm also hoarding out-of-production parts for my 20-year-old bike but I intend to actually use these parts when needed.

Fortunately I have not collected too many enemies over the years, but I have a respectable collection of personal blunders with a somewhat smaller collection of lessons learned.

[Guest]

Shot glasses from the places I have traveled and my family members collect them for me too. I have over two shadow boxes full of shot glasses and another 20 that are too large for shadow boxes on the wall.

Patricia

[CajunMama]

I have over 100 Santa's that i lovingly unwrap and rewrap every Christmas.

I also have my grandfathers stamp collection.

I also seem to collect dust around my house! lol

[Suzi Q]

I collect shot glasses, Sabino and Swarovski. Ken always gets me a new piece of the Sabino and Swarovski each year for Christmas. I get the shot glasses whenever I go on vacation (which I can't remember the last time I did that!). Bummer.

[Miss Mary]

We collect shot glasses too. Goes back to our tight vacation budgets, $3-$6 for each one sure didn't break the bank by then. And I wanted something from that trip. They're all in a cupboard though, one of these days they'll be on display in our finished basement.

I used to collect perfume bottles as a teen. That's back when Avon was a big deal! Everyone I knew was buying products from Avon. But in my 20s I finally just got rid of them. Didn't have enough dresser space for them.

Now I stick to shot glasses and try not to collect anything else.

I read an article about a retired couple who were finally selling the family home and going into a condo. They had to clean out closets and give so much stuff away. She collected salt and pepper shakers and had 2 rooms full of them. She had been collecting them for over 30 years. There was a picture with this article, I gasped at seeing how many she had! She said everyone they knew brought her back S & P shakers from their trips. So each year she added many, many sets to her already bulging collection. Forget now what she did with them, no one in her family wanted them, I think she had 1,000 sets or some huge number like that! They may have gone to an antique dealer, honestly forget now. But I told myself I would never collect anything to that extent! Yikes! I think her husband was probably secretly glad to get rid of the whole lot.

Mary

[azskyman]

I have a collection of weather instruments...small, but always on the lookout for another piece. I have a few antique thermometers, a ship's barometer, a barometer from Germany, a barograph, some sling psychrometers, and on the wall of my office, I have hanging a snow stick...used to measure what I believe to be about 60 feet of snow that fell in Illinois over the course of some 20 years.

[weatherluvr]

I have a collection of weather photos and history around my computer. Everything from pics of lightning, tornadoes, supercells, blizzards, etc. Also newspaper clippings from weather events, like the front page of the Boston Globe after the '38 hurricane.

[Pburgh]

Breeze, my Mom collects elephants - tusks must be up though.

Lindaloo, my Mom also collects Precious Moments. She's been collecting them since they first started making them. She must have 200 or so and keeps all the original boxes in the attic.

I collect antique red glass.

[Lindaloo]

Precious Moments are so cute. I have all the Precious Moments bells. I just ordered a figurine from the Danbury Mint. Can't wait to get it.

[GalvestonDuck]

Anything with Patty Duke (movies, records, books, etc, but mostly movies) and horror movies of a different breed (stalkers, serial killers, true life crime, psychological thrillers -- the real stuff is a bit more scarier than the supernatural stuff).

[DaylilyDawn]

I collect Munson daylilies if I can find ones I can afford at that moment.

[StormCrazyIowan]

I don't really collect anything but clutter...but if I did it would probably be coins or snow globes (love both)!!