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Do you have a collection? Of what?

Posted by acomia • 5/26/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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5/26/07

MadameX

I don't know whether you'd call it a collection, but I LOVE Hot Wheels. I have quite a few of the die-cast cars from the first few years, including several from the initial release year (1968) that are stamped 1967. The new ones are nowhere near as cool, but I still buy them from time to time.

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5/26/07

acomia

Wow, you've got real vintage stuff there. 1967! Have you ever featured your collection in your blog? And you're the only woman I know who collects die cast cars. Cool!

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1. 5/26/07
  
  MadameX
  
  A product of my environment! (We had a lot of classic cars when I was growing up) I've never put them on my blogs, though--though now that you mention it they'd make some great pictures--because they don't really fit any of my themes. And I'm absolutely not (remind me of this, please!) starting another blog. Not. Definitely. No.
5/26/07

stevens8204

That is pretty cool....I have a lego collection of the old police, fire and moon base sets.

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5/26/07

theliterate

I feel like such a child, but I collect Disney dvds haha. It's not really me, but my brother who buys them. It's nice to have for your kids Who doesn't like Disney movies?

Hakuna matata.

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5/26/07

acomia

I have several Disney Movies, too. They're really good pieces of film!

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5/26/07

binventive

I went nuts a few years ago getting into various forms of hand drumming. I probably have over 30 drums now, although they are mostly just collecting dust now.

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5/26/07

iluvmonkeys2

ummm...i have a corona cap collection...okay, that probably doesn't count, but i'll bet my monkey collection does! i even have that fun little guy with the cymbals...

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5/26/07

cymrusteve

A collection of marathon medals. How sad is that?

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5/26/07

acomia

Legos, drums, monkeys, and medals how interesting! I'd love to read about their stories. cymrusteve, you must have been some athlete!

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1. 5/27/07
  
  cymrusteve
  
  Depends on the definition of "athlete". I like running marathons and have a "huge" collection of 18 Hope to pick up many more in the years to come...
5/27/07

absolutelytrue

I have quite a few beanie babies for some reason... and my son has a few hundred die cast cars. Some I got on ebay and they are very old but I think not as old as MadameX's collection. I think his oldest one is from the early 70's. They are neat.

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5/27/07

diamondssaphire

I have a collection of Snowbabies. I am not an avid collector but a lady at work sells Avon and I buy them from her. I have about 25 or so.

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5/27/07

cyberchic

My collection consists of half-written drafts of fiction stories. Maybe someday I'll finish them and get them off my desktop!

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5/27/07

acomia

Cyberchic, writing murder mysteries is a fascinating calling. I can imagine getting goosebumps if I was writing one of those during late nights... :-)

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5/27/07

ThriftShopRomantic

My most recent favorite collection is postcards from about 1910.

They're such fun because the graphics are absolutely not made like that anymore, very vibrant colors-- some of them actually have ribbon or fabric glued to them-- and some of the sayings sound so quaint now.

Best thing is, they're cheap, don't take up much space, and yet seem like just a little bit of history to me.

I actually use them when I need specific holiday/occasion graphics for my blog.

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5/27/07

bidarlah

does cds of my favorite singer - sandy lam - counts? from black vinyl to posters, from photos to magazine cut out.

other than tat, would love to collect vintage sunnies that i would pay and wear them myself, not those ridiculous ones haha! so far i got only a couple vintages and am still searching them around. Any one got any?

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5/27/07

aussiecynic

I collect dragons....all shapes....all sizes..from all over the world....

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1. 5/28/07
  
  acomia
  
  Once, a feng shui expert told me that we should have a dragon figure in our office because none of the people there were born in the year of the dragon. The dragon is considered an lucky symbol in Asia, you see.
5/27/07

cymrusteve

Ah, I forgot about my collection of Welsh dragons...

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1. 5/27/07
  
  gosmelltheflowers
  
  There's lovely!
5/27/07

acomia

I wish we could post pics of these collections somewhere... That would be really interesting. A montage of different and unique inclinations....

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1. 5/28/07
  
  ThriftShopRomantic
  
  I actually have some of my collections posted online here:
  
  web.mac.com/thriftshopromantic/iWeb/The_Thrift_Shop_Romantic/Collecting.htm...
  
  You can choose what you'd like to see from the left sidebar menu.
2. 5/28/07
  
  acomia
  
  Thanks for the link, Thrifshopromantic, will check it out. :-)
3. 5/28/07
  
  acomia
  
  I like the art deco prints the compositions and colors are very pleasing to the eye.
5/27/07

gosmelltheflowers

Trying to collect golf trophies!

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1. 5/27/07
  
  acomia
  
  Good luck! How many do you have now?
5/27/07

Hummie

Oh my, I am always collecting! I could list them all..I tend to move from one to another...., but I recently learned something new about myself...I am now collecting "memories."....I'm a scrapbooker!

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5/27/07

AngieA

Light houses - I have always liked them b/c they remind me that sometimes when things might go wrong for us, our faith brings us back.
And isn't faith what its all about?

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1. 5/27/07
  
  acomia
  
  you collect paintings of lighthouses or actual models? By the way, how did you attach the pic? That's cool!
5/27/07

AngieA

Both, I was collecting both kinds but I have stopped of a while as there was to many of them.
The picture, you have to enter it in HTML code.
Try one Acomia

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1. 5/27/07
  
  acomia
  
  Ok, here goes: A pic of my first set of Be@rbricks.
2. 5/27/07
  
  acomia
  
  Hey, that worked! Thanks AngeldaVinci! :-)
5/27/07

AngieA

Thats great... U did it!

And you want to hear something else Acomia?
I once gave what I thought was a really nice custom made light house that cost me a pretty penny to someone that I thought would enjoy it.
It was really pretty and this one light house had a custom crystal glass bulb where the light shines threw and it reflected threw the crystal which then does rotate threw out the room as most of the ones I have you can use as night lights.
Anyway.....you know what he said to me?
He said....."I don't like stuff"

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5/27/07

acomia

Well, that's the thing with collectors like us; some people will never understand our attraction to particular 'stuff'. :-D But of course, that's no excuse for rudeness on the part of your friend. He could have at least said 'Thank you'.

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1. 5/28/07
  
  AngieA
  
  It wasnt really said in a rude way, it was just one of those awkward moments I guess.
  Oh well ........
5/28/07

jphillips

I collect guitars, it's a little expensive, but i play with every guitar i own so
oh and i collect blog posts! lol

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1. 5/28/07
  
  acomia
  
  Electric or Acoustic?
2. 5/28/07
  
  jphillips
  
  both, but i prefer electric
5/28/07

gosmelltheflowers

Golf trophies- only to so far but a good start..
Angeldavinci - amaxing lighthouse picture. We trust you are at one with amniolgoy by the way?

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5/28/07

aussiecynic

I thought dragons had to be lucky....i have some strange ones.....

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1. 5/28/07
  
  acomia
  
  Show us pics!
2. 5/28/07
  
  acomia
  
  How strange?
3. 5/31/07
  
  aussiecynic
  
  hi I have a 3 headed purple winged dragon, chinese, stone carved, medieval dragon vase i made, as well lots of small ones don't have photos they are in storage, but have about 30 various shapes and sizes and colours....
5/28/07

AngieA

Lets try this again >

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5/28/07

VioletsVintage

I collect vintage jewelry and I seem to have acquired a large collection of art books over the years, and books about birds.

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5/28/07

acomia

VioletsVintage, in my country, a lot of women are going into jewelry design. The market seems to be huge and there's a lot of demand. I suppose a lot women collect jewelry, too. :-)

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5/29/07

GrimlyFiendish

I collect old software and emulators. Games that were for the zx81 and up. Sad, I know.

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5/29/07

VampireFaust

Comic books...
I also collect vampire novels...and very old, rare books...

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1. 5/31/07
  
  acomia
  
  So what do you think is the best vampire novel apart from Bram Stoker's Dracula?
2. 5/31/07
  
  VampireFaust
  
  I have to say that I am rather partial to Brian Lumley's "Necroscope" series. The novels "The Vampire Lestat" and "Memnoch the Devil" and "Tale of the Body Theif" from the Anne Rice collection are among my favorites as well.
5/31/07

Jaya

The only thing I seem to collect is cats...
Good thing I ADORE cats!!

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1. 5/31/07
  
  acomia
  
  live cats?
9/21/08

harleyblues

Well I have a collection of Beatle stuff, 45's lps, books,mags etc:)
hb~

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9/21/08

annaswan

Hubby say's I collect dust rather well

But I also collect tin type photographs, civil war stuff, printing press letters - those old lead letters - and the boxes they came in.

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9/21/08

katarokkar

"I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free."
- George Carlin

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9/21/08

timethief

I have a collection of memories that I treasure very much. This winter I plan to write them all down in a private blog that I will share with my siblings and their children.

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9/21/08

Jeunelle

I collect Rare books, mainly to read.

Semi precious stones which I now use to create my own artisan jewelry.
I plan on selling them later to make some extra cash and also a hobby when I have spare time at home. I'm taking a couple of artisan jewelry classes starting next month, already signed up for them.

I collect sea shell sometimes and animal horns along with Masai spears and shields.
They come in handy when I need to run down an old landlord when he comes around to ask for rent.

I would also like to add that I have gotten sick of possessions and one day gave them all away at my local Goodwill store. My mother thought I was nuts but I honestly didn't miss them.

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9/21/08

ryam

I used to collect stamps and coins... until someone decided to hide them from me and not tell anyone where they were hidden until after a year. By the time I found it, I already lost interest and sold my collection.

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1. 9/21/08
  
  annaswan
  
  Ryam - that is so sad... shame on the person who hid the collections from you! But my husband once took away my crochet basket too, because I was ignorning him if I had it out. LOL
2. 9/21/08
  
  Jeunelle
  
  @ryam...Damn I know how you feel....I had a collection of stamps and that was later stolen.
  
  My Grandmother collected bells which she loved to ring and annoy me with during the day. Originally the bells were there for her to ring to signal to us that she's having trouble with her heart condition and/or diabetes. We would know what to do.
  
  Of course she constantly abused the system and rang those bells when nothing was wrong with her. I went completely mad one day and took a hammer and smashed them all
  and handed them to her. I had enough of the bells.
9/21/08

taosunset

Yes: Blog Catalog Friends! ;-)

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1. 9/21/08
  
  ryam
  
  Here's another one for your collection! (clicks +Add To My Friends)
9/21/08

shesheface

i collect stickers and fliers. different shows. i seriously have a timeline of stickers.

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1. 9/21/08
  
  ryam
  
  do you 'stick' the stickers or just keep them somewhere?
9/21/08

Shiley

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9/21/08

parentconsensus

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9/21/08

wehireu

Science fiction art books, science fiction comic books, and books on publishing.

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9/21/08

Friday13

I´ve got a small collection of coins that was given to me a decade ago. I don´t have a particular interest in coin-collecting, but I've kept the coins in case I should travel in the future and get a chance to expand this collection.

My father also has a coin collection from his travels, but he doesn't travel anymore and just keeps the coins in a drawer. Up until this topic I hadn't thought of them in many years.

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9/21/08

kat822

old school books all at least a hundred years old also old kodak camera old old ones lol

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1. 4/29/09
  
  Floormodel
  
  what types of Kodak cameras do you collect? bellows? any movie cameras?
9/21/08

fairchildonrage

Japanese graphic novels of my favorite titles! I'm so addicted to it. Cost me a fortune, but I wouldn't mind getting impoverished as long as I have them! Dumb huh! XD

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9/21/08

drjay1966

As a writer, I particularly treasure my collection of rejection letters--so poignantly impersonal....

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9/21/08

saiffarooqi

i collect books, stamps, coins, post cards of different countries, and newspaper articles that i find interesting

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9/21/08

TangledWeb

I have large collections of the following;
Bayonets
Military rifles
1888 Commission Rifles

I have small collections of the following;
WWII German militaria
WWII Finnish militaria
WWI German photographs
Confederate States of America currency
WWII German stamps
Military helmets
Deactivated US Military mortar rounds and rockets
1800s gun powder tins
1800s percussion cap & primer tins
1800s pistol cartridges and boxes
1800s to early 1900s shotshell boxes
1800s to early 1900s fraternal swords and court swords

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9/21/08

contentconnection

as a hot chick, i love collecting boylets! hahaha... joke3x... seriously, i collect books and dvd movies.

-Joanne
www.articlepoint.com

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9/22/08

DocNicole

Believe it or not...I have a huge Happy Meal Toy collection...back in the good ol days I was a proud victim of the Standard American Diet (SAD)...my hope now, however is to pay off my medical school student loans with them someday. That would be the ultimate in satire. I have seen some high bids on ebay for these thins already and figure in another 20 years they may be worthy buku. *shudders at the thought of still paying student loans in 20 years*

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9/22/08

josephgelb

coinz, food, sea shells, rocks, fossils, leggos, and martial arts clothing to practic being a ninja while watching tv

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9/22/08

sulz

i collect bookmarks and postcards.

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9/22/08

kirat92

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9/23/08

ntiena

i collect a books ... which is the author is enyd Blyton,like famaous five,trio detective etc..i'm not boring to read,read n read them again..even my age now going to 40... is that okay?

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9/23/08

fstasu

I have a collection of beer cans that belonged to my late husband. I collect glass butterflies.

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9/23/08

aminhers

math books

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9/23/08

Nomadic

With respect, I find people who collect things unfathomable. A bit like "fans" of things.

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4/29/09

ComicBookListings

Comic Books! Only now, since I can't afford them.
I blog about them.
comicbooklistings.blogspot.com/

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4/29/09

drjay1966

Regrets.

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4/29/09

Floormodel

Sci Fi books from the 30s, 40s, 50s, some 60s, and a few from the 70s.
I also collect baseball, football, and basketball cards pre 1970 but I'm auctioning some off and selling the rest to a dealer. My newest hobby/collection is wooden pinball machines.

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4/29/09

yahshar

I have some first gen. transformers in the original boxes. I did open and play with them thou...when I was young. 8}

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4/29/09

archiegottlieb

i used to collect x-men cards...lame...i know...but i was really into it then.

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4/29/09

radioflyer1980

I tend to collect uasble items versus things that you put on a shelf and dust occasionally: old books that I read, old records that I still play, etc.

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4/29/09

Friday13

Coins, pogs (known here as tazos), magazines and bad memories. I'd like to get rid of that last one, though.

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1. 4/29/09
  
  archiegottlieb
  
  wow! pogs...really? it's been awhile since i heard of pogs.
4/29/09

LadySwan

I collect pewter wizards and dragons. Been collecting since I was about 13 years old. I'm really picky and into details. Try to add to it with one special piece per year.

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4/30/09

mikemetalord

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4/30/09

machinehuman

Allergies

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4/30/09

rajeshsmiles

i had collection of postal stamps

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4/30/09

pandanartrepublic

A lots of Todd Mcfarlane toys.Trading cards from artist Simon Bizley and Alex Horley.Star wars toys,a room full of dvd,PS2 games and cd's.that's it..

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4/30/09

Sebastyne

I have a collection of Barbie-dolls. Mostly modern and a few reproduction dolls. I also do "designer Barbies" or more accurately Barbie customizing, which means I reroot their hair (cut out the old and put in a new) and repaint the face to get a unique (OOAK) Barbie or Ken -doll.

Here's a picture-gallery of my dolls: www.thebdoll.com/gallery/index.php?cat=3

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9/24/09

yayix

i just started collecting hotwheels, matchbox, tomica etc last july 2009. i have now approximately 200 of them.. after buying them i then stash them in their blister packs/boxes away from site! haha.. when im having a bad day i open my drawer or just sit right in front of them! opening one is the greatest de-stresser.. that is, only after i've convinced myself that it's worth reaping.. nothing beats holding them you know..

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9/24/09

crazyTsu

shopping bags from walmart

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9/25/09

crazyTsu

And memories....

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9/25/09

Onchong

Sands of Saudi Arabia, stamps, coins, books, CDs, DVD movies, airlines giveaway items, National Geographic magz, and detective/crime magz.

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9/25/09

largsbayantiques

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9/26/09

davedol

I used to collect crap. Which means speculation…thinking something will grow in value. An investment! HA! Everything I collect is worth exactly what I paid for it. And factor in inflation, less. And figure trying to sell this crap on Ebay…the time and effort. Forget collecting for profit…stick with the STOCK MARKET! That is a sure fire way to make big money! Yeah right.

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9/26/09

sorcerer

err..I have a collection, of many things,
coins..yeah but I lost interest in it, cuz that was when I was a kid, and soon I learned that, currency holds more value.
NOw..I diversified myself into a more happenind collection.
Porn,
I think in my friends circle... the alpha male is not known by how many girl friends he have, but by his porn collection count..either in the number of CD's or DVD's or the Total MB/GB/TB ..which ever is higher.

weird world I say..

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9/26/09

cruisechick

I have different Moeny banknotes foır different countries in the world

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9/26/09

snappysparrow

I used to collect old coins and stationeries when i was a kid

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9/26/09

supergreensunbear

I collect my cinema stubs/tickets of movies I go to see. I can tell you pretty much every movie I've been to see, where and when in the last decade hehe. Good fun reading back through them.

Oh, also NES/SNES carts and console stuff.

Don't like to clutter the house up too much though, how do you all find room for your collections? Ever had to throw something out because it was just becoming a bit too much?

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1. 9/26/09
  
  Floormodel
  
  I have a large collection of NES, Sega Genesis, and Atari consoles and games. We keep the games in under the bed plastic storage bins.
  
  Our basement is finished and the pinballs are down there, except for the 3 we're restoring. My other half's jukeboxes and wall boxes are also down there, except for the ones we're restoring. My books are in storage right now, no room in the house until we built shelves in one bedroom's walls. Our cameras are on display in the livingroom.
9/26/09

javabis99

I have called antique Keris, is estimated to be made at the time of Majapahit Kingdom in Java island, Indonesia, + / - 15-16 century. With relief as the flow of river water, a little blue black, very beautiful. Was rarely found in Indonesia & of course very rare in the world. Visite at javabis99.blogspot.com/2009/07/keris-sedayu-keris-langka.html

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9/26/09

Chucklington

I have loads of DVDs and comics - and tons of magazines! Fair few books too, and my share of CDs, although Ihaven't bought any in some time.

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9/26/09

dazzlair

I used to collect comics and was obsessed with Dazzler, the most 3rd rate mutant ever. Her only power was to transmit pretty lights. But she wore a shiny silver suit and roller skates.

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9/26/09

noupa

I collect miniature shoes

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9/26/09

LGramlich

I collect funky glass things. My collection has started outgrowing my space, however, so I've started giving some of it away (& I'm TRYING not to bring home more.)

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10/01/09

SaNn

I collect chess...

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10/01/09

exit2013

I have a collection of Star Wars trading cards from the 1980's. Ooops, I justed 'nerded' myself!

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10/01/09

R1VERT1LT

of Dreams...

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10/01/09

bettieblogger

I have a collection of bottles from all over the world .. diff wines, mead's, whiskey's etc. I try to find the most unique bottles and tastes that I can. They are all above my kitchen cabinets ..

I must sound like a real drunk now, huh?

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1. 10/01/09
  
  owlbarn
  
  I have recently started collecting bottles. My collection doesn't have any whiskey bottles, yet
10/01/09

owlbarn

I have a collection of greeting card which my close friends or family members wrote for me.

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10/01/09

aspotofblog

I have a collection of shrunken male heads.

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1. 10/01/09
  
  dbowles1017
  
  perv
10/01/09

aspotofblog

That's what I do to my victims after I've had sex with them. They call me the preying mantis around here.

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10/01/09

ToughCookieMommy

I like to collect magnets from other states and other places to put on my fridge.

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