Question of the Day: Tues. Jan. 19 2010

Good morning folks.

I am wondering about collections..... do you collect anything?

Nope. I'm trying to weed things out, actually.

Oh.....wait. I sort of collect little milk/cream pitchers. And dinner bells. My mom usually picks one up for me if she sees one at a rummage sale or a thrift shop. I really don't have that many, but I have to admit, when I see either one of those things at a flea market, I usually pick it up.

Music
Books - specifically OOP new wave of sci-fi
Art supplies
Craft supplies (mostly fabrics and beads)
seem to be collecting computer parts and computers..
.. and dust.

DH collects games systems and games.

Besides dust and hairballs...

I also have been weeding out stuff but have a collection of minerals and fossils, beads, comic books, and various Star Trek items.

Hey Jan, I was wondering, if I took some pics of some rocks I found up north, would you be able to tell me what they were?



I collect Night Fairy statues, artworks by Amy Brown, Webkinz and journals. I love a beautiful journal, and I love the fantasy world (statues of fairies, unicorns, pegasus, etc). I have a lot of fairy and unicorn/pegasus statues.

Here's one of my journals:



I love the texture of the paper.

Cookbooks (and more cookbooks) It's difficult for me to pass up a cookbook at a yard sale or flea market, although I have gotten a bit more discriminating than I used to be. A good baking book is usually my downfall because I dearly love to bake.

Bells of all shapes and sizes

Comic books, specifically the old Fantastic Four

I've been tempted to start buying some of the old Fiesta dinnerware; it's really beautiful. But it's also really expensive.

Reproduction Notre Dame gargoyles, reproduction carousel horses/menageries.
Those two have spawned snow globe and music box collections, I collect anything with cats and I collect dust.

Everything about CATS!... .. I mean EVERYTHING!...

I have quite a few cat items, but I don't really consider it a collection.

I used to collect coins but it is a VERY expensive habit and I had to give it up years ago. I still have a small, but nice, collection of old coins and paper money.

Crinkle balls and catnip toys

I collect mostly music (I have over 100,000 songs on my iTunes), and lately I've been collecting Rubik's cubes. 3X3X3 and 4X4X4 were too easy so I got the 5X5X5 and the V-cube 6. All I need now it the Rubik's Magic, and the V-cube 7.

I have a collection of collections.

Basically I collect video games and consoles, including gameboys (old and new, one of each) and gameboy games. I don't have a ds though. Sim games (Simcity, simtunes, simant, simearth, the sims, the sims 2, the sims3 all expansion packs, simisle, simtown, simcity societies, Um, I dont remember them all. Board games. Campbels stuff. Owls, I love owls. dvds, music cds. old books, I really love old books. Pez dispensers I've collected those since I was a little kid, I have a few from the '80s. I really want the star trek set!! Oh... and star trek stuffs. I collect Halloween stuff, skulls, skeletons. I have also been collecting Glow in the dark stuff since I was a kid too. I have parts of ghostbusters cerial box I cut off because they glowed in the dark. Yeah... Krazy I am, I know. But most of my collections are really small things. Oh... I have a collection of LOTR action figures. The LOTR actions figures may be going soon. I just don't have the room for all of those. I love LOTR though Well, a lot of my collections are in storage atm. Um...

My best collection of all are my good friends. the ones I have met in person, or online, they are all very special to me.

PS. My house isn't cluttered (hard to believe)

I guess I also collect cat stuff, cat toys, cat furniture, stuff like that Well, that is Shadey's collection actually. She really digs golf balls though.

Be safe.

Originally Posted by gemlady

Besides dust and hairballs...

I also have been weeding out stuff but have a collection of minerals and fossils, beads, comic books, and various Star Trek items.

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Any Spock items ( Especially SPOCK )you may want to part with, message me maybe we can negotiate But I want more for my Star Trek collection. I Spock, he's so HOT I thought he was so oldmanish adorable in the new Star Trek movie. 2 Spoks in one scene

No. I secretly would love to but I know I would go crazy into debt if I did. I like expensive stuff. Porcelains and fine art. I just allow myself to drool over antiques roadshow and leave it at that.

With cats its not a great idea to have expensive porcelains around the house either so I can completely jusitify not bringing something into my house. "The cats would have this broken in a second" Works every time!

I love art deco jewerly also.....ohhhh you've gotten me going!!!!

Originally Posted by MyRage

Any Spock items (

Especially SPOCK

)you may want to part with, message me maybe we can negotiate

But I want more for my Star Trek collection. I

Spock, he's so

HOT

I thought he was so oldmanish adorable in the new Star Trek movie. 2 Spoks in one scene

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Then I guess you wouldn't want my "Who cares if Spock lives, bring back the Enterprise" button I made and wore to a con after "The Search For Spock" was released.

I have collected clowns for many years, finally stopped since I had so many. I now have started another collection of cats from Jim Shore, I love his work. I have 8 of his pieces so far.

Cat stuff, keychains.

Somehow I also end up collecting cars (we have 7) and car parts

for me its key rings and pin badges

also walking stick mounts even though we dont use a walking stick but they look nice in a corner

I have a bunch of Willow Tree figurines, but I don't know if I would consider it a collection. I like dragonfly and hedgehog items, also.

I do have a collection of mugs. For some reason I'm obsessed with them, even though I rarely use them.

When I was a kid I used to collect all sorts of things. It was almost an obsession with me.

• Stickers (mostly Lisa Frank stickers)
• Rocks
• Stamps for very briefly
• Pogs (anyone remember those?)
• Littlest Pet Shop (not the ugly new ones they have today, but the original ones from the 90's, I had like 100 different sets of them)
• Confetti (weird I know, but for some reason it was a blast to collect. I had one of those divided craft boxes with a different kind of confetti in each slot)
• Barbie Kelly Dolls (not Barbies themselves, but the Kelly dolls from the Barbie line)
• Little Mermaid Trading Cards
• Ty Beanie Babies
• Keychains
• And the weirdest one of all: Antenna Balls. Not sure why antenna balls, but my dad started this one and these were the most fun to collect!

Wow now that I think about it, I collected a lot of stuff as a kid. I didn't realize the list was so long My poor mom trying to keep up with my lastest interests, hehe. I love you mom!

Sadly I am 25 now and I have since gotten rid of all the stuff I used to collect. Of all the things I used to collect, I still wish I had my Littlest Pet Shops still around so I could share them with the kids in my family. Those were so much fun!

I love to quilt, and I have quite a collection of fabric that I've collected over the years, but I'm not really sure that it qualifies as a collection. (She who dies with the most fabric wins.....I'm definitely a contender!) I'm hoping that my eyesight lasts long enough to enjoy making quilts out of my fabric collection in retirement.