What do you collect and why?

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BruceWayne said:
I've been collecting Football and Basketball cards since I was a kid; I have a lot lol. I might have a few from the 70s that were my dads', but most of them are from the 80s to now. As for why, my dad got me into them. We used to have a small local card shop where I grew up and we were friends with the owners, so I remember going to hang out there like once a week. Good memories. :)
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My brother in law (who is 60 years old now) told me that when he was young, he collected baseball cards and remembers opening up packages of cards looking for a Mickey Mantle card and kept opening packages of cards and wondering, "who is this Johnny Bench?" It was his rookie year! My brother in law told me that sometimes there were two or three of his cards in one package! He can't remember what he did with those cards and kicks himself for not holding onto them. :eek:
 
I collect souvenir cups, T-shirts and refrigerator magnets from all the places that we go on vacation (memories). Latest souvee's. :)

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skylove7 said:
HaHa mailmandan...I love it!

Do you have one for me that says you went to Panama City Beach and all I got was a stinkin t-shirt!

Lol...those tshirts are silly :p
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I have a T-shirt from Panama City Beach but it doesn't say that on it. LOL! :p
 
BruceWayne said:
I've been collecting Football and Basketball cards since I was a kid; I have a lot lol. I might have a few from the 70s that were my dads', but most of them are from the 80s to now. As for why, my dad got me into them. We used to have a small local card shop where I grew up and we were friends with the owners, so I remember going to hang out there like once a week. Good memories. :)
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Very nice! I collected with my Dad for years! I sold a rare card for a classic 1970 Mach with a 351 engine. Oh how I loved her...yes her. Currently she resides in Australia. It was my biggest EBAY sale to date! I think I'd rather have the card back verses the car, as the card is worth tons more now and could buy me to classic cars. I have been craving an old SS.
 
i collect sand from beaches, although majority of my collection is from others. lol whenever i hear someone going to the coast, i ask them if they can bring me back sand. the only ones i personally got was from santa monica and also a beach when i went to spain.

so... if anyone wants to send me sand.... lol!
 
melita916 said:
i collect sand from beaches, although majority of my collection is from others. lol whenever i hear someone going to the coast, i ask them if they can bring me back sand. the only ones i personally got was from santa monica and also a beach when i went to spain.

so... if anyone wants to send me sand.... lol!
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My wife likes to collect sea shells from the beach. Collecting sand is a hobby for some people. :p

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melita916 said:
i collect sand from beaches, although majority of my collection is from others. lol whenever i hear someone going to the coast, i ask them if they can bring me back sand. the only ones i personally got was from santa monica and also a beach when i went to spain.

so... if anyone wants to send me sand.... lol!
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I too have a collection of sand from all the beaches I've been too. Even black sand from Maui! I haven't done it in years, because at the time I wasn't living on the beach. However, now that I do I never really collect it.
 
mailmandan said:
My brother in law (who is 60 years old now) told me that when he was young, he collected baseball cards and remembers opening up packages of cards looking for a Mickey Mantle card and kept opening packages of cards and wondering, "who is this Johnny Bench?" It was his rookie year! My brother in law told me that sometimes there were two or three of his cards in one package! He can't remember what he did with those cards and kicks himself for not holding onto them. :eek:
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That's funny, but tragic. Who knew he would become a hall-of-famer and one of the greatest catchers ever? haha

JeniBean said:
Very nice! I collected with my Dad for years! I sold a rare card for a classic 1970 Mach with a 351 engine. Oh how I loved her...yes her. Currently she resides in Australia. It was my biggest EBAY sale to date! I think I'd rather have the card back verses the car, as the card is worth tons more now and could buy me to classic cars. I have been craving an old SS.
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Wow, that's awesome! I'm sure it was worth it at the time, turning a card into a car is a pretty good deal. I've actually never checked the prices for any of mine, because I don't think I could sell them, but maybe I should lol.
 
BruceWayne said:
That's funny, but tragic. Who knew he would become a hall-of-famer and one of the greatest catchers ever? haha



Wow, that's awesome! I'm sure it was worth it at the time, turning a card into a car is a pretty good deal. I've actually never checked the prices for any of mine, because I don't think I could sell them, but maybe I should lol.
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Only ones you will get money for currently is anything through the 70's. They became mass produced in the 80's and on and we all have tons of them. My Dad still has some really, really rare ones that he sells when he really wants something and he doesn't want to touch the retirement.
 
melita916 said:
i collect sand from beaches, although majority of my collection is from others. lol whenever i hear someone going to the coast, i ask them if they can bring me back sand. the only ones i personally got was from santa monica and also a beach when i went to spain.

so... if anyone wants to send me sand.... lol!
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That's fun, hopefully you can go to some more. I have a jar of sand from Oahu, HI...I put it in a jelly jar I bought from there.
 
NikkiK said:
That's fun, hopefully you can go to some more. I have a jar of sand from Oahu, HI...I put it in a jelly jar I bought from there.
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I love Oahu!!! Actually I love all the Islands! But more things to do on Oahu and Maui!
 
i collect DVD's drives my girlfriend insane haha i have over 200 everything from comedy to horror my front room walls all have shelves on them filled with DVDs my girlfriend refuses to go shopping with me now as i just buy DVDs she buys boring stuff stuff like milk and bread
 
I collected Christmas ornaments too. But after doing that for 30 years and then had to downsize on the tree, I ran out of room. lol

I can't say I "collect" stuffed animals as much as people gave me a few, and then they looked lonely, so they needed a spouse... oh and then some kids... oh and then the kids needed their own dollies or "action figures", and now it's to the point that two 1 inch stuffed animals need a dolly and an action figure but I can't find any that small and can't figure out how to make one that size. So, no more stuffed animals.

I collect herbs for our garden, because hubby likes to cook. Now, I have to bring in the bay and rosemary bush for the winter, and have to dry lots and lots of herbs, which will be collected into jars so hubby can still cook.

I collected "cool stones" from our travels. Not from stores, but from where we went. "This looks cool" from Ontario to Virginia and west to Illinois, but after all these years they just look like all the other stones. Well, each one has three or more colors in them, or a layer in the middle. My favorite is the outer form of a trilobite that lived, long ago in an ocean in Illinois. (Brother found the cast of an octopus arm in that same yard.) Most of my stones are used as stepping stones in a butterfly watering hole in the garden that's more often used by flies or bees. lol

When I was little, I had this huge, cheap plastic piggy bank. My mom had a carnival glass piggy bank and she was into saving as much money as she could to buy us Christmas gifts. We used to go to our grandparents' houses every weekend (Both grandparents, so they got us every other weekend. lol) We came home one weekend to discover we were robbed. The only things stolen was the petty cash, a camera and all our piggy banks. I didn't like my piggy bank, but loved Mom's. A while ago, I started collecting banks -- mostly piggy banks. The first one looked just like Mom's bank. I also have a "perverted piggy" bank. That's what the lady who made it called it. It looks like a Disney piggy, but is on its shoulder and head, holding a little mouse safely in its Arm. That means the slot for the money is on her bottom -- thus "perverted," but I think it's cute. lol I had to give up collecting them from lack of space too though.

And Mom believed heavily that everyone should have a collection of some kind, so, when I was little she collected for me. I have all the Beatrix Potter books and lead figurines, although hubby tried cleaning them once for me, and cleaned the paint right off most of them. (No hard feelings. He was trying to clean them for me. lol) When Mom died, she left another collection for me, except I was immediately whisked away back to Dad before Gram remembered them. About 15 years ago, I was united with the last of Mom's collection for me -- 8 framed illustrations of Beatrix Potter characters to go into the bedroom of the house she was trying to live long enough to move into. We never did. (Gram -- her Mom -- did though, since Mom's brother/Gram's son/my uncle was the builder of that house. The illustrations would have all fit into my bedroom. All these years later, and I still can't figure out where to hang them. Life changes. I'm almost 60 now, so exactly what statement does Jeremia Puddle Duck, Squirrel Nutkin, Peter Rabbit, and Benjamin Bunny say about me if I had them hanging in my house?

Collections are fun, but I'm not entirely sure if they're practical when I moved into a small house. (My downstairs is a bit smaller than that bedroom Mom was making for me. It's our living room/dining-room-turned-into-hubby's-computer area/kitchen, so that was one huge bedroom.)
 
JeniBean said:
I love Oahu!!! Actually I love all the Islands! But more things to do on Oahu and Maui!
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Yes we were busy the whole time. It's such a hard place to not marvel at God's creation. We swam with sea turtles and dolphins in the ocean as well as all the other Hawaiian things! I would LOVE to visit Mauii! Lucky you and blessed!
 
Dino246 said:
My Mom has a cookbook/survival guide from Africa, pre-war. Among the recipes, there is a list of things to take on a safari... such as a hatchet, a cookpot, dry beans, salt, one housewife...

I had to ask, of course. No, it wasn't a domestically-inclined married woman, it was a sewing kit, pronounced 'hussuf'. But it makes for a good chuckle. How things have changed!

I've collected many things over the years, but had to sell it all during some lean times. Then I started collecting miniature cars, of which my avatar pic is one. It allows me to indulge my appreciation of automobile design. Given the closet full of storage boxes, 'over-indulge' might be more accurate.... :)
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If I ever went on a safari, I'd take a housewife. Heaven knows, I'm not one. Hubby and I could use someone who likes being a housewife. lol
 
cmarieh said:
I collect bugs just for the fun thought of bugging people.

Just kidding :p

But in truth I have collected sentimental items for a few years now because one day I would love to pass it on to my future children. For example I have some antique dolls from both of my grandmother's, a tea set, pictures and most recently I found a letter my mom wrote to me about twelve years ago and a note my grandma wrote me for my sweet sixteen and I treasure and collect those types of items because I can never get those times back.
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My brother really did collect bugs. Worse yet, they didn't necessarily have to be dead. (He collected three praying mantis cocoons and took them to his bedroom. Each one produced about 100 praying mantis. You don't want to know what he did with all of them. Let's just say none grew up, unless a few escaped out the screen window. lol)

I too have my four generations of te party teacups and teapots for little girls. Sadly, never had any kids. I gave them to my brother when he had his daughter, but he wasn't interested, left them down in the basement, and the girl-sized tea cabinet rotted after the basement flooded. Now I have five generations of tea sets, (yes, I bought another set for my stuffed animals. Is that odd?
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(I hope the stuffies have a tea set. I can't see it that well. lol)
 
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