What Do You Collect, If Anything?

Lately, I am back to the American Girl dolls....LOVE them...i have given 3 of them away lately, so I love to gift them, too....but I love all of the eras and stories that go with each character. They have sweet faces and huggable bodies.... I can get lost in the books for hours....They are great fun and make me feel happy.....Yep, I am a big kid at heart.

 

Grace is being retired on new year's Eve...She was girl of the year and won an award...the doty award...Her price will shoot up next year....She is french...I need to read her books...I just bought Grace today on ebay...oops....I have a feeling I know who will inherit her one day, too...lol I always have a plan for things.....but I will enjoy her for awhile.....On new years Day they are introducing a new American girl doll with her own story.

 

Flags
Travel shot glasses
Pennants
Event t shirts and memorabilia like tour shirts. Etc.
Certain militaria
Diecast stockcars
Cds
Vinyl
Stickers
Realistic plush animals

 

and always cute animals...I like cat and elephant things, especially....and sea critters and frogs and turtles.....and...lolololol
books.....art books, children books...all kinds of books.....but I am excited about American Girl dolls again....i am selling alot of the other dolls around here, slowly but surely......DOTY means doll of the year....and an American girl doll, Grace got it this year. I have been looking at the MaryEllen doll , too, but her hair color looks kind of fake, but I will get her book set.....at least.

maryEllen is from the 50's and you can accessorize her with her own 50's diner and jukebox that plays and lights up...how cool these things are.,..i may get the juke box.
Diner is too big.....I will paint one.

 

Hello,

I once collected the farewell broadcasts of closed radio stations (btw, you can get a handfull of those on New Year's Eve). But I stopped that a couple of years ago. It's too depresseing I guess. Now I collect books. Hm, it's not really collecting, they just seem to accrete.

Regards
Gyro

 

Yeah, like my animal stuff around here and books, too....they collect themselves.....I don't set out to acquire them ever, but yet they somehow make it here....

 

Hello,

yepp, exactly . I have a lot of older books about electric and radio stuff from around 1920 and travel books. So there is a theme. But I really don't be systematic with it, as I would be if I would be a collector.

Regards
Gyro

 

I collect rocks from places I go. Some are up to 40 pounds.

I collect tie dyes, and when I wear them out I cut them in to patches to make other stuff.

I collect oddball items to use in art projects. I once founds 5 plastic female torsos in a dumpster and painted them all up; some I put lights in.

I collect books, patches and pins for my jacket.

I collect really good shoes and interesting purses, hats and clothes. I have half a storage unit full of clothes I've either made, altered or acquired.

I tried to collect cars. I had a '79 Camaro, a '73 VW bus, a five-speed Explorer, a little red piece of shit and a Blazer but I sold all of it so I could move out West. I had a yellow Xterra but I wrecked it so now I'm driving a newer gray one.

 

Spores, Moulds and Fungus


This thread reminded me of that line from Ghostbusters

 

I used to Collect Concert Programs I had Hundreds of them

Led Zep , The who, Bowie , Roxy music, Springsteen , Dylan , Bob Marley , The Kinks , Wishbone Ash ,Skynyrd , Uriah Heep, Small faces > Anyway You get it ! They were all from Concerts I was At so Special to me :daisy:

When we Separated My X wife gave them all away
Now I just collect Dust

 

Hello,

that's an interesting hobby! Do you let them little buggers run free? Are they grass-fed?

Regards
Gyro

 

I tend to collect dust...

 

things to make things with. also second hand paperbacks, especially periodicals i subscribe to, which are mostly science fiction.
i'm not really big on static collections, but prefer things that do things, things i can do things with, or sources of inspiration and reference.
empty containers to reuse tend to accumulate, but then i actually reuse them, multiple times, before eventually discarding their excessive abundance.
i try to collect things to eat that won't go bad on me, but of course, i generally end up eating them sooner then i need to.
catalogues of electronic and machine parts, those i always find fun to look at. and fantacize about. and occasionally buy something out of.
oh and pictures off the internet that look like how the world i would like to live in would look. i suppose you could say those really are a collection.
currently there are 23,449 in the directory my screen saver points to and pulls them randomly from, every however many seconds i have it sat at.

 

I don't think I collect anything. Money. Does that count? Not to sound like a miser.

I just don't like clutter, lots of physical objects piling up beckon to be thrown away or donated. For that reason I don't think I could really collect tangible items.

Moon-I find dolls to be especially eerie, as I child I avoided their stares at great lengths. But I remember reading some of those American Girl books and really enjoying them .

 

Music, but even then I'm a cheap ass (most is in mp3 ).


Youfreeme: Porcelain or realistically looking dolls creep a lot of people out it seems (including me, woudn't like them in my living room or bed room)

 

I have some stamps from the 90's and some from much earlier. A few silver dollars as well as some $20's that I'm "collecting".

 

I collect board games that recreate historical battles or entire wars. Mostly WWII but really everything. I've got about 150 games in my collection. Some of them have maps that are about 6 feet by 6 feet and include several thousand playing pieces. My most expensive games are Fire in the East and Scorched Earth which together, in mint condition, could fetch at least $400 on eBay today.

 

I have several garden tractors... But that's not a collection, it's a herd.

 

I forgot to mention I have a huge collection of bellybutton fluff !
and its not all mine

 

Oh, yeah....I collect rocks, too.
And special greeting cards.
American girl dolls are not very realistic looking at all.
They look like lovable dolls, who are characters and friends, too,but I understand how some people feel about dolls.
I need a little robot doll from the force awakens now.