Wierdest things you collect

i have a disgustingly short attention span. i think collections are neat. but i lose interest so quickly.

 

things that look interesting, mechanical whatsits that are free, lying on the road. most like fallen off of cars or other vehicular equipment. tire weights are actually useful. whatever no one else wants or claims that i have both a use for and someplace to put.

amazing how many bolts and nuts you find that arn't actually bent or stripped. someone too lazy to pick them up or look for where the dropped them, or didn't have the time to do so.

interestingly shaped tecnology fiddly bits are the real prizes though.
if its free and i can be creative with it, that's the thing. i suppose that's probably not others may have had in mind by collecting. but people are really wasteful what they throw away. i don't buy stuff just to put it on a shelf and look at it though.

i'd just as soon not have anything i can't use to be creative with, unless it's itself a product of my own doing so. if i weren't into the creative things i do with this computer i probably wouldn't own that either.

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As soon as I figure out how to upload pics I will.

 

I collect the inner ear bone from Sheephead/Freshwater Drum fish. We call em lucky stones around here.... They wash up on the beach all the time, from Lake Erie.


I have jars and jars full.




I also collect cardinals. Or anything with a cardinal on it.

 

bus transfers.

 

i don't so much collect, as accumulate, orphaned inanimate objects, which come to me without cost or obligation to myself. there is no common theme to them, other then the smaller they are the better their chances, as there is somewhat less then infinite space in which to hord them. and of course the more odd, interesting or unusual the more i am likely to be attracted to them. (it is a good thing i don't live in a war zone as i probably would have had every limb with a grasping apendage blowen away by picking them up. as it is, i do try to exercize reasonable caution however)

i do not however, intentionally accumulate anything, to merely put it on a shelf and stare at it. if i cannot put it to some creative or immaginative use, it tends to get forgotten, if it is small enough to go unnoticed. unless i remember it is just the size and shape i need for something sometime later, and i'm lucky enough to again find it.

i do also however, have containers i put things in that might be potential useful as elemants in model building. one of the more gratifying activities i've been known to occasionally enguage in. though most of that, like my 'travelling' as well, any more, thends to get done on this computer, rather then the tangable world outside my door, with its all too many unattractions of paved streets and defacto urban populatin densities, with or without their, at best partially, redeamng amenities.

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(wierdness itself, is of course the only thing, truely worth collecting!)

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