Lightkeeper
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The main thing I collect is rocks and crystals. I have a couple of indian artifacts from my searching and beachcombing. I have a few coins and some old jewelry.
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What Do You Collect?
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Bastet
Vile Stove-Toucher
I collect many things - crystals, coins, and hippos would be the top three. I've been collecting hippos since I was about 6. Hippopotamus was the first 'big' word I could spell (Mississippi was the second lol). I don't buy every one I see now, but I have several boxes of them. Been thinking of culling them, since most haven't seen the light of day for about 5 years (nowhere to display them). My favourite is one I made out of clay about 9 years ago.
There was a competition on the local radio last year, you had to call in and tell them what you collect. I won, and was coined "The Hippo Lady". Won a slab of beer for my effort. :jam:
There was a competition on the local radio last year, you had to call in and tell them what you collect. I won, and was coined "The Hippo Lady". Won a slab of beer for my effort. :jam:
Feathers in Hair
World's Tallest Hobbit
Bastet said:
I'm jealous, Bastet! I still can't spell those two words, hehee!
I'd say I collect books, but I'm not sure if it should be called that, or if 'hoarding' would be a better word. I enjoy representations of my totem animals, in any form. (It's hard, because I still enjoy stuffed animals. You'd think, once you'd hit 25, there would be some sort of chemical thing preventing that.) I love crystals, too, fluorite being my favorite.
Animal Cruelty, SAVE THE HIPPOS!!!
I collect chinese art(vases, pots, weaponry, ancient artifacts, especially oriental dragons ect.); I am starting a strategy book collection(war not games
), and am starting a biblical reasearch book collection.civilcynic
Member
I collect vinyl records (Lp's although I have some 45's)....I have some about 5,000.
I also collect fossils....both vertebrates (no dinosaurs, though) and invertebrates,
I also collect fossils....both vertebrates (no dinosaurs, though) and invertebrates,
Lightkeeper
Well-Known Member
I want to know the same thing.Sunstone said:
Pah
Uber all member
I have some statues in a collection I call "Sorrowful man" both wood and stone. On my walls, I have oils and pastels from years of purchasing and my father's own artistic gifts. In the entertaiment center, there are crystal, pewter, brass, exotic wood, and bronze items and porcelain figures from Lladro (matte finish) and a commemerative piece from Kaiser of Germany
I hoard books too! Hat's too are in a corner - amongst that collection is a Danish fishermans cap, a French beret, a German hunting felt with a grand feather, a Stetson, an Aussie "outback" hat, a Russian fur hat, and a leather "cowboy" hat.
I gave my son-in-law my collection of German wine tasting glasses studiously collect at wine fests. His passion is glasses of all types; mine was the wine though the glasses are neat.
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I hoard books too! Hat's too are in a corner - amongst that collection is a Danish fishermans cap, a French beret, a German hunting felt with a grand feather, a Stetson, an Aussie "outback" hat, a Russian fur hat, and a leather "cowboy" hat.
I gave my son-in-law my collection of German wine tasting glasses studiously collect at wine fests. His passion is glasses of all types; mine was the wine though the glasses are neat.
-pah-
Ceridwen018
Well-Known Member
When I was little I collected rocks and leaves that I thought were interesting or pretty. The rocks lasted, but the leaves dried up and fell apart, of course. I didn't have the heart to throw the old leaves away though, because 'd grown attached to them.
I kept my little collection in my bottom drawer in my room. To make a long story short, my mom eventually found them and...well, a drawer full of rocks and crumpled leaves wasn't her idea of good house management, so out the door they went! I tried maintaining my collection outside, but found that it was difficult telling my collection apart from everything else. So, I simply declared my entire backyard part of the collection. Hey, it made things a lot easier in some respects, although inventory was a foul mistress.
I kept my little collection in my bottom drawer in my room. To make a long story short, my mom eventually found them and...well, a drawer full of rocks and crumpled leaves wasn't her idea of good house management, so out the door they went! I tried maintaining my collection outside, but found that it was difficult telling my collection apart from everything else. So, I simply declared my entire backyard part of the collection. Hey, it made things a lot easier in some respects, although inventory was a foul mistress.
Hope
Princesinha
When I was younger I collected Breyer model horses. My sister did as well, and between the two of us, we probably collected around 40-some or more. I still have all mine, though most are packed away. I'd collect them still, but the quality of the ones I see nowadays isn't quite the same, unfortunately.
Lightkeeper
Well-Known Member
Cute story, Ceridwen. That would have made a great journal entry. It sounds like your rocks were leaverite.
This is a rock that is a dud and your leave er right there.
This is a rock that is a dud and your leave er right there.
Runt
Well-Known Member
Fairy statuettes, decorative boxes (wooden, stone, and tin)... oddly enough, these are not things I collect on purpose. I just keep getting them all the time from people, and since I don't MIND getting them (fairy figurines are sparkly and pretty and delicate and decorative boxes are useful for storing stuff) I keep them and put them on display. I guess friends and family, when they venture into Me Space, see these things and assume that I am actively collecting them, and thus provide me with more at holidays and birthdays.
meogi
Well-Known Member
I collect nostalgic video game items & things. My collection is kinda limited at the moment, because most of it is home... but here's some things I've picked up in Japan so far. http://www.jamesinjapan.com/images/games.jpg
Bastet
Vile Stove-Toucher
I'm so guilty of that.FeathersinHair said:
I read something, decide I love that author, then go and buy every book of theirs I see. I've recently started culling those too, in preparation for putting my stuff into storage. It's not easy...It's only in the last couple years that I've managed to stop myself buying stuffed hippos...and I'm 28.FeathersinHair said:
Speaking of totems, I just did a head count in this room, and cats outrank hippos 11-7. Well, 12 if you count the real one.Tigereye is my favourite, with hematite a close second.FeathersinHair said:
Bastet
Vile Stove-Toucher
LOL! A similar thing happened to my feather collection...Ceridwen018 said:When I was little I collected rocks and leaves that I thought were interesting or pretty. The rocks lasted, but the leaves dried up and fell apart, of course. I didn't have the heart to throw the old leaves away though, because 'd grown attached to them.
I kept my little collection in my bottom drawer in my room. To make a long story short, my mom eventually found them and...well, a drawer full of rocks and crumpled leaves wasn't her idea of good house management, so out the door they went! I tried maintaining my collection outside, but found that it was difficult telling my collection apart from everything else. So, I simply declared my entire backyard part of the collection. Hey, it made things a lot easier in some respects, although inventory was a foul mistress.
