Any collectors out there?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Yeah. Probably a lot of the board members feel the same way you did. But, I’ve already started a thread on the only risque collection I have, and didn’t think it was appropriate for your thread. The Beanie Babies? Well, they could be in some compromising positions, but it would be very safe sex, since they’re each sealed into their own Ziploc bags. :slight_smile:

:smiley: Cute! It does sound like that, doesn’t it? But, it’s actually not as bad a movie as one would expect, from the title. It’s a “modern” (1988) version of a 1950’s-style horror movie, done straight-up, with good production values, if not great acting. It got an average of 4 and 1/2 stars on Amazon. And, it does feature clowns. Sort of.

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I collect all things Monopoly.

It started with one game that I got totally ridiculed for liking/playing (mostly alone against my stuffed animals when I was 10 or so)

Now I have a ton of stuff… most of the collection is on my web page (see www button below) but…

The shining jewel in my collection came this Christmas and is a 5 foot tall Rich Uncle Pennybags who is hanging in my hallway!!!

I do collect and play all the games I get but I most love getting odd non game merchandise. I have quite a few watches and I have earrings and clothes with different monopoly things on them. Tins, slippers, cars, glasses, porcelain houses… the citylights houses!!! (thanks ma) magnets, stationary, stickers, stock certificates for the railroads, picture frames… I have a monopoly stamp!

OWN IT ALL :slight_smile:

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Hopefool, Here’s one that I have my eye on. The blue lettering is kind of rare; usually it’s red or orange. They’re the bottles that cream came in.

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:confused: A google search gave me nethin. Do tell.

Peace,
~mixie

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I have quite a collection of Grateful Dead concerts on tape, including all 14 of the ones I attended.

Sports cards, mostly football. These include complete 1964 and 1969 sets and an almost complete 1959 set. The '59s are really cool…not only were the Colts still Baltimore but the Cardinals were still Chicago!

Lately I have gotten into collecting old University of Michigan football programs. It started with a specific one, from the day I was born. November 14, 1964…my beloved Wolverines must have known one of their biggest fans had arrived in the world, because they beat Iowa. It took some looking but I was finally able to get the original game day program. What I am working on now is a complete set of 1964 Michigan programs. I have the Illinois game (Dick Butkus was the starting center/middle linebacker for the Illini) which was the week before my birthday and the Ohio State game which was the week after. I also have the Michigan-Navy program (with a guy named Staubach at quarterback for the Midshipmen), as well as Minnesota, Michigan State and the Rose Bowl (which was actually played on Jan 1, 1965 but is considered part of the 1964 season). I only need three programs to complete the 1964 set.

Michigan also played Iowa on my sixth birthday (11/14/1970) and I recently got that program as well.

The programs from the 50s and later are fairly reasonably priced. Ones from the 40s and older are mostly out of my price range right now. I would like to get the program from the only time (before this coming season) that Michigan played my other favorite team, Central Michigan University. At the time (1931), CMU was still known as Central Michigan Teacher’s College. I’d also eventually like to get a program from a Michigan vs. Michigan Agricultural College (former name of Michigan State Univ.) game, as well as a Michigan vs. Harvard or Yale program (the Ivy League teams used to play Michigan and were actually able to compete with them).

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I recently saw some cool bathroom stuff with the Monopoly theme. I remember thinking “Man these are cool… I wish I knew a Monopoly fan to get these for…” shower curtain, soap dish that looks like a gamepiece, stuff like that.

Anyway, I collect frogs and antique oil cans.

It runs in my family. My dad collects skookum dolls, antique fishing lures, and antique decoys. My sister collects Barbies. My husband collects antique hand tools.

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I’m probably not alone here but I collect Tolkien stuff (calendars, MERPS, art books, etc.). I probably have 15-18 copies/editions/covers each of LOTR and The Hobbit. Nice stuff too (Easton Press, Folio Society), none of this movie tie-in crap. The search used to be much more difficult and rewarding (pre-Ebay). Now I just key in what I’m looking for and there it is if I have the money. No 1st editions of the Big 4 (yet) but someday!:slight_smile:

I also collect cardboard beer coasters with the caveat that I have to have collected it from a bar where I had a beer. Every coaster in my collection, therefore, has a beer stain on it!

Finally, I collect the early series of MacFarlane (Spawn) toys. I probably have 60 or so but with the addition of two children they are boxed up (the toys, not the kids) and put away. I don’t have a problem but Mrs. Gaffer thinks that 2- and 4-year-old boys shouldn’t play with action figures that brandish multiple weapons systems and look like the living dead.

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I lived in northern Virginia until I was 16. My best friend was a big Dr Who fan. I never got into it, largely because reception of that PBS station was awful. By the time we had cable, they’d stopped showing it.

About a year ago, I started watching Dr Who on WYBE. I love it. However, all the Dr Who items I’ve seen are either-decades old and thus expensive, or made specifically for collectors with a lot of disposable income and thus very expensive.

OTOH since I also trade and sell collectibles and toys, I often pick up My Little Ponies rather cheaply. I’ll have to check on whether I’ve currently got any unicorns.

BTW- I agree strongly with the sentiment expressed by several other posters. Unless an issue is truly rare, my comics are for reading. Any toy or other item I do not intend to resell is taken out of the package and played with. Cleaning is sometimes a problem. However, some of the monster toys(the Mummy especially) look marvellous coated with dust and cobwebs. Now that my friends’ children are 6 and up, they are welcome to play with my toys[sub] please, no sick remarks here. I’ve known these kids since birth. I like kids and I love being the uncle whose apartment is filled with strange and wondrous toys[/sub].

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I collect comic books…right now, just the Legion (of Super-Heroes), although I also collected Starman until that series ended.

And I collect baseball cards of my beloved Kansas City Royals, at least one card (or photo, in those few cases where no card was made of them) of every person who played for or managed the team. I also have postcards of old Municipal Stadium and of Royals Stadium. I keep hoping to find one actually labeled “Kauffman Stadium” (though I know it’s the same park).

Also, I have every Royals yearbook. Except the 1998 edition; for some reason, that one never seems to come up on eBay.

And one other baseball collection…a baseball card or photo of every professional player whose last name began with the letter “X”.

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Yupyupyup Cranky… I saw that tooooo and hubby has no problem with me getting that stuff too… Just waiting for the nice bathfitter people to do my darn lemon yellow tub a nice shade of white so we can finish the rest of the bathroom remodel… then I will have a monopoly bathroom and computer room. If the sheets they make came in king I’d have a monopoly bedroom too!!!

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I’d say that Zenster collects collections! :smiley:

My collection list is much more modest:

Cat figurines
Matchbooks (I don’t smoke, I just like collecting matchbooks)
Foreign coins
State quarters
Popsicle sticks (don’t ask why, I just do)

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Flow Blue china

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I collect the following:

Watches (80 at last count) - from different places I have lived or travelled (was in the Navy) or if they are interesting. I have dress-up, nice/useful watches, some watches are hardware or artwork on a wrist. Manual, Quartz, Kinetic, Solar Powered. Some are cheap and some are pricey. I have Hamilton, Seiko, Bulova, Citizen, Eddie Bauer, Fossil, Android, Swatch,Timex, Salvadore Dali, 3 Wonder Woman Watches, 3 Russian Watches, for example. I wear every one of my watches.

Dolls - Barbie type, but not exclusively, lost count maybe about 20, may have to start weeding out. My daughter wanted me to play dolls with her, but I had to get my own, it snowballed from there. I have dolls from all around the world/different ethnics, American - N&S, European, Asian, African, etc. They are all Princesses, so I have many gowns for them, they are always dressed up, with jewelry and either wands, or purses.

Wonder Woman Stuff - Auction Figures, Statues, Post-Cards, Dolls, Watches, Pins, whatever I can find.

Printed Pieces, I am a Printer - Hence Intaglio, so if I see a nice looking Printed Piece and I can I get it, I do. I have Wonder Woman, Salvadore Dali, A 1953 Fortune Magazine Cover Prop from the movie “A Beautiful Mind”- Russell Crowe as John Nash.

E-bay has been very helpful in finding alot of the stuff I collect.
Because before, it was look all over, not find and be pissed. Now go to E-bay, look and hopefully find, and bid - hopefully winning.
Win or Lose the Auction, I see more there then anywhere.
But my Purse doesn’t thank you, but I stay budgeted.

That’s why I work, to keep my addictions going.

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Keychains.

My favorite was given to me by a pharmaceutical salesman.

On the front it says “Doxidan”.

On the rear: “In the pm for a bm in the am”.

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As I have posted in the past - I collect books. First edition books. I used to be rabid about it, but I have toned down with the economy being what it is (and my job security being what it isn’t).

I have some pretty heavy hitters: Catch-22, A Farewell to Arms, Dune, some signed Elmore Leonard’s - basically a set of books that represent what I love to read. I love them.