Shot glasses. I try to get one from every airport I’ve been to, as well as on each vacation.
Books, but I’m not concerned with the edition, I’m just interested in what’s between the covers.
Bruises.
Seriously, I document and photograph all my really good bruises.
Having spent a few years fighting (Amateur MMA) helped add a lot, but I take pictures of mndane falls, bangs, and dog bites as well.
Typesetting equipment. Which is a pain in the ass because it is neither compact nor lightweight. If we had to move, well, let’s just say it would be a problem.
Golden Age mysteries - it started with a collection of Agatha Christie, then I branched out to Rex Stout and Dorothy Sayers, but since there aren’t as many of those it didn’t take me as much time. Since I finished them, I’ve been working on a longer list of authors who are harder to find.
I started out with Basketball cards. That then evolved into Magic: The Gathering.
Now, it’s mostly fishing equipment. Although it gets used so maybe I shouldn’t consider it a collection. But, if that’s the case, M:TG wasn’t a collection either.
Sports Cards (mostly baseball)
Yankees memorabilia
Movies
Guitars as well. Why can’t I have a cheaper hobby?
Original art. Both of my parents were professional artists and so am I. Only the very best is shown, due to not nearly enough wall space.
Books.
U.S. coins, mostly PCGS certified.
Memorabilia from the 1939 New York World’s Fair.
78s, LPs and CDs.
Rocks and stones from placed I’ve visited.
Unusual Xmas tree ornaments.
I my old corporate office I used to display my collection of headlines about people exploding or bursting into flame. Most came from the Weekly World News.
Such headlines as - **
Famed Psychic’s Head Explodes
Kissing Couple Bursts into Flames
Preacher’s Head Explodes During Sermon
Models Breast Explodes from Too Much Sun
Cheating Husbands Head Explodes**
Alas, the Weekly World News quit publishing and my collection is at a standstill
I also have that guitar disease
I still have collections of comics and action figures that I’ve had for years, though I no longer actively collect either.
Currently, I collect books (including signed first editions, but not exclusively), original art from places I visit, and soccer jerseys.
Dust.
Photos of lost gloves.
Corkscrews (not too expensive and vaguely practical)
Antique rugs (not).
Metal lunchboxes. The oldest one is a Superfriends from the early 60’s (I can’t remember off the top of my head) and my favorites are the mint condition Knight Rider and Charlie’s Angels. I am forever on the hunt for a good condition Dukes of Hazzard that doesn’t completely break the bank.
Antique pitchers and Bennington pottery.
Samples of sand from beaches I’ve visited around the world, They’re in vials, labeled and framed.
Stamps and coins.
Fossils and rocks.
Versions of “Round Midnight” and “Take the ‘A’ Train.”
Timed out… I really have a hard time turning down a chance to collect the unusual for displays, a mass of things that really don’t fit in a single category. I’ll put them on the top of the bookshelves, on window seats, just all through the house as decorations. Stuff like copper sieve pans, old duck decoys, old bottles, kerosene lamps, scales, Oil company signs, Flexible Flyer sleds, antlers, breadboxes, cigar presses, carved bread plates, old woodworking tools, etc, etc, etc.
Y’all may find this hard to believe but I collect Wile E Coyote merchandise. I have a few other non-Wile E Looney Tunes things. I also have a few wolf related things, statues, posters, t-shirts. and a few dragons. Most of my other collections are just a couple of similar things, like my stuffed Killer Rabbits; The Beast of Caerbannog, the Wererabbit from Wallace & Grommit and Bun Bun. I would try to have more in that collection but I don’t think there’s that many killer rabbits, I suppose I could add a DVD of Night of the Lepus.
Globes/maps.
Die cast pencil sharpeners. This collection started with my globe fascination when I bought this. After that I started noticing them when I’d go to the flea market and I just started picking them up.
Buttons. This one started with my grandmother’s tin of buttons and has since expanded. I have them grouped off by color and type and will (hopefully) use them in future craft projects.
Pins. I have a glass jar full of pins (my mother calls them buttons) that I’ve been collecting since I was a teenager.
Cameras. I’m a photographer, so this seemed a natural collection. This is a picture of my camera collection. I think I am done collecting for now, though I rather like that I found a way to display them all without my cats knocking them over.
As far as I know…that’s it. Unless you count books, of which I have three bookcases overflowing with them.