# Things you obsessively collect.

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 10, 2000, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-obsessively-collect/19053 "2000-05-10T00:02:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Suo\_Na](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Suo\_Na](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suo_Na)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2000, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-obsessively-collect/19053/41 "2000-05-11T02:30:55Z")

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1. Books. I have upwards of 700, and moving them is a real chore. Always looking for more, though. Right now I’m collecting the Black Stallion books in the Gibralter Library edition, which was the one I read as a child.

2. Fountain pens. Love to look at them, hold them, write with them.

3. Tea. It never lasts long.

4. Plants

And now the inadvertant stuff:  
Yogurt containers with plastic lids  
Grocery bags  
Ticket stubs  
Nifty coins

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**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2000, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-obsessively-collect/19053/42 "2000-05-11T05:30:11Z")

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> You too, Dr. J? I thought I was the only one who did that. I haven’t got the boomerang card down yet, but I’ll keep up the practice.

I’ve managed to get a curve on it, but I can’t control the curve very well. Ricky Jay makes it look so damn easy.

On the other hand, I am finally getting down the Piet Forton pop-out move. (If you’ve seen “Ricky Jay and his 52 Assistants”, he uses it near the beginning for a four queen production.)

Sorry for the hijack.

Dr. J

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**Author:** ![Fonz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Fonz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fonz)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2000, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-obsessively-collect/19053/43 "2000-05-11T07:25:52Z")

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Obsessive implies irrational.

I collect old **license plates.**

Not just mine, not just good ones, or old ones, or those in states or years I don’t already have.

I just like them, to put in a pile, and never look at or sort into order or show to anyone.

That’s “Things you obsessively collect”; no attempt to cover behaviour with rationale, I just do it.

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