Over the years I have acquired several utility knives.
I have a basic 4 position retractable one.
I have a non-locking springed retractable safety one that pulls the blade back as soon as you stop pushing it forward.
I have a fancy new quick change retractable fat ergonomic handled one.
and I have a folding one, which is nice and compact when not being used.
What I don’t have anymore is a fixed blade utility
I lost it about 4 months ago when I heard something slide across the roof of my car while turning on the interstate, and very helpfully, at that moment, remembered that I had made a mental note to grab it again on the way back as soon as I took the trash out to the curb.
And now I have a strong temptation to buy another one. For no damn reason at all. It is the least useful type of utility knife, and if I had one, I would only use it if I somehow managed to misplace all the other 4(or was too lazy to walk the 15 feet to the workbench for one of them). But it annoyingly grates on me that I don’t have one of that type anymore, and I have no idea why it should.
I have all (well, almost) the issues of MAD magazine from 1966 thru 1972. If I ever intersect with the Lottery, I will have my personal assistant scour the country and complete my collection.
Fifty years later, the margin cartoons are still the funniest stuff I’ve ever read.
*Tom Swift in the City of Gold * and about a half-dozen other titles from the original series. They’re often blatantly, casually racist, always sexist, but they taught me how to read without pictures, and they trigger memories that are usually welcome, and as I get older I’m beginning to appreciate that.
I have a weapon collection. I’m thinking of buying an axe and a mace to have a more varied collection.
Any collection is never pointless.
The Collector is my favorite super villain.
Yeah, it was before Elmore Leonard taught us to stick to “said.”
However it was sort of helpful to realize there was more than one way for “ejaculation” and “self-expression” to mean the same thing, in a way that absolutely no author intended.
Once I found in a used bookstore a set of 5 books of O Henry stories, nice green leather with tan leather spines, gold lettering on the spines and gold page edges on top, etc. Later I found there were actually 12 volumes in this edition, so I started trying to find the missing ones. So far I have found 1 additional volume, in poor condition. There are a zillion editions of O Henry stories, but this particular one (1913, Doubleday for Review of Reviews, Watermark Edition) is apparently quite rare. I would like to be able to complete it, ideally with copies in approximately as good condition as the original 5.
Every so often I go on the internet and search some more, but to no avail.
I’ve got just about all the other 1/12 kits in the series. Well, most of the “vintage” ones. But I ain’t gonna pay $70 for a plastic model I’ll never build.
Every color I don’t have in every piece of jewelry, piece of clothing and pair of shoes I own. I’ve been working on it, but the color completion thing is a constant issue for me.
Today I’m wearing a T-shirt that I bought 5 or 6 years ago. I have it in 4 colors. At the time, I decided not to get the two additional colors. But a few hours ago, I was thinking to myself that I wish I had the other colors.
I just ordered a ring in amethyst (purple). I already have it in a blue stone and a yellow stone, but when I found out that there was a purple, I just had to have it. I’m working very hard on resisting the brown version, because I don’t have any need for it at all, but…
I think it all started with the Crayola 64-color box, and big pads of construction paper.
I have several saved eBay searches for vintage sheet music. There’s several artists that I collect.
It’s not expensive. Usually less than $15. Some sheet music cost me only 3.99 plus shipping.
It’s sometimes pointless because digital copies can be purchased online at music notes or sheet music plus. There are songs that I have in both formats. I know it’s pointless. I still like the vintage paper copy.
It depends. I’m often surprised when a hit song isn’t available. Sometimes vintage sheet music is the only option.
I’m trying to find plastic Coke bottles with specific names like Bruce and Wayne, Clark and Kent, Peter and Parker, etc. So far, I’ve only found Charles and Xavier.
I am a few hundred varieties short of a complete collection of Euphorbia milii “Thai hybrids”, so if any Doper wants to join me in placing an order with a nursery in Thailand, we can cut costs significantly (minimum order is probably in the range of several hundred dollars):
I have all but three of the nearly 500 different GI Joe figures released in the 80s and early 90s. The last few are hard to find complete and for a “reasonable” price.
I collect vintage perfumes and there are always a few scents from each house that I don’t like and wouldn’t wear, but would like to acquire in order to have the full line from a particular house.
About that O. Henry collection, I know the one you mean, I’ve seen individual volumes. But I also think I saw the complete collection once, at a home in Abilene, Kansas. Trouble is, they wouldn’t be for sale. They were in this house:
Woah! Hold on there, the fixed blade utility is the king of drywall knives. No real drywaller uses anything that can retract, collapse or fold. You are pressing hard in awkward situations at times, you need to know your fingers are safe and the knife is going to cut.
Of course what you really want is the Model 199, not that modernized 299:
A baseball card of Jeff Fulchino. Over the past winter, I filled in the many holes that accumulated in my collection of Kansas City Royals players, and somehow, even though he was on my list, I forgot to ever include his card in one of my numerous multi-card orders. I’m not going to pay more in shipping than for the merchandise itself, so I’m going to hold myself back until year’s end when I expect I’ll have a few more Royals to order cards of to bring my collection up to date…
…but darned if that one omission in an otherwise complete collection doesn’t nag at me. Three more months, Keller, you just have to wait three more months…
I still like the vintage paper copy.