# Using your personal possessions,what kind of Museum would you open? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 27, 2006, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-your-personal-possessions-what-kind-of-museum-would-you-open/346262 "2006-02-27T03:36:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gooftroopag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gooftroopag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gooftroopag)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-your-personal-possessions-what-kind-of-museum-would-you-open/346262/21 "2006-02-27T16:13:55Z")
Mine would include legos, stuffed animals, cat toys, old/broken electronics including oscilloscopes, computers and CD players, a small library of engineering, physics and religious books and a collection of nearly every piece of paper my husband has ever written on. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-your-personal-possessions-what-kind-of-museum-would-you-open/346262/22 "2006-02-27T18:22:03Z")
I’ve a nifty pile of hand tools. Like old block planes, hand augers, and some neat saws. The wooden frame hack saw is pretty cool. This summer I got some old lumberjack tools out of a barn. 99% of these tools I’ll never use because power tools are so much easier and faster. I love the home handyman books from the 40’s, 50’s and thereabouts. I scoure garage sales for them. The pictures are a hoot and most of the material is still valid today. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-your-personal-possessions-what-kind-of-museum-would-you-open/346262/23 "2006-02-27T18:55:09Z")
The Legion of Super-Hero Comics/Andrew Lloyd Webber CD Museum. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-your-personal-possessions-what-kind-of-museum-would-you-open/346262/24 "2006-02-27T19:06:04Z")
Ladies and Gentlemen, step right this way! And behold! The Amazing Emporium of Fat Clothes!! Encompasing a plethora of sizes! Including “Extra-Large”, “Double Extra-Large”, and “Oh Dear God! It’s Moving Toward US!!!” ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-your-personal-possessions-what-kind-of-museum-would-you-open/346262/25 "2006-02-27T19:11:12Z")
> [@Freddy the Pig](#): > > What do you mean by “ephemera”? I have a lively collection of _brochures_ from historic sites around the country. From the Birthplace of Elvis Presley in Tupelo, Mississippi to Pancho Villa State Park in Columbus, New Mexico to the Calvin Coolidge Homestead in Plymouth, Vermont, if someone has taken the time to open up a historic site and print a brochure, chances are I’ve been there and have the brochure. Is that what you’re talking about? Yes, that’s exactly what I’m talkin’ 'bout…brochures, bumperstickers, patches, pins, souvenir cups,pencils,shot glasses, spoons,squashed pennies,thimbles, all that kinda stuff!! Perhaps we could open a museum together? (I would, of course, have to insist on top billing… 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-your-personal-possessions-what-kind-of-museum-would-you-open/346262/26 "2006-02-27T20:30:19Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > _The Museum of the Painted Miniature_ is my offering to the world. All I need are a couple of dust-free display cases (dusting several hundred miniatures and the shelves they sit on is bor-ing), good lighting, and magnifying glasses for visitors. Cool. Warhammer-type, military gaming, or Other? I’ve built and painted a few myself, mostly 1/25th plastics. Museum-wise, I’m pretty well set up to open The Washington Museum of Model Car Kits or the Eastern King County Museum of '70s Porn (blush). ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-your-personal-possessions-what-kind-of-museum-would-you-open/346262/27 "2006-02-27T21:04:06Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Yes, that’s exactly what I’m talkin’ 'bout…brochures, bumperstickers, patches, pins, souvenir cups,pencils,shot glasses, spoons,squashed pennies,thimbles, all that kinda stuff!! Ooooh, you not only have brochures, you have _tacky souvenirs_! I don’t have many of those because I’m too embarrassed to buy them, but I always admire them in a collection. I especially like it when you find a really incongruous piece of junk from a really solemn historic site–like a snow globe from Pearl Harbor or a plastic thermometer from Westminster Abbey. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-your-personal-possessions-what-kind-of-museum-would-you-open/346262/28 "2006-02-27T21:25:36Z")
**Antigen’s museum of textbooks, movie stubs, and pants-that’ll-fit-again-if-I-can-just-lose-10-pounds.** Oh, and coins. I have a lot of coins. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-your-personal-possessions-what-kind-of-museum-would-you-open/346262/29 "2006-02-27T21:31:19Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > Warhammer-type, military gaming, or Other? Yes. I have armies of Warhammer figs. Battallions of mecha, hordes of D&D and other RPG minis. I have painted whole casts of several movies in 25mm format. I’ve done 6mm fantasy all the way up to massive 200mm Napoleonics. One day they will be online and I will have an E-museum/ sales room. I must go now and paint. ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-your-personal-possessions-what-kind-of-museum-would-you-open/346262/30 "2006-03-01T07:08:14Z")
> [@Tinkertoy](#): > > Museum of the murder mystery in the 20th century. Oh! I’m going to need a second museum to go with the one mentioned above besides owning about 4000 murder mysteries. I also would have a \*\* Musem of Costume Jewelry Brooches\*\*, I own about 3500 Brooches. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-your-personal-possessions-what-kind-of-museum-would-you-open/346262/31 "2006-03-01T07:41:41Z")
Museum of Unfulfilled Dreams, Unrealized Potential and Missed Opportunities. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-your-personal-possessions-what-kind-of-museum-would-you-open/346262/32 "2006-03-01T13:37:57Z")
Behold! The Museum of Unfinished Craft Projects! Look! There’s the dress I started in 1998 . . . before I had boobs! And there’s the skirt I started knitting in the year 2000! And I’ve no idea what this is, but it once was yarn and therefore can be yarn again, so it cannot be thrown out. Special Exhibit: Seam Rippers I Have Known – Join the owner/curator as she leads you on a tour of the sewing implements and cutlery she has destroyed while attempting to fix her mistakes. Things to consider as you take the tour: Does swearing improve or hinder the creative process? Is it necessary to buy an actual seam ripper when fingernail clippers will do? How do you tactfully explain to your mother the way in which you came to have a kilt pin jammed into your palm? ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-your-personal-possessions-what-kind-of-museum-would-you-open/346262/33 "2006-03-01T17:00:10Z")
Museum of 17,000 comic books, plus an extensive collection of trade paperbacks and other books, as well as several hundred action figures. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-your-personal-possessions-what-kind-of-museum-would-you-open/346262/34 "2006-03-02T02:29:16Z")
I can’t make a collection of my own since I actually have very few of my own possessions. I don’t like clutter. But, my fiancee is a major packrat (a major thorn in my side). If I used his possessions, my museum would consist of: Star Wars figs still in packages Transformers which are in pristene condition (despite being over 20 years old and well played with) Legos also in pristene condition (also well played with) GI Joe’s also in pristene condition (also well played with) Comic Books (about 25-30 boxes, probably 100-200 in each box, if not more) Probably close to 1000 Magic cards A few hundred Star Trek game cards Old computer parts which are either obsolete or broken - or both, but which he still refuses to throw away because he might one day find a use for them :rolleyes: I will say one thing for him, he may be a pack rat but even as a child, he took exceptionally good care of his possessions. Other than the comic books which actually belong to him and his brother, everything looks brand new. Just to be fair, I will add in my own obsession. My contribution will be white ankle socks. I have a very large quantity of these. In my defense though, I actually wear them all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-your-personal-possessions-what-kind-of-museum-would-you-open/346262.md?page=1)