What are the weird things that you collect? Or what are some of the weirdest collections you’ve heard of other people collecting?
Personally, I collect random crap. My biggest collections are my PEZ (97 dispensers last I counted), and those celebrity milk ads. I have a huge binder full of them…I’ve yet to count. I also collect feather boas, picture frames (only cute ones), and windchimes. The windchimes have dominated my celing. Needless to say, my bedroom has personality.
Well, I have a collection of pictures of every professional baseball player whose last name began with “X”…does that qualify?
When I was ten years old I collected slugs. Yep. I had 'em in a donut box in the garage.
Also, I and some other kids in my neighborhood collected caterpillars. I remember pedalling over to my friend’s house with a couple because I owed her some of the big fuzzy yellow ones…
I have a collection of even prime numbers.
But seriously folks, I have a collection of guitars. Most of which cost less than $10. Some, much more. None of them are really worth crap.
I also have 2 Triumph TR-7s. Does this count as a collection yet? The number of Triumph parts around the garage certainly does!
Mrs. Spritle collects all the dumb things I do and say. She’s gonna have to start renting storage space!
I collect bottlecaps as well as beer and wine bottles.
I had a friend who collected cereal boxes. Especially any special, promotional boxes. If they made one with Michael Keaton as Batman on it, he had it. That kind of thing. I used to make fun of him.
You know those litle sticky tags that are on fruits and vegetables? I have about 20 of them stuck to the side of my computer here at work. I used to have more, but they gave me a new computer earlier this year.
I also have a bunch of those little squeezy foam things, one looks like a little computer, one’s an airplane, one’s a Dilbert about 7" tall. I had a Pointy-haired boss one, but his head started to come off from being batted across the room.
Hey, it gets boring here at work some times.
I have a huge collection of Weight Watchers cookbooks, including some in foreign languages. And Andrew Lloyd Webber cast CDS, including some in foreign languages.
I’ve also collected Legion of Super-Hero comic books for the past 38 years.
19th century marriage manuals. (They’re a hoot)
Rubik’s Cube type puzzles
Special subject dictionaries
Original art done by friends and family members
I collect ashtrays from around the world. Not the “I love Ireland” variety, but ones made by local artisans. I think they’re supremely cool.
My sister used to collect the little round circles of paper produced by three-hole-punches. I think we all know by now that they’re called CHAD. She had a huge jar of them, and called them the “Little Guys.”
When I was 8 or so I had a collection of cicada shells. They aren’t very durable, though, so they’re all dust now.
a few years ago, gatorade changed the inside of their caps, but BEFORE they changed, the cap (orange) had this flexy blye disc inside that you could pry out - kind of like a giant blue contact lense, or really small condoms. i probably had a couple hundred of those things, they were really fun to play with, and gatorade had to go start making caps where the little blue things were glued in…
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Annie-Xmas
Well, that’s not weird! That’s the sign of a discriminating comic book consumer!
I knew there must be some other die-hard Legion fans on this message board. So, what do you think of “Legion: Lost” so far?
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Chaim Mattis Keller
I collect books from the Library of Congress call number catagory TP605
I collect books about european royalty from 1800-1945.
(Mostly during the Early 20th century to about WWII)
I also collect stuff about the Romanovs and mechandise from the movie Anastasia.
I also love finding pictures and websites about obscure royals…(mostly ones that people don’t know who you’re talking about-my latest project is King Alexander of Yugoslavia (1921-1934).
Help me…TP605 concerns what category?
Books about Whiskey?
I collect old Hot Wheels cars- you know, The Red Barons, Custom Mustangs, etc. I have a little display of them on my desk and am trying to rebuild after having to sell approx. 90% to help pay for my divorce.
So all you 35+ Dopers out there, start looking in your closets!
I also collect old tinwhistles and I’d like to collect Irish or baroque wooden flutes.
I collect children’s books in other languages, foreign coins (pocket change my grandparents would give me after their European travels), and poptabs.
motogirl is correct -
Even more specifically, I collect books about bourbon whiskey although TP605 includes scotch, irish, rye, and corn (moonshine).
Browsing the LOC is fun!