# What do you collect? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 21, 2001, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-collect/94655 "2001-11-21T21:28:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Earthworm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Dirty\_Earthworm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Earthworm)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2001, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-collect/94655/41 "2001-11-22T04:09:52Z")
I collect ex-girlfriends. Actually, I’ve started and stopped quite a few collections over the years. Some of them include baseball cards, WWF memorabilia, beer bottle caps (and empty beer bottles), postcards, pencils, roachclips (not that I do that stuff …) and most recently body jewelry. (mostly nipple and tongue, my two piercings.) Currently I am collecting hospital bills and phone calls from debt collectors, but whatchagonnado, y’know? -Syko ---
**Author:** ![VeraGemini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e9bcb4/32.png) [@VeraGemini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VeraGemini)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2001, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-collect/94655/42 "2001-11-22T04:52:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mysphyt \* > \*\*The phrase “I am a small boy.” Don’t ask why, 'cause I don’t know either. So far, I have it in English, German, Spanish, French, Serbian, and ASL. Feel free to contribute. \*\* [Russian.](http://www.dkphoenix.com/images/russsmallboy.gif) I collect comics (20,000 and counting), unusual dice, coins from outside the US, and shot glasses with the names of various states, provinces, and tourist attractions on them. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2001, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-collect/94655/43 "2001-11-22T05:02:56Z")
Oh. My parents are collecting Fiestaware for me. I’m trying to start collecting vintage kitchenware. I want some anodized aluminum drinking cups. ---
**Author:** ![DarkWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2001, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-collect/94655/44 "2001-11-22T05:34:29Z")
Matchbooks/boxes from bars and restaurants. Books. Creepy knick-knacks. Wicked Witch of the West stuff. Anything with black cats on it. Sheri ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2001, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-collect/94655/45 "2001-11-22T06:27:15Z")
things with: monkeys. esp. Curious George Wendy the Witch cookbooks Hello Kitty vintage clothes and hats ---
**Author:** ![Tretiak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Tretiak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tretiak)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2001, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-collect/94655/46 "2001-11-22T06:47:10Z")
For some unkonwn reason I have four unopened sugar packets from Harrod’s. Either (or both) of you want them? ---
**Author:** ![Mysphyt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@Mysphyt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mysphyt)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2001, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-collect/94655/47 "2001-11-22T07:35:53Z")
Ooo, thanks, **Vera** and **Fretful.** Any chance I could get a phonetic pronunciation? ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2001, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-collect/94655/48 "2001-11-22T08:42:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mysphyt \* > \*\*The phrase “I am a small boy.” Don’t ask why, 'cause I don’t know either. So far, I have it in English, German, Spanish, French, Serbian, and ASL. Feel free to contribute. \*\* ok, i’ll bite… “‰ä¥ˆêŒÂ¬’j›w” ask **China Guy** for the pinyin version, cos i don’t know pinyin. _runs off looking for China Guy_ yoooooooooooooooooooooohooooooooooooooooo… ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2001, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-collect/94655/49 "2001-11-22T08:43:30Z")
uh… the characters will probably look like gibberish symbols on your computer… ---
**Author:** ![VeraGemini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e9bcb4/32.png) [@VeraGemini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VeraGemini)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2001, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-collect/94655/50 "2001-11-22T09:17:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mysphyt \* > \*\*Ooo, thanks, **Vera** and **Fretful.** Any chance I could get a phonetic pronunciation? \*\* Ya maleenky malchik, with the stress on the “mal” part of both words. ---
**Author:** ![honkytonkwillie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@honkytonkwillie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/honkytonkwillie)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2001, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-collect/94655/51 "2001-11-22T10:35:41Z")
I wanna see **Zenster’s** house. I have a modest collection of raw drivers for loudspeakers, all of which I plan on using some day. The drivers that aren’t currently employed include: [ul][li]1 - NHT 1259 12" subwoofer[_]1 - 12" Kicker (autosound) subwoofer[_]2 - 8" polypropylene woofers[_]1 - 7" a/d/s paper cone woofer[_]1 - 6.5" JBL woofer[_]2 - 130mm Peerless woofers[_]2 - MB Quart 51mm titanium dome midranges[_]2 - MB Quart 19mm titanium dome tweeters[_]2 - Linaeum dipole tweeters[_]4 - 19mm Panasonic polycarbonate tweeters (autosound)[_]2 - 25mm Panasonic silk dome tweeters (autosound)[/ul][/li]I only wish I had more time to work them into something beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Commander\_Fortune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Commander\_Fortune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Fortune)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2001, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-collect/94655/52 "2001-11-22T11:21:08Z")
I collect vintage Peacock themed tapestries, mostly originating from Lebanon, Italy and France. I have quite a number of them - 2 BIG ones on each wall and several more with no room to display - considering covering my ceiling with them too. I also collect memorabilia related to both _The Cramps_ and _Peter Murphy_. Lastly, I’m trying to collect the entire line of M_A_C\* cosmetic pigments. Although, it’s proving to be more difficult that I though it would. ---
**Author:** ![mikeymichaels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@mikeymichaels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikeymichaels)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2001, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-collect/94655/53 "2001-11-22T16:32:29Z")
I collect the psychographic profiles and childhood histories of serial killers. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2001, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-collect/94655/54 "2001-11-22T19:17:22Z")
I collect copies of the National Geographic magazine, with maps. My collection is complete back to 1917, and I have _most_ of the issues between 1914-1916. Just a few before that. Issues in any kind of decent shape start getting really pricey before 1910, when the cover design was changed to the one that was used for around 60 years after that. Anybody got an attic that has the really old issues? I can deal. I counted the magazines I have and it’s over a thousand, because I bought that many slipcovers and now I have run out. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2001, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-collect/94655/55 "2001-11-22T19:29:13Z")
**honkytonkwillie** , you’d salivate over the pair of 14" Altec Lansing Voice of the Theater™ 16 Ohm drivers I got from a local theater’s sound system tearout. (All they need is reconing.) The suckers must weigh about 15 pounds each. I suppose I should add the collection of tapestries (one labled “Made In British India”) and a dozen or more old style (vegetable dye) Mexican saddle blankets. In with them are the Navajo blanket and my Grandfather’s WWI cavalry saddle blanket with the Artillery division’s cannonball logo (complete with shrapnel holes where his horse was shot out from under him.) There are also the several hundred matchbooks that I used to store in an old restaurant size Folger’s Coffee tin. These were collected from restaurants and hotels I’ve been to. I could throw in the large variety of graduated glass measuring cups for photographic, cooking and pharmeceutical applications, in addition to miniature scientific glassware like volumetric flasks and meltpoint apparatus. Then there is the vintage Tinkertoy sets and two good condition Erector Sets. (One Erector Set cost all of $12.[sup]00[/sup] at a thrift shop. People were offering me double before I could get out the door.) There’s some Lionel trains in a box somewhere as well. ---
**Author:** ![moodtobestewed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@moodtobestewed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moodtobestewed)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-collect/94655/56 "2001-11-23T03:19:07Z")
Strange books, especially those having to do with fringe medical theories. I suppose the most interesting is an 1847 phrenology book, but perhaps the rarest is “Goat Gland Transplantation,” a book advocating using goat testicles to increase male virility in humans. ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-collect/94655/57 "2001-11-23T06:58:49Z")
I collect a number of things- Animals! Of course! Currently I have, Dog (Rotty) (JoJo) Ferret (Wheels) Rabbits (Tigger & Chrystle) Degus (Chocolate & Truffle) Hedgehog (Stanley) Rat (domestic) (Harry) Rat (Norway Roof Rat (wild)) Screecher Spiney Mice (4) Domestic Fancy Mice (aprox. 30) Deer Mouse (Fallow) Field Mouse (Shadow) Bushy Tailed Gerbil (Foxy) Budgies (Bluebell & Blueboy) Giant Cockroach (Croach) Stick Bug (Twig) Tarantula (Rose Haired) (Charlotte) Garter Snakes (3) Aligator Lizard (Lizzie) And a few I may get from the Zoo when it moves. Is anyone surprised that I also collect cages?! Besides the livestock, I also collect river rocks, mostly to use in tanks, 78’s, ranging from 1919 to the Fifties-chiefly swing, stuffed animals, very old electric small appliances, coins, and Dark Shadows memorabilia. I like any kind of small boxes too, and I used to collect anything pertaining to Robin Hood. Oh yeah, and Trivia! ---
**Author:** ![DrFrasierCrane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@DrFrasierCrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFrasierCrane)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-collect/94655/58 "2001-11-23T07:27:12Z")
Coca-Cola stuff, mainly, although I have a lot of D-FW sports memorabilia. I also collect newspaper clippings from big sporting events both locally and nationally, like Superbowl wins, certain Olympic events, and the like. I have an entire wall of my gameroom covered with laminated newspaper clippings. It forms a really neat collage and it’s a real conversation-starter. My favorite collectable, though, are some Chevron glasses that commemorated Nolan Ryan’s career. It was a four-glass set, but I have a 5th glass as well: a “defective” one where they misprinted the dates for his first and last no-hitters. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-collect/94655/59 "2001-11-23T09:57:39Z")
**moodtobestewed** , that goat gland book, was that one about Dr. Brinkley, from here in Kansas? ---
**Author:** ![Rye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e56c9b/32.png) [@Rye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rye)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-collect/94655/60 "2001-11-23T13:07:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Baker \* > \*\*I collect copies of the National Geographic magazine, with maps. My collection is complete back to 1917, and I have _most_ of the issues between 1914-1916. Just a few before that. Issues in any kind of decent shape start getting really pricey before 1910, when the cover design was changed to the one that was used for around 60 years after that. Anybody got an attic that has the really old issues? I can deal. I counted the magazines I have and it’s over a thousand, because I bought that many slipcovers and now I have run out. \*\* A few years ago I bought a 10cd set with every national geographic issue dating back to the late 1800’s (I think). Got it at costco, you might want to check their website for that, is it is quite the space saver 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-collect/94655.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-collect/94655.md?page=4)