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
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.
Oh. My parents are collecting Fiestaware for me.
I’m trying to start collecting vintage kitchenware. I want some anodized aluminum drinking cups.
Matchbooks/boxes from bars and restaurants.
Books.
Creepy knick-knacks.
Wicked Witch of the West stuff.
Anything with black cats on it.
Sheri
things with:
monkeys. esp. Curious George
Wendy the Witch
cookbooks
Hello Kitty
vintage clothes and hats
For some unkonwn reason I have four unopened sugar packets from Harrod’s. Either (or both) of you want them?
Ooo, thanks, Vera and Fretful. Any chance I could get a phonetic pronunciation?
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…
uh… the characters will probably look like gibberish symbols on your computer…
Ya maleenky malchik, with the stress on the “mal” part of both words.
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.
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 MAC* cosmetic pigments. Although, it’s proving to be more difficult that I though it would.
I collect the psychographic profiles and childhood histories of serial killers.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
moodtobestewed, that goat gland book, was that one about Dr. Brinkley, from here in Kansas?
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 
