What do you love to collect?

[ThatSkyWing]

Right now I'm mainly collecting video games and Madoka Magica merchandise(I love my Charlotte/Bebe plushie <3). I also have collections of old radios and random Star Wars stuff.

 

[tree]

I enjoy accumulating mundane objects that look alike----the plastic tabs from loaves of store bought bread, empty spools, lids from jars. I like to batch them up for children to count/use for math. Give them to mothers who home school.

One year I was canning peaches so I saved the pits, washed them, made a bag of velvet, and gave the pits & bag to the kindergarten at the school in town. I also have drawn faces on pistachio shells and donated those to the school.

I like to cut out pictures from magazines & catalogs, glue them to light weight cardboard. A useful excuse is that the kids
next door are home schooled and their mother can use them for math & English.

For the past 4 years I have made a point to NOT buy clothing from resale shops---to take apart and use for sewing projects.
I have 50 quilt tops in progress and 100 boxes of pieces cut out besides that. I like taking clothes apart to turn into something new. Cat nip mice. Cat beds. Pictures.

 

[tfwo]

I've collected various things through my life. When I was a kid it was coins, glass soda bottles if they were unique, broken electronics, and rocks. Most of those things I've lost years ago, then I started collecting books on subjects of interest, and a rather wide assortment of electronic components. It's mostly new stuff, everything from resistors, capacitors, inductors, transistors, diodes, LED's, switches, relays, poteniometers, IC's, connectors, etc. I've now started accumulating electronic test equipment when I can get it cheap. It all sounds like great fun to me, but I rarely use any of this stuff, although I'd like to. It seems as if I'm waiting for something.

 

[justin_havu]

I like to collect things in which I have a particular interest.
Music in various formats, however my biggest collections are my vinyl and cassette collections. Also have a bit of a collection of instruments, but nowhere near as big as my vinyl collection.
Also, because I enjoy working out, running, cycling, etc, I have a pretty extensive collection of active clothing, (Tanks, shorts, etc.)
I also have a small collection of retro games (right now, just NES, and SNES stuff.)

 

[Myway]

I collect Disney movies and various other movies that look interesting. I also collect everything relating to dogs. Especially training books. My family thinks I am weird for this, but it makes me happy.

 

[Beverly]

I collect coins, silver and gold, legal tender coins from around the world - those are my backup/emergency retirement fun, if I need extra money then.

I also collect firearms, I do hunt when I can and, I enjoy target practice, plus I do have a permit so, a few are my carry guns. Trust no one, as they say.

As for useless things that have little value beyond my like of them for whatever reason I have a good collection of antique caning jars and, jigsaw puzzles because I like doing them, then tearing them apart again.

 

[Crossbreed]

Heads...! (See HERE & HERE) I find articulated bodies for them, as needed.

 

[unsurewhattoname]

Pointless information on things that don't matter. My computer is full of information I've gathered in way too much detail on oddly specific things. All got their folders. But hey, at least it's no longer stones and stuff. As a kid I'd love junk like stones and it'd drive my parents crazy because, you know, I brought stones home. They stopped me collecting which is how it turned into information instead. So as an older kid, once I'd stopped being so obsessed with things on the floor, I'd go to the library and get out every single book on my interest.

 

[Tom]

My two long time favorites are Toy Soldiers and Lion King trading cards and collectible stickers.

 

[Ylva]

Books. Especially leatherbound collectibles and Collins paperbacks. Used to prefer Penguin paperbacks. How times change.

 

[weth]

I do love a notebook I don't write in them though I just like to know if I did need to I'd be well stocked

 

[qwerty]

Music, so much music, Books, comics, smurfs, when i was young there was a promotion at one of the petrol station chains where you got a smurf every time you filled the car up. My Father would give me the smurf and i ended up with heaps of them most of whom unfortunately perished in the great fireworks war between the smurfs and little plastic army men.