You collect . . . WHAT?

Vavet, the 62 is my age. A glorious 62 and I'm grateful for it, some of my friends never made it this far.

What is the green stuff in the belly button lint tin?

 

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good question.. green sweater?

 

hahaha snaz that is the greatest collection of anything that i have ever seen

 

Well, my collections are: US coins, commemorative Coke bottles, US stamps and the turbo-charged Chrysler products of the 1980s and early 1990s (plus a couple of other cars I'd like to have). Coins, Coke bottles and cars are my active collections. The USPS just went crazy and I couldn't afford to keep up so my stamps have 'gone by the wayside'. Great thread!!!! David.

 

i like that hotsauce collection i bet that took a long time

 

Snaz,

That's nasty!

Got any extra earwax saved up?

I'm making candles

 

I collect old road maps, key chains, postcards, hotel entry cards... nothing serious though.

 

I have collections of coins, 1950s-60s baseball cards, and pre-World War II phonograph records. My wife has collections of refrigerator magnets and Christmas ornaments. My sons have collections of stuffed animals won from claw machines and metal rings from opening soda cans.

Everything is collectible. Not everyting collected is valuable.

 

My mother collects x-mas tree pins like this one: http://www.atlantaantiquegallery.com/images/cat/MyluMulticolorXmasTreePin1536169908m.jpg

I however, collect coins of course.. but also collect wooden boxes. Mostly hand-made boxes from all places and shapes. The only hard thing about it is the storage, obviously most of the boxes I get are stacked inside other boxes.

http://woodencrafts.net/images/RHJB026.jpg

Maybe I'll start putting coins in them

-DJ

 

Old bottles, we live in an area where the town dump was located in the late 1800's. Some of the junk thats come out of there would start its own collection. Doll feet, single shoes still whole. etc. and lots and lots of old bottles.

 

since I haven't chimed in on this one yet...

GUILTY on the matchbooks. Started collecting them as a teenager, and I have them from all over the world.

another odd collection from my teens is BEER CANS!!! Did anyone else collect them in the 1970s? I STILL have 2 Budweiser cans on my desk. One from 1936 (really old gold label), and one from the 60s (closer to the familiar label, but not quite the same). Many of you have seen this one.

A computer client of mine has a cone-top Schlitz can that I am completely in love with too... sheesh, you got me started!!!

 

Wow - I'm ... overwhelmed, relieved and a tiny bit worried about some of you (grin).

My collections seem to have a theme so along with the coins, of course, I collect items related to coins (coin jewelry, dishes or glassware with coins, redbooks, bluebooks, stamps of people who have also been on coins, and unique theme banks or those change makers carhops use to wear on the belts, etc).

I don't have any photos but I could likely open a coin museum (as in look, don't touch and no it's not for sell today). With the release of the presidential coins last year I found myself drawn back to plates with presidents on them but that just got out of hand.

However, I'm totally intrigued by the airsick bag collection. That is way cool and very ingenuitive.

I used to travel a lot more than I do now and had a huge 'room card key' collection because I could never remember to turn them in at checkout. My grandsons used to have fun putting them in wallets and pretending they were credit cards. Looked impressive from afar. Between that and my burned out cell phones (with all the travel I went through a cell phone about every six months) they looked loaded for bear with 2-3 cell phones on their belts and a wallet full of plastic. Again, no photos. Use your imaginations.

 

Used to collect business cards once. Also collected Monopoly sets, especially foreign ones (still have quite a few of them, but don't actively collect them anymore).

 

Obviously, besides coins, I collect baseball memorabilia, autographs from actors/actresses, politicians, athletes, musicians and comedians, guitars and books about ghosts of the Gettysburg Battlefield.