*Junk in Your Trunk*
 

Well I saw this guy on tv who collected navel lint.......LOL
So it got me thinking (dangerous I know:D),

What do you wonderful, eclectic people collect?

~and~

What is the prize of your collection?

~and~

What do think your collection says about you?

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If you have pics of your collection even better......:D

i collect hat badges...i'm not an avid collector, but i have a few

Besides Mardi Gras beads?

Stuffed animals, especially cats, lions, and tigers.
(small "pocket size" only)


Wickedly,

WW

Lilith - I saw the navel lint guy too. I was amazed at how serious he was about it.

I can't think of anything that I collect.....

Crystal Stemware and candles. :)

Oldfart, AKA Packrat Extraordinaire.

Little model aircraft, trek/wars spacecraft etc.

Squillions of books and videos.

model Nascar cars , semi's & all kinds of hats

weapons.....like my sword collection..........oriental weapons......
prize......a friend made me a set of kamas......okinawan weapon that kinda looks like a small hand held sickle....suckers are sharp as a razor...

I'm a HUGE packrat...
 

but I do have one nice twisted thing I collect.

I collect miniature and unusual chamber pots, bedpans and other bathroom/toilet memorabilia. :eek:

:D

Yep. That IS an odd one. LOL

*if it makes you feel better about me i also collect antiques especially old toys, new and old mohair teddy bears, chairs...yep, I collect chairs....dolls made out of old linens and shoes.

I collect movie posters, and my prize has to be my jersey trilogy posters (got all three, woohoo!!) by the way, if anyone has access to the Star Wars Episode 2 poster, and they want to sell it or give it away, PLEASE let me know.

Lilith-
I noticed that you didn't share what you collect... please fill us in.

I collect wood... wood statues, wood bowls, weird, cool driftwood, wood boxes, etc. My prize is a handcarved statue about 3 feet tall, of a woman carrying a basket on her head. Got it at a flea market for $35.... Have been offered $1,500 since... no way!

I collect china, crystal, and antique dishes too. My prize is my grandmother's china.

I think the wood thing reflects my love of the earth, and my appreciation for the craft. Don't know about the china/dish thing... but can't pass up a beautiful old dish.

Thanks for asking Sadora.....
 

besides 'victims';)..... I have 3 things I collect~none of which are sexy :D

#1 is teacups~ I adore them, all kinds. Prefer old,well used ones. I like to wonder who sipped from them and what they talked about over their cup of tea. Funny I prefer them with out saucers. If I find one with out a saucer I bring it home, as if to keep it company.LOL I have them (zillions) hanging as a border around the perimeter of my dining room and kitchen.

#2 Ladybugs~The children I have taught have always given me ladybug gifts, including living and dead ones :) My entire classroom has always been set up in a ladybug theme.

#3 odd McDonald's memorabilia~ Met hubby as teens flipping burgers. Have the gigantic flag that flew over the store where we met and lots of other strange type McDonald's artifacts, much of it from other countries. I don't collect mainstream merchandise.

none of these things really reflect me though.... They mainly reflect the relationships I have with others....

dragons

sadora and lilith!! I love your collections...the teacup/china one is a favorite of mine too.

*cool hint of the day...when/if your china gets chipped just plant them standing up in your garden with the chipped edge in the ground! they look WONDERFUL peeking out from flowers and inside the teacups you'll sometimes find a frog or a LADYBUG taking shelter!


And sadora, I found a driftwood cross with a stone imbedded in it...still around here somewhere. I would love to send it to you if I ever find it in this mess I call "home"...

(i will email you when i dig it up again if you're interested)

Collecting; the bane of my existence, my parents lived thru the Great Depression, & became world class Packrats, & trained me in the finer points... now I find myself in my childhood home, with their 45+ yrs. of junk, PLUS the accumluation of 27 yrs. of my adult/married life... trying to rid myself (with the help of Ebay) of coins, china, crystal, glassware, etc.... HELP!!!

Hey Scotzoidman!
Those Depression era parents really taught us well, didn't they??
I think their motto must have been "You never know when you're going to need it." I swear my mother never threw anything away!! And of course neither do I!:D
The only way I've gotten rid of the clutter, hers and ours, is as a result of 2 separate housefires, 11 years apart. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, but it sure did get rid of a lot of stuff!!:(

I have a small collection of v.w. stuff my prize is my 68 ghia waiting to be rebuilt

Jay, my love, man of my dreams, stud of my soul, keeper of my fantasy car, when are you going to finish her.......she's a beauty;) I can see you now bent over he with your Patrick Swayze-like ass......... oh a girl can always dream....... I think that is the sexiest pic I have seen posted ;) <jk boys>

it will be about two years unless I win the loterey and can work all day and night on her not to mension buy all the parts sorry she isn't a convertable

Jay she is perfect! No need for her to be topless:)

I think we can learn alot from people by what they collect.

Randy- If you ever find it, let me know. How lovely to think of me!

Lilith- would have never pegged you as a tescup girl! Then again, you wouldn't think of china and fragile dishes with me! The victim thing I figured. Just goes to show the diversity of the personality.

I collect anything and everything :D just joking actaully I am a very bad packrat trying to improve my ways..... But I do love my Snowbabies heres a pic of some of them.

Phone cards and sexy internet pictures (greetigs to the lot of anonymous pic collectors) and pictures of pretty or interesting faces.
About the character: It started with the faces collection because I wanted to find out what on a face is the interesting thing to me actually. Later I continued with the other pics because it grew like a little addiction. The phone cards are nice things with nice pictures, I simply like watching them.

Sprinkles, it's worse than you can believe, a 50s rancher w/a full basement, 2 mini barns, an attic stuffed to the rafters, & still renting a 10 X 20 storage unit... I'm drowning in .... STUFF!!!

I have a collection of alcohol bottles that I've emptied w/ many friends over the years, the old Arizona tea bottles(but the odd non-tea flavors), and I collect little boxes, tins, and just little things to put stuff in.

I have a lifetime of unrelated odd junk items that had some significance somewhere along the way that I call memorabilia. i.e. 7” Dia. Piston from a Lycolming radial aircraft engine, Western Union telegraph key, femur bone of a hog (I think), a 12-1/2” [full round] conifer-base Polypore (mushroom), etc. :confused:
Oh ya, Maps,.....lots a maps!

The closest I have to a “collection” is the 3 monkeys that just started to accumulate. I now have between 75 to 80 of the things.



(I ALWAYS WANTED TO COLLECT PANTIES, BUT I KEEP EATING THEM!):p :p :p :rolleyes:

"Forgetter's getting better!"
 

I forgot a pic. (sorry)

I forgot too!
 

Here are just a couple of my teacups! It's a pretty eclectic collection. I probably have over 80 and have broken almost that many LMAO:D (like a bull in a china shop):D

...and more of the little buggers!
 

"...help, they're comming in the windows."

I collect several things. Sheet Music going all the way back to WWI, Baseball Caps, (but not teams, just businesses and sayings), hat pins, Lyrics to really ancient ballads, and Sci-fi paperbacks. The wife collects tin boxes, crystal candelholders, oil lamps, and unfinished needlepoint projects

Murphy~I have some (lots)of those needlepoint projects she can have LMAO!!!!!!

I collect paper. Yeah yeah, I know, we all accumulate the stuff, but I'm talking about nice paper. Stationery, handmade paper, silk paper, rice paper, papyrus, cork paper, foil paper, you name it. I have it all in an expanding file that I have to sit on to close. I actually started a business making handmade greeting cards when I was in high school just as an excuse to buy more paper, but though the business is long since defunct I still keep buying paper...

I also collect Bach. Not just any Bach either, though it's all good; I collect the Goldberg Variations. I have 14 recordings of them on CD, another 6 on casette, and another 8 or 9 on vinyl (don't have a functioning record player anymore though :()... The funny thing is, I know all the music intimately, but I can't hum more than the first few bars of the aria or aria da capo, and only a couple of bars of two or three of the other variations, unless I'm actually listening at the time. Go figure. Anyway, I love the richness and subtlety of the music...

For some reason people seem to think I collect rabbits. I have never ever bought a stuffed rabbit, but I have about 30; people spontaneously give them to me without knowing about the rest of the collection --- apparently I'm just a funny bunny. Or something like that.

*looking around the room*

Oh. Obviously I also collect dust bunnies. I didn't include those in my bunny count, but I think I'm going to open a breeding colony for them. Not that rabbits of any variety need help breeding... :rolleyes:

--- sweetstuff

PF,
I love your monkey collection!! I just can't resist posting this pic.......my family's version of it taken in 1989:

I don't collect, I mean my nature is to hoard things in case they come in handy but I then get scared about becoming a little old lady with a house full of junk and periodically throw everything out...mmm perhaps this is another phobia...

egg cups
bells
and pig things as a child i always wanted a pet pig still working on it can't seem to get jnd to agree on it yet.

More Junk Update.
 

Had to share this with someone.
In spite of the fact that my last project ended 4 weeks ago and I’m not spending money until I get some of these other irons from the fire:( , I did today.
Was driving down a residential street and see a yard sale which is where most of my 3-monkey collection has come from. I stop whenever I have the time and a few extra buck in my pocket. That wasn’t either count today:( . But I stopped anyway;). Now I find one monkey figurine in every 20 stops, but buy some other cleaver piece of junk I can’t figure out how I’ve gotten this old without:confused:.
When I ask about the 3-monkeys I’m told “NO, only that thing with them stacked up”:cool:.
So here’s No. 87 in my collection. LMAO :D

OMG that is fabulously hideous:D:D:p LOVE IT!!!!!!!

EXACTLY!

I love it too. :)

Tacky Chic to the max...only thing worse could be the woman's leg lamp Darren McGavin had in "Christmas Story"

I'm looking for that too ;)