What do you collect?

[Doogos]

Collecting things has always been a hobby of mine in some capacity, and I find other people's collections very interesting. So my question is, what do you collect or what have you previously collected?

Through the years I've collected Pokemon cards, different rocks, pens, and retro video games.

These days I find myself collecting two things:
1. Books, usually thriller or horror novels as I find them extremely entertaining
2. Action figures, mostly WWE figures, Star Wars figures, and lately Dragon Ball Z figures. I just think they're neat!

 

[Nancy Hart]

When I was I kid and we traveled a lot in the summer it was unusual rocks from different places and little soaps from motels. (Soap didn't keep very well over time. )

Then it was matches from unusual restaurants and hotels/motels. Until places stop providing free matches.

I don't travel much anymore, so most recently it was oil/kerosene lamps, until I ran out of places to keep them and had to stop.

 

[MamaFrankie]

Snowglobes, cuddly toys and pictures of Tomas Ledin.

 

[Marie Mallory]

Not a collector but I always liked China Ware.
I do have some old English Royal Vale cup's saucer's biscuit plates Jake saw at Goodwill Store and after fighting 2 old ladies for them and won, he got the whole set.
8 cups, saucers and biscuit plates.
Also a set of China packed up that I forgot the name.
I also like to collect glassware or used to.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

I don’t collect anything anymore either; but I also love china, @Marie Mallory . My mother had some Franciscan Desert Rose, and I have that. In 1969, I found a box of it at the thrift store and bought it, and then have added a few pieces as I found them over the years. Bobby built me a china cabinet, so after over 50 years of being packed around during moves, and living in boxes a lot of the time, they are actually out where i can look at them now, and I enjoy it.
I used to use them for eating sometimes, but mostly just use the lightweight Corning ware dishes now; but I still love seeing the Franciscan china in the cabinet, right here beside my desk. You can see the top of my Halls Aladdin Lamp tea pot. My mother made tea for us when I was growing up in one just like this.
This is the top half of the cabinet, the bottom has just closed doors.

 

[Marie Mallory]

I don’t collect anything anymore either; but I also love china, @Marie Mallory . My mother had some Franciscan Desert Rose, and I have that. In 1969, I found a box of it at the thrift store and bought it, and then have added a few pieces as I found them over the years. Bobby built me a china cabinet, so after over 50 years of being packed around during moves, and living in boxes a lot of the time, they are actually out where i can look at them now, and I enjoy it.
I used to use them for eating sometimes, but mostly just use the lightweight Corning ware dishes now; but I still love seeing the Franciscan china in the cabinet, right here beside my desk. You can see the top of my Halls Aladdin Lamp tea pot. My mother made tea for us when I was growing up in one just like this.
This is the top half of the cabinet, the bottom has just closed doors.

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Very pretty, looks like Bobby did a great job on the cabinet too.
I don't think we've ever used the cups since we like larger content, not mugs, coffee glass cups.

 

[Krystal]

I don't really collect anything anymore. One thing I use to collect is Old Cookie Cutters. I still have several of them.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

When we moved out here from Idaho to Alabama, I brought all of my Franciscan china along with me, just like I have done for all the years that I have had it. I also have a set of Fiestaware that i collected over the years, and I love that, too.
My mom had some Fiestaware, and i remember the little tea cups from when we had tea before bed sometimes, but hers was the really old Fiestaware in the old colors, and mine is newer than that and mostly in the rose pink color.
It is silly, but I miss it, even though it would just be in the china cabinet along with the Franciscan if I had it here; so it will just stay out in Idaho, I guess.

I was looking at some of the larger fiestaware mugs online, and just for one coffee mug it was around $22, which seems like way too much money to me to spend just so i can have my morning coffee in a pink Fiestaware coffee mug again.
I am still thinking about it, nonetheless.

 

[Mary Stetler]

My house is so full of 'collections' I could probably officially be called a hoarder. I used to collect cows , china models of them. But sold most in our last move at the rummage sale.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

My house is so full of 'collections' I could probably officially be called a hoarder. I used to collect cows , china models of them. But sold most in our last move at the rummage sale.

I used to have Morse stuff, but I have been a vagabond most of my adult life, and things either have gotten lost along the way, or I just could not keep moving them. What is left is mostly still up in storage in Idaho, and i don’t know if I will ever even see it again.