What do you collect?

[Samantha's pet]

A friend has recently gotten me started collecting vintage Pyrex! I love it and I'm completely fixated, lol. I am not one for clutter. I HATE things that sit around with no purpose so I never thought collecting something could make me so happy but I just love it. They are useful in a way but, to be honest, I didn't really NEED any more baking dishes or bowls. I have actually phased out a lot of my old stuff just so I could get some Pyrex. I can't believe all I have accumulated in just a month!

 

[Samantha's pet]

 

[Samantha's pet]

 

[yoko]

Video games and video game 'extra stuff' The more Japanese-y the better!

Phone charms.

 

[PlottMom]

Dogs... lol

 

[crazedACD]

Breyer horses...I don't purchase them new anymore though, I'll only pick one up if I see it at a yard sale or something.

 

[Shai]

I never collected anything as a kid...things were collected for me (like an aunt who gave me a Christmas gift from the same figurine line every Christmas) but I was never really into it...I thought they were cute don't get me wrong but I was just never interested in collecting more... I'd hang on to the odd "old" coin or whatnot but that's about it...and it was just happenstance not intentional search/find...

And post-college I've just never stayed in one place long enough to collect anything. Average a move a year for the last ten years. So my mission has always been to minimize rather than accumulate.

So how have I amassed so much stuff???? lol

 

[BeachBum]

Books

My prized possession,even though it's not worth anything, is a 1910 edition of Wild Flowers East of the Rockies by Chester A Reed. It has beautiful colour plates too.

Joce: I love that photo of the logging horses.

 

[Kaydee]

A friend has recently gotten me started collecting vintage Pyrex! I love it and I'm completely fixated, lol. I am not one for clutter. I HATE things that sit around with no purpose so I never thought collecting something could make me so happy but I just love it. They are useful in a way but, to be honest, I didn't really NEED any more baking dishes or bowls. I have actually phased out a lot of my old stuff just so I could get some Pyrex. I can't believe all I have accumulated in just a month!

Very pretty, very unique! Perhaps you could start collecting Fiestaware too, beautiful colors.

I have a house of cat...pictures, statues, books, clothes, dolls...all with cat images. Some were from my Mom, some from when I was a kid, the rest just reproduced on their own. Frogs, started with a stone one in the garden and up to about ten now.

Books? Don't know if it's a collection or just being an avid reader but every wall, every room, every surface has books.

Books, cats and a dog by my side n' life is good

 

[maxfox426]

Foxes. OMG. Foxes.

If the foxes are also stuffed animals, all the better.

This is one of those collections that snuck up on me. For a long time I didn't believe I really collected anything. Then I looked around one day and though HOLY HECK I have a lot of foxes. LOL

 

[GipsyQueen]

Postcards. I have about 1000 by now. I buy at least 10 anywhere I go, and I always have people send me some. My dad always brings some back from where ever he is, so I have some from all over the world.
A few years ago, I could fill on entire wall with postcards. ^^

 

[puppydog]

Nothing. I abhor clutter. Paul is the collector in the relationship. He collects African art and books. I spend my time slowly disappearing African Art and books.

 

[CharlieDog]

Nothing. I abhor clutter. Paul is the collector in the relationship. He collects African art and books. I spend my time slowly disappearing African Art and books.

Roflmao. Nice. Best post yet.

 

[JessLough]

Feels like I'm collecting ferrets, most days

 

[Dizzy]

Nothing... My attention span is far too short.

 

[Romy]

Books. Somehow I've started collecting autographed books, but not intentionally.

Chicken art, but only really cool chicken art. None of that chintzy mass produced ceramic stuff. I just think they're really amazing beautiful birds. I don't have that many pieces yet, it's just something I get if I see a really nice piece that grabs me.

Sea shells too, though I'm passing those on to my daughter. She really loves them.

 

[AussieAshley]

Mostly just books, clutter makes me antsy. I would love to have enough books to populate a home library one day.

Other than that I have a fair amount of elephant stuff (lamps, art, etc) and some muppets and disney things. Usually I stick to things that I can convince myself are useful like mugs and t-shirts because if I didn't my entire house would be populated by adorable little plushies. I have to drag myself away from them at the Disney Store, I collected them as a kid and even still today a few have crept home with me.

 

[Miakoda]

I collect Breyer horses. It used to be model horses in general, but as I became a "big girl", I had to cut back on my "little girl" activity. All my Breyers are currently in their boxes and packed away in big boxes. To date, I have approx. 230 horses, mainly Arabians, racing Thoroughbreds, and odds and ends favorites that just appeal to me.

I also probably have the largest horse book collection. LOL I have not gotten rid of a single horse book from my childhood days, and at last count, I had approx. 1,100 books (ranging from short stories to westerns, such as Roy Rogers, to nonfiction books about breeds and riding/training to fiction, such as The Saddle Club and Throughbred......basically, if there as a horse in it, I have it ). I have a hard time bringing myself to get rid of them. I know I could make a lot of little girls, and boys, happy by donating all the books to them, but they hold sooo many memories, that I just cannot bring myself to do it yet.

Ok, if it's horse-related, I collect it.

Oh, and I have a 2nd Edition copy of Black Beauty. It is my prized possession!


Hubby collects shot glasses from places he's traveled to/visited (I would buy them as I traveled also).


My boys collect Monster Jam monster trucks. We have 41 of the large trucks, 9 of the medium (self-propelled things) trucks, and 29 of the small trucks. I'm going broke with those things! :yikes:

 

[Snark]

I also probably have the largest horse book collection. LOL I have not gotten rid of a single horse book from my childhood days, and at last count, I had approx. 1,100 books (ranging from short stories to westerns, such as Roy Rogers, to nonfiction books about breeds and riding/training to fiction, such as The Saddle Club and Throughbred......basically, if there as a horse in it, I have it ). I have a hard time bringing myself to get rid of them. I know I could make a lot of little girls, and boys, happy by donating all the books to them, but they hold sooo many memories, that I just cannot bring myself to do it yet.

Ok, if it's horse-related, I collect it.

Oh, and I have a 2nd Edition copy of Black Beauty. It is my prized possession!

Cool!

We'll have to compare lists... I've been collecting horse books since childhood as well - still have the original 3 book Fury series I received for Christmas in '62. I tend to collect illustrators - CW Anderson, Paul Brown, Wesley Dennis, etc., besides the breed/training/riding/fiction/non-fiction books. Don't think I have 1100 books but it's close!

I also collect dog figurines, any medium but resin/plastic (just don't like them). I started with this collie my great-grandmother gave me almost 50 years ago.

I have 2 prized possessions. One is a bronze of a deerhound, dated 1878.

The other is a bronze racehorse my grandmother gave me, that had belonged to my grandfather. I wish I knew which horse/jockey it's supposed to depict - would have been in the 30s, I think.

I like this little wooden Dachshund, too.

I've also started collecting Vaseline glass - it's got trace amounts of uranium in it so it glows in black light or sunlight.

 

[Miakoda]

Postcards. I have about 1000 by now. I buy at least 10 anywhere I go, and I always have people send me some. My dad always brings some back from where ever he is, so I have some from all over the world.
A few years ago, I could fill on entire wall with postcards. ^^

My best friend's sister, who currently lives in France, will be coming down here in early August to visit her Dad. Is it expensive to mail from Fance to Germany? I could send you some postcards from here, and send them back with her and she can mail them from her home.

I'm in southeastern Louisiana.