Are You A Pack Rat Or A Collector?

I am a little of both. I do collect bells though. I have them all displayed in a cabinet. I have close to 200 of them from brass to fine china and not any two are the same. Some are old and some are newer, been bought from garage sales, flea markets, stores and so many given to me as gifts. I need to get a picture of them and put them up on here.

I collect things because I like them...peach luster dishes....porcielier tea pots with sailboats on them...terry redlin prints and plates....john mccellan plates (mother goose series)..Nina fritz water colors.... Winter silohettes by dept 56...and other things too numerous to mention!

JUst lots of nick nacks from places we have been did the salt shakers and lot them in a tornado, now I have horses unicorns bears Indian Dolls

i suppose you would call me a bit of both minnnie.i do collect fine china and anything retro kitchen things especially.i suppose its more for fun than value.i really like going to the op shops and finding fine china there and garage sales.cheers sue

I would say a little bit of both. My husband is a collector, he has over 1030 decks of cards and tons of poker chips. I have a few things that I really should not have. I collect music and CDs and so does he, so it's both. I just often wish there was a way to just place everything in an area that was easier to find.

I admit it, I'm a bit of a pack rat! I collect anything that might come in useful one day LoL. My house looks like a jumble sale, and it gets worse every day :-( There's only one thing that I properly collect though, and that's Ladybird books. For those who don't know, they are very popular children's books which have been around for years, originally published in Loughborough, England. They are little hardbacks, perfect for kiddie hands, and they used to make fabulous non fiction titles though they don't do so many of those these days. Some are now very valuable indeed. Anyway, these are my collection and I have an awful lot. I collect them for fun, but I'm sure there's a few in there which must be valuable now.

Ugh my husband is a horrible pack rat. Now he is taking my son with him. They say they collect things, but in reality, they are just pack rats.

I'm a pack rack for sure! I seem to have small collections of everything. I think a collector is someone who actually organizes their collections either on display or in a safe place. I don't do that. And when I get tired of looking at thing I sell them. So many items I 'collect' I don't really have for long anyways.

I do not collect anything anymore, it costs me too much money that I have not got! I used to collect these little dragons, and they were called pocket dragons, and they are so cute. If it was not so late here in UK I would go and get a picture for you, but it is 11.35pm at night and my hubby is in bed and they are in the bedroom. I do not think he would be too happy if I started flashing the camera off while he is asleep!!

I am more of a pack rat than a collector. I am trying to not save so much crap. When I was selling on ebay.. I would go to a garage sale or thrift stores to buy stuff to sell there. I collected boxes and packaging from work. Now that I am no longer selling.. I have been trying to get rid of that accumulated crap because I am tired of looking at it and so is my family. The only trouble is, since I am not selling on ebay or anywhere else.. I have no place to put it all I have a collection of Fenton Glass as well as Mr Peanut stuff.... but I have not added to either one of those collections in a long time