Do you collect things?
By missybear
@missybear (11391)
United States
January 1, 2009 8:40am CST
When i was a kid i collected animal postcards and buttons. Now for the longest time i collected nothing.
Lately i started to collect Coasters and Shopping bags, I know it sounds weird but here in Vegas they have lots of shopping places and they give you the coolest bags.
Sometimes i use them to give presents in.. My coasters i have around the top of my kitchen going all around the wall,it looks cool.
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@lovesummer (1162)
• Malaysia
1 Jan 09
When I was a kid, I used to collect stamps, stickers and seashells, little cards, letters envelops and so on. How I am collecting accesorries like necklace bracelet and all, also shopping bags like you I have lots of them here. Now I am still connecting some stamps. I don't know why I like stamps. :D
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@missybear (11391)
• United States
1 Jan 09
Stamps are cool, they like miniature postcards.
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@lovesummer (1162)
• Malaysia
1 Jan 09
Between I also collect coins. And money of different countries. Also postcards those I bought when I was travelling to other countries. I also collect lot of photos whether my own or photos of people I know and photos which I think are beautiful. I also like to collects drawings. I have my own at home and some I bought when I was travelling. I Love drawings. um also souvenirs :)
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@missybear (11391)
• United States
1 Jan 09
Sounds like you collect a little bit of everything.
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@VKXY62 (1605)
• Australia
2 Jan 09
Hello,
yes, I collect things also.
I don't collect buttons, but there are a few buttons I would like to have.
One of the strange things I collect are from the last century (1900's) that contained uranium or thorium or radium, in other words, anything that was purposfully made to be radio-active.
I learned a while ago, that in the 1920's and 1930's some buttons were made with radium glass in the middle.
They glowed in the dark. Not very healthy if it was worn a lot.
Old clocks and watches, airplane and truck parts, water jugs, plates and bowls, air cleaners and static electricity removers, smoke alarms, radio tubes, fishing lures and on and on.
I also like to collect meteorites, recent years it has been an armchair hobby, (I'll buy a specimen I want), I used to go and look for myself, found a lot too.
When younger I built and collected model planes and ships.
I collected tiny trains for a few years, (n gauge) all gone now.
I collected and restored Roman coins, mostly gone now, banknotes in uncirculated condition, I still collect, I have some of them on my website.
Strange plants, I have an interest in it if is edible or medicinal or if it is just plain weird.
@VKXY62 (1605)
• Australia
2 Jan 09
I forgot stickers and I do have some old coasters kicking around as well.
I have a real old one I scored at Kodak while servicing some equipment at their Melbourne film processing facility, about 1985. A yellow disk with a black rim, and Kodak in the middle.
@pinaybigbucks (267)
• Philippines
2 Jan 09
i used to collect stamps and stickers when i was a kid. i had 35 pen pals then from different countries so i get a lot of stamps whenever they would write to me, which was often. the stickers i bought because i found them cute. now that i'm older, i collect magnets from different countries. whenever i travel, i buy one and i put it on my ref.
@pinaybigbucks (267)
• Philippines
4 Jan 09
i like to travel a lot so my plan is to fill up my refrigerator door with magnets from all over the world. =)
@HeavenUnaware (1757)
• United States
2 Jan 09
When I was a little girl my mom got me started with collecting "spoons". Back then (1970's) so many places had a collectible spoons that you could buy as a keepsake. For example, if I went to Disneyland - I would get a little silver spoon from there. I had so many from all over the place and my mom bought me a rack to hang them in. I still have the spoons but they are no longer in the rack - just in a bag packed away.
I also collected plates with paintings on them. I did not have many but the ones I had were very cute and I still have them.
Now, I collect Wooden or crafty homemade tyle "Angels". I have them in my home and I love them. I'm a little picky about the ones I like so I mainly buy them myself rather than getting them as gifts.
I also collect postcards from around the world. I joined a site called postcrossing and I exchange postcards with strangers in other countries. It's really very neat to get them in the mail.
@missybear (11391)
• United States
2 Jan 09
My mom has little plates that are painted.
They very pretty.
@lazeebee (5461)
• Malaysia
2 Jan 09
Hi MissyBear, I can't remember what I collected as a kid. But when I was traveling a lot during my work, I used to collect soaps and shampoo/bath gel bottles from hotels - some of them had rather cute designs. Now I collect glass and plastic containers - especially those with unique designs or colors. And of course, books - I collect books, usually those of my favorite genres, and authors.
@missybear (11391)
• United States
2 Jan 09
I still have a bag full of hotel soaps and shampoos from years ago.
You never know when you run out of soap,
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
2 Jan 09
Hey missy! That does sound like something really cool to collect!
I had never thought about collecting coasters! But, then again
I don't live in a very exciting place so it wouldn't be much
fun! I guess living in Las Vegas there are lots of great things
to collect. Where I live it is just a normal large city that
isn't famous for much, except problems and trouble! I don't
even get to Manhattan anymore so I don't get to the areas where
there would be good stuff from there to collect!
@sophia1984 (278)
• China
2 Jan 09
I collect coins and stamps as a hobby.
You konw, sometimes, to collect a series of stamps it will use about several years, it is interesting, isn't it?
@missybear (11391)
• United States
2 Jan 09
My boss collects coins, he always gives us a coin for christmas.
@shoobeedoowap (63)
• Philippines
2 Jan 09
yeah its really weird to collect shopping bags and i do also collect bags,.. and i have this weird thing when shopping, i will ask first if they have bags so that iw ill buy from them.. hahaha... i have this huge collection of havaianas flip flops.. i am addicted to it, and my 2nd collection are signature bags, such as roxy, coach and guess, those are just the bags that i could afford for now..hahah :D and i also collect plumps and wedges.. i am really into foot wears and bags...
@zandy985186 (434)
• China
2 Jan 09
When I am an elementary student, between schoolmate the popular,collection such as leaf, the flowers and so on thing manufactures the bookmark. The method is very simple,so long as clamps gently it in the clean page then. Generally we will place it inside the thick dictionary. Several months or 1-2 years later, then opens the appreciation, it already became a specimen. Also some method, is must make several kinds the specimen the thing platoon to become an attractive shape, pastes above attractive cardboard. Then protects with the thin film achievement.
@polachicago (18716)
• United States
1 Jan 09
I collect old cameras and usable antiques. Usable means that I can use them at home and mix the style with contemporary furniture.
@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
1 Jan 09
I used to collect phone cards and stamps. I don't have much time any longer although I do still keep stamps that I receive from letters and parcels.
@JanetBRudman (158)
• United States
1 Jan 09
My collections are: movie star pics (autographed), mugs, magnets, teddy bears, novels, videos/DVDs, note pads, note books, socks, tote/shopping bags, jewelry, travel postcards, theatre stubs/playbills, restaurant napkins, dad's letters to mom during WW2, CD's, records (45's & 33's), my stories/writings, Jewish War Veterans stuff, greeting cards from family/friends, cartoons (reminding me of relatives, boyfriends & other friends, bosses), my late mom's mementoes, school report cards, and perfumes.
@missybear (11391)
• United States
1 Jan 09
I should have asked you if there's anything you don't collect. Wow that's a lot of stuff.
You must have lots of room.
@hibiscus_mel (719)
• United States
1 Jan 09
I collect jars and vases. I especially love chinese jars because I find them very interesting with their detailed ornaments. I have also started collecting porcelain dolls. They are just so lovely and fragile. The most that I have collected are handbags. I have a collection and I have even used some of them. I jsut love handbags since I consider this a part of a woman's accesories.
@missybear (11391)
• United States
1 Jan 09
A lot of my friends have a lot of hand bags.
I hardly ever take mine except for work.