Things you've "collected" over the years

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My son used to collect bits of twig off trees and metal bits that had fallen off cars. I had to put them under my daughter's pushchair to bring home. I used to call him Steptoe after a programme on TV in England about a rag and bone man. I don't know if you ever saw that in America?

When we got home I would have to try and persuade him to put them in the garden which he always objected to.

As he got older it was Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh - a bit more socially acceptable. We viewed it all with good humour (most of the time!)

I could have written this, except for the hood ornaments (ouch). I am especially fond of interesting rocks. I pick up pieces of toys. I almost got run over in the Wal-mart parking lot doubling back to snag a bendy Wal-mart smiley. He's on my desk here at work, along with other parkinglot finds - my headless spaceman, and tiny supergirl. I also have a real fork that I found...in the road. It's flat.

Hey Arbie, I used to live in Summerville, S.C. when I was a kid and I have a huge collection of fossils. I would have dragged home that whale skull, too.

I've got about 100 smurfs.

I have always collected DICE ! !

Although I've only managed to solect about 9 altogher over the years ! !

How is this a collection?

I periodically and tearfully go through and throw out my old collections. I currently have about 200lbs of fabric and maybe 20lbs of wool yarn.

My husband (who claims to not be an aspie, but it's painfully clear to all who know him), keeps bringing home bits of mass spectrometers. He even has 2 he built of Legos in his top dresser drawer. He's worse than the kids sometimes.

I have over 1500 radio tubes and lots of other random stuff like a full set of blacksmith tools,TV's from the 1940's to present even a fifty some pound piece of petrified wood

I have a melted hay bale in the back, that's all I can think of right now. I used to have all kinds of stuff like that but lately I've been trying to get rid of excess property, so I've tossed a lot of it.

I still have two signs from a vintage railway line--OXENHOPE and BAR & TEAS.

I came very close to buying an authentic kukri once, even though it was £50--I thought it would look nice over the bed for some strange reason.

Old Computers...
heck,any computer,made them into a Beowulf Cluster,so,you know

Games.hundreds...of games.

swords.still a fledgling collection,though.i just luurve shiny things

Let's see... in some kind of chronological order...rocks in a yellow pail that sat on my porch as a kid, dog figurines, plush dogs, Johnny Cash albums, baseball cards, those puzzles that used to come with Donruss baseball cards, big band albums, Magic:The Gathering (short-lived, in 8th grade), musical instruments (i'm a trombonist), video games like NES, SNES, Sega, all the ones I rented and played as a kid...vinyl records, anything else "vintage" that I manage to find interesting...

Basically, these days it revolves around what I remember from my not-so-distant childhood or what my parents could have had as kids...

I used to collect anything related to horses; for awhile, almost everything I had related to horses in some way. Even though they're no longer an obsession, I still have quite a few horse items around my room. Then I collected frog items, although never as intensely as horse items.

For awhile I also collected rocks and seashells; I know I still have some of the seashells, but I think I got rid of most of the rocks. I also had a ton (well, more like 100+) tiny seed pearls that I refused to throw away.

Now I collect soda bottle caps. I also have far more nickels and gold dollars than is normal (outside of a collection), but I don't collect them: they're Christmas gifts from my grandparents who don't remember what they get us, and thus just give us boxes of them every year. It's the thought that counts.

I used to collect unicorns and more unicorns. Then it was cows in my 20's and now it is yarn, yarn, books about natural health and nutrition, yarn, pattern books for knitting, needlework and cross-stitch, cross-stitch floss, other books, and of course, more yarn!

I collect memories, some good, some bad.

I also collect soda cans and water bottles of beverages that I have consumed over time.
I can remember where I was and what I was doing when I finished each can or bottle.

I think it's good to remember the past sometimes.

I used to collect everything Star Wars. I would keep ever newspaper article, every magazine, every fast food toy, every action figure, book, comic book, etc that i could get a hold of. It was an expensive habbit. I still have all of it now, and i cant bring myself to get rid of it. I still add to it occasionally, especially the books.

I also collect pink panther dolls.