Things you've "collected" over the years

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I have a few big stacks of comic books and CDs from when I was a teen.

In my younger years I had a huge comic book collection. Then I gave them all to my brother and started collecting records instead. I was up to over 400 albums by the time I left home.

More recently: Coffee cups; stuffed penguins (at least thirty); dragon-related anything (stuffed toys, sculptures, paintings, and a substantial body of Dragonlance books, paintings and whatnot... Easily several hundred items there); plus a huge crystal bowl full of semi-precious stones and a closet full of musical gear.

To name but a few, in no particular order:

He-Man figurines
Transformers
British Natural History Museum dinosaur figurines
Maps & Atlases (including my own fantasy land maps)
Anything English
Flags
Hot Sauces (arranged by potency, of course)
Rocks & Minerals
Cacti & Succulents
Herbs
Birch Trees (yes, trees)
Anything Welsh
National Geographic Magazines
Antique Books

Computer hard drives.

I now have six, several with an O/S that won't boot itself any longer!!

They have rare earth magnets in them. I had a bunch but opened them for the magnets still have two.

...and I thought I was the only one that opened them for the magnets...

Let me guess...you also have magnets you saved out of old speakers?

I do. Somewhere around here.

If you like radio tubes you will love this video of how they are made, this guy makes them by hand, its a french website

http://paillard.claude.free.fr/

Starting in kindergarten, I've collected old stuff. My most useless collection was my first - broken glass and pottery from my parent's garden. When we moved, they threw my comprehensive broken sh*t collection away and I've been trying to recapture the magic of that collection ever since.

Currently have so much 19th century furniture that I need a bigger house to put it in.

Z

Over the years I've collected American stamps, Boy Scout stamps, pennies (still save them), world coins, magnets, keys, electric motors, software, (currently) movies, problably any number other things. I also had a car on blocks for years that I swore I would one day fix up.

Soooooooo many things, I couldn't count. The one I'm most proud of though is my collection of over 1,000 four, five, six, seven and eight-leaf clovers! They're all pressed three to a page in a book, in sections depending on how many leafs they have, and all recorded on a sheet in the front with date, place found, and the current tally of the various numbers.

When I was younger - matchbox cars

Never really played with them either. I liked to sort them based on whatever categorical relationship suited my fancy at the moment (aspie alert!)

More recently - exotic beer bottles

But... only if I've actually consumed it's contents!

I've collected brochures from places I've never even been to I can't do that too much as my mom's a clean freak, but I sneak in a brochure or two when I can

Beanie babies
DVDs
CDs
Mr Men books

rocks
dinosaurs
salamanders
newts
snakes
fishing magazines

GI Joes, Comic Bookks, handmade quilts, Vintage military surplus leather , gloves, capes, hats, bones

Tangerine Dream Albums:

Stratosfear
Phaedra
Tournado
Dream Sequence
Thief
Force Majeure
Transsiberia
Mars Polaris

Want to collect:
Rubycon
Ricochet
Logos
Oasis
Valentine Wheels
Great Wall of China
Antique Dreams