What do you collect?

[tsptalk]

I collect a lot of things.

Sounds like you need to open a store too.

Beside American Pickers, I get a kick out of the Hoarders show. I cannot live that way, but having an antiques gallery, we just put everything there and it seems normal.

 

[burrocrat]

I have 15 gallons of corks, can you sell them?

i don't want to be disrespectful, but i wish buster would come by and post that funny cork soaker video. i started a watch collection because of him. i still only have one, a seiko field watch, but i wear it during business hours mon-fri all the time.

 

[MrBowl]

I used to collect baseball cards when I was a kid. Never got rid of them. I think I have 50,000+, mostly from the 1980s, but not exclusively. I've tried to sell them a few times but the bottom fell out of the market in the early 1990s. The same goes for my old comics and hotwheels/matchbox cars. Just never bothered to get rid of them. These days I collect some coins, but not aggressively. I have 300-400 CDs, mainly of classic rock.

These days my wife says I collect x-rays and MRIs of myself

 

[parsox]

I collect guitars at this time. Prior to that is was G1 transformers (80s toy) and video games from Nintendo forward . Alas those two collections have been sold off as they are much to difficult to care for when PCSing.

 

[polarbear]

I collect a lot of things. I retired in December, so I will eventually write my retirement essay here. I am also something of a pack rat, and the wife wants me to declutter. In my time frame, that may happen by and by. I collect some low-value art works by not famous artists. West-Pac stuff from the 70s is in boxes and on display. I bought three pencil sketches for $3 each from a young European artist in the Shiboya train station in Tokyo 1979, framed, we enjoy them, name Betak, seems to be a famous European artistic family, but I don't know more specifics yet. I collect books and records, and old family stuff, like an old camera, Dad's old cast-iron (steel?) level, pat. 1896, Stanley of course, also a 2.5 foot wooden Stanley level, pat. 1906, I bought at the Chula Vista flea market 1979, Dad's Eastman Studio scale, Dad's Zeiss camera, stuff like that. You will love this, I have four wooden office bucket chairs on coaster wheels, three in good shape, plan to refinish them! Still have one bicycle, the Motobecane Grand Touring I bought at the bike shop on Grand Avenue in PB in 1972 along with add-ons it came to about $115. When my cousin and I were clearing out my aunt's apartment in Slovakia in 1999, we found a very old rolling pin from probably the mid-1800s because it's solid, no axle, red spruce. When my cousin found it, she called out to me, This is old! This must be from your great-great grandmother! Still have my old stamp collection, it needs TLC. May start collecting coins by and by. Hoping for a monster pullback next week. Come, pullback, come! Speaking of West-Pac, I've got a Pioneer SX 1280 I bought at the Exchange in Yokusaka in 1979 for $440. Still haven't taken it out of the box. An audio nut at work nearly passed out when I told him that. Need to wire it up with speakers and a turntable and so on. Another to-do item.

 

[tsptalk]

Im big on collections. My primary two are coins and olympic pins. I really like liberty nickels. I also collect wine. Yes wine. Its kind of weird though, every once in a while, like nightly, a bottle leaves my collection. But by the end of a week i own more bottles then before.

the coin thing is. Bit weird too. On this site we try to make one dollar into more dollars. But i have turned hundreds of dollars into just one nickel.

We don't carry many coins in our store, but we probably should. People are always asking for them.

 

[tsptalk]

I have 15 gallons of corks, can you sell them?

15 gallons. :laugh: Wow! I'll bet you can make a few of these and sell them...

 

[tsptalk]

I've seen it all, EDL, so Atari is not strange at all.

The fans are very cool. I watch American Pickers all the time, and they always grab old fans if they can get them at a good price.

When I find old stuff, the dilemma is whether or not to clean it up, restore it, or leave it as is.

 

[EricDeLee]

I collect all sorts of things.
My most recent adventure for the past year or two: antique fans.
I found one about 5 years ago, and lugged it around from office to office. It's an old Govt issue Emerson Desk fan (metal blades that can dice fingers like cucumbers. Then I got to looking around flea markets and stuff and found some really beautiful ones with brass blades. I also like to restore them, and clean them up a bit. I can usually find some lord ones, get a $15 price tag from the flea market, drop a new cord on it, polish it up a bit and then sell it for $75 or more.

But it prior to that... I collected Atari games. Lol. Yes... Strange but true. I have a huge atari collection with prototypes and crazy stuff. I wouldn't mind learning about grabbing some silver and gold as well. I heard it could be a great way to beat inflation. Lol. I am going to swallow the pill some day and grab a 100gram bar of gold. But I'm hoping te price goes down sometime soon so I have more buying power! Silver seems cheap... Maybe I can go that route and hope it pops up $10 or $20.

 

[nnuut]

I have the same problem with my wine collection. I do save the corks to remind me how much money on blew on it, though.

I have 15 gallons of corks, can you sell them?

 

[tsptalk]

I have the same problem with my wine collection. I do save the corks to remind me how much money on blew on it, though.

 

[nnuut]

Im big on collections. My primary two are coins and olympic pins. I really like liberty nickels. I also collect wine. Yes wine. Its kind of weird though, every once in a while, like nightly, a bottle leaves my collection. But by the end of a week i own more bottles then before.

the coin thing is. Bit weird too. On this site we try to make one dollar into more dollars. But i have turned hundreds of dollars into just one nickel.

I'm a WINE guy, but only red wines you know the stuff with the tannins. I can't seem to collect any, guess it's because I drink all of them!:laugh:

 

[rktect1]

Im big on collections. My primary two are coins and olympic pins. I really like liberty nickels. I also collect wine. Yes wine. Its kind of weird though, every once in a while, like nightly, a bottle leaves my collection. But by the end of a week i own more bottles then before.

the coin thing is. Bit weird too. On this site we try to make one dollar into more dollars. But i have turned hundreds of dollars into just one nickel.

 

[tsptalk]

I have been an active collector of art for the last 20 years, mostly local artists but also some bigger names.

Owning an art and antiques gallery, I started to collect a few things: I like old gambling stuff. I have an old slot machine in my office, tons of old poker chips, a 100+ year old card table, old casino stuff, etc.

I like old coffee items like hand bean grinders, old coffee pots, old coffee cans, etc.

I also started collecting Marilyn Monroe stuff, almost by accident. I found a cool poster of her that I ended up hanging in my garage, and one or two other things. When people saw that, they started to buy me Marilyn stuff as gifts assuming I was a collector, which now I guess I am. I don't have a ton of stuff, but I like the older things like old photos, etc. Not so much the "repops" (reproductions).

So, what do you collect?