By: Devils Rancher
most of my collections are useless but carry experiences and help remind me of where i've been I have small handfulls of rocks that do this for me -- stream cobbles from a lovely cave in Mexico &...
View ArticleBy: cristinacristinacristina
i think it's great when people collect things and make it a personal experience. like the woman collecting matchbooks takes time to draw the location where she found the matchbook on the inner jacket...
View ArticleBy: helicomatic
Cast iron cookware collectors sometimes have to reinforce their homes to handle the sheer mass of iron contained therein. My cast iron collection contains only a single skillet, but I know everything I...
View ArticleBy: Forktine
The pictures are pretty, and I feel fortunate that those people exist, because they are the ones you turn to when you come across some random thing and want to learn about it. There's always some...
View ArticleBy: DisreputableDog
I used to collect coins in a "I've been there / it looks cool / how interesting!" way. Coins from my birth place since that's where my parents met, the U.S. States Quarters collection in a book, wheat...
View ArticleBy: 1adam12
I found the bricks to be surprisingly interesting as well. And if you don't know what to do with them, you could always pave a garden path and bide your time. I collected swords for a while. Again,...
View ArticleBy: Dr. Send
I never thought I'd say this, but I really dig that guy's brick collection. It would be cool to see them all stacked up into a wall of sorts.
View ArticleBy: kozad
When eBay debuted, I toyed with the idea of becoming a collector, but the eBay thing of course soured me on the whole idea. Scouring antique stores (as much as I enjoy it twice a year) was no longer an...
View ArticleBy: louche mustachio
I have always had the urge to collect, so I understand. When I was little, it was shells - not just random ones, I had to know about the creatures that lives in them. It was sparked by a camel cowry I...
View ArticleBy: Western Infidels
I came in here to snark about the glass telegraph insulators, particularly since such a collection was a minor point of surrealism in The Willodale Handcar by Edward Gorey. Of all things. But I can't....
View ArticleBy: filthy light thief
My problem with collecting is I always price myself out of everything. I'll discover a cool thing I want to collect, and I'll buy a few indiscriminately, then out of enthusiasm, I'll start educating...
View ArticleBy: BlueHorse
Ah, yes. Nat, my daughter had ten of those bears--on swings, trikes, in high chairs, etc. I need to weed down the collections, but where to start? I have my old teenaged collection of china horses,...
View ArticleBy: Devils Rancher
My problem with collecting is I always price myself out of everything. I'll discover a cool thing I want to collect, and I'll buy a few indiscriminately, then out of enthusiasm, I'll start educating...
View ArticleBy: bluespark25
This post creates an electric buzz though my whole body. I could so easily be one of these people, except I'd actually have to be about 100 of them--how do they focus on *just* one thing? All of the...
View ArticleBy: nat
Does a collection of collections contain itself? (Personally I collected little plastic fuzz-coated creatures-- like this bear. I wonder if my parents still have them.)
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