what do you collect? what are your hobbies?

[JitterbugPerfume]

I collect blue and white porceline, pewter, books (especially old ones)and book marks .

I find most of my treasures at garage sales and Goodwill

[Vorta]

1. I'm trying to get rid of stuff and simplify

You can come over and have most of it, I am tired of cleaning around it and I am getting ready to sell my house and move to simpler (in my own mind anyway) digs.

[JitterbugPerfume]

6. don't throw anything away

till I get there!:blush: I am a pack rat

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. My hobby is scrapbooking. I don't really collect anything.

I guess you could say books, but I'm not avid about it.

[JitterbugPerfume]

4. my daughter in law scrap books

and it looks like a fascinating hobby.

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. It's alot of fun and I feel like I'm creating a lasting history for

my kids.

[Pendrench]

7. My wife also scrapbooks -- and she just started making her own jewelery.

So we spend a lot of time in scrapbook stores and bead shops! :)

Tim

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. and you are a wonderful husband for going along with her.

:D :hi:

I usually end up going by myself. MrG likes the finished pages but prefers I indulge by myself.

[trof]

3. Coffee mugs. Mainly with airline logos.

Mostly now defunct airlines.
Unhappily there are a lot to choose from.

[JitterbugPerfume]

5. a likely hobby for a pilot

I will keep my eye open for them at Goodwill :hi:

[trof]

12. Goodwill & Salvation Army is where I usually find them.

Once in a while at garage sales.

[JitterbugPerfume]

14. Salvation Army stores are great

for collectors
I found a book there for Oneighty once that he had looked for in vain for a long time, after lending out his copy.

<sigh> Now I get it back:cry:

[trof]

35. Yeah, I miss him too.

[fudge stripe cookays]

20. Me too!

But I collect them from all the places I travel. It started off as a very small collection, but I've been a BUNCH of places this last year!

It just seemed sensible, since I like to travel, and I drink a LOT of coffee!

[murielm99]

30. I collect mugs, too.

Mine are vintage restaurant ware mugs. They are the heavy mugs that are hard to lift if you have a hangover: Victor, Sterling, Mayer, Shenango, Hall, Buffalo, Tepco, etc.

[Pendrench]

8. I also collect books and bookmarks, and I also collect business cards from bookstores. n/t

[RetroLounge]

9. I don't collect much anymore

dumped most of my collections. The ones I still have, I will get rid of this summer.

I guess you could say I collect books :D

RL

[flamingyouth]

13. Oh god - our house looks like a museum of crazies

We collect porcelain and art glass. I also have some antique paperweights. I also collect silent film memorabilia, Asian art and Hawaiiana. And books. Somehow it all fits in a unique patchwork. :D

[tulip]

42. Same here.

I am with you on that one.

[Heidi]

15. :bounce:

Fountain pens; old (but not necessarily first-edition) books in English, German, French and Italian on medicine, philosophy and law, with the occasional novel thrown in; and, naturally, a small collection of art and objects made by relatively unknown artists.

:hi: JitterbugPerfume! :pals:

[JitterbugPerfume]

17. I love old books!

:hi: :loveya: Heidi

[Heidi]

19. Ooooooooooooooo . . .

We should do a trade some time. I'm looking for something old and in Spanish. Can offer, in kind, a book in German, Italian or French, or (the fetish I failed to mention) a brand-spankin' new, unwrapped Moleskine journal, sketchbook, agenda, or citybook, etc. :D http://www.moleskine.com/eng/_interni/catalogo/default.htm

[JitterbugPerfume]

23. yes!

we should keep in touch!

[Heidi]

25. Agreed.

PM me when you're ready. :D

[Ptah]

16. Vegetable stickers.

[Vanje]

37. Snap!

I like it!

[mduffy31]

18. Annoyances

And I got a snoot full

[fudge stripe cookays]

21. I'm a scrapbooker too.

It dovetails in with my genealogy hobby.

I'm writing a book about our extended Smith family (back to my GGG grandparents, what little we know). My great grandfather had 9 brothers and sisters, so I've painstakingly traced all the lines, and travel the country meeting 3rd cousins, scanning their family photographs, and adding them to the mix.

I take my scrapbooks with me to share with all the cousins (the baggage handlers LOVE me!) :D , so they can actually see pictures along with the names of everyone. It's a lot of fun. And my own family is severely screwed up, so my cousins are my family now.

I have about 600 pages in 3 volumes, and I've barely scratched the surface.

[JitterbugPerfume]

24. my sister does genealogy

She can spend HOURS going through old records in cemetaries and dusty library basements.

She has uncovered saints and sinners

[fudge stripe cookays]

34. Oh yeah....sis and I are kindred spirits, fer sure.

There's a microfilm reader at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin with my name on it. I spent two weeks out of 2005 finding all sorts of interesting stuff there.

I am never happier than when I'm off traveling, digging up new facts and new pictures, and seeing some new parts of the country too. I never feel like I can fully know the family until I visit where they lived and see the place for myself.

Next Friday I'm headed to Washington State. Yay!

We didn't have too much really earthshaking stuff that I've dug up, unfortunately (or fortunately!)

[BrotherBuzz]

22. Bricks, scrap iron, lead, lumber, building materials...

Tools, copper, old hardware, brass, construction equipment, sad irons, bolts, antique kitchen gadgets, nails (even wood kegs full of nails!), esoteric machines, screws, marine equipment, mortuary stuff (cases of embalming fluids), blacksmithing equipment, chain, rope, granite slabs - my list is long. My hobby is hoarding. Some people collect, I hoard. :shrug:

[JitterbugPerfume]

26. Embalming fluids????

cool!:wow:

[BrotherBuzz]

31. Yes, plus dozens of older empty embossed Embalming fluid bottles

The small infant bottles make me sad.

Close friends comment on my collection by saying I should retire early and start selling it on ebay, because it will take the rest of my life to sell, it's that large.

[deadparrot]

27. I collect musical soundtracks.

Broadway, off-Broadway, movie, etc. They have to be cheap, though--usually under $5. :hi:

[mvd]

28. CDs - music is my biggest hobby

Christmas decorations, too.

[dropkickpa]

29. I collect debt

otherwise, I am usually fighting to get rid of much crap as possible. I am NOT a collector (but come from a long line of them).

[NewJeffCT]

32. Wargaming figurines - mostly Warhammer

Warhammer is a table-top war game that pits fantasy armies against one another - humans, elves, dwarves, orc & goblins, chaos, lizardmen, etc. The standard figure they make is about 28mm tall (or about 1 1/8" tall for us Americans), though they come slightly smaller than that (goblins, dwarves, halflings) and much bigger (giants, dragons, ogres, etc)

I have two pretty good sized armies (Empire/Human and an Orc & Goblin one)

Kind of an odd hobby in that I've always been pretty pacificistic - even when I was in elementary school, I avoided fighting.

[Initech]

33. CDs, and I have well over 350 - 400 titles (all real CDs, not CD-Rs)

The ones I most recently bought:

The Liars - Drums Not Dead
Isis - In The Absence Of Truth
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
John Mayer - Continuum
The Who - Endless Wire

[av8rdave]

36. Pint glasses from all over

Also bar coasters.

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

38. i collect action figures

mostly star wars and simpsons stuff. i'm a 30 year old dork.

[Vanje]

39. Saint candles

These are sold for about a dollar in local grocery catering to the mexican imigrant population in my little town.

[sakabatou]

40. Used legos

[tulip]

41. Lots of Cool Stuff

collect porcelain pieces mostly late 1800's and early 1900's, turn of the century porcelain lamps & figures mostly German but my collection is multi-cultural, antique clocks, Early Americana publications like newspapers and such(Harper's Weekly and PUK or Judge are fav politico satire and catoons from the 1800's & i have a paper with Thomas jefferson's editorial on Newspapers), 60's publications: I have the first issue of Rolling Stones Mag, cats (a new kitty showed up out back today, I sware when they dump them they whisper "three doors down kitty sucker" in their ear), old artist's sketchbooks, these are very cool. My husband thinks i should open a museum but that doesn't sound as fun as just finding stuff. LOL.

I don't scrap book but it looks like fun.

[Maestro]

43. Besides exercising, either jogging or biking,

I love photography.

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[bicentennial_baby]

44. These days....Cooking gadgets and utensils, and French

Grammar books, Dictionaries, French Lit, etc...Anything food-related or French-related... :)

[Shine]

45. I collect goddess statues and figurines, among other things.

for hobbies I read, watch movies and ride my bike. :thumbsup:

:hi:

[femmocrat]

46. Besides dust?

Owls, Hallmark ornaments, and nutcrackers. Also anything with a corgi image on it.

I used to collect other stuff (recycled glass pieces, stamps, state quarters, etc.), but it got too hard to keep track of it all.

I would truly love to get rid of some of this junque as it is taking over every inch of usable living space!

[BarenakedLady]

47. I don't collect anything

But I do colored pencil drawings, used to write (not anymore), and I just started a cross-stitch project.

[blockhead]

48. old levels and ducks