Just wondering if there are any collectors / pickers on here and what do you collect?

I collect old books..classics that I want to read and to share with my family and friends. I also like to collect local architectural/lore books about my home town and Salem and Boston and the surrounding towns that interest me.

In addition, I collect nutrition and herbal remedies books, as well as gardening/landscape design books.

My favorite book store has a wonderful and everchanging assortment of books.............and, I visit it often.

What do you collect?

collectors

i collect
snowglobes i have over 200
porchline dolls
macdonalds madam alexander toys
mini items
i have 3 dollhouses
native american
jap and chiness items

Money 8)

Cool - you can never go wrong with books ;)

Queene123 - WOW that's a whole lotta snowglobes!

I have a native american Indian bust that sits on a bookcase in my lounge room. A really striking piece. Found it in a charity store!!!

I collect:
- Movie / TV wardrobe and prop pieces
- Mego figures and Mego clone / knock off brands.
- Living Dead Dolls presents franchise / horror movie release dolls
- Vinyl Records (mostly funk, soul, blues, hip-hop and 50s rock'n roll)

And anything unusual / one of a kind that takes my eye ;)

Dust mostly, and I'm pretty good at it.

I have an old comic book collection.

Fabulous Furry Freak Bros. from the early 70s. Hippie humour.
The 3 Super Bowl magazines McDonalds put out in the 70s. Covers the first and only 12 SB up till then.

Still in good condition.

My living collection would be my perennial plants I collect garden books & cook books (I reference both often). I used to collect crystal, but I just don't have the room or the need anymore For years I collected Sea Shore themed items that I thought were interesting, cute, or just plain funny to fill my family room. That collection makes me feel good just to sit in that room Things I have collected don't have material value, but they sure make me feel good

I lost all my collections when everything I owned was stolen.
I had quite a few antiques I spent years collecting and
refurbishing.
I had paintings I bought at the Louvre in 1974..so beautiful.
I also collected minature chairs, from every walk of life.
I could look at them for hours.
I collected old Comic Books and had Superman and
others framed, their price was 10 cents. I also had Saturday Evening Post Magazines BEFORE Norman Rockwell started painting the pictures in 1916.
I also collected all the Nancy Drew books, which I still have :-)

I LUV that new show, is it 'American Pickers?'
Those guys are SO enthusiastic.

I have a massive collection of Dust bunnies under the bed.
Well.....
its really more like its own universe.
Seems there has been some trouble in bunnie paridise lately tho....

Last couple nights I have been awakin by tini sirens!!!

I'm lookin into that now!!!

Harry Potter stuff (don't judge me)
Jewelry
Books
Owls
Anything with a celtic design

Soufie it is so sad that happened to you Thieves take a part of a person when they steal

Aww, thanks :-)
Yup, got it all even my clothes.
But guess what.
After the initial slit-your-wrists-now scenario,
you realize, you are a little freer.
With nothing to guard, I guess hahaha
And that things can weigh you down.
If you are not enjoying them every minute.

My best advice is, never hide collections
away, but have them within reach, of your
eyes at least.
For the pleasure that could go away.

I also collect nose hair clippings.
It kind of a research project.
I read somewhere that men go grey from the inside out.
I'm trying to catch it before it shows!!!!!

I so agree... I love having all my nerd stuff on display :)

Old boyfriends who were problems.
*hides the bodies*
Oh.. I collect penguins and Hello Kitty!

Myka! Where have you been!
You know we are on life-support without you around..
you are an important part of this collection :-)

I've been around a bit the past week or so... you know me I like to stir up trouble and that's hard when YOU are the new sheriff in town :P

hahaha
Like that would stop a
force of nature like you :-)

I've quit collecting as I moved to an apartment and just don't have any more room...lol But I still have much of what I did collect:
Native American pottery and Mexican pottery and blankets
Ted DeGrazia artwork and other items of his.
Cookbooks
Owls
And I have a few really good pieces of Native American jewelry that I wear alot...(its not just for looking at).

In 1980 I moved back to Ohio from AZ and my possesions were stolen off the moving truck(so they said)..We had started an electric train collection for my son when he was 1 yr old.. Someone got a nice set..