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Do you have an unusual thing you collect? (1 Viewer)

Capella said:
I hate that Marriott went to the basic cards for every hotel. Probably why I’m buying stupid ### tervis cups. 
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You and my mom. There is an entire cabinet (not shelf. Cabinet) filled with various forms of travel cups. There is some perfect intersection of low price/availability/slight innovation that makes these things easy purchases. 

 
glvsav37 said:
reminds me of a very old (I cant even find it online) renovation show where they send the husband/wife away fro a weekend and do a room makeover. this one, the wife redid the husbands man cave and it was great, until he got to the bar. She and the designer got the idea to recover the bar stools with a bunch of his vintage concert tees--stones, zeplin, a bunch of classics. He was all smiles until then and his face went ghost white. "are those my concert shirts???!!" His wife was like "wel lyou just keep thme in the drawer and never wear them so we though we could use them here...you know show them off?"

lol I dont think that ended well .

And for the epoxy, I've seen that done with bottle caps too. 
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A friend of mine has a dedicated closet for his concert shirts, I believe he would have gone "temporary insanity" on them both.

 
massraider said:
You and my mom. There is an entire cabinet (not shelf. Cabinet) filled with various forms of travel cups. There is some perfect intersection of low price/availability/slight innovation that makes these things easy purchases. 
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Plus you can tell yourself “hey I’ll actually use that!”

 
The index finger off the left hand.  Started when I was in Vietnam. 

Five years ago on a business trip. 

/stolen joke from some television show

 
We collect Christmas ornaments and pictures/art from our travels. Our Christmas tree ornaments are all from our travels or from the kids school projects.

Also logo golf balls.

 
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I used to collect matchbooks.  Got a collection from my uncle and added to it when I was younger.  I haven't looked at them for years.  

 
bcat01 said:
I used to collect matchbooks.  Got a collection from my uncle and added to it when I was younger.  I haven't looked at them for years.  
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When I was a kid we had this giant vase with hundreds of them from all kinds of restaurants and hotels but by the time I started to try and collect them for myself most places stopped offering or even having them at all.

 
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I guess I collect collections. An elderly business partner passed in 1999 and left me his stamp and rock collections (including very old lapidary gear). My father passed and left me his firearm collection ( couple shotties worth over 10k each, and few 1911s. One from 1917 that served in ww1). I also have his Sports Illustrateds from the 70s and 80s (some really great covers). I also have an impressive collection of empty Amazon boxes.

 
I dont know if there is a name for it yet but Im a super nostalgic person. The best way to explain it is that certain smells, sights and sounds evoke a physical and emotional reaction for me. Like as in some times to tears of happiness. 

Right now I am currently on a rampage buying vintage stuff for my basement. Most of this is just stuff that I had or wanted and couldn't get as a kid. 

Recently purchased:

1st gen Rubik's cube 

A Sony flip clock

Vintage Grizzly Roller coaster hat (My first and favorite ride)

Garfield pin, and books. (I spent a lot of time in hospitals as a kid and I read these in the waiting rooms.)

Garfield suncatcher - (Had one of these on our window as a kid. I found a vintage brand new one to bake in the oven with the kids.)

Nintendo fun club magazines

Currently after:

Sega Master system w/box

Apple iigs

Apple iie

A specific Panasonic model flip clock radio. 

 
We have a local week-long music festival in Bethlehem, PA called Musikfest that I've been going to each year since I went to college there (Lehigh).  It's as much (or more) about the food and drinks as it is the music and each year they sell a newly-designed Musikfest mug for drinks.  (I may have sent one along with the summer T-shirt exchange one year)  I bought my first mug at the first Musikfest I went to in 1997 after turning 21.  I've been back every year and bought the new mug each year and now I must be up to around 26.  It's fun when you're there and raise your mug to someone else walking around with the same old-timer's mug from the 90's.  👴

 
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STEADYMOBBIN 22 said:
A specific Panasonic model flip clock radio. 
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I think I know exactly which one you are looking for. I had one as a kid and loved that thing. Unfortunately the flipping numbers just quit flipping and it got thrown out long ago. 

That was my first radio of any kind and it being a clock radio was money.   :lol:

 
ChiefD said:
I think I know exactly which one you are looking for. I had one as a kid and loved that thing. Unfortunately the flipping numbers just quit flipping and it got thrown out long ago. 

That was my first radio of any kind and it being a clock radio was money.   :lol:
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Theyre crazy expensive too. I was watching one last night - looked great but the clock didnt work - sold for over $100. Refurbished some of them go for $300-$500. :lmao:

 
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PhillipPhoto said:
Hand Scythes

:unsure:

Have 20-30 and counting whenever I see a vintage one for a decent price.
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My in-laws had a bunch of these (along with other farm tools / implements) handing all around their backyard privacy fence.  Once they had some grandchildren running around back there, the sharp rusty stuff went into storage.  

 
belljr said:
Every year at Christmas we do a yankee swap..... I think its going on 22 years now where La Bamba is regiffted
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Could be worse, we have a jar of Wos-Wit Chow-Chow that has been circulating that way for even longer.  It was originally a bad gift from my wife's great-grandmother to someone decades ago.  She's long since passed but the Chow-Chow lives on.  If that jar ever breaks we're going to have to call the CDC or FEMA or something for cleanup.

 
Sullie said:
Ticket stubs from everything we've done with our son.  Baseball/Football/Basketball games (major and minor leagues), Indy500, movies, etc. 
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I have ticket stubs back to the first Phillies and Eagles games that I wasn't carried to back in the early 80's and everything else including Disneyworld, museums, movies, etc.  Would have done it for my kids but they just don't really exist anymore.

 
Dezbelief said:
How was it accidental? 
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An age old story. Boy buys a gargoyle. One single stinking gargoyle on clearance at Target after Halloween. Someone notices said gargoyle and buys another as a gift. Boy feigns appreciation and displays second gargoyle. It snowballs from there as lazy ### gift buying friends and family default to gargoyle gift purchases for the next couple years. Boy loses his ####, throws out all gargoyles. Problem solved.  I'm convinced this is how most collections start.

 
I was in the hospital for about 10 months a few years ago.  I was on dilaudid pretty much around the clock, and somehow stumbled onto these Iron Maiden action figures.  I also found stuff like  Knucklebonz.  I started buying then, and haven't really stopped.  It's mostly Iron Maiden, but also includes tons of other heavy metal stuff.  It's all toys really, or as my gf puts it "my dolls".  I prefer the term investment collectibles.  

If I get one, I get kind of obsessed with having the whole set.  

 
ChiefD said:
STEADYMOBBIN 22 said:
A specific Panasonic model flip clock radio. 
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I think I know exactly which one you are looking for. I had one as a kid and loved that thing. Unfortunately the flipping numbers just quit flipping and it got thrown out long ago. 

That was my first radio of any kind and it being a clock radio was money.   :lol:
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brother & I had the Panasonic flip clock w/ the alarm setting being a small dial on the left 

 
psychobillies said:
I was in the hospital for about 10 months a few years ago.  I was on dilaudid pretty much around the clock, and somehow stumbled onto these Iron Maiden action figures.  I also found stuff like  Knucklebonz.  I started buying then, and haven't really stopped.  It's mostly Iron Maiden, but also includes tons of other heavy metal stuff.  It's all toys really, or as my gf puts it "my dolls".  I prefer the term investment collectibles.  

If I get one, I get kind of obsessed with having the whole set.  
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Those are pretty cool. I tried to collect these iron studios 1980s Cartoon D&D Figures but didnt try too hard and missed out on the harder to get ones. Ill end up selling the two I have for about what I paid for them. 

 
We just threw out 3,000 beer bottle caps, each was a different brand. Necessitated by combing two NYC apartments.

I have about 8’ of American Civil War books. Many are battle/campaign/unit specific; close to 3’ devoted to the Gettysburg campaign alone. Lot of old first editions.

I once tracked down Shelby Footer’s home number in Memphis and talked to him for a good half hour. He could not have been nicer. At the end of the conversation he advised me to not make a habit of calling authors I didn’t know.  :lol:   

 
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i like to flyfish for trout and have been doing it my entire life so i have so much fishing junk it would make most peoples heads spin take that to the bank bromigos 

 
SWC said:
i like to flyfish for trout and have been doing it my entire life so i have so much fishing junk it would make most peoples heads spin take that to the bank bromigos 
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that’s gotta be weird actually fishing from the bank when you take your gear to the bank for your banking needs but i guess all your really need is a fly rod and a smallie and you can take all that to the bank at the lake brolakeo

 
bcat01 said:
Not unusual, but do any of you have GI Joe's or Masters of the Universe from the 80's.  They are big right now and worth quite a bit.  I have a bunch still at my parents that I need to go through and sell.  Check out the prices on this auction I found. https://grubeauctioneering.hibid.com/catalog/382148/richard-voskuhl-estate-auction-and-others-live-and-online-7-23-/

Just scroll down first page.
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I had them all. Castle greyskull, skeletors castle with the crappy mic- all of it! All gone too. 

 
Picked up a Apple IIgs yesterday from some old kook. Its in pristine shape. No yellowing at all. Have to replace the clock battery (they eventually go bad and leak) but it works! The sounds of floppy drives reading =   :excited:

 
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ChiefD said:
that’s gotta be weird actually fishing from the bank when you take your gear to the bank for your banking needs but i guess all your really need is a fly rod and a smallie and you can take all that to the bank at the lake brolakeo
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I just realized maybe SWC has been talking about a river bank all this time.  :mindblown:

 
STEADYMOBBIN 22 said:
Picked up a Apple IIgs yesterday from some old kook. Its in pristine shape. No yellowing at all. Have to replace the clock battery (they go eventually go bad and leak) but it works! The sounds of floppy drives reading =   :excited:
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Aw man had one of those as a kid. Fond memories!

 
hand carved (usually wook or porcelain) "tribal" masks from countries ive visited. try to buy authentic, if possible. got a mini wall covered (most are small). 3 big ones going down the staircase that scare the piss outta ppl at night

 
Scored this over the weekend. Pick it up tomorrow.

Cant wait to call Dr. Falken.




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