Are you a secret collector ?

[MooseMom]

You remember those badges you earn when you're a Girl Scout?  My very first badge was "Collector"...!

[Riki]

I am  a big Star Trek fan I bought a tribble at at convintion and had it on the entertainment center and my 8 yr old nephew asked me who's hair peice that belong too 

I bought some dilithium crystals online that were supposidly used in the Original Series.  I"m not sure how true that is.  My mother thought I was nuts.  I've been thinking of relisting them on ebay, because I kind of need the money

[MooseMom]

Riki, all you need is some quadrotriticale!

[Riki]

*LOL*  all I needed at the time was to leave the $200 in my f-n bank account

[Des]

Hippo's!

Green and black stone  as well as wooden handcraft hippo's from all over Africa.

I have from Zambia, Zair, Zimbabwe and lots from South Africa's different provinces.

Cool!

[Poppylicious]

Do you not have any car boot sales near you ? You would be suprised what you can find at them and at a fraction of the price of antique fairs.

I have NEVER been to a car boot sale.  Not ever.  Weird, no? We have a fairly big one just a few miles down the road every Sunday and I keep saying, We should go! whenever we pass the roadside sign proclaiming 'As seen on the tellybox!' but we never do.  Sunday and early mornings just don't mix.

You remember those badges you earn when you're a Girl Scout?  My very first badge was "Collector"...!

When I was a Brownie I only managed to earn three badges (in four years! I was a lazy so-and-so even then) and one of those was the Collector badge.  I had a fairly extensive collection of badges (are they called something else in the States?) of which I was very proud.

 

[kitkatz]

I used to collect Disney Dogs, but I let the entire collection go at auction.  It go to expensive.  Pieces were getting to be over 100 a piece.  So I quit cold turkey one day and boxed them up.

Now I a light house collection.  The light house needs to be named. 

I also have an unusual box collection.  I have a pic of part of it.  The fireplace is behind it all.

[KICKSTART]

WOW  just get you lot !!!!! I didnt think so many people would come out of the closet  (thats after they had taken their collectables out first ! )

[Riki]

my mom collects reusable shopping bags.  She has a bunch from the local stores here, but when we go away somewhere, she usually buys one.  She has a Macy's bag from New York, and she bought a Beer Store bag when we were in Ottawa last summer.  My friend in New Jersey wants to get her bags from Whole Foods and Trader Joe's

[monrein]

I like to collect experiences but not souvenirs of them and I now mostly like to collect times or occasions when I've cleared things out of my house.  I have a few collections of my own (elephants, good fountain pens, antique snuff bottles, old hand coloured botanical prints, orchids, oil paintings mostly by the artist Scott Addis, japanese maples and other garden specimens) and others that I've "inherited" from my mother-in-law (matchbooks, silk handkerchiefs, and good china are just a few examples since she tends to collect everything).

However, I feel strangely unattached to any stuff, even the things I like a lot and often visualize or imagine my life without them.  My ideal would be to have only things that I actually use plus artwork and plants.  When I used to travel a lot and when I used to do wilderness canoe trips I was always surprised by how little I needed and by how much simpler and unburdened my life seemed as a result of dealing with far fewer things.

My husband collects books, music (including vinyl), canoe tripping maps and magazines, old movies on tape or DVD, and my ideal would be for us to have small matching houses, side by side...his stuff in his and mine pretty empty, excepting of course the stuff I use plus art and plants.  He could visit any time.

[Riki]

my ideal would be for us to have small matching houses, side by side...his stuff in his and mine pretty empty, excepting of course the stuff I use plus art and plants.  He could visit any time.

I think my parents have that, only Dad's house is much smaller cuz he didn't need to raise two kids in it. *L*  His house is full of model cars and model boats

[texasstyle]

Gee, I need to start a collection of something lol. I guess around here we collect guitars.  We have several hanging on the wall down our long hallway along with atutographed things & cool rock 'n roll pictures. I really just don't have the room for a big collection of anything. I do have quite a "collection" of bad habits lol. Does that count?Have a great day!