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Collecting of strange things

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 2:49 am
by spellfire
Anyone out there have a certain thing (or things) they collect?
I work in a junk shop on Sundays and am just surrounded by oddities and rare bits and pieces.

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:19 am
by auan
Bolts, nuts and screws that I find lying in the street. Got a drawer full of them here.

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:47 am
by daydreamingjerk
dust...

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I mean my house collects dust, me on the other hand can't think of anything that's "odd" just the typical shot glasses...oh and chopsticks now too. Just recently since my room mate is always in Asia for work.

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 5:30 am
by spellfire
My house also collects dust.
I found an old instrument that looks like it could be a dentist tool, it's really well made and super fine quality...... Could be the start of an old medical instrument collection. I only really collect comics and old cupboards where the comics are stored. I guess collecting medical tools is a bit of a giant leap. meh.

What else do people collect?

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 5:33 am
by the decoy
I have a headless my little pony in my car. it's fucking awesome! I just found it laying in the street! that's the kind of shit you cherish for a life time.



I used to have a used bubble gum collection.

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:51 am
by habitualbeatscamp
I collect plug-ins.. :)


Effects and instruments.

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:59 am
by pk-
i collect little gundam robots :oops:

i sometimes make them stand in dramatic poses as well :oops: :oops:

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:25 pm
by shonky
I seem to have collected a lot of records, which whilst in itself is not strange, the realistic time I can expect to listen to them in does make a lot of it rather pointless.

Also seem to have an enormous bag filled with carrier bags that could probably diminish if I ever recycled them or actually remembered to reuse them. Bang go my green credentials :cry:

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:30 pm
by betamaxnomates
Hair and fingernail clippings from all my latest victims. That, and postcards and flyers from bars/club nights etc.

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:25 pm
by __________
Shonky wrote:I seem to have collected a lot of records
how many is a lot if i may ask?
in numbers? 5000? or has it got to the stage when you count it in crates and bookshelves?

i collect pipes and music, nothing strange

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:05 pm
by dubloke
i collected keyrings when i was younger, had some joke ones as well, but now i knid of gave up, and i cant remember where i put the rest of them

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 10:15 pm
by thomas
£10 Bag wrote:
Shonky wrote:I seem to have collected a lot of records
how many is a lot if i may ask?
in numbers? 5000? or has it got to the stage when you count it in crates and bookshelves?

i collect pipes and music, nothing strange
5000 aint a collection, barely fills half one of them Ikea Epedias.
A real collection is a thing of beauty and slightly makes me aroused.

Ive got about a year and halfs worth of National Geographic, i only buy it to read on the train and for somthing to roll on. Really need to sign up to save myself mega pounds.

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 10:16 pm
by deamonds
BETAMAXNOMATES wrote:Hair and fingernail clippings from all my latest victims.
i categorize mine by age/skin color/taste

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 10:58 pm
by *grand*
i have had some weird obsessions.. over the last few years... uhmm the latest one has been dubstep.

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:21 pm
by blizzardmusic
I collect guitar plectrums

At the moment I have about 400.

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:11 am
by nesslei
i used to collect bookmarks when i was a kid... then as i got older i became naughty and just started folding corners of pages... book blasphemy, i know.

i also used to go mental on the flyer collecting tip, but not so much anymore. i do keep several copies of the ones i write though, so my portfolio is always up to date.

these days it's all about the shoes... but that's not really odd. ask any female.

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:46 am
by *grand*
hmmm i collect thoughts.

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:59 am
by pdomino
when was younger ... zippo's and club tickets lol

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:28 am
by shonky
£10 Bag wrote:
Shonky wrote:I seem to have collected a lot of records
how many is a lot if i may ask?
in numbers? 5000? or has it got to the stage when you count it in crates and bookshelves?

i collect pipes and music, nothing strange
About 11 feet if laid end to end. Too many to count that's for sure.

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:36 am
by amykamala
i collect peoples souls :o