What do you collect?

**terryh** · April-07-09, 08:34 PM

lol @ the replies...funny...

When I was a youngster in the seventies I always got a rush when I walked into Vincents Drugs in Lapeer and spotted the latest issue of the Avengers on the comic book rack...now comic books are much more sophisticated in writing and art geared toward a mature audience... I restarted collecting in around 89 you would be surprised at what comic writers and artists can get away with now... I like the true crime 40's and 50's sixties and seventies underground hippie type comic books..Jack Kirby books..artsy alternative books superheroes you name it! Records also....I want to get some nearmint Blue note records...have Art Blakey Freedom Rider..

Ever find any goodies at flea markets and garage sales?

**Maof** · April-07-09, 09:32 PM

anybody want any beanie babies

**reddog289** · April-07-09, 11:26 PM

I think that I have become the dumping ground for stuff that people have collected and are no longer interested in it, for what people thought or think that I should collect, and what I do collect.First of I did collect Matchbox and Hot Wheels.
Why because they kept me quiet and outta everyones hair. Next came the baseball cards another thing my Uncles thought would be a good hobby for me. My own collecting bug started at Millers Bar, Back when they served the 10oz glass bottles of Coca-Cola. That started when I pretty much joined the Coke side of the soda pop war. Someone bought me some Coca-Cola stuff and the next thing you know I got relatives and everyone else bringing me Coke stuff. My " little sister " saw me eating PEZ one day without the dispenser, So then I got Pez dispensers for Christmas, Birthdays, AND WHAT EVER REASON SHE DECIDED TO GET ME PEZ. Mainly now days I collect Hot Wheels. Which I hope to display on a wall in the garage or my basement. Trains I play with Trains.So when anyone had toy trains they didn't want , they ended up with me. I have alot of crap. I never relized it till 2 years ago.I blame it all on my depression era parents. Save it you might need it.

**Bigb23** · April-07-09, 11:34 PM

reddog289 - are you one of those guy's that line up at the Target early in the morning ? I ran across those guy's one morning, to buy a bike. Seems to be cut throat.

**reddog289** · April-08-09, 12:05 AM

No BigB, I don't get up early for hardly anything.I know what your talking about though. The Hot Wheels thing got me thinking about the same people that I would see at Meijers at 12am waiting for the stock people to put out the Hot Wheels. But what I was trying to say is from my stuff that I "collect" I have only bought between 10 to 15% of it.If anything that I like to collect and would, Would be Money.No not the kind that goes on the wall or in the safe, Just the money that my Friends/Family owe me. That would be great if that panned out. Oh YEAH, I seem to have another hand me down collection, "BILLS".

lilpup · April-08-09, 01:47 AM

Originally Posted by reddog289

I have alot of crap. I never relized it till 2 years ago.I blame it all on my depression era parents. Save it you might need it.

Oh, isn't that the truth!! My parents saved everything in the world until now that they're older and are trying to 'clean up.' The sad thing is they're giving away or throwing out stuff that they could get good money for these days! They just don't want to bother trying to sell it.

It's a bummer. My mom put out a perfectly good, adjustable dress form she got from her aunt decades ago. It was gone off the curb in a matter of minutes. My dad put out something else that got picked up quickly, too, but I can't recall what it was.

**CountrySquire** · April-08-09, 05:31 AM

Ah yes! I had some profitable trash picking events. For whatever reason my parents neighbors' descendents / heirs / executors whomever just decided one day to pitch out stuff they did not want. I picked up a nice lot of '60 '61 Detroit Tigers Scorebooks and a mint in the box Felix the Cat costume. Another neighbor threw away a hard top roof for a MB SL class.

**Maof** · April-08-09, 06:45 AM

Originally Posted by lilpup

Oh, isn't that the truth!! My parents saved everything in the world until now that they're older and are trying to 'clean up.' The sad thing is they're giving away or throwing out stuff that they could get good money for these days! They just don't want to bother trying to sell it.

It's a bummer. My mom put out a perfectly good, adjustable dress form she got from her aunt decades ago. It was gone off the curb in a matter of minutes. My dad put out something else that got picked up quickly, too, but I can't recall what it was.

let them get rid of the stuff. my parents grew up during the depression and when mom died, we had an estate sale. what a nightmear! my sisters and i knew what the better stuff was [[thanks mom) so we didn't sell some of the nicer/valuable/sentimental items. we had an agreement to be there during the sale. they hid items they wanted in a bedroom closet which i found during the sale, had their cronies come in and pose as customers and swipe or purchase the items at a better price. they WILL steal from you. all on top of taking 30% of the sale. now, they might not all be crooks but this also happend to a cousin and an uncle using different estate sale companies.

so my advise is......if you want to keep sentimental and/or better pieces go ahead. if your folks are willing to get rid of items that are just going to collect dust in your own home, let them do it. it's not worth all the bullshit.

**Johnlodge** · April-08-09, 09:41 AM

My " little sister " saw me eating PEZ one day without the dispenser, So then I got Pez dispensers for Christmas, Birthdays, AND WHAT EVER REASON SHE DECIDED TO GET ME PEZ.

I have this EXACT same problem. No joke.