What do you collect?

**terryh** · April-06-09, 10:16 PM

Got a jones for a certain something

? Addicted to collecting certain collectibles? I like many genres of comic books; records[[ particularly jazz albums) pulp paperbacks; for awhile I was collecting dvds of underground-slash sixties b-movies...whatcha got?

**RJ_Spangler** · April-06-09, 10:43 PM

Used to be pretty serious about CDs, LPs, 45 rpms until my house was burned down. I also collected postcards. I still buy music is various forms.

**Jimaz** · April-07-09, 12:25 AM

Knives.

Especially top-quality knives with interesting mechanisms and unique military applications.

I normally use a balisong. Traditional balisongs are cheaply-made disposable murder weapons. Mine are instead top-quality titanium-handled versions with chromium molybdenum steel blades made by Microtech.

Yeah. That's what I collect. LOL

**redvetred** · April-07-09, 12:56 AM

Old automotive advertising memorabilia - all before 1920.

**CountrySquire** · April-07-09, 09:04 AM

A few different things, but old dealer promotional cars are a mainstay at my house. My folks would get these for me as toys to play with in the 70s, it stuck.

**raptor56** · April-07-09, 09:24 AM

I collect a shot glass from every vacation spot I visit.

**GOAT** · April-07-09, 09:58 AM

Belly-button lint.

**raptor56** · April-07-09, 10:00 AM

No porn collectors yet??

LodgeDodger · April-07-09, 10:44 AM

PEZ. At least I used to. Now, I just have boxes of PEZ in the basement. Betterhalf never understood it. Now, it's mostly cookbooks and Pewabic pottery.

**terridarlin** · April-07-09, 11:37 AM

Cookbooks, spirit kettles and vintage jewelry.

**rajdet** · April-07-09, 12:19 PM

The usual stuff, books, music, art by local artists, and the not so usual, rust.

**Bigb23** · April-07-09, 12:34 PM

What do you collect?

Unemployment.

**Bobl** · April-07-09, 01:30 PM

Me, too....unemployment!
In a few weeks, you might see me collecting bottles and cans at the side of the road.
After that, with a cardboard sign:

Will work for a paycheck!

**CountrySquire** · April-07-09, 02:20 PM

I sure did my fair share of bottle / can collecting while laid off or underemployed. I would do it while walking the dog. Having a few bux in MTs always came in handy when I needed beer / chip money.

**Bobl** · April-07-09, 03:32 PM

C: Thanks for the encouragement.

Years ago, while visiting my sons in Las Vegas, saw a guy with a cardboard sign that read: WHY LIE? I NEED A BEER!
A few months later, outside the Rose Bowl, the same guy with the same sign was getting donations.....

**eriedearie** · April-07-09, 06:03 PM

Originally Posted by Bobl

C: Thanks for the encouragement.

Years ago, while visiting my sons in Las Vegas, saw a guy with a cardboard sign that read: WHY LIE? I NEED A BEER!
A few months later, outside the Rose Bowl, the same guy with the same sign was getting donations.....

There's something to be said for "truth" in advertising after all!

I don't collect anything of him in velvet - but I do have a small collection of Elvis stuff. Small by some standards. Hey Dodger - I've got a set of Elvis PEZ that includes a CD - unopened.

lilpup · April-07-09, 06:46 PM

I have a bookcase full of Michigan related titles and a couple of old Detroit street maps Rand McNally 1895 & National Lithograph Co. 1925 [["compliments of American Trust Company," 151 Congress St., West, Detroit, Michigan). The 1925 map has "Henry Ford Holdings" on the US side indicated in red crosshatching [[Highland Park, the Rouge, the mills along the river, etc.)

**jiminnm** · April-07-09, 06:55 PM

Navajo rugs and pueblo pottery [[partial to Acoma)

Ravine · April-07-09, 07:38 PM

Lodgedodger, some of those Pez dispensers are worth a few hundred bucks! I just happened to be looking at a catalog, recently. If I remember correctly, there is a Baloo [[the bear from Jungle Book) that is listed at over $200.
Plus, just the fact that you collect them makes you oddly cool.

LodgeDodger · April-07-09, 08:06 PM

Originally Posted by Ravine

Lodgedodger, some of those Pez dispensers are worth a few hundred bucks! I just happened to be looking at a catalog, recently. If I remember correctly, there is a Baloo [[the bear from Jungle Book) that is listed at over $200.
Plus, just the fact that you collect them makes you oddly cool.

Thank you, Ravine. Me? COOL? *big hug*

I have them from the sixties on...betterhalf just doesn't understand. I really cannot explain them. I would see them in the stores even after growing up and pick up one or two. Then, after I started traveling, I'd pick up foreign PEZ.

**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".