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Lutherf

Lutherf

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Whether you actively pursue a certain type of item or have just managed to accumulate a lot of something, what is it, how active are you in collecting it, what do you plan on doing with it, etc? Also, at what point does an "accumulation" become a "collection"?


As a kid I collected baseball cards. I'd go to shows, trade and salivate over certain items. When I discovered women and beer that lust for baseball cards waned but I hung on to my collection anyway. Later, when in college, I ran across a guy who was an avid collector. He went through my stuff and pulled out some fairly valuable cards which I dutifully booked up and put aside. A decade or so after that I pulled the book out to show a guy I worked with but left it in the car when I got home that night. Naturally, that night someone broke into my car, stole my stereo, my fishing gear and my baseball card book.

Since that time I haven't actively collected but do buy a box of cards from time to time and have picked up some other memorabilia.

Aside from that, I still hunt down LP records from time to time and have around 500 albums. My gun accumulation is also slowly turning into a collection instead of just stuff I shoot from time to time.
 
I only have one thing I collect...Hard Rock Cafe Tall shot glasses. Ive got em from around the world.
 
VanceMack said:
I only have one thing I collect...Hard Rock Cafe Tall shot glasses. Ive got em from around the world.
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How many are there and how are you getting them?
 
I collected Warhammer/40k figurines.

I still have the figurines but have not bought any for about 8 years or so
 
Beaudreaux said:
I have HRC t-shirts from around the world.
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Man, you've got to be careful how you post that stuff. It took me a second wondering why you collected Hillary Rodham Clinton t-shirts before everything clicked in.:lol:
 
Well, I suppose I used to sort of collect baseball cards as a kid.....but then I wondered why the hell I was doing it and stopped.

I did save them all. Plan on getting them appraised in (or more likely, doing it myself), oh, 40, 50 years, along with various coin collections my grandmother start and I continued. A different grandmother had a stamp collection. Got that saved, too.



Don't really collect anything now.
 
Mr Person said:
Well, I suppose I used to sort of collect baseball cards as a kid.....but then I wondered why the hell I was doing it and stopped.

I did save them all. Plan on getting them appraised in (or more likely, doing it myself), oh, 40, 50 years, along with various coin collections my grandmother start and I continued. A different grandmother had a stamp collection. Got that saved, too.



Don't really collect anything now.
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Stamps used to be hugely popular (and maybe still are) but there are just so damned many of them it gets overwhelming quickly.
 
I used to collect comics, but then stopped when I went to college. Comics just got too expensive. I love the stories and the art, but am not willing to pay 6 bucks for something I can read in 20 minutes.
 
Definitely fossils. I have one 1962 silver quarter and I know check out all my change for silver, even considered coin roll hunting. Take cash to a bank and buy rolled coins to look for silver, misstrikes and proofs and possibly something like mercury dimes and buffalo nickles.
 
Lutherf said:
How many are there and how are you getting them?
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I collect them when I travel. The military was good enough to send me all over the planet so I figure that's a good keepsake. How many...man... a bunch. I'll have to count them when I get home. Counting the closed locations is say there are over 200 cafes. I'd say I have somewhere around 120 of them.


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For me, it's baseball cards even though I think their value has diminished since collecting became a "thing" in the 90's.

At my most voracious, I acquired:

* Every Topps set from 1981 through 1995. All cards still mint.
* Five Topps mint rookie George Bretts
* Two Topps mint rookie Dave Winfields
* One Topps mint rookie Bob Gibson

And one Topps near-mint rookie Nolan Ryan that's locked away in a safe deposit box.
 
guitars ............ owned right at 400 guitars ....... still have over 30 guitars so, I have sold about 370 guitars ............

playing since age 9 ....... I keep the ones I like & sell the others .............. it's a fun hobby 4 me ............
 
I collect autographs but not the ones most people do. I collect the autographs of influential scientists with a focus on Nobel prize winners. I have made a rule for myself that I can only buy autographs of scientists who are already dead. If they are living then I have to ask the scientist for the autograph in person or by mail. It ads a little "thrill of the hunt".

Some of my most prized ones are Einstein, Thomas Edison and Norman Borlaug. I have met several Presidents and celebrities like Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman, but I have never felt compelled to ask for their autographs.
 
Skeptic Bob said:
I collect autographs but not the ones most people do. I collect the autographs of influential scientists with a focus on Nobel prize winners. I have made a rule for myself that I can only buy autographs of scientists who are already dead. If they are living then I have to ask the scientist for the autograph in person or by mail. It ads a little "thrill of the hunt".

Some of my most prized ones are Einstein, Thomas Edison and Norman Borlaug. I have met several Presidents and celebrities like Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman, but I have never felt compelled to ask for their autographs.
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Cool, I was digging fossils a lot this year at the river. I started talking to a guy that stood out in the group of other diggers as the knowledgeable guy. After talking to him for weeks, I mentioned a book I have "Fossiling in Fl".

He asked me if I liked it , I said "yeah, it's a good book" He goes in his truck and produces 2 brand new books, he opens it to the author photo and asked if it looked familiar? Well by golly it's you! He gave me both books free! His name is Mark Renz, an all around great guy. I should of got him to autograph them:(

If I see him next season, I will.
 
cuban smokes said:
guitars ............ owned right at 400 guitars ....... still have over 30 guitars so, I have sold about 370 guitars ............

playing since age 9 ....... I keep the ones I like & sell the others .............. it's a fun hobby 4 me ............
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Where the hell did you keep em all! That would fill my smallish house!
 
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Where the hell did you keep em all! That would fill my smallish house!
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I live in a smaller house but one bedroom is basically full of guitars; it's kinda ridiculous but I enjoy it

I think it was 2006 (pre crash) I sold 41 guitars in one calendar year but I was buying a lot then too; my buying & selling has slowed a lot since then

I would like to whittle down the herd to about 10, maybe 12 guitars so, I would need to sell off about 18, to 20 to get me to that point

lots of work to do in that regard
 
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Mr Person said:
Well, I suppose I used to sort of collect baseball cards as a kid.....but then I wondered why the hell I was doing it and stopped.

I did save them all. Plan on getting them appraised in (or more likely, doing it myself), oh, 40, 50 years, along with various coin collections my grandmother start and I continued. A different grandmother had a stamp collection. Got that saved, too.



Don't really collect anything now.
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If they're newer than, say, the late 80s or early 90s, don't bother. Once baseball card companies started mass producing them by the ton, they stopped being with anything, with few exceptions. Too much supply, not nearly enough demand.
 
Lutherf said:
Stamps used to be hugely popular (and maybe still are) but there are just so damned many of them it gets overwhelming quickly.
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I still collect from time to time, although I cut off my collection at 1993, an arbitrary date that my album at the time ended at, and I got sick and tired of hundreds and hundreds of stamps every single year to keep up with, plus they got really ugly when they went to stickers rather than lick-and-stick. I've got an extensive collection of U.S., complete from the late 20s-1993, plus a good chunk of stamps before that. I haven't really looked at them for a couple of years though.
 
Well seeing as I do so much to collect things as of now, I tend to get a little buried from time to time.

I usually go from place to place purchasing defaulted, or over due storage containers when my other schedules permit. This has helped to feed my small habit from time to time, and has even helped me feed the collection niches around my town.

If that needs clarification, I am a licensed appraiser, and I tend to make a profit when I purchase such showcases. Though that is through no small effort on my end, finding out who owned the container before.

I have been collecting pocket watches, knives, rare stones & metals, and even an assortment of weapons. Though for a weapon to make it into my collection it either has to have a history or be somewhat "special" one such gun I have is what is known as a PUNT gun. Quiet a comical thing to look at, but is extremely deadly when handled without care "as the same with all firearms".

But the most unfortunate thing I collect is a small guilty pleasure of mine, even though I don't play the game hardly anymore.

Warhammer 40K, lots of em.
 
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