What do you collect?

Pigman II · 21-11-2005 12:23PM #1

Simple as that. Do you collect anything? It could be anything from StarWars action figures to good looking womens phone numbers, from stamps to interesting pieces of snot you picked. whatever!

Me personally I collect euro-zone coins. I won't rest easy until I have all 8 denominations for the 20 countries! And of course by the time I get them all those easternblock countries will probably have their own coins too meaning I'll never catch up. Don't know how I started as I don't collect any other coins and I don't go out of my way to complete the set (ie 'buying' coins). I just check my change to see if I got a 'need' this time round just like back in the days of football stickers. Plus when you consider I'll probably never get any of the Andorra/Vatican/SanMarino ones anyway it's all seems kinda pointless really.

So what you collect? The more pointless and weird the better. Post them here.

Siogfinsceal · 21-11-2005 12:26PM

beany babies i have loads stopped collecting bout 2 years ago when it got outta hand im hoping they will be worth loads in years to come and I will make money!!!
im sure my boyf will argue that I collect shoes and handbags....

Nasty_Girl · 21-11-2005 12:30PM

I collect pin badges, I've been collecting for about 3 years but I've only got around 40 coz I've lost a few (as I used to wear them on me coat).
They're mostly the ones for charity, (Angel faces are my favourite) but I have some others as well.

Siogfinsceal · 21-11-2005 12:33PM

love angel faces - they are so cute!! got one of a girl with a lil guitar at the weekend

Dave! · 21-11-2005 12:38PM

You should travel to those places and get the coins there

That'd be cool, to have a reason to go, and when you come back, you have something to remember with, like a completed task/challenge

I don't really collect anything... I'm boring

Nasty_Girl · 21-11-2005 12:40PM

At one point i had two red haired girls, a blonde boy, a black boy, a blonde girl, a silver glittery haired boy with a harp, a blue haired girl with roller skates and i think my sister's got me another over the weekend so I dunno what that one is like.

sadly I've only about 3 left now after the others fell off my coat.

Dave · 21-11-2005 12:52PM

I don't really collect anything. I just keep mementos, Metro tickets from Paris/Barcelona, cinema tickets, tickets to matches, theme parks, etc etc. I have stuff from over 10 years ago, like my first trip to Disney Land, it's kind of cool to be able to look back at the stuff you've done with just a slip of paper.

skywalker · 21-11-2005 12:55PM

Pigman II wrote:

Me personally I collect euro-zone coins. I won't rest easy until I have all 8 denominations for the 20 countries! And of course by the time I get them all those easternblock countries will probably have their own coins too meaning I'll never catch up. Don't know how I started as I don't collect any other coins and I don't go out of my way to complete the set (ie 'buying' coins). I just check my change to see if I got a 'need' this time round just like back in the days of football stickers. Plus when you consider I'll probably never get any of the Andorra/Vatican/SanMarino ones anyway it's all seems kinda pointless really.

Im the same, since the introduction of the euro have always takent out the "foriegners" & put them in a jar, have quite a few now.

However Ive only once seen a backing board to stick em into for sale, was some punter standing in liffey valley selling them for I think €50, I asked him if he had one that didnt include the coins. He said they werent included in this one. At €50 for essentially a piece of cardboard I left him with it. I would have thought they would have been commonplace by now.

Setun · 21-11-2005 01:54PM

I collected enough Dart tickets to make a deck of cards + jokers.
And now I collect Blue Note albums. Slightly better payoff with the music I think...

xzanti · 21-11-2005 02:06PM

Dave wrote:

I don't really collect anything. I just keep mementos, Metro tickets from Paris/Barcelona, cinema tickets, tickets to matches, theme parks, etc etc. I have stuff from over 10 years ago, like my first trip to Disney Land, it's kind of cool to be able to look back at the stuff you've done with just a slip of paper.

Yeah same here... I always keep the boarding passes from my holidays and ticket stubbs since my first trip to the cinema with the bf etc.. Just for memories I suppose

jimmidy_cricket · 21-11-2005 02:22PM

Foriegn cigatette packs, soft packs, and packs of 40 and unusual packs. I smoke the cigarettes though so they're all empty packs. Don't do it anymore though

Hitchhiker's Guide to... · 21-11-2005 02:27PM

Telephone cards for me - hangover from my teenage days when everyone went mad collecting them. think they actually fallen in value since then! feck!

DaBreno · 21-11-2005 02:31PM

I'll go for your first option : Vintage Star Wars action figures, Never opened. Didnt get em as a young lad when I wanted them so Im putting the collection together now. Costs a friggin fortune but its shaping up nicely.

Siogfinsceal · 21-11-2005 02:31PM

ah no dont tell me the fone cards are going down - there goes my future income plan ;-(
ive a collection of xmen fleer 95 trading cards - lotsa rare ones and signed by the cuthberts etc. I also use to collect comics Id forotten all about that but theres a drawer full of xmen comics in my mams gaff hopefully some of them are now worth somethng!

Dale · 21-11-2005 02:31PM

I collect boyfriends.

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I spose that ain't a good one really... other than that, I do collect old coins. I have over 150 (old) 1 english penny coins, over 150 (old) 1/2 english penny coins, about 20 english shillings, and loads of various other coins. Dating back to 1796.

monkeyfudge · 21-11-2005 02:35PM

I have a fairly large collection of monkey related toys...

I don't buy them myself... people tend to give them to me as gifts for some reason.

WHY?

WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT???

ambro25 · 21-11-2005 02:37PM

Pigman II wrote:

Me personally I collect euro-zone coins. I won't rest easy until I have all 8 denominations for the 20 countries! (etc.)

Not a coin collector myself, but I do have two baggies (€100 each in value or so) containing (brand new-never used) € notes & coins of the first batch to ever roll out of the French mint (note numbers like 0000000011 or somesuch)

- 'tis for the daughter, so don't go asking or pm'ing

Used to collect videogame hardware (portable only, criteria was "with interchangeable games only", so e.g. Original Gameboy & competitor's, but not Game & Watch LCD-type thingies), but got bored/obsessive (:D ) so flogged the lot back on eBay (about £2,500's worth).

Now just clinging to my full collection of EDGE magazines (since Apr 1994, issue #0, if memory serves me right). Not really a collection, mind, but worth the look on the face of a typical Playstation-generation kid when they see how long this kinda stuff's been around and where did it all come from, in some detail...

(Oh, and of course - 'tis for the daughter also, so don't go asking or pm'ing

)

ClareBear · 21-11-2005 02:37PM

Men

I used to collect key rings when I was younger, that's about it. Boring. Oh and Take That memorabilia.:o

Dale · 21-11-2005 02:52PM

Oh and I still have like 750 pokemon cards. Forgot about them, just spotted them on my shelf gathering dust.

tman · 21-11-2005 03:00PM

records i suppose...
i've bought the best part of 200 of the expesive ****ers since july:o

ibanez · 21-11-2005 04:14PM

Old car brochures.

snackatack · 21-11-2005 04:17PM

postcards over 3500 now in different categories from around the world.

teresasaunt · 21-11-2005 04:22PM

radio jingles...

Dale · 21-11-2005 04:36PM

teresasaunt wrote:

radio jingles...

I have a big collection of BBC Radio 1 jingles.

Angels · 21-11-2005 04:42PM

Bad taste bear class!!:D

Earthhorse · 21-11-2005 06:02PM

When I was a wee lad my dad used to go away to Brussels on business quite a bit and every time he'd come back with a Kinder egg, so I started collecting the toys out of them.

At one stage I had a Twix box filled with them, and that was decorated with Garbage Pale Kid stickers so I guess I collected them too.

I reckon I had well over a hundred and at one stage I even started writing a novel about the little blighters! (I was around nine but I'm pretty sure it was a classic).

Siogfinsceal · 21-11-2005 06:05PM

hey earthhorse did you have all the kinder teeny terapins they were cool

Endurance Man · 21-11-2005 06:09PM

Got a huge collection of PC Format magazines

, go's back years. Also got a huge sticker collection, even got a 2 metre DC Shoes Sticker

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Binomate · 21-11-2005 06:09PM

I used to collect zippo lighters, then war memorabelia, now I just collect money. I have a large collection of it as well.

Earthhorse · 21-11-2005 06:09PM

Siogfinsceal wrote:

hey earthhorse did you have all the kinder teeny terapins they were cool

Nah, they were after my time.

I had a few Vikings and cars. Lots of cars. Also, some weird stuff like swings and little games. I'm not sure if that Twix box is still around. I'll have a look when I get home.

homah_7ft · 21-11-2005 06:19PM

As a couple of posters before me have also mentioned I collect the ticket stubs. From the cinema mostly but also from concerts and travel. I have hundreds of beano comics too but that's more a case of being too lazy to get rid of them rather than collecting them.

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