Do you collect anything?

.anon. · 24-02-2021 5:55pm

astrofool wrote: »

I thought the academic books would age quite rapidly, with new additions always appearing, and beyond 10 years, the entire syllabus gets upended.

Most of them do, but the philosophy ones tend not to have loads of new additions and hold their value quite well.

bewareofthedog · 24-02-2021 5:58pm

Super Nintendo stuff, picked up around 100 games over the years, boxed console etc. I haven't added anything to it in ages but there's always that itch.

Its an expensive habit but the games hold their value well and are easily resellable.

astrofool · 24-02-2021 6:52pm

.anon. wrote: »

Most of them do, but the philosophy ones tend not to have loads of new additions and hold their value quite well.

I guess the hope in that field is that they do become irrelevant somehow

AllGunsBlazing · 24-02-2021 7:00pm

Was an avid reader of various marvel comics back in the 80's. Really wish I'd taken care of them, had quite a collection until my teens when I foolishly decided it was all kid's stuff.

Had a decent collection of star wars and transformer toys as well. All thrown away. Who knew?

Beasty · 24-02-2021 7:35pm

.anon. wrote: »

Books.

I've a Manchester United Opus, weighing in at something like 37kg - that's a pain to move between rooms, let alone houses....

Indeed even opening it is a challenge!

Nekarsulm · 24-02-2021 7:44pm

Jequ0n wrote: »

Select historical weapons and replicas

I have a de-act Spencer-Bannerman pump action from 1902.
A fascinating side road into pump shotgun development.

EmmetSpiceland · 24-02-2021 7:50pm

Mister Vain wrote: »

Chainsaws bejasus!

Popular enough one, apparently. They were talking about the history of the chainsaw on Moncrieff’s show the other day.

The said the first one was invented to perform symphysiotomies on women during childbirth. A barbaric practice that was performed here until the mid to late 80s.

Nekarsulm · 24-02-2021 7:52pm

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Popular enough one, apparently. They were talking about the history of the chainsaw on Moncrieff’s show the other day.

The said the first one was invented to perform symphysiotomies on women during childbirth. A barbaric practice that was performed here until the mid to late 80s.

This is probably the most comprehensive power-saw collectors site on the internet.
Www.chainsawcollectors.se

Wibbs · 24-02-2021 8:03pm

Jequ0n wrote: »

Select historical weapons and replicas

Cool. I thought that was hard to do in Ireland legally? That's making the assumption you're in Ireland of course.

.anon. wrote: »

Collecting stuff is terrible; it just gives people hard decisions to make when you die.

Or if the stuff turns out to be worth a few bob or three one helluva knees up on the proceeds.

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

Had a decent collection of star wars and transformer toys as well. All thrown away. Who knew?

Very few, hence some of that stuff is worth a fair few quid. These days with so many "collectibles" being sold as such that'll be less in play I suspect, or the throwaway stuff now that will trigger nostalgia in a future generation will also be worth a few bob. That's happened in the past. There were always collectibles since the industrial revolution, even as far back as the printing press and even further back to tacky religious knick knacks that were sold at pilgrimage sites*. Most of which ended up in landfill and what didn't is mostly not worth much at all, or is worth a few quid for a particular generation and when they peg it, so does the value.

Stuff that tends to be consistently worth something and usually comes back into fashion and becomes even more valuable generally has one feature; it was expensive, rare enough and high quality when new. It may go out of fashion and bottom out in the market for a time, but usually comes back. High quality Art Nouveau and Deco stuff you couldn't give away for free for a long time, then it started to be rediscovered and values went up and up and up.

*Aside Johnny Gutenberg was involved in that get rich quick trade himself, but it went arsways and he ended up potless and that was what spurred into developing the movable type printing press. As you do.

monkeysnapper · 24-02-2021 8:04pm

A good friend of mine ... her father collected guiness stuff.... and I mean seriously collected guiness stuff ....

As much as built a whole extension to his garage and opened it as a museum, he even bought a expensive road motorbike that was pretty old that was officially designed in guiness logos ...

Even local tv Station came out to do a piece on him

He would come over to Ireland a few times a year and visit loads of pubs looking for things on walls in pubs and offer landlords money for.

Anyway my friend was an only child and her mother died 10 years ago and her father died 2 years ago ....

One of the 1st things she did was auction all the guiness stuff off and then sold the whole family house and surroundings..

The father wasn't even cold id say .... she constantly kept telling him how it was a load of rubbish and was true to her word when she would often say that she was going to sell it all when he died ...

I did think she would sit on it a bit longer tho.

I find it funny because he'd be absolutly furious!!!!!! And he had a huge temper.

buried · 24-02-2021 8:22pm

Vinyls over here

Mister Vain · 24-02-2021 9:41pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Fridge magnets. If people go to places I ask them to get me one. I have loads, my mam collects them too so both our fridges are spectacular.

I actually never considered fridge magnets. I've gotten loads of them over the years.

iagreebut · 25-02-2021 12:48am

Fishing files, only use around 6 all year round...

But every year I buy different types, Bibio, Match brown, claret bumble, greenwells glory and black pennel and blue winged olive's...

NewbridgeIR · 25-02-2021 12:55am

Started buying records in 1981, CDs in 1986. Don’t intend to stop buying either format.

DVDs since 1998, BDs since 2010.

Irish_rat · 25-02-2021 1:02am

I think casette players are making a comeback especially the sony Walkmans of the 90s. Loads of people collecting them

Irish_rat · 25-02-2021 1:03am

Mister Vain wrote: »

I actually never considered fridge magnets. I've gotten loads of them over the years.

Most are probably produced in the same factory over in China

triona1 · 25-02-2021 1:12am

Fake Scores wrote:

Broken hearts.

Jars of hearts

triona1 · 25-02-2021 1:19am

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Antares35 · 25-02-2021 1:31am

Cats.

And empty wine bottles.

cj maxx · 25-02-2021 2:33am

I used to collect match programmes from football (gaa) games

Mundo7976 · 25-02-2021 2:49am

Starbucks cards. Dunno why but ive 50 or so...
Dont even like their coffee 🤷🏻*♂️

Darksoul · 25-02-2021 2:54am

Callcards, I still have them would love to see who else has them as well.

thewolfisloose · 25-02-2021 2:59am

I have a wall covered in old zoo photographs that I add to periodically.

I'm by no means into photography otherwise but the contrast of content in these photographs can be so incredibly striking. Animals stuck in time.

Jim Kenny (Pat Kenny's dad) Dublin Zoo, 1950~

Fantastic illustrated book on Dublin Zoo's history, full of fantastic photos and anecdotes. A surprising amount of deaths over the years!
https://www.dublinzoo.ie/news/dublin-zoo-an-illustrated-history-new-edition/

Church on Tuesday · 25-02-2021 3:00am

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Started buying records in 1981, CDs in 1986. Don’t intend to stop buying either format.

DVDs since 1998, BDs since 2010.

You can't really beat physical media.

Digital is great to a certain extent but it's too disposable.

Totofan99 · 25-02-2021 3:03am

Old coins and banknotes, particularly Irish ones but I have a lot of British and world coins too

Vinyl also

Unintentionally started collecting instruments, effects pedals, microphones. I've way too much of that stuff though.

Baybay · 25-02-2021 3:47am

Bottles.
Started as a child when my dad was gardening & dug up one of those bottles with the tapered base. Haven’t added any for years now but still have a hundred or so dotted around the place.

25-02-2021 11:24am

buried wrote: »

Vinyls over here

Get some covers for them. They really do make a difference in keeping them pristine.

Also, if you buy a record with cellophane on it.....get rid of the cellophane straight away.

AlejGuzman68 · 26-02-2021 1:23am

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Japanese art is beautiful, I'm jealous.

They are very beautiful and tell a story. One of my favourite prints is a black-naped oriole on a stem of rose mallow by Utagawa Hiroshige.

beertons · 13-03-2021 10:49pm

Went up the attic earlier to have a look at some of the stuff I collected. Took a few pics.

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beertons · 13-03-2021 10:51pm

Inside.

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beertons · 13-03-2021 10:54pm

Call cards

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Thepillowman · 13-03-2021 11:27pm

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Chainsaws, would have about a dozen at the moment.
Mostly Sachs Dolmar and Solo, two older German makes, but a recently picked up a 1970's Echo and a few older Husqvarna. One is a saw my dad bought new in 1984, a Husky 61, and still considered one of their classic saws.
As well as tw2o or three newer Stihl that get used.
I read a lot of crime fiction, and tend to collect all the books in a series if I really like them.
Collect ( or at least, throw into drawer) commerative €2 coins.

Same here have between 30 and 35 some in parts get one or two going every winter. Passes away the long nights.

Deseras · 13-03-2021 11:30pm

I collect gold coins I have about 450 now
I started when gold was cheap

Vestiapx · 13-03-2021 11:33pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Get some covers for them. They really do make a difference in keeping them pristine.

Also, if you buy a record with cellophane on it.....get rid of the cellophane straight away.

Why

Nekarsulm · 14-03-2021 12:07am

Thepillowman wrote: »

Same here have between 30 and 35 some in parts get one or two going every winter. Passes away the long nights.

What kind of stuff have you got, Pillowman?
Oldest I've got is a Solo Rex.

Thepillowman · 14-03-2021 6:28am

Nekarsulm wrote: »

What kind of stuff have you got, Pillowman?
Oldest I've got is a Solo Rex.

Have a mcculloch mac 15 which I only got the other day guy that had it had it taken apart, think its all there that would be the oldest. After that Stihl Contra/Lightning would be next. Have a variety of Stihl and Husqvarna mostly.

Graces7 · 14-03-2021 6:58am

ShyMets wrote: »

My partner collects mugs from the various countries she's visited.

Its always struck me a slightly odd thing to do

I can resonate with that. I used to do that; every time I had a hot drink I would revisit happy memories. Even now I know where each mug I have came from etc. And I still have china from a set my mother gave me around 50 years ago, - and some I gave her from way before that. eg from a school trip to France as a teenager; Limoges tea set.

scudzilla · 14-03-2021 7:01am

At the moment i seem to be collecting infractions :rolleyes:

Graces7 · 14-03-2021 7:14am

Furry felines aka cats.

I never intended to but we were not allowed pets as children apart from a budgie. Even then I found strays to feed..

Much later I bred and showed Siamese..

Now it is rescues... I have currently five of my own..... and the only other two cats on the island now "live" here too.

When I go for a walk, they follow me. They share my bed and keep me sane - and warm.

I could never be without them. I have moved so many times this last while and everything else I have gets decimated. But the cats adore me and are always here.

Anything else gets used etc so I have some sweet souvenirs. My coffee mug came from Schull and so on ) a soup mug actually!)

But cats it is...

Graces7 · 14-03-2021 7:15am

scudzilla wrote: »

At the moment i seem to be collecting infractions :rolleyes:

(((HUGS)))

blade1 · 14-03-2021 7:24am

I suppose you could say I collect motorbikes.
A bit expensive to have as many as I'd like though.

Bongojohn · 14-03-2021 9:30am

Vintage Star Wars. Had a few bits from a kid and started collecting around 15 years ago. Had it all displayed in a custom built shelving unit with lights etc but then the kids came along and that was the end of that. Still have it all though

Apoapsis Rex · 14-03-2021 9:40am

Small few bushcraft / knives, axes and tobacco pipes.

Jordan 199 · 14-03-2021 9:55am

blade1 wrote: »

I suppose you could say I collect motorbikes.
A bit expensive to have as many as I'd like though.

Do you have any FIreblades?

blade1 · 14-03-2021 10:10am

Jordan 199 wrote: »

Do you have any FIreblades?

Have had several but got a bit bored with them.
I had when I signed up to boards so you are on the ball!

El Gato De Negocios · 16-03-2021 6:01pm

Horror movie stuff. Have some really cool (imo) pieces that I've gathered over the years, a very respectable collection of autographs from various horror icons and just this weekend I spent the guts of £300 on 6 more. Will be something for the kids to have / sell when I pass on. Recently got into vinyl collecting too, don't even have a player at the moment. 90% of them are horror movie soundtracks and none of them will be opened but the artwork on them is stunning, again, something for the kids in the future.

astrofool · 16-03-2021 7:44pm

Vestiapx wrote: »

Why

I don't know myself, but cellophane is a biological product, so may be liable to degrade and cause damage to the record.

buried · 16-03-2021 7:46pm

Vestiapx wrote: »

Why

The cellophane wrapping is shrink wrapped, it will continue to shrink which could bend and warp the cover and ultimately the vinyl record inside

Do you collect anything?

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