Do you collect anything? If so, what?

Glass pieces – - blown glass, marbles, vases, goblets, paperweights, globes, bowls and beads.
Some my wife or I did!

Eggs-Ukrainian, ceramic, glass, cloisonné

Video games 1980–2010
Weird and rare media, mostly vhs
Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics, 1940s-90s
Scars

Money

Headphones.

Not really. I do like small drawings and paintings of cities and villages of places I’ve been. I have several.

I used to collect and repair kerosene/gasoline blowtorches. (The kind that Harpo Marx used to enjoy.) Years ago you could pick them up for <$10 at flea markets and garage sales.
In their time, they were so useful but also incredibly dangerous.
I purchased leather seals to make the repair authentic. However, I only trust current day “O” rings if I“m actually going to light one.
Now they just sit on the shelf looking nice and catching dust. I’ll let my kids deal with them when I’m gone.

In the 90’s, I collected action figures, mini busts, and other superhero and sci fi stuff. After I got married, I gave away or sold most of it.

I kept my Palisades Muppet figures, Bowen Marvel Mini Busts, and Marvin the Martian metal lunch box, which have adorned my various work offices for the past twenty years.

I had zero collectibles at home until about four years ago. I bought a couple Marvel Legends and Star Wars Black Series figures. Now, I have have four shelves full

It started off as a joke about me losing my marbles over the pandemic, but I collect glass marbles.

Richard Hollingshead is probably one of my favorite marble artists. Don’t actually own any of his work though. Way out of my price range. But I can still admire his work. :)

I also collect vintage cameras, vintage textbooks, and old glass labware (like beakers and flasks).

Also random rocks, shells and ceramic pieces.

There’s a place not too far from where I live where the beach is covered in broken ceramic pieces. It used to be a dump for an old ceramic factory.

It’s a little stinky (like most Bay Area beaches). But super neat. Especially when the waves are lapping at the shore and the ceramic pieces tinkle like ceramic wind chimes.

@Tropical_Willie I want to see some of your work if you want to share. :)

Buzzards, Condors, and Vultures

These are mostly stuffed plushes, paintings and drawings, ceramics

@raum I don’t have a photo sharing account . . . ::>(

Sonic games and reasons to stop my exsistence

I have a cabinet with glass doors that is full of figurines, mostly animal figurines and other oddities. Some were from my mom. She said when she was little, and they’d go on vacation to the shore, they’d stop at a shop and every year they’d get a little animal figurine as a souvenir. The brands of these are Lefton and Napco, mostly. You can find them at flea markets usually for under $20 now. Anyway, I have also bought some, new and old, to add to the collection. I also have in that cabinet a lot of salt and pepper shakers, new and old, that I’ve purchased over the years. I also have in that cabinet what I call “the home heating collection” which is about 10 items – figurines – that are carved from either coal or peat bog (souvenir from Ireland), that I have purchased as souvenirs from trips.

I also have a patch collection – patches from trips as souvenirs, from states, historical sites, etc.

I have in plastic bins in the basement more of the ceramic animal figurines, which don’t fit in the cabinet. I have a collection of green items – maybe 20 items that have in common that they’re all green.

I have a lot of books – I don’t know if you’d call it a collection, but it’s two bookcases of books, one is children’s books, one is adult books. There are more books in the attic.

I have a lot of stuff but I try to keep it organized.

I should add that my grandparents owned their Victorian house from the 1940’s to the 1990’s. The house was built around 1880 and so they were pretty early in the line of owners of the house. They had all kinds of great stuff in that house. Old dollhouses, all kinds of kids’ stuff – marbles (which I was reminded of from this thread), books (including books you can’t find now like “Little Black Sambo”), the little plastic charms that Cracker Jacks used to give as prizes in the boxes, handbags, jewelry, so much old, cool stuff. We cleaned out a lot of the stuff in the house when my grandmother got sick in the 1980s. How I wish I had a lot of that stuff now. It’s one of my big regrets. I was a teenager at the time it was cleaned out, and much was thrown out or sold at a tag sale.

I think growing up with that stuff helped give me an appreciation for old stuff.

Well since Covid I haven’t done much traveling, but when I go abroad to someplace new I like to collect small colorful shot glasses and fridge magnets. I also do if for very special occasions. On my first date with my husband, we went to Playboy Club in NYC. Both he and I purchased our drink mugs. Then on our 25th anniversary, we went to a nice little bar where a live band played, and even though they don’t sell you the little shot glasses, (they had unique ones), I spoke to the owner and told him I collect glasses for special occasions and it was our 25th. So he let us keep our glasses and had the band play something for us and gave us a toast. It was really sweet.

I probably have 100+ pieces of cast iron cookware. A third of it is at least 100 years old. I have been pairing it down. My wife thinks I’m hoarding it. I was, at one point I had 200+ pieces.
I have shifted to collecting video games and LPs but I’m more selective and deliberate with those.

I collect movies on blu-ray that are in in the Criterion Collection. The classic films have really high quality transfers and they have hours of bonus features. The only physical media that I still buy. I practically stream everything else.

My wife collects paintings, some are hers and mine and they total 95 on the walls of our house.

Vintage Little Golden Books

Kitchenware from the 50s and 60s. I love colored Pyrex mixing bowls, nut grinders, glass custard cups, colorful plastic raffia ware, anodized aluminum tumblers, and melamine cups and serving dishes.

Psychedelic and Hawaiian fabric from the 50s and 60s

Vegetarian cookbooks

I used to go thrift store shopping on a regular basis, but since the pandemic, I really don’t go anywhere.

@Tropical_Willie Aww…bummer. Hopefully some time in the future. :)

95! Do you have a big house or tiny paintings?

Full size and some 8 X 10 pictures in a full size house.

Antique books
Flowers /plant to press and make creations
Information on Ancestors ( family pedigee)
Old letters from realtives,friends,acquaintances
Anything unsual to add to my decor ( like old globes,model ship,cross stitch kits)
regualrly purchase books from Amaxon on interesting topics
The odd old thratre Poster ( I have one Christopher Columbus: The Discovery ( movie 1992)
To use as a backdrop for the model ship ( replica of 1600/1700’s) and the old metal globe.

I used to collect comic books. But I collected so many, I decided to be happy with what I have. I no longer buy them. They cost much more now, and the stories are not good anymore, anyway. I have thousands of them and read them all the time. They range from what I started with (Richie Rich and Archie) at a young age in the 1970s, up to the Star Wars, Star Trek, and Logan’s Run books published in the early 2000s. I got lots of Superman, Indiana Jones, Battlestar Galactica and Classics Illustrated, too.
I do not keep them in pristine condition. I bought them to read and re-read, and they’ve filled that purpose greatly

I used to collect comic books, but stopped as the industry made it harder and harder to find the good authors.