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    Collectors

    I thought it would be interesting to see what other interests we have as a group. I collect old eyeglasses and recently have given a lot of that up to collect art glass vases. I love going to the antique malls.

    Anybody else?

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    Lately we've been collecting lots of dust as the air contitioners are blasting.

    I personally collect firearms and old fishing memorabilia.

    Kevin

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    Smilie

    I like to collect $50 and $100 bills, it's a slow process, but they're easy to turn in a financial pinch....

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    Collecting...

    I collect antique cameras, antique furniture and knives. I also collect tools which I use for my other hobbies of rebuilding engines and keeping my dirt bike in shape. Occasionally I collect flies as well especially after being outside, under a car, in the heat :)

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    Darris C.

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    Bev,
    I collect old basket purses, teddy bears and matchbooks.

    I must also say that the joy of my life lately has been scouring e-bay for the items I love. I don't have to leave the house. I do, when it isn't a million degrees and 10 million percent humidity, go to flea markets and antique fairs!
    ~Cindy

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    About ten years ago I found a very odd looking paper clip...then another...then another....I now have about 100 different shapes, colors and sizes in a box on my desk. I also collect football cards, coins and stamps. ....oh yeah....and my closet is full of old dry cleaner hangers that I have never returned.
    :)

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    Blue Jumper collection

    :cheers: I have a huge collection of Mickey Mantle memorabelia, over 600 different cards and over 500 original ads for products he endorsed among other items. Please feel free to send me any mantle items you dont want, occaisionally i collect some flack at work. Used to collect antique firearms and accoutrements.

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    I collect Silver Dollars - Morgan and Trade dollars, as well as antique cameras. Also collect old stock certificates and some old comics.

    Use to collect old 78 rpm records and antique radios. Don't do those anymore but still have quite a few.
    J. R. Smith


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    I collect old textbooks (pre and early 1900), antique tea cups & saucers, angel figures, rooster & hen figurines & art, old eyeglasses, shirts with eyeglass or sunglass artwork, wooden boxes, baskets, and ceramic figure boxes...

    My husband claims I am a voracious collector of shoes and clothes ("How many pairs of shoes do you HAVE?" he asks at least once a month.) He's probably right...for my birthday I have asked for a new closet.

    I also have started collecting old photographs, and plated tin photos. So far, the pictures are mostly of people who appear to be related to me, but I am now looking for similar in markets and at yard sales. I met a gentleman who makes old-timey photos for the Civil War reinacters and he dated many of my pictures for me by the style of the poses, and the backgrounds. When I have more time (ha ha) I think I'd like to study this art form.

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    Thumbs up Started in College

    I collect beer steins.

    I also collect accounts receivables:D






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    My collecting is limited to a small precious moments figurine collection. Bill, on the other hand is amassing a large collection of old video games. He keeps telling me I'm going to have to ban him from ebay one of these days .

    Suzy W

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    Wave

    Anything computer related, if it works all the better.....
    Also seem to do very well in ear ache and pains in the butt...
    Would love to collect £50.00 notes but as i work in optics.... :finger:

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    E-Bay

    I agree with Cindy. Although I love antique markets and flea markets, E-Bay has my vote recently. I have bought 12 art glass vases in the last 2 weeks.

    My husband has over 8,000 comic books.

    Bev

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    I love to collect motorcycles and red wine. Too bad! I can't own both at the same time.

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    i collect old specs as well and have about 200. when i open my practice i plan to display them chronologicaly (?) i also collect old display material for specs and have a good few posters and show cards from 50's and 60's.
    as a side issue i also collect kitchen and house ware form the 50's 60's and 70's.

    i am not obsessed with past by the way.

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    I collect old railroad company stock certificates, as well as old train stuff in general (I'm looking across my desk at an 1844 ticket from Syracuse to Auburn as I type).

    Like JRS, I am also a numismatist.

    Finally, I collect tobacco pipes (my favorite hobby, since you can actually use your collection)!
    ;)
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    Old train stuff

    Everytime I see or hear about the old trains, I get sick!!! Fifteen years ago my father emptied his attic to sell the house and you won't believe he buried about 10 boxes full of old trains in a ditch around the house. These trains were very old and had'nt been touched in the previous 20 years. It wasn't until a few years after he sold the house I asked him which one of my siblings had gotten the trains..& thats when I found out what he had done!!!

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    That would be sickening (about as bad as my mom throwing my brother's old baseball cards away years ago...). I still have all my old Lionel O gauge stuff. However, it shows the wear and tear that comes with actually being played with!

    Each birthday and Christmas, I'd get another few pieces of Lionel accessories (the station with the engineer that would come out as the train passed, for example). Today, I take my son to the local hobby shop and see what they are charging for this stuff and just die! Still, I try to forget about the cost and let him enjoy playing with the trains as much as I did. Its almost too bad the items have become so collectible, because it takes them out of "toy" status and moves them into "look but don't touch" status.
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    My oldest son once took my roll of Kennnedy Silver Half Dollars and spent them on video games! :o


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    Steve,
    And how was he when you killed him?

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    Steve:

    Now if they had been Eisenhower Dollars, or Real Silver dollars it would have been tragic, but since it was Kennedy, who cares?

    Chip

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    At a value of $10 for each 50 cent piece, I cared!


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    Now, I imagine that was a rather interesting father-son exchange. Some would call this a "teachable" moment... I would definitely be interested in knowing exactly how you came to discover the deed and what you did to handle the situation (you know, for when my own son does something equally as bone-headed).

    The closest I probably got to doing something as inane and frustrating as this was when I decided to wash my dad's car (which he was in the process of trading in) for him while he took a nap one Sunday. He was really picky about the appearance of his car (which would explain why I am today). I was about 8 years old, and I figured I would REALLY get the car clean. So, I grabbed my mom's SOS pads and gave about half the car a good scrubbing. That's when my father emerged from the house and (amazingly, rather calmly) inquired as to just what I thought I was doing.

    Having listened to my grand plan to clean the car, he chamoied off a spot I had completed and demonstrated the fine scratches I had imparted. For the next couple of hours, we buffed and waxed until the paint was shiny new again- then went out for a milkshake. It is actually one of my fondest memories, because dad really "shone" (pun intended) in his ability to stay cool when he must have wanted to wring my little neck!
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    So, Steve, what did YOU do to the little video game playing miscreant?
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    Pete,
    Your story gave me a chuckle and reminded me of something my nephew did to my sister when he was 3 years old. My sister wouldn't even go out for the morning paper if she wasn't in full war paint. She would spend hours on her makeup to run to the 7-Eleven! Even if she was only driving there! Since she was older than me I grew up dreading the phrase "Debbi will take you to the store/mall/school, etc"!

    Steven decided that mommy had worked hard all night at work and she needed help getting ready. Debbi was dead to the world and couldn't be stirred. I thought he was taking a nap! I was babysitting!

    He took an El-Producto marker (the large, black, permanent kind) and put on mommy's eye make up, rouge, powder and lipstick! She looked like something out of a rocky horror picture show! I heard the screams from the bathroom and when I went up there I could only laugh hysterically!

    Steven stood next to me saying, "Why's my mommy screaming?" I told him it was because Mommy had been surprised by his surprise. I then had to throw myself between the boy and his mother to make sure he saw adulthood!

    I laughed at Debbi every day for the 2-3 weeks it took the marker to wear off her face, eyelids, cheeks, and lips!
    ~Cindy

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