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What do you collect?
Why do you collect?
When did you start collecting?

― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Art and related ephmeara,books,Evangalical Tracts,band posters,Cowboy Shirts,Pink Clothing, Hand lettered Signs.

― anthony, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

CDs and pornography.
Because I enjoy them both.
When I was a teenager.
I keep the porn to only about 10 videos at a time because I don't wanna seem like a huge perv and after you've seen 'em once or twice, they're kinda boring so I throw 'em out. Plus, my girlfriend doesn't really notice when I get new ones. As far as she knows, I've got around 10 and we watch 'em once in a while. ;-)

― Nude Spock, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When very young, stamps. Didn't really get the music mania (a brief burst from 1982 to 1985 aside) until my first CD player came along in 1988. Started being selective about books and building a hardcover library in 1984 or so. Videos beginning mid-eighties, now shifting to DVDs. Aside from the stamps, what I collect is something for specific enjoyment/edification beyond the objects in and of themselves, and I don't bother collecting extra copies of promo CD singles, say. I don't have a collection just for having a collection of something.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I collect things in the form of lists. It takes up less space.

― rainy, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I *collect* books, and simply buy music, except for a few artists (Cale, Reed, Costello, Lotion, Firesign Theater) who I'm sorta completist with.

― Sterling Clover, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Degrees. Ahaha.

I don't collect anything really - I buy lots of CDs but I don't buy them like a collector, I think. It could be said that I collect books because I buy lots that I then don't read, but I buy them with the intention of reading them - 'eventually'.

When I was younger, at various times, I collected stamps, coins, baseball cards, rocks, playing cards, puzzles (like Rubik's cube, not the puzzle-piece kind), and probably some other stuff. Oh yeah, Hot Wheels. But I never got to do much with those things, so I started failing to see the point to collecting them.

― Josh, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I accumulate, it's the new name for collecting. I accumulate comics, cd's, keyboards (I have a casiotone MT 400v, a a casio vltone, a concertmate 500 and a casio pt10). I guess I just get very attached to stuff, just can't get rid of anything.

― jel, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Girls' annuals from the seventies and eighties. Jackie, Diana, Mates...

― Madchen, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I collect penny stamps for my friend Jonathon; you know those things that you stick a penny and two quarters into and turn the knob and your penny comes out smushed but with a stunning replica of Niagara Falls etc on it.

― marianna, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Um, just some antique glass. Seltzer bottles and opalescent pieces by Fenton etc.. Cooled on that for a few years after my best dish got smashed during the 'big breakup'.

― Kim, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Music really, although I wouldn't really say I'm a collector cos I don't hunt for rare bootlegs and read Record Collector etc. When I was little I used to collect ice lolly sticks, you know, the ones with jokes on them. Yay!

― DG, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I tend to spend my money on CDs most, books next, and clothes last, but I don't collect these things because I throw out ones I don't use.

― Lyra, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The only thing I'm seriously collecting right now are Doctor Who books. I just realized that, since I'm going to be in the UK, I can grab the most recent releases for slightly less than buying them as imports and paying for shipping on amazon.co.uk.

I'm also collect some comic books, but I'm not as serious about them.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When are you over here, Dan?

― DG, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm in London Friday through Monday Morning and Edinburg Monday faternoon through, um... Wednesday? I need to double-check the itenerary.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Good Lord! I have spontaneously lost the ability to spell. I must be hungry.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

After I asked that I saw the other thread where you explain all. Duh.

― DG, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am in London from wednesday though friday. Hide.

― nathalie, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nathalie - do you want to come to the PUB?

― Tom, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I really like old TPBs of syndicated comics. I don't really collect them, as I'm in no means a completist, but they are at garage sales all the time around here for usually less than a quarter, so they're very fun and cheap. I am referring to the ones shaped like a regular paperback book, not how they publish, say, Calvin & Hobbes today in those big square books.

I like Nancy and Sluggo, Beetle Bailey, and Peanuts the best. I'll buy anything, though, so I have B.C., Wizard of Id, Andy Capp, Heathcliff, etc., not very good but quite impressive all together on my shelf. I have a whole bookshelf of these.

I won't buy them if they're more than 50 cents or so, but I'll pay quite a bit for Nancy because Ernie Bushmiller is the World's Greatest Man.

If I ever meet anyone into old newspaper comics, I will talk their ear off. It's the one thing that gets me out of my silent spacecase shell.

― 1 1 2 3 5, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Ernie Bushmiller is the World's Greatest Man."

Huzzah! Oh how I miss my weekly drunken games of "Five Card Nancy."

― jess, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

fourteen years pass...

http://i.imgur.com/Q26wFhz.jpg

― pplains, Saturday, 6 August 2016 01:33 (nine years ago)

plastic cover on the sofa and the television being on really makes the photo work as an archetype

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Saturday, 6 August 2016 03:05 (nine years ago)

There's a decade for everyone in that picture, but it's the ashtray that really ties the room together.

― pplains, Saturday, 6 August 2016 03:21 (nine years ago)

amazing revive

― bagging area (map), Saturday, 6 August 2016 03:52 (nine years ago)

14 years that are gone forever...

― pplains, Saturday, 6 August 2016 04:00 (nine years ago)

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