hey ot what do you collect?

[ErikGTI]

I'm sure all hobbies are divided into hobbyists and "freaks/fanatics" (snowboarding/skiiing, car enthusiasts, comic books, video games)

Having worked at a hobbyshop for the last two years I've seen how crazy hobbyists are, myself included. Train guys are the craziest though. There's just something about them that separates them from R/C or scale model guys. I can't put my finger on it.

Erik

[vr6pilot]

could it be the 'dressing up like conductors' factor?

[Sizzla]

Watches.
I love watches. I don't have any that are particularly spectacular or super high end, but I love em just the same

same here. I don't even really have a desire to have super expensive ones either. I just love all the different styles.

Same here.

[2112]

Mostly die-cast cars, in varying scales but mostly 1:64. And I tend to open them, except for some of the more rare/pricey ones.

A sample of what I have:

[vr6pilot]

Starsky & Hutch, win

[Chris Stack]

Golf balls from courses I play, and sports cars, the latter currently a collection of one.

[Rabbitguy21]

I used to collect star wars stuff as a kid, Its all in my parents attic now. As a adult I guess the only thing I really collect are guns.

SKS
S&W AR-15
S&W M&P 15-22
S&W .38
S&W .22
SIG 522
SIG P228
Mossberg 500
high standard double nine .22 longhorn revolver

Other then that my nova eats my extra money.

[caddy 2 dope]

I had a nice extensive porn collection until my wife thew it away when we moved in together

[Meggles]

SD cards (like potato chips, you can't have just one)
Digital cameras (I'm really trying to stop)

Elongated souvenir pennies - whenever I see a penny crusher, I have to use it!

I collect squished pennies too! I have as long as I can remember, and my kiddo has a growing collection now. We check www.pennycollector.com for machines before we go anywhere.

[WeenerBoy]

Lego, diecast aircraft, 1:18 scale aircraft, un-built R/C & plastic model aircraft, rare mk2 parts, camera lenses..

[atomicalex]

Porsches from Kinder Surprise eggs. The new group just come out.

[NoDubJustYet]

I have a small collection of 1:18 scale diecast racecars... a **** ton of music/movies... a new collection of Hotwheels/Matchbox cars for my sons... That's about it.

I forgot Hard Rock shotglasses - for some reason my wife and I started this. We were in Honolulu on our honeymoon and we ate dinner at the Hard Rock one night. They screwed up our order and subsequently gave us a bunch of stuff for free, including a shotglass. Now, wherever we go we make it a point to track down the local HRC to buy a glass. Our last 3.5 years in Europe have really bolstered the collection. I never got one when we lived in Minneapolis (it's now closed) but we have a bunch from Europe.

[Elbows]

Porsches from Kinder Surprise eggs. The new group just come out.

We can't get Kinder Eggs anymore stateside...I think they stopped bringing them in because idiot children at the toys and choked.

[CJ318]

Dust.

It's really easy, I just set something down and check it like a week later. Bam! Dust.

[GreenandChrome]

We can't get Kinder Eggs anymore stateside...I think they stopped bringing them in because idiot parents gave their unsuspecting children candy with toys in it and they ate the toys and choked.

ftfy

the Dr. Evil parenting style doesn't work (close the curtains and expect that everything will go according to plan).

[vr6pilot]

enemies on the vortex

[hrama803]

I collect my belly button lint..

[Dlvdegg]

I collect debt....not glamourous by any means!!!

[Dlvdegg]

could it be the 'dressing up like conductors' factor?

And...You sir....Owe me one keyboard!!!!

[unimogken]

So far in this thread my favorite collection is the Snapon body hammers!

I have been "a collector" all of my life and I have collected pretty much everything at some point! I have diecast cars, stamps, coins, stickers, pogs (anyone remember those?), trains, concert shirts, vehicle and music magazines, r/c cars, Swatches, other watches, beer bottles, beer steins, cassette tapes, cd's, dvd's, car stereo gear. . . . Ok I have a headache because I can keep going.

Anyways once my grandparents on my dads side passed I discovered I have a problem and I need to stop collecting! They were from the great depression era and kept EVERYTHING and it sucked going thru it after they passed away.
So the last couple of years I have been liquidating stuff to free up space in my house and life! I cataloged all of my beer bottles then threw all of them into the recycle bin. I have sorted and cataloged all of the collections into bins and put the lists onto my file server. (My dang file server is even a collection of hard drives with 30tb of storage!)

Currently the only thing I collect are concert posters from my favorite band and I will get them framed over time.

i used to collect baseball cards and stamps.
now nothing.
even the things i need to buy now, annoying me, cause its just more junk and clutter in my life. i absolutely do not need to buy and compile various crap just because it matches a single theme (coca cola) or interest (guns, knives, baseball cards).

Are we brothers from different mothers? Hehe
I'm soo tired of the crap I just want it all out of my house and if I can sell it I will!

I recently went thru a Dave Ramsey class and it kills me to think how much money i'd have in the bank if I didn't collect everything!

So the only thing I will continue to collect is concert posters and money!

[iliaonabike]

LEGO

x2

[mikegilbert]

Modern lighting
1970s Rolex sports watches
Vintage advertising signage
European scale car models
Random TV Broadcast gear from my 13 years in television
SP-model Motorola 2-way radios (my other line of work) SP models were custom variants of regular models. Think Audi Exclusive, etc.

[Uccello]

Modern lighting
1970s Rolex sports watches
Vintage advertising signage
European scale car models
Random TV Broadcast gear from :my 13 years in television
SP-model Motorola 2-way radios (my other line of work) SP models were custom variants of regular models. Think Audi Exclusive, etc.

Unwanted, but sold, dining tables

:hmrr:

[mikegilbert]

Unwanted, but sold, dining tables

:hmrr:

Motherfffff

if you don't pick it up, it's going back on CL.

Old cell phones. I have pretty much every cell phone I've had since about the mid-late 90's (about 15 in all, I've unfortunately not been able to hold onto a few of them).

Too bad the antenna is cracking though.

I've got you covered on a new antenna

I do own a brand new copy of the rarest of all Motorola brick phones, though. The Motorola PFD3000 (also known as the MTX-VIP) is actually an 800mhz trunking radio inside a Dynatac case. It has a PTT button for 2-way use and a keypad for regular phone use. Basically what Nextel was before Nextel/FleetCall existed.

[Bird]

Snap!! Accidentally used my troll account.

[Bob Sacamano]

Snap!! Accidentally used my troll account.

Yeah you did, dumbass!!

[mikegilbert]

Ahahahaha!

[Egilbe]

unemployment