What do you collect?

[dammit]

I used to collect all sorts of stuff over the years.... air rifles... beer mats... etc ..the only thing I collect these days (apart from dust) are nice desktop pics :p
Do you collect anything... and is it a bit of an obsession?

[Pi rules]

1. Knowledge, nearly an obsession ;)
2. I used to collect football cards
3. I also used to collect coins

[Mr Bean]

I also used to collect beer mats. Maybe we could exchange:rolleyes:

I have nearly 400 CD albums and about the same in singles so I suppose that is a bit of a collection. Also a few hundred DVD's to boot.

[Spider]

Rocks, stones, and the ever controversial wild bonsai.

[degsy]

PCW magazine. I don't know why though. I'm a subscriber and have about 2 years worth of copies in a stack on the floor. Like i'm going to find something from a past issue. Should probably dump them.

[Mr Bean]

I did have every back issue of Viz, FHM, Loaded and Maxim. I binned them all a few years ago. Then I discovered Ebay:curse:

[smurfy]

RLW (Rugby League Week). Had (almost) every issue from 1990-1997.
NZPhotography Mag - Still got them in a box

But current collection I'd have to say (apart from the obvious almost antique computer hardware filling up the garage) would be computer magazine cover discs - I'd have well over 200 CDs and Dvds

[PurestLight]

I collect anything Elvis, not the trashy memorabilia nick-nack stuff, but records, CD's, DVD's, Photos (more internet ones now, not so much paper), got newspaper clippings and magazines etc from mid/late 1950's onward and some original LP's. Cant part with any of it lol. When I pop off, maybe the kids will make some money out of it all :hmm:.
Also, the infernal computer magazines!!!! I cant stand missing an issue of: Official windows xp magazine, Windows xp made easy, computeractive and others. They are so pricy at around £6 a copy for some of them, Im loath to chuck them out, but as you said Degsy, Ill never on this earth trawl through back issues. Plus they're taking up an awful lot of space. Now there's a Vista mag out, Ive started collecting that too.....Time for another trip to the local dump I think....

Oh, I forgot teapots. I love miniature teapots. Got LOADS, gradually packing them up aswell. Im starting to hate 'stuff'. I wish I was a minimalist kind of person :rotflmao:

[rlprlp]

I collect crosses. I have dozens of them. Ones that hang on the wall, ones that stand on shelves.... But I don't collect them in a religious way. I'm a huge Black Sabbath fan, and they have always used crosses as sort of a "logo". I'm not into the trivial stuff about them, though. For example, I have no idea, and could care less, what day Ozzy Osbourne's birthday is. I don't watch "The Osbournes", it has nothing to do with Black Sabbath. I collect all Black Sabbath, with and without Ozzy singing.

[sho-dan]

aha, I just got rid of 3yrs worth of MaximumPC, also a poor mans ($300 or less) custom knife collection, hess/gulf trucks and cant forget the Kiss dolls. :D

[jmtjet]

Beer bottles,cans and other stuff. I have a beer bottle from the first run after prohibition dated 1933 and still full. Also, got several cans of "Billy Beer" still full. scholtz & dooley mugs, trays, bar mats and signs. I sold a lot of what I had-quit drinking 15 years ago :) But still have a lot of stuff.

With beer bottles it's the label that's important-has to be in good shape.

Even though I quit drinking I still keep a full bar with beer, wine, liquor and other spirits for those who visit and want something to drink.

[renegade600]

I am not a collector of anything except dust. It makes great canvases

[English Bob]

Playboy magazines. Got every one of'em.:D
I do actually read them as well.
Love the editorials.

[chicohonda02]

as a kid i collected sports cards., then model cars. now I collect pron. LOL!

[Spider]

Playboy magazines...Love the editorials.
Yea, I don't look at the pictures either. :)

[chicohonda02]

Yea, I don't look at the pictures either. :)

ya i look at the ads. and when looking at cars, you don't look at the headlights. " Mmm she has some nice headlights."

[Amiduffer]

History books.

If I had the space I'd be collecting way more Commodore Amiga stuff. :hmm:

[Spider]

If I had the space I'd be collecting way more Commodore Amiga stuff. :hmm:
I have an a1000 and an a4000/030 complete with all the goo!

Buy it from me please!

[Amiduffer]

I have an a1000 and an a4000/030 complete with all the goo!

Buy it from me please!


EEwww! :sick: I don't want a computer with GOO all over it! I only take computers that are clean. :laugh:


I wish I had the space for that A1000. I'm already trading my A1200 for an A4000, so I'm set there. My goal is a decent laptop to replace my barely functional Thinkpad as soon as financialy possible. Then upgrading my A3000.

However, you might think of notifying the cool folks over on www.amiga.org that you have those two for sale, since that's the most active bastion of the classic users. Folks are always looking for A4000's. If you look on YouTube, a guy used a neo-bitz to be able to connect his A1000 to an LCD TV, which is a cheap way of getting your Ami going again if you're lacking a monitor.

[Spider]

a guy used a neo-bitz to be able to connect his A1000 to an LCD TV, which is a cheap way of getting your Ami going again if you're lacking a monitor.
I have the 1950 monitor that came with it and I use to hook the composite out of the a1000 to a tv and run tv on the 1950 via it's composite. :)

Loading that Workbench 1.3 via floppy is music to my ears.
vrrrptpt vrrrptpt vrtp vrtp vrrrtptp....love that stuff.

I have the 1942 monitor for the a4000 and I put a 8Mb $600.00 gfx card into it about two years
after Commodore bit the dust for the last time. It was like 1993 if I remember right, when I got
the gfx card.
I have a SCSI card for the a4000 to.

[Amiduffer]

You would probably get a decent price for the A4000 then. Go ahead and sign up. The folks over at amiga.org are just as friendly as here.

[Spider]

You would probably get a decent price for the A4000 then. Go ahead and sign up. The folks over at amiga.org are just as friendly as here.
I may do that. Thanks for the link.

[Snurfen]

Ex-girlfriends.

seriously:
Used to collect Colliery Checks (http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.mining-memorabilia.co.uk/Pay_Checks.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.mining-memorabilia.co.uk/PitchecksanIntroduction.htm&h=282&w=771&sz=29&hl=en&sig2=yGfmZD4OOlyzd7mI0kKrCg&start=68&tbnid=oiIEpYmqg4mvpM:&tbnh=52&tbnw=142&ei=3OwORuP1DIKuhASBm5SnCA&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522colliery%2Bcheck%2522%26start%3D 60%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26 sa%3DN), had hundreds, dunno where they are now, just got my own personal one "Garw/Falldau 324" left.

[oracle128]

I'm a hoarder. It's not so much what I collect, it's what I don't get rid of, which is everything.

[Snurfen]

had a period of hoarding motorcycles, got up to 11 concurrently before I realised "enough is enough".

Still got Dirt Bike magazine going back to 78!

[lufbra]

It looks like Dammit is collecting Banned titles again. :p

[renegade600]

It looks like Dammit is collecting Banned titles again. :p

I wonder what he did this time. :rotflmao:

[English Bob]

It looks like Dammit is collecting Banned titles again. :p
I was wondering about that, he seemed like such a nice and easy going chap with a good sense of humour in the brief time I've known him here.
Why would someone as likable as dammit find himself in this predicament?

[renegade600]

I was wondering about that, he seemed like such a nice and easy going chap with a good sense of humour in the brief time I've known him here.
Why would someone as likable as dammit find himself in this predicament?

didnt you know, hes a dirty old man :D He be back maybe sooner than we think.

[English Bob]

didnt you know, hes a dirty old man :D He be back maybe sooner than we think.
I certainly hope so and as for the dirty old man part I look at that as a virtue one acquires from having many sexual conquests in their lifetime.;)

[Snurfen]

I wonder if the old raggamufin does actually have the largest collection of bans on this forum.
Adjudicator please!