for me mostly:
Stamps: US and about everywhere else, including some sheets, covers+FDCs
Fossils
Stamps: US and about everywhere else, including some sheets, covers+FDCs
Fossils
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What do you collect besides basses?
- Thread starter MEKer
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I don't collect anything. Living in a tiny home, you learn not to accumulate anything more than you need.
Prior to that, I collected baseball type hats and writing instruments.
I had over 300 writing instruments, and over 200 ball caps.
Nothing of value, just items I liked or bought when traveling. Every ball cap and every writing instrument had a story about my life when I acquired it.
I prided myself more on telling the story about the acquisition than the actual item itself.
-Mike
Prior to that, I collected baseball type hats and writing instruments.
I had over 300 writing instruments, and over 200 ball caps.
Nothing of value, just items I liked or bought when traveling. Every ball cap and every writing instrument had a story about my life when I acquired it.
I prided myself more on telling the story about the acquisition than the actual item itself.
-Mike
Once upon a time I had a huge collection of DVDs. I still do actually, but they're at my parents' home & they browse through them & watch them sometimes.
Once Blu-Rays came out, I stopped buying DVDs, but decided not to buy many Blu-Ray, since I can stream so much.
DOH!@, just counted them & I've got over 30, but no plans to buy anymore.
Books, mostly sci-fi novels, ranging from Star Wars & Star Trek to Anne Rice & Stephen King novels.
I've got two 3'x3' bookshelves that are full, but one shelf is Blu-Rays & PS4 games:
Yes, that's a Fender Rumble on the bottom right...
Once Blu-Rays came out, I stopped buying DVDs, but decided not to buy many Blu-Ray, since I can stream so much.
DOH!@, just counted them & I've got over 30, but no plans to buy anymore.
Books, mostly sci-fi novels, ranging from Star Wars & Star Trek to Anne Rice & Stephen King novels.
I've got two 3'x3' bookshelves that are full, but one shelf is Blu-Rays & PS4 games:
Yes, that's a Fender Rumble on the bottom right...
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I call it wrinkle repellent. My skinny friends are starting to look like the Crypt Keeper.
We just watched that one, & it's still great!
Saw it the first time in Port Hueneme, CA when it was released. I watched all the series as well, but especially like StarGate Atlantis.
Robert Carlyle was kind of wasted on StarGate Universe.
I don't so much 'collect' as 'attract'.
I seem to attract a lot of useless stuff.
I seem to attract a lot of useless stuff.
Tarot cards, playing cards, harmonicas, blue gemstones, and lockpicks.
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Books, sort of. Limited printings etc. I don't really collect basses. I have four: one each fretted and fretless four and five strings. Other than that, I do have two motorcycles, a purple 1988 Harley Sportster 883 and a white 2009 Ducati Multistrada 1100s. I'd like to add another bike or two, but I doubt I'll ever reach something I would call a collection.
Passinwind
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I don't collect basses, never have. I currently own three, the most I ever have in over 45 years of playing.
I do collect electronic components, but that's mostly a working stash and I definitely don't "admire" my collection all that often. It's just stuff.
I do collect electronic components, but that's mostly a working stash and I definitely don't "admire" my collection all that often. It's just stuff.
What don't I collect? Books; vinyl records (only about 200); unique beer bottle caps; early postcards; autographs; wheat pennies. I once bought the 1860 edition of the complete works of Washington Irving just because the Ebay seller wrote that they were going in the trash, if nobody bought them. The paper quality is so bad (high acid content paper), that they're falling apart. I like old stuff.
photography and nature books that i get at the goodwill
camera lenses and lights to go with my nikon
camera lenses and lights to go with my nikon
All aspects of vintage photographic gear from the shooting side to the print making end of it. Some of what I have is well over 100 years old and most still work fine.
More recently, vintage table and floor lamps (late Victorian to Jazz Age), and Craftsman Workshops era Gustav Stickley furniture.
More recently, vintage table and floor lamps (late Victorian to Jazz Age), and Craftsman Workshops era Gustav Stickley furniture.
