Do you collect anything?
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From: iowa
I collect those M & M guys, the plastic figures you see in the supermarket checkout line, or in candy asiles at the gas stations, thats them, they also make little scenes with those guys, i got them driving a old ford hotrad and standing by a juke box and in hockey gear and holding footballs, and just yeaterday i aquired a slot machine with those guys, i got two chelves of our big bookcase full of them. wife says when garage done i can put them out there lol
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From: WI
Guns and related items.
Tools
Beer signs, still trying to get my hands on a Hams Bear but they are hard to come by.
I used to be real heavy into baseball cards (about 20,000 of them) and stamps (over 12,000 with lots of forign stuff) but I havent really touched them in the last 7 or 8 years. I should drag them out one day and see what I got.
Tools
Beer signs, still trying to get my hands on a Hams Bear but they are hard to come by.
I used to be real heavy into baseball cards (about 20,000 of them) and stamps (over 12,000 with lots of forign stuff) but I havent really touched them in the last 7 or 8 years. I should drag them out one day and see what I got.
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From: Laveen
I collect cookbooks, especially very old and odd ones. I have one from the 1800's that is called the housewives companion or something like that, I had it on my desk at work with me once and one of the NCOs who worked for me was one of these rambo types saw it and tried to buy it after he looked at it for awhile. Its like some kind of survival manual it has all kind of goodies in it like how to make soap and the stuff to make soap, candles, vinigar (the slow way and the fast German method) how to preserve food without refrigeration, first aid and all kinds of other stuff.
I collect other odds and ends, Deer figurines, deer (we have four) Rugers, and this and that. I've got a B 17 owners manual I found and a silk map of Korea printed when there was only one Korea.
I collect other odds and ends, Deer figurines, deer (we have four) Rugers, and this and that. I've got a B 17 owners manual I found and a silk map of Korea printed when there was only one Korea.
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From: Near Bloom, PA
I collect Rusty Wallace stuff and plastic models, though I guess it's not really a value thing since I put them all together.
My wife used to be a packrat, she has boxes of the weirdest stuff in storage. She has a few hundred Breyer plastic horses (no room for them here, she won't let me buy her any more) and a bunch of ceramic horses. She also has a lot of Goth-type stuff. When my mother and her grandmother passed away, we got a lot of their collectible glassware, so people started giving us more. Oh yeah, she has a literal closet full of baseball cards from the 80s and 90s at her mom's. That's just a few things. Glad we don't have a lot of room here!
(Almost forgot- she still collects animal bones. Weird.)
My wife used to be a packrat, she has boxes of the weirdest stuff in storage. She has a few hundred Breyer plastic horses (no room for them here, she won't let me buy her any more) and a bunch of ceramic horses. She also has a lot of Goth-type stuff. When my mother and her grandmother passed away, we got a lot of their collectible glassware, so people started giving us more. Oh yeah, she has a literal closet full of baseball cards from the 80s and 90s at her mom's. That's just a few things. Glad we don't have a lot of room here!
(Almost forgot- she still collects animal bones. Weird.)
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From: Kalispell, Mt.
Wife and I collect cat figurines..I collect the Siamese and she collects all kinds ( breeds ). We have well over 300 on display all over the house. I also collect 1950's style Siamese Cat TV/night lamps ( little bulb projects to the rear and up through the eyes, making them glow). I also collect 1/24th and 1/18th scale diecast cars and trucks. Check out this link if you wish to see some of them. Most are boxed due to a lack of room. http://photos.yahoo.com/pocketgopher
I also collect and build plastic models..mainly Bigfoot Monster Truck.. several years of it, and other Fords, Studebakers and a few *****'s. I carve and collect elk and deer antler, making belt buckles, necklaces etc out of them. (Haven't done that for a while though, but I still have lotta antler left to work with.)
Wife and I also collect movies.VHS and DVD. We are both a couple danged pack rats..I swear.
I also collect and build plastic models..mainly Bigfoot Monster Truck.. several years of it, and other Fords, Studebakers and a few *****'s. I carve and collect elk and deer antler, making belt buckles, necklaces etc out of them. (Haven't done that for a while though, but I still have lotta antler left to work with.)
Wife and I also collect movies.VHS and DVD. We are both a couple danged pack rats..I swear.
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Sales literature for trucks and farm equipment, farm toys, beer signs, antiques, and old trucks for parts.
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My most important collection is probably various rifle and handgun cartriges. I also collect many other things including chrome auto decals, hubcaps, license plates, and 1/64 scale toy farm equipment.
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Used/rare books from the 1750s through 1910ish - primarily history and socio-economics, especially Scottish, Eastern Canada and North-Eastern U.S. and railroad technical books.
(Have reduced my collection to about 500)
Plastic and die-cast cars and trucks - V.W., BMW, Ford trucks....whatever my current passion is. (Have no more than maybe 100)
blues music CDs.
Later,
(Have reduced my collection to about 500)
Plastic and die-cast cars and trucks - V.W., BMW, Ford trucks....whatever my current passion is. (Have no more than maybe 100)
blues music CDs.
Later,
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Antique tools.
Antique railroad equipment
Antique laboratory and scientific apparatus.
Anything authentic I can find related to WWII tank destroyer forces, especially the 894th, my dad's unit
Antique railroad equipment
Antique laboratory and scientific apparatus.
Anything authentic I can find related to WWII tank destroyer forces, especially the 894th, my dad's unit
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