do you collect anything?

[RainDog]

I collect books. I went a little overboard there for a while, so I'm getting rid of some of them. I thought I had fewer than I have, it seems.

My favorite things to collect are illustrated children's books.

[plcdude]

1. excellent

porn websites :evilgrin:

[RainDog]

2. uh, Mr Burns? n/t

[plcdude]

3. very good

it wasn't me she made me say it.

[RainDog]

9. uh-huh. i'm sure...

[yardwork]

4. I collect illustrated children's books, too! Or I used to.

I did this for years, long before I had children. Now my children are teenage boys and for some reason I stopped. I'm going to resume collecting. Illustrated books rock!

[mainegreen]

5. Music.

:P

[RainDog]

11. vinyl or certain genres? ..

[mainegreen]

32. Both

or the same.
Vinyl, from a certain genre, and primarily from one sub-type of that genre.

[RainDog]

33. so what are they?

or am I not allowed to ask? :)

[mainegreen]

48. Certain labels from the mid-90s.

Generally small electronica labels that released goa or ambient.

[lost-in-nj]

6. I guess you can say

shoes
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

no really I have started to bring home at least one shell
from the beaches I go to....
some times 2 or 3 if they are small.....
I have some quartz I picked up on an impromptu hike with my daughter and her fiancee last fall....
so I guess some momento of a time and place...

if I go to Hawaii though I will buy my momento :)


lost

[RainDog]

19. is your momento

oh, I dunno, some extremely hot cabana boy? :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. My dear RainDog...

Yup, I do...

Books

Photos

Travel memories

:shrug:

[RainDog]

8. glad I'm not the only one

I'm going through my first level of weeding...tho this is really hard because I've spent years collecting the first edition of first novels for lit fiction. I'm making myself put most up them in my sell boxes.

I also collect pop-up books...I consider them a 3-d form of an illustrated kid's book, unless it's the pop-up kama sutra (which, btw, has a pop-up that lowers a woman in a basket. I suppose some people do that, maybe Pammy and Tommy Lee? I never saw the video.

I asked about collecting not only to talk to people here, but also to see if anyone might be interested in books I'll be selling later. I thought I'd put some scans in the DU mrktplace.

I also have a ton of political books. I thought I'd gotten through every box at least on one pass, but turns out I was wrong. Next time I take a box to the basement I want to see how many boxes I have to sell (books I plan to sell in a garage sale, not as collectibles, tho I am sooo tempted to take those 1st/1st out.

tell me to step away from the boxes!!!!! :)

[laylah]

10. I used to prior to

becoming a card carrying member of the Divorced Wives Club. Tables were my first obcession. I still have an awesome turn of the century (1900) farmers table. That eventually became a bit much so I got rid of most of them and turned to Pink Fostoria Depression Glass. I still have a few pieces. It is such a pretty pattern. Very simple and flowing. And, of course, books. Being the granddaughter of a librarian, books are a staple, kinda like food.

[AlCzervik]

12. souls.

[RainDog]

14. so how much do you offer for a sick one?

not that I'm talking about myself or anything...

[AlCzervik]

17. it's the same price for all of them.

$4.73.

[RainDog]

21. man, outsourcing has hit soul selling? ...

[Fire Walk With Me]

13. I tell the truth, so I end up collecting assholes.

[RainDog]

15. isn't that physically impossible?

I mean, aren't assholes the negation of all the skin around it?

[Fire Walk With Me]

20. Judging by the stench surrounding me, it's quite possible.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

16. I just want to be the first to answer "DUST"

:D

[RainDog]

18. LOL

does that count? I find cat hair and dust tumbleweeds all the time. I guess I was such a contrarian, when I heard cleanliness is next to godliness I thought that would be a good-girl way to rebel. :)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

22. Me too...

I've always been a firm believer in sharing housework. Ther trouble is, I'm not good at kicking asses around here to make sure I'm not the one doing all the work.

[RainDog]

24. me too!!

I am such a wimp. And of course my kids know how to get around me. my son with asperger's doesn't always understand but he's also really good at "forgetting." other son too. we set up a schedule to share certain tasks like cleaning the b.r. and they do a half-assed job and... it's frustrating.

another reason I want to unclutter my life - theirs too.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

29. It's hard to insist on boys doing their part

when their father doesn't.

[RainDog]

31. well, I'm a single parent

who has been working 2 jobs, attending grad school, totally not keeping up with what's going on with my kids' schoolwork, who started collecting some books because I thought I might need to open a store here to stay in town. my kids could live with their dad, and now that he's remarried he's more stable than they've ever seen him and would have a hard time if they moved before high school. now that he's stable, it's been my turn to freak.

cleaning my house comes in about 87th on my list of priorities.

[zabet]

28. Dust tumbleweeds are not dust....

....they are ghost turds.
:hide:

[hisownpetard]

23. My ex used to collect belly-button lint. His goal was to have enough

to stuff a pillow.

Series111!

[Arugula Latte]

25. Why? Did you see those industrial barrels in my basement?

Those aren't anything ... Nothing in those. No siree! And, I am, um, doing a basement renovation, and that's why the floor is all torn up. ...

:yoiks:

[RainDog]

30. no. nothing at all. I dinna see nuthin'

swear

[Bzzzz]

26. Tinkerbell...

and fairy figurines.

[seemunkee]

27. Flip books, smashed pennies, urban vinyl figures and comics

If I were to start a new hobby my wife would kill me.

[RetroLounge]

34. How on earth can you go overboard on books?

:rofl:



RL

[RainDog]

36. LOL

but you have some place to put them!

hey, you wanna start collecting 1st edition/ 1st novels? I've got a lot of them. also a ton or ARCs. sometimes both the ARC and the novel! You know you want to buy all (subliminal youmusthavethem) of those off me.

[RetroLounge]

37. You may not like hearing this

But I bought a boatload of first edition hard cover lit fiction from a library sale, $1 each...

I got spoiled and never pay more for books now.

RL

[RainDog]

40. you may not like hearing this...

but I got my ARCs for free and my 1st/1st for either .25, .50, or 1.00.

It's a good thing the library changed the way they do their library sale and started charging more. okay then, my 1/1st's stay in the basement. you can't sell to a dealer anyway, if you want to make a nice profit. so I withdraw that offer... at least until after my garage sale.

[Tyler Durden]

35. Films and Books.

Got Lots.

[Sanity Claws]

38. Not anymore

I used to collect pottery but when I moved, I downsized and gave away many pieces. I have no desire to collect anything anymore. A collection takes up valuable space.

[RainDog]

42. I totally understand

I want to get rid of about half of the crap in my life. but books are also...I couldn't imagine not having my own books. I've done that since elementary school. And I still have books from high school, even. but I have an entire room that was full of boxes of books-- six boxes high. they weren't all for me. but of course as I'm getting rid of some I think... you know, I really want to read that. argh!

I need to get back to my exciting sorting work too. I'll have to work for a bit and come back here for a break.

[av8rdave]

39. mostly photos and certain books

[RainDog]

41. what kind of books?

[av8rdave]

56. Mostly classic fiction and some science fiction

Vonnegut, Steinbeck, Hemingway. Also some Asimov and Clarke.

[Chovexani]

43. Neuroses

:crazy:

And Jack Chick tracts.

[stuntcat]

44. books, horror movies, old cameras/old photos, and

bones :blush: my husband ordered me a new taxidermy something for an after-Christmas present, it'll get here tomorrow or Friday, I don't know what it is yet.

[Doc_Technical]

45. Motorcycles.

And one of them actually runs!!

[rug]

46. Misanthropes.

[RainDog]

47. hey, you can collect me!

or not. --too much baggage with that collection.

[reyd reid reed]

49. Other than dust, you mean?

I used to collect dolls. My dad has them. I used to collect crytal -- then I had kids. Boy-kids. Who like to throw things. I kinda-sorta collect coffee cups. The kids are starting to use them, though -- they won't last much longer. I collect books...now those are all mine.

[DarkTirade]

50. Crazy ideas that never come to fruition.

[Bennyboy]

51. Posters..music photos...

I have a nice collection of vintage posters and photos. Some signed (my most impressive is original AcidTest poster signed by Ken kesey and Wavy Gravy. I ahve a signed Dylan photo, neil young, Bruce Springsteen, Jerry garcia, and many others... all framed and hanging...

[RainDog]

59. nice collection

yeah, kesey and wavy gravy certainly hits it out of the ballpark. just the original posters w/o the autographs sell in the thousands of dollars. of course, if you collect something, you don't really care about that, but I was collecting to sell, too.

[Bennyboy]

61. I collect to sell too....

I usually get extra copies of event and band posters and Jazzfest posters.....Keep em unopened and twenty years from now big change. Some of the old Jazzfest posters are wotrth tons of money an every year they go up consdierably.

I also ahve two good freinds, Frenchy and Scramble Cambell that do works of art at shows and then sell them. I ahve quite a few of their pieces too....

I used to frame them myself and save huge moeny. had a matte cutter and anice shop for it..

[RainDog]

63. sounds like fun

posters are much easier to save than books - less storage space, better storage in tubes. I do have some books that I've put back for my kids to sell after they are way out of print. mostly pop-ups still in their original, sealed shipping plastic. don't want to do too many of those, tho, because of the storage space required.

[Duer 157099]

52. Too.Many.Things

Books being one of them, too. I just can't help it, but I know I'm not alone on this one. What is it about books that we just love so much? Dunno.

I half-heartedly collect a bunch of things. Coins. Spoons (yes, it's crazy). Rocks/gemstones/minerals. Kitchen stuff (gadgets etc).

Here's how it often happens for me: I go to a thrift store and find something interesting and I think hey I can sell this on ebay, so I take it home, do some research and figure out what it is and what it's worth, and by then I'm invested in the thing, and often will see more at thrift stores and will pick those up too, now that I know something about them, and NO they never seem to make it to ebay, lol... and soon enough, I'm collecting them. ::sigh::

[Rhythm]

53. Tho i no longer have them, i used to collect antique books...

My collection was mostly pre-1900 copies of classics, and oversized editions illustrated by Gustave Doré. I had perhaps 200 volumes in all.

Unfortunately (and it's too long a story to go into), i lost them all about 9 yrs ago.
*sigh*

[RainDog]

55. victorian triple deckers?

oversized Dore? I have some things that are pre-1900 that are also in decent shape. one of my old teachers gave me *GAVE ME* a 1798 or 9 - don't have it near (or it's in a box under a box... set of three vols because my thesis was about the person who authored the book. I do not want to sell those.

you ******lost***** you books -- literally? how sad.

what was the oldest book you had? do you remember?

[Stuart G]

54. What don't I collect..?

I am getting ready to put up the 2002 calendars for the first two months, then I will switch to the l986, or 1997 for the rest of the year.(and that is the ultimate in recycling..)..enuf said......

[SPKrazy]

57. dust

[Broken_Hero]

58. hmm, a few things

Superman stuff, toys, comic books, magic the gathering cards....movies, cds....

btw, check my journal for pics of the "Fortress"....

[RainDog]

60. aaarrrrggghhhhh!

your wife must be a wonderful woman.

but what? no wonder woman?

[Broken_Hero]

65. Wonderwoman is in there

I got her in a Justice League three pack, with Superman/Batman...I probably bought it after these pics were taken...

The whole fortress room is under development again, and I'll probably have new pics up within a month or so...its a lot of stuff, and in all honesty I don't have enough room in that bedroom for everything(unless I start pinning stuff to the ceiling, hey, thats a thought!)....

And yes, my wife is a wonderful woman...just as long as I keep it all in one room....:D

[Pierre.Suave]

62. Judging by my music collection...

I seem to be collecting Music.

Mostly Jazz and Classical. I have both Vinyl and CDs, and even some Vinyl that was never released in the US. I got that one for free from a jazz artist that I helped with some recording.

I have some other genres too, but the bulk of it is Classical, Chorale, and Jazz.

[ghostsofgiants]

64. The wives of my enemies.

[grasswire]

66. remember, everyone....

...we have a collectibles, eBay, antique and flea marketing topic right here on DU. Lots of cool people over there, too.