[rickey939]

Out of curiosity, how many here collect something? It can be anything. If you do, what do you collect and how much of the item(s) do you have?

[Brass]

I have a collection of every wired Apple mouse ever made, except for the hockey puck and the mighty mouse. How geeky is that? I'm ashamed. But it happened kind of accidentally... they just ended up in my desk, and I realised that I had an almost complete set by accident.

I guess most people that work in a Mac shop or repairing Macs have a good collection of these out the back, but it's not so easy for me.

[PurpleGiant]

You totally need a hockey puck to make that collection complete. Probably the most well-known Apple mouse ever.

[- - e r i k - -]

Not really. Unless you count books and DVDs which just happens to add up to collections all on their own it seems.

[brassplayersrock²]

dvds. in my dorm, i'm known as the dvd guy to the more seasoned dorm people. i have 2 250 cd binders filled, and 1/4 of another 250. it helps having a few well priced used dvd stores in the area.

Alex

[miss-haley]

pretty art glass and i have a bag of old ram formfactors.... artgeek?




really this is just an exercise to increase my postcount

[Ulrich Kinbote]

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock

dvds. in my dorm, i'm known as the dvd guy to the more seasoned dorm people. i have 2 250 cd binders filled, and 1/4 of another 250. it helps having a few well priced used dvd stores in the area.

Alex

DVD guy? I bet people are always borrowing those and not returning them.

[Goldfinger]

Keychains

[Oisín]

IBDCISHCFT™.

(In before Doofy comes in and says he collects female trophies)

[starman]

"I collect spores, molds, and fungus"

[Dakar]

I collect dust.

HA

[analogika]

I'm not allowed to: I'm a liberal.

[Y3a]

Sci-Fi collectibles (Studio Scale models)
Norfolk & Western HO Scale Steam Locomotives in Brass
Stop Motion Animation Movies

[Dakar]

Originally Posted by Y3a

Sci-Fi collectibles (Studio Scale models)

That's probably some interesting expensive stuff.

[Dork.]

About the only thing I have that could count as a "collection" is a series of old-school Avalon-Hill board games that nobody ever wants to play because they last 10 hours minimum. As well as other board games that only the board-gamer geeks are likely to have heard of, but do make good hour-long or two-hour long games. I hope when I retire and my daughter puts me in a nursing home, I'm there with a bunch of Diplomacy and Titan geeks.

And every Mac port of Sid Meiers' Civilization franchise.

The baseball cards are still at my parents' house. About the only one I own of any value is a rookie card from a certian Oakland A's outfielder from 1980. But for some reason, I can't remember his name. Steve Henderson, maybe?

[Gossamer]

I used to collect Macs, but I gave that up when I moved back into the dorm...took up waay too much space.

[Peter]

Don't collect anything. I've never found anything I really really really wanted to collect really.
Comic Books I guess, but I don't hunt a single edition down and pay huge prices for it.

[E's Lil Theorem]

Tummies. Pictures of tummies to be exact. I don't have nearly enough of them, but I'm working on it

[rickey939]

Originally Posted by Dork.

The baseball cards are still at my parents' house. About the only one I own of any value is a rookie card from a certian Oakland A's outfielder from 1980. But for some reason, I can't remember his name. Steve Henderson, maybe?

Dave Henderson?

In good condition still? I'll buy it.

[RAILhead]

Cominc books: thousands.
Guitars: 10, currently.
Cameras: 15

[Dork.]

Originally Posted by rickey939

Dave Henderson?

In good condition still? I'll buy it.

My parents want me to sort theough the baseball cards and determine what might be of value the next time I visit, which will likely be in December. I have one specific binder that I remember putting all of my valuable cards in, so it's probably in there. If it's in decent condition, we'll talk....

Are you interested in a few of the 7 or 8 complete sets of stylish (and not at all ugly) 1986 Topps cards that I know I still have somewhere? (without the autograph, of course....)

[Nivag]

i collect parking tickets, not my choice mind

[osiris]

I collect too much stuff, maybe out of laziness...
Old cameras (pre 1960's), comics, matchbooks from around the world, and way too many computers.

[Landos Mustache]

Bills

[Big Mac]

iPods, although unintentionally so. I have somehow ended up buying every generation of the iPod. The only one I never got was the 1G.

[Monique]

I used to collect National Geographic magazines and books then when I had to move, I told myself are you reading those books or looking at those magazines; the answers were no and I gave it all away. I only now keep books that I will read again and movies that I watch often.

[MacNStein]

I collect antiquarian books and manuscripts, plus have a large collection of golden and silver age comics.

[ghporter]

Coins, computers, a variety of magazines (I have something like 25+ years of National Geographic, for example). Oh, and swords too.

And way too many books. It's just too hard to part with them! And too hard to plow through them to decide which ones to take to Half Price Books or donate to the local library.

[nonhuman]

If all you people who collected things spent that money on me instead, we'd all be much happier.

[ghporter]

No, then we'd all collect YOU. That would lead to ugliness; who has to take care of you today, who needs to clean up after you... And Mom would always wind up taking care of everything and getting mad at everyone else... Nope, not workable.

[Rumor]

I don't collect anything, but my cat collects fleas.

[Landos Mustache]

Originally Posted by Rumor

I don't collect anything, but my cat collects fleas.

Hmmm, I collect cats.

[Y3a]

Originally Posted by Dakar

That's probably some interesting expensive stuff.

Yep! I paid almost a grand for a casting of the 4 foot diameter Jupiter 2 hull, which I will turn into a copy of the original Special Effects Model. The Imperial Walker stop Motion Model is next, and THEN I'll start looking into doing a Robby the Robot 1:1 scale costume.

[KeriVit]

Lizards (fake) and Rare Patriots Stuff

[DeathToWindows]

Cameras (Nikon N90s, F4s, D70 | Pentax 645)
Books
Fountain Pens (Lamy, Sheaffer, Pelikan)

[Landos Mustache]

Originally Posted by Y3a

THEN I'll start looking into doing a Robby the Robot 1:1 scale costume.

I hear there is a company that makes full sized replicas for $20,000.

[Dakar]

Originally Posted by Y3a

Yep! I paid almost a grand for a casting of the 4 foot diameter Jupiter 2 hull, which I will turn into a copy of the original Special Effects Model. The Imperial Walker stop Motion Model is next, and THEN I'll start looking into doing a Robby the Robot 1:1 scale costume.

Hehe

I remember how much it blew my mind when I discovered that the models were this big:


Rather than the size of the models you could buy at a kmart.

[Kyros]

Penguin stuffed animals. And other penguin stuff. It started in 3rd grade, I probably have a good 30 or so right now.

[exca1ibur]

Japanese Katanas
DVDs

[rickey939]

Do any of you use a program or something else to manage and inventory your collection(s)? If so, what do you use?

[Landos Mustache]

Originally Posted by rickey939

Do any of you use a program or something else to manage and inventory your collection(s)? If so, what do you use?

Delicious library for Books, games and DVD. Nothing beats it.

[Rumor]

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

I hear there is a company that makes full sized replicas for $20,000.

Fred Barton Productions, Inc.

[nonhuman]

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

Delicious library for Books, games and DVD. Nothing beats it.

LibraryThing

[Landos Mustache]

Originally Posted by nonhuman

LibraryThing

Yuck.

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by Oisín

IBDCISHCFT™.

(In before Doofy comes in and says he collects female trophies)

You wouldn't believe how good a set of NS10's sound with two pairs of panties over the tweeters.


I don't actually collect anything at the moment. I've got a collection of 1950's tea cards (couple of thousand maybe) but I'm so interested in them I'd forgotten they existed until this thread came up. Been toying with getting into whisky bottle collecting again (hate the drink, love the bottle designs).

[Dork.]

Originally Posted by Doofy

Been toying with getting into whisky bottle collecting again (hate the drink, love the bottle designs).

I'll do you a favor, then: mail me some full bottles, and I'll make sure they're good and empty, then send them back!

[Goldfinger]

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

Delicious library for Books, games and DVD. Nothing beats it.

I find DL to be completely useless because it doens't allow for custom fields or editing the names of certain fields (or did I miss something). Anybody has another good app to catalog DVDs, that does custom fields ?

[hickey]

I collect embarassing and awkward stories that happen to me.

this makes me want to start collect tangible things though. What should I start with?

[Rumor]

Originally Posted by hickey

I collect embarassing and awkward stories that happen to me.

this makes me want to start collect tangible things though. What should I start with?

Used toothpicks

[milhous]

well let's not forget the obvious that if you use itunes, then you're a collector of music!