Collections........starting one.

My mom was into those Franklin Mint and other entertainment commemorative plates. She paid $25 apiece for them. I sent them all to an auction and they got $2 for the whole lot. I still have one that fell through the cracks - a scene from the movie "South Pacific". Can't give that away.

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I had a huge chicken collection. Figurines,music boxes, plaques,anything chicken. I sold all but a few very special ones. I also collected cookbooks,those I still have, a few from the 1800's They are worthless today but I still enjoy reading them now and then.
One thing I noticed about my collections is that after you want to move on and even if you tell family and friends you have lost interest you can be sure there will be a chicken figurine wrapped in pretty paper under the Christmas tree. Once they get it in their heads what you are into there is no stopping them.
 
asp3 said:
I'd go back in time, stop myself from getting rid of my vinyl collection, start buying vinyl when everyone else was getting rid of theirs and have a wonderful vinyl collection now. Then again I don't really listen to a lot of stuff I used to listen to so maybe that wouldn't be the best thing to do.

I would also go back in time and stop myself from sending 12 books by Harlan Ellison to a coworker back east. I've been able t replace a lot of them but not all of them. My Harlan Ellison books and my current CD collection are the only collections I have these days.
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Asp3, I kept a fair amount of our vinyl records, and my turntable works fine, but to tell the truth, I hardly ever play any of them any more. I don't understand why so many young people seem to think their sound quality is charming or authentic or something; I like the quality of CD's a lot better. And since "Alexa" came to live with me, I mostly use her to fetch and play music anyway. I've actually gotten lazy about bothering to put a disc into the CD player, when I can just look up from whatever I'm doing (anywhere in the apartment) and say, "Alexa, play Here Comes the Sun by the Beatles," and presto, it's on!

So you're probably not missing much by not having your vinyl collection any more.
 

A woman I used to work with had one of the most unusual collections I've ever heard about - toilet paper. She had samples from around the world, or at least the countries she had visited. I forget which one she said had the best, but in her opinion, the worst was Israel's. She said you had to watch out for splinters. Things may have changed since then - that was in the 1970s.
 
Like many here, I'm trying to purge my home of things. I have inherited collections of stuff from several family members who have passed. None of it is valuable, some of it is deeply sentimental. I may keep one or two things then the rest will likely go to an auction house. For a while, I collected cook books from small towns across America. I don't use them any longer and they will probably go, too.
 
jujube said:
OK, I forgot about my rocks; they've been packed away for a long time. For a long time, I collected rocks from every where we traveled. So I have boxes of rocks. And you know what they say...…"dumb as a box of rocks".
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Remember Lucy in The Long Long Trailer and her rock collection?
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DH has been downloading his records. He is splitting them up between two of his teen grandkids who have record players. It’s not likely a fad that will last. At least they’re going somewhere and we won’t have to dispose of them when the time comes.
 
I was collecting grandchildren, but I stopped at 7. ;)

Seriously, I collect very little these days.... I keep trying to get rid of the material things.... my children don't want most of what I have other than a couple paintings..... and silver.... they want the silver.... lol When I can, I try to collect junk silver.
 
I Spent my working years in the auto industry. In the room that I used for an office, I had a collection of license plates on the wall. They were from 26 countries. I still have some left, but sold off a lot.
 
Sunny said:
Don, I don't think most people collect things expecting to get rich off them. It's usually done out of love or fascination with the item, or maybe even as a joke.

Back in my "Northern Exposure" fan days, I was part of an online group of fans of the show, who called ourselves the Mooseketeers. (The show always opened with a video of a bewildered looking moose wandering around the town at night).

Somehow, I started collecting moose paraphenalia. One of my grandkids counted the number of moose-related items in my house; it was about 25. I still have a lot of them. View attachment 119929
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Sunny, I LOVED Northern Exposure.
 

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