What do you have a collection of that might be considered unusual?

I have teapots and cups and saucers collection. But it's in storage till Sheri moves out and I have enough room to display it properly.

I also have a modest collection of Herend figurines. They are famous for their special fishnet design.

Example. This isn't mine, though I have the same one.
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hollydolly said:
It's for that very reason I'm not collecting antiques per se ...rather that I'm collecting technology because the items that I perceive as good antique or collectable items will be thrown out or sold off very quickly when I'm gone ( my daughter is ruthless with no sentimentality at all )... but Technology will become extremely valuable in the future , and she is very into tech.

A word to me a few years ago from a very well know antique dealer made me sell off all my antique furniture and replace with all new, and in his words concentrate on the ''disposable items of today for they will become the valuable antiques of tomorrow''
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There's a lot to be said for creating a lasting estate, where once a family home is bought and paid for, it's passed down from generation to generation, no one really owns it per se, and the same for the contents, as each generation inhabits the residence, they add to and better the contents and collections, and if additions are made to the residence, they're made in such a way as to preserve the original overall design and style of the home.
 

Aunt Marg said:
There's a lot to be said for creating a lasting estate, where once a family home is bought and paid for, it's passed down from generation to generation, no one really owns it per se, and the same for the contents, as each generation inhabits the residence, they add to and better the contents and collections, and if additions are made to the residence, they're made in such a way as to preserve the original overall design and style of the home.
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my home won't be passed down to my daughter, she has a much nice , bigger and better home than me... she doesn't want this one...
 
Ronni said:
I have teapots and cups and saucers collection. But it's in storage till Sheri moves out and I have enough room to display it properly.

I also have a modest collection of Herend figurines. They are famous for their special fishnet design.

Example. This isn't mine, though I have the same one.
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I'm not into that kind of thing Ronnie... but I've never seen example like that
 
hollydolly said:
my home won't be passed down to my daughter, she has a much nice , bigger and better home than me... she doesn't want this one...
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For me it's not about bigger and better, or who has nicer this or nicer that, it would simply be a means in which to simplify the will process, knowing whatever it is that I worked so hard for over the course of my lifetime, wouldn't be frivolously sold off or gotten rid of.
 
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hollydolly said:
I'm not into that kind of thing Ronnie... but I've never seen example like that
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They're really expensive, so I don't have many. I began buying them an investments because they tend to appreciate in value. I originally wanted to buy one for each of my kids over time.

For example, that kangaroo currently sells on the Herend site for $550. I bought it probably 20 years ago, during one of the occasional periods when we weren't dirt poor, for just over $100.

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I used to love to collect hat boxes for some reason. I still have a few, but collecting anything these days is not a good idea for me.

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I have a couple of dozen penguins - glass, ceramic, stuffed and plastic wind-ups. They get displayed on an end table every Christmastime. (Little kids love the wind-ups.) I used to have a Pez dispenser collection, but donated it. It gave me joy at one time, but after a while, not so much.

No collections for me. I learned early on that although we start out by owning our stuff, pretty soon that stuff comes to own us.

When I die, my kids are under no obligation to keep or care for my things.
 
I took photos of my card collection in the closet. However, most are packed in boxes. All those boxes contain decks of playing cards. I really like novelty or souvenir decks. I have a crooked deck (cut in a zig-zag shape), a deck where the suit colors are reversed (spedes and clubs are red, heartd and diamonds are black), a giant deck (8 x 11"), a tiny deck (less than 1" long), a deck shaped like a dog's bone, some souvenirs of airlines that have gone OOB and decks fro foreign countries. I also have plenty of decls of ordinary cards....you get the idea. Someone asked me why I have so many cards. I say "You never know when someone might want to play a game."

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Aunt Marg said:
For me it's not about bigger and better, or who has nicer this or nicer that, it would simply be a means in which to simplify the will process, knowing whatever it is that I worked so hard for over the course of my lifetime, wouldn't be frivolously sold off or gotten rid of.
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well mine will be as I explained in my first post... my daughter has no sentiment , and no need to keep this house..
 
When a great aunt died my mother bemoaned that her beautiful Lladro collection would be broken up and mostly sold off. I asked her why that would happen - wouldn't her kids want it?

My wise mother explained that collectors are passionate by the acts of collecting and owning. Heirs have the right to passions of their own.

It's not fair to burden future generations with the passions of previous ones.
 
Since I was in the antiques/collectibles business, I collected lots of things through the years. Not all that unusual though. My collections tend to be very specific~
Glass paperweights with flowers, animals, or people inside them~
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My longest running collection has been postcards from places I've been to. I started it as a child when postcards cost 5 cents. I didn't have a camera and wanted photos of the places I visited. I have continued the collection throughout my life. It didn't cost much money, is easy to store, and brings back memories.
 
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I took photos of my card collection in the closet. However, most are packed in boxes. All those boxes contain decks of playing cards. I really like novelty or souvenir decks. I have a crooked deck (cut in a zig-zag shape), a deck where the suit colors are reversed (spedes and clubs are red, heartd and diamonds are black), a giant deck (8 x 11"), a tiny deck (less than 1" long), a deck shaped like a dog's bone, some souvenirs of airlines that have gone OOB and decks fro foreign countries. I also have plenty of decls of ordinary cards....you get the idea. Someone asked me why I have so many cards. I say "You never know when someone might want to play a game."

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Doesn't look like you're enjoying these decks. Start a card party once the quarantine is over.
 
I used to have a sack of unidentified foreign coins that somehow found their way into my pockets during my 31 years of travel in the Navy. Africa, the Middle East, South America, Europe, and Asian Countries all made a contribution. None of my family members were interested in taking them off my hands, so a gave them to an employee of Honey Baked Hams who once commented that he collected them.

For me, it was a "problem solved."

And like most of us on this forum, I have an extensive collection of old memories. The vast majority of them are good, but there are some that could be purged. But, I suppose that if you don't remember the bad, you won't appreciate the good, so maybe I should just poke them somewhere where they don't get in the way of living a good life.
 
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Pecos said:
I used to have a sack of unidentified foreign coins that somehow found their way into my pockets during my 31 years of travel in the Navy. Africa, the Middle East, South America, Europe, and Asian Countries all made a contribution. None of my family members were interested in taking them off my hands, so a gave them to an employee of Honey Baked Hams who one commented that he collected them.

For me, it was a "problem solved."

And like most of us on this forum, I have an extensive collection of old memories. The vast majority of them are good, but there are some that could be purged. But, I suppose that if you don't remember the bad, you won't appreciate the good, so maybe I should just poke them somewhere where they don't get in the way of living a good life.
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After they passed, we discovered that my parents-in-law had numerous envelopes of random foreign coins and paper bills. Nobody wanted them.

We weeded out small coins, and filled an old cashier's box that we had from our retailing days. Our grandkids LOVE using it to play restaurant, shoe store, and the like.

Edited to explain that we tossed out the small coins and left them the big ones plus the bills.
 
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The only things I have whose postmortem state I worry about are an old Hamilton pocket watch and a commemorative R.A.F. watch that belonged to my uncle (a Spitfire pilot in WW2.)

As long as they don't end up in a landfill, I'm fine if they make their way to a Goodwill or pawn shop. They will be there for someone else to buy and enjoy.
 

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