What do you collect?

**Ali Lee** · 03-31-2008, 01:21 PM

I collect linen. Tablecloths, napkins, year towels, hankies, etc. I have many collections I have put away... potato mashers, teapots, bowls&pitchers, bells, oh my.. just so much! I would like to start collecting rich men... hmm mm.

**C@rol** · 03-31-2008, 01:39 PM

At one time it was dinner bells from all over and I started
receiving them as gifts also. Got up to about 200 and then
we moved and I gave them away.

Now I collect postcards from everywhere. I have quite a few. I looking for the Paris Eiffel Tower of the millennium
at midnight with the fireworks. Guess I'll have to go to
Paris and get it.

**G'MaDebbie** · 04-02-2008, 10:47 AM

My husband and I collect Coca-Cola items. Our family room and hot tub room in the basement are decorated in everything Coca-Cola. We tend to buy older items, such as an original syrup barrel and a cooler from the 50's.

I collect pigs, why? I have no idea....lol.... but I just love them!

I also have a collection of outside birdhouses. Every year when I go to the Arts & Crafts shows I buy a few new ones. The one I bought last year cost me almost $30.00, which is way more than I ever pay, and I ended up breaking it...MAD!

**annymoll** · 04-02-2008, 10:55 AM

We love antiques of every sort. My son's favorite way to tease me is to tell me when we are gone they are going to have a yard sale to get rid of it.I'd smack him, but he can outrun me.

**TheRootedNomad** · 04-02-2008, 12:48 PM

I am so NOT a fan of a lot of stuff. (Probably from living with so many packrats) DH had/has multiple collections we keep weeding down.

--anything starwars (can I just tell you how much stuff that can amass too)

--anything Jack Daniels

--anything videogame related (we're slowly getting rid of this stuff)

--old t-shirts (this ones going too)

Even not liking "stuff" I fear I subcome as well.

--I collect bookmarks

and have to be carefull that I don't get suckered into keeping too many books so

--I just collect a couple of authors.

**Iansmommy** · 04-02-2008, 01:12 PM

I collect cookbooks and Brown Hull dishes. My cookbook collection is really out of control, but I can't part with any of them.

**anna021** · 04-02-2008, 05:44 PM

I've been collecting thimbles for years, probably well over 100, DH made me some beautiful wooden displays a few years back, which hang on the wall in my living room.

**brenda67** · 04-02-2008, 06:06 PM

I use to collect Unicorns..I just love them...I got rid of my entire collection except a franklin mint painting on a plate of a unicorn w/ her baby in pastel colors that I bought when I had my first born son..at that time my Dh and I were seperated and it was just me and the baby..so it's a bitter sweet memorie for me in that time of my life..

**Laurie in Bradenton** · 04-02-2008, 06:07 PM

I have a huge collection of cookbooks well over 1000. The older more worn and used the better. I read throught them and put sticky notes on them for things to make. I make notes in them as to how family liked the recipe.
Also have over 100 cookie jars. Like the cookbooks most have come from flea markets and yard sales. DH gotta love him has built me shelves in every room at the ceiling height to display them. He turned a whole wall in my office into book shelves to hold my cookbooks. Plus he'll at least taste everything I make.

Laurie in Bradenton

**Missy** · 04-02-2008, 06:23 PM

Originally Posted by frugalfriend

I collect giraffes. I have all different kinds: figurines of all different sizes, plates, clocks, candles, pictures, stuffed animals, etc. . . . everyone gave me them. I finally had to say, no more, lol! I have plenty!! I do indulge every now and then when I find a really, really unique one! My collection started when I was in high school, with a beautiful, graceful, white ceramic one with green eyes! I love the real ones too, the most unique, beautiful, and interesting animal!

You can feed them at the local zoo.

I collect chickens. Especially "useful in the kitchen" chicken items. Creamers, salt and pepper, sugar bowls, dishes, candy dishes.

Also I collect shot glasses. Funny is I don't drink. It's something you can get one of no matter where you go. You can see a trip around the world worth of all my shot glasses.

Tea cups.

Avon Cape Cod collection items

Bells

**Neeley** · 04-02-2008, 06:28 PM

FIsher-Price Little People toys made before 1980.

I have everything - the people , furniture, buses, school house, house, farm, play yard, air plane, farm animals, etc...

Glasses made prior to 1980 that have the Looney Tunes Characters on them. I have at least one of each, and multiples of a few.