@WilhelmScreamer Do you play board games or just collect them? What are your favorites? Right now we are playing a lot of Dominion (really a card game but not a CCG) and Carcasonne. Prior to that we spent many years playing Catan and all its variants and supplements, and crayon rail games (Iron Dragon, Eurorails, Empire Builder, Mars Rails, Lunar Rails, Britrails, China Rails, Russia Rails, India Rails...) We have an annual game of Advanced Civilization and I have pretty good selection of the old Avalon Hill board games, including an unpunched basic Civ game.
@moondrake I have a strict rule of not buying a new game until I have played the last one I got. Dominion is indeed awesome. Carsacone is something I have eyeballed but not really gonna get just yet. My collection at this time is incredibly modest: [1]:
@WilhelmScreamer I have been playing Ticket to Ride a lot on my tablet, but I think it probably won't work for my group. They are not crazy about Rail Baron, and Ticket to Ride has a pretty strong similarity to that game. I really like being able to buy an Android version of a board game for a fraction of the price of the real game and test it out to see if I think our group will like it before investing in it. I probably have $400 worth of Catan and crayon rail games and have about $250 in Dominion at this point, so playtesting is a must.
Nintendo games, buttons, and shirts (sometimes). Right now I'm picking up NES games here and there because I love playing the old school machine. Many of the games still hold up after all these years. So if you have some Nintendo games you are looking to off-load, I am probably interested....
So, I may have mentioned my promo/fake credit card collection before. I've got lots and lots of card samples from every major card, and some non-credit card samples as well.
Mini bikes. I've got a few. Getting ready to restore a 1970 Rupp Roadster. It's a labor of love though -- not much money to be made in the hobby unless you're buying complete bikes and parting them out
@Cinoclav The first one is just peg covers. They're original to the bike. The second one is actually hand grips from a BMX bike. You have to remember that most of these were bought for young teenagers. When something broke or got torn up, they would just swap out the broken or missing part with whatever worked. Oddly enough, a lot of the old bikes I pick up have BMX grips on the footpegs.
@annwat wirefoxes are gret:) my family has airedales, and i don't collect airedales, because my mom does, and i will inherit them all. so many things labeled airedale are actually wire haired fox terriers, its like inthe 40's there was a collective dumb in the tchotchke making community.
As a young newlywed decorating my 1st home, I thought roosters were cute and bought a few to set here and there. Someone in my family must have decided that I collect them so for about 5 years Every. Fracking. Gift. I opened was another damn rooster! It got to be a joke at holidays to see how many new ones I was going to unwrap. Hubby loves to crack jokes about my "vast collection of cock"
@hippiechik My little brother loved a pair of froggy mushroom pants (frog sitting on mushroom) when he was 5 years old. To this day (40+ years) he still gets at least one frog gift every Christmas and birthday.
I collect bills. I have quite a collection. Utility bills, medical bills, internet and tv bills, gas bills, vet bills, car bills, insurance bills, job bills, credit card bills.
I am growing tired of this collection though so if anyone is interested I would consider selling the whole collection.
I'm more of a dabbler. At various points in my life I've had some small collection of: comic books baseball cards bottle caps Pokémon cards coins Magic cards Scale models (Gundam Wing) Yo-yos Seashells Signed San Diego Padres memorabilia
I was never very good at it, I barely have anything left of my former collections.
I have a shot glass collection that's collecting dust in a cabinet. Through this collection I learned that cleaning several dozen shot glasses is a pain in the ass.
I collect manual typewriters, and books on manual typewriters. Pre 1900 typers are irrationally mesmerizing to me. The fact that many still exist 100+ years later when I have a keyboard fail in less than a year blows my mind. and a FWIW - the QUERTY keyboard was on the first commercial typewriter (Sholes & Glidden) invented in Milwaukee, WI.
Statues. Specifically comic book statues. I started small, but then I discovered Sideshow Collectibles. They offer Premium Format Figures... 1:4 scale. Some statues have tailored suits.
Here is my current collection.
I have Wonder Woman and Catwoman on order and should arrive next month.
@BillLehecka Sideshow Collectibles does awesome work. They have an enourmous display at Comiccon San Diego and I spend a lot of time there every time we go.
@BillLehecka I was on Sideshow's mailing list for quite a while until I realized that it could become a very expensive endeavor. I removed myself before I got started.
@moondrake Yes they do. In fact, my first Comic Con I went throught heir booth and I laid eyes on the Joker Premium Format they were about to unleash on the world. At the time my collecting habit kind of waned... Their Joker rekindled it.
@Mavyn I collect rocking horse decorations and just this Xmas I came upon the Breyer ornaments. I bouth the Victorian rocking horse ornament. They're really nice and I may add some more Breyers, rocking or not. here's a pic of a few of my horses.
@Teripie Nice! I have all of the Stirrup series, the Carousel series, and the Victorian Toy series. My mom gets them for me every year. The Stirrup series is the only one they keep doing. I have a number of other horse ornaments--I know I have the red horse on the white rockers on the right edge of that picture. :D Most of them don't get taken out of the box, since they're a) heavy and b) breakable.
@Mavyn I had to go straight to Ebay to check out the stirrup series. Those are awesome! Would love to start collecting them but I already have so many rockers they have their own 7 foot tree. I have to force myself to stick to the rockers. I'd also like to collect Painted Ponies. I have 2 but again, need to keep a limit . At Xmas my house is overwhelmed with horses.
I collect Star Wars stuff and Macross stuff. My collections have stopped growing since kid #4. In a few years, kid #1 will be 18 and my collections may have a fighting chance to grow. :-)
I have a pretty decent vintage computing collection, though it's from a past era of my life and isn't an active collection so much these days... Off the top of my head: several Commodore 64s and 64cs, VIC 20, Commodore 128, TI 99/4As in black and white, Atari 400, 800, XE, Tandy 100, 600, TRS-80 Pocket, Cambridge Z88. Not including anything that runs a modern operating system like DOS or AmigaOS ;). Anyway, I don't even know what does/doesn't work anymore. I know the screen is busted on the Cambridge (which makes me sad), and I blew out the graphics chip in several C64s.
It's not intended to be a collection, but I have a garage full of art supplies, and a large room filled with about equal measures of board games and art supplies. The art supplies slowly but surely get turned into art which I then mostly sell, but I have more than a lifetime's worth of supplies and still tend to go out and buy more, often because it's just easier to buy more than to find what I have. I do a lot of different mediums; jewelry, sculpting and casting, stained and etched glass, painting (oil, acrylic, watercolor and guache), fabric crafts and costuming, and mixed media such as remaking Airsoft and Nerf guns into steampunk costume pieces. Each medium needs a considerable amount of storage space, and I often feel like I am being pushed out of my house by all these art supplies. I just spent $200 on utility shelves and plastic tubs to try to better organize the garage this spring.
The glass paperweights I make that I like too much (or am too selfish) to give away
AV components that stopped working but I can't bring myself to get rid of them
Their remotes
LPs, since I had a head start back in the '70s. Take that, hipsters.
I used to collect comics and had every DC published after 1974 or so along with a complete run of the original Justice League of America and a couple others from the Silver Age, but I didn't feel like moving them from Boston to Chicago in '97 so I gave them to my friend who owned a comics shop
And art. In addition to just picking up things that catch my eye in general, I try to get at least one piece from every vacation. Not a fan of tchochkes, though; only hanging art for me, unless it's something truly spectacular at a crazy price. I go for canvas, print, plate, sculpture, whatever--as long as it goes on the wall, it's cool. I'm aiming for that cluttered walls of ancien regime galleries look.
Also magnets. I collect a magnet from every place I go, one a visit. I only seriously started collecting about ten years ago, so there's a hell of a lot I missed out on. (There are a few that my brother brought me from places he's been and I've not yet, just to rub my nose in it a bit, but I can't not hang them as it'd hurt his feelings.) Here's one side of the fridge:
@goldenthorn I always used to pick up foreign coins when I traveled and give them to the nephlings at Christmas. I picked up quite a few on this year's trip to Europe (darned Euros taking away all the different coins!) and now I wish I'd held onto all those coins from China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, all over the Caribbean, as I want to use them to make a resin tabletop. Guess I just have to go back to all those places!
@SSteve ha currently still in engaged. Who knows for how long if I keep buying stuff from meh. For some reason she doesn't seem the need for the 30 built ny sleeves. Some people
When I saw my mom at Xmas she made me take my stamp collection from when I was a kid in the 70s that was still sitting in her house. Now I have to figure out what to do with it. It's probably not worth a significant amount of money so I doubt it will be worth the time to try to sell it. I can't just throw it away.
@KDemo That is a slice of awesome pie. I don't know that I'm a big fan of Elements, but, well, it is a standard and an icon. I love it when people do shit like that. I still need to see Book of Mormon, speaking of marginally related. It's based on a book. With rules in it. That some people take too seriously. :-)
@joelmw - Totally agree. I read that Mormons are not offended by the production. Luckily, considering how some religious extremists have been responding lately.
@KDemo tl:dr yes. long answer: a long time ago in a galaxy far far away, i joined a telnet chat called olohof. i needed a name and was currently reading anne rice, so i became vampiress, and various forms of vampi. eventually on irc, many of my dutch friends started calling me vampje the -je ending being diminutive and endearing. i liked it, so i tend to go by vampje now as it isn't usually something i find has all ready been taken. i like the bicardi bat, but i prefer kracken or captain morgain for my rums. and rums in soda water with fresh lime is the best.
Ummmmm ....
I collect internet points.
sweeeet sweet internet points
@The_Baron
@ChadP
@The_Baron
Board games, I suppose you could count all those cheap humble bundle and steam sale games, and a partially inherited collection of Lego bricks/sets.
I have a nasty habit of starting and dropping collections a whole lot.
@WilhelmScreamer boardgamegeeks.com is one of my guilty pleasures. and I think it's totally safe for work.
@v bgg's interface is a mess, but it is a great wealth of knowledge
@WilhelmScreamer Do you play board games or just collect them? What are your favorites? Right now we are playing a lot of Dominion (really a card game but not a CCG) and Carcasonne. Prior to that we spent many years playing Catan and all its variants and supplements, and crayon rail games (Iron Dragon, Eurorails, Empire Builder, Mars Rails, Lunar Rails, Britrails, China Rails, Russia Rails, India Rails...) We have an annual game of Advanced Civilization and I have pretty good selection of the old Avalon Hill board games, including an unpunched basic Civ game.
@moondrake I have a strict rule of not buying a new game until I have played the last one I got. Dominion is indeed awesome. Carsacone is something I have eyeballed but not really gonna get just yet. My collection at this time is incredibly modest: [1]:
@WilhelmScreamer I have been playing Ticket to Ride a lot on my tablet, but I think it probably won't work for my group. They are not crazy about Rail Baron, and Ticket to Ride has a pretty strong similarity to that game. I really like being able to buy an Android version of a board game for a fraction of the price of the real game and test it out to see if I think our group will like it before investing in it. I probably have $400 worth of Catan and crayon rail games and have about $250 in Dominion at this point, so playtesting is a must.
Nintendo games, buttons, and shirts (sometimes). Right now I'm picking up NES games here and there because I love playing the old school machine. Many of the games still hold up after all these years. So if you have some Nintendo games you are looking to off-load, I am probably interested....
@bluejester Think you might be interested in this: (currently available for pre-order on the company's site).
@bluejester I did something like this and it worked, I used a very small screwdriver. (think glasses screw driver)
So, I may have mentioned my promo/fake credit card collection before. I've got lots and lots of card samples from every major card, and some non-credit card samples as well.
@dashcloud hmm you just gave me an idea of something to send you to repay you for our Fuku!
@JonT I'm also happy to accept your broken electronics!
I collect contempt and annoyance.
Mini bikes. I've got a few. Getting ready to restore a 1970 Rupp Roadster. It's a labor of love though -- not much money to be made in the hobby unless you're buying complete bikes and parting them out
One of my current bike projects:
I've obtained almost all of the parts, just need to get them put together.
This is the bike that I'm currently restoring. It'll be sandblasted, painted, rechromed, and reassembled soon
@capguncowboy Great old bikes. Is it my imagination or did someone stick a hand grip on the foot peg?
@Cinoclav The first one is just peg covers. They're original to the bike. The second one is actually hand grips from a BMX bike. You have to remember that most of these were bought for young teenagers. When something broke or got torn up, they would just swap out the broken or missing part with whatever worked. Oddly enough, a lot of the old bikes I pick up have BMX grips on the footpegs.
@capguncowboy Yep, the second one is the one I was referring to. I actually think it's a pretty good quick fix.
speeding tickets...
@Headly You can have some of mine.
i collect a) things i compulsively buy and then never use and b) wire fox terrier chachkies.
@annwat wirefoxes are gret:) my family has airedales, and i don't collect airedales, because my mom does, and i will inherit them all. so many things labeled airedale are actually wire haired fox terriers, its like inthe 40's there was a collective dumb in the tchotchke making community.
Parts for the Challenger. Someday to be incorporated into a complete restified running Challenger but for now just a collection of parts.
Also books. Too many books. They don't all fit any more...
@duodec Dodge or NASA?
@nadroj '71 Dodge
I collect dust.
@hallmike I came here to say this.
I collect female navel lint (can't get enough of it).
As a young newlywed decorating my 1st home, I thought roosters were cute and bought a few to set here and there. Someone in my family must have decided that I collect them so for about 5 years Every. Fracking. Gift. I opened was another damn rooster! It got to be a joke at holidays to see how many new ones I was going to unwrap. Hubby loves to crack jokes about my "vast collection of cock"
@hippiechik My little brother loved a pair of froggy mushroom pants (frog sitting on mushroom) when he was 5 years old. To this day (40+ years) he still gets at least one frog gift every Christmas and birthday.
Just the digits from the ladies.
I collect bills. I have quite a collection. Utility bills, medical bills, internet and tv bills, gas bills, vet bills, car bills, insurance bills, job bills, credit card bills.
I am growing tired of this collection though so if anyone is interested I would consider selling the whole collection.
No takers? You guys drive a hard bargain. I will throw in rent, fuel and food bills for free then.
I used to collect Pokémon cards and games...got a bit outta control.
I'm more of a dabbler. At various points in my life I've had some small collection of:
comic books
baseball cards
bottle caps
Pokémon cards
coins
Magic cards
Scale models (Gundam Wing)
Yo-yos
Seashells
Signed San Diego Padres memorabilia
I was never very good at it, I barely have anything left of my former collections.
I have a few older cameras. I'd definitely like to make that more of a hobby, particularly working, usable cameras.
I have a shot glass collection that's collecting dust in a cabinet. Through this collection I learned that cleaning several dozen shot glasses is a pain in the ass.
@Thumperchick That's what I collect too, mine are all boxed up and in the garage. I agree, too much to clean.
@Thumperchick ooh I forgot about this one! I buy a new shot glass everywhere I travel. I only bother washing them just before and after use.
@JonT That's what I do also, I actually forgot about them until @Thumperchick mentioned them. Clearly I haven't traveled enough recently.
I don't formally collect things, but I have way, way too many patterns, fabrics, and yarns.
If meh wants to make me REALLY happy, you should find a good deal on organizers.
@madamehardy containers and baskets... mmmmmmm
Regrets.
@SSteve Sadly, this was also my first thought.
@PocketBrain Regrets, I've had a few. But then again, too few to mention.
@SSteve
@JonT no rugrats!
I collect manual typewriters, and books on manual typewriters. Pre 1900 typers are irrationally mesmerizing to me. The fact that many still exist 100+ years later when I have a keyboard fail in less than a year blows my mind. and a FWIW - the QUERTY keyboard was on the first commercial typewriter (Sholes & Glidden) invented in Milwaukee, WI.
Statues. Specifically comic book statues. I started small, but then I discovered Sideshow Collectibles. They offer Premium Format Figures... 1:4 scale. Some statues have tailored suits.
Here is my current collection.
I have Wonder Woman and Catwoman on order and should arrive next month.
@BillLehecka those are cool!!!!
@BillLehecka Sideshow Collectibles does awesome work. They have an enourmous display at Comiccon San Diego and I spend a lot of time there every time we go.
@BillLehecka I was on Sideshow's mailing list for quite a while until I realized that it could become a very expensive endeavor. I removed myself before I got started.
@BillLehecka Those are really nice!
@BillLehecka those are really awesome! When I have an office I'm going to put up all my geeky stuff.
@moondrake Yes they do. In fact, my first Comic Con I went throught heir booth and I laid eyes on the Joker Premium Format they were about to unleash on the world. At the time my collecting habit kind of waned... Their Joker rekindled it.
@BillLehecka My best friend has a display case with about a dozen Hawkman statues. He has an obsession with winged humans.
Fat.
Against my will I might add, it just doesn't go away. Seriously, what's up with that? Any suggestions?
@Dad Eat less and exercise more?
Action figures.
Bad purchase decisions. Thus my presence here.
License plates. A few are older than me.
Scars...wait, those I just acquire.
Cookbooks. Mostly old ones. Breyer Stirrup Ornament series. Cookie cutters, but not purposely.
@Mavyn I collect rocking horse decorations and just this Xmas I came upon the Breyer ornaments. I bouth the Victorian rocking horse ornament. They're really nice and I may add some more Breyers, rocking or not. here's a pic of a few of my horses.
@Teripie Nice! I have all of the Stirrup series, the Carousel series, and the Victorian Toy series. My mom gets them for me every year. The Stirrup series is the only one they keep doing. I have a number of other horse ornaments--I know I have the red horse on the white rockers on the right edge of that picture. :D Most of them don't get taken out of the box, since they're a) heavy and b) breakable.
@Mavyn I had to go straight to Ebay to check out the stirrup series. Those are awesome! Would love to start collecting them but I already have so many rockers they have their own 7 foot tree. I have to force myself to stick to the rockers. I'd also like to collect Painted Ponies. I have 2 but again, need to keep a limit . At Xmas my house is overwhelmed with horses.
I collect Star Wars stuff and Macross stuff. My collections have stopped growing since kid #4. In a few years, kid #1 will be 18 and my collections may have a fighting chance to grow. :-)
Rubik's cubes
The blood of my enemies
@Catdad Why are you enemies with strawberries? I know, the seeds are annoying, but that seems like an inadequate reason.
@Mavyn winter is here and all these goddamn strawberries taste TERRIBLE! I would rather stores have not carry these impostors, so I destroy them
I collect games on Steam? Sitting at like 220 right now. Might have played 15 of them.
I also collect comic books and, when I was a kid, I collected decks of playing cards from places I visited.
I collect items from meh of course.
Comic Books
Guitars, though I am at an all time low on this one
Just started buying Funko Pop Vinyl Figures
And cash
Straight cash homey.
@ChadP Oh, guitars. I forgot about that. I have ten or twelve guitars and basses. Maybe I'll take an inventory when I get home.
I have a pretty decent vintage computing collection, though it's from a past era of my life and isn't an active collection so much these days... Off the top of my head: several Commodore 64s and 64cs, VIC 20, Commodore 128, TI 99/4As in black and white, Atari 400, 800, XE, Tandy 100, 600, TRS-80 Pocket, Cambridge Z88. Not including anything that runs a modern operating system like DOS or AmigaOS ;). Anyway, I don't even know what does/doesn't work anymore. I know the screen is busted on the Cambridge (which makes me sad), and I blew out the graphics chip in several C64s.
I love purple.
It's not intended to be a collection, but I have a garage full of art supplies, and a large room filled with about equal measures of board games and art supplies. The art supplies slowly but surely get turned into art which I then mostly sell, but I have more than a lifetime's worth of supplies and still tend to go out and buy more, often because it's just easier to buy more than to find what I have. I do a lot of different mediums; jewelry, sculpting and casting, stained and etched glass, painting (oil, acrylic, watercolor and guache), fabric crafts and costuming, and mixed media such as remaking Airsoft and Nerf guns into steampunk costume pieces. Each medium needs a considerable amount of storage space, and I often feel like I am being pushed out of my house by all these art supplies. I just spent $200 on utility shelves and plastic tubs to try to better organize the garage this spring.
Memories. I hope to enjoy my collection for as long as possible.
@Cinoclav Deinitely. I take lots of photos to provide touchstones for those priceless memories.
Cookbooks. I have hundreds
Shoes! Shooooooes. SHOES.
And art. In addition to just picking up things that catch my eye in general, I try to get at least one piece from every vacation. Not a fan of tchochkes, though; only hanging art for me, unless it's something truly spectacular at a crazy price. I go for canvas, print, plate, sculpture, whatever--as long as it goes on the wall, it's cool. I'm aiming for that cluttered walls of ancien regime galleries look.
Also magnets. I collect a magnet from every place I go, one a visit. I only seriously started collecting about ten years ago, so there's a hell of a lot I missed out on. (There are a few that my brother brought me from places he's been and I've not yet, just to rub my nose in it a bit, but I can't not hang them as it'd hurt his feelings.) Here's one side of the fridge:
@goldenthorn I always used to pick up foreign coins when I traveled and give them to the nephlings at Christmas. I picked up quite a few on this year's trip to Europe (darned Euros taking away all the different coins!) and now I wish I'd held onto all those coins from China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, all over the Caribbean, as I want to use them to make a resin tabletop. Guess I just have to go back to all those places!
@goldenthorn Wow. Nice collection. That little scale looks very familiar.
@goldenthorn Apparently you found a whole new corner of the red light district in Amsterdam...
@Cinoclav
I like purple.
Coins and..
And things fish related items to decorate my home. Started as a joke to piss off the fiance and now it has taken over...
@bruinscbr Gotta know the current status. Fiancé, ex-fiancé, or spouse?
@SSteve ha currently still in engaged. Who knows for how long if I keep buying stuff from meh. For some reason she doesn't seem the need for the 30 built ny sleeves. Some people
When I saw my mom at Xmas she made me take my stamp collection from when I was a kid in the 70s that was still sitting in her house. Now I have to figure out what to do with it. It's probably not worth a significant amount of money so I doubt it will be worth the time to try to sell it. I can't just throw it away.
@SSteve why not? You don't want it, you don't want to sell it, so give it away or chuck it!
I collect Roget's Thesauruses.
@joelmw - Marginally related - The Elements of Style has been illustrated and turned into a musical. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/19/arts/19styl.html?_r=0
@KDemo That is a slice of awesome pie. I don't know that I'm a big fan of Elements, but, well, it is a standard and an icon. I love it when people do shit like that. I still need to see Book of Mormon, speaking of marginally related. It's based on a book. With rules in it. That some people take too seriously. :-)
@joelmw - Totally agree. I read that Mormons are not offended by the production. Luckily, considering how some religious extremists have been responding lately.
@KDemo The Mormons actually advertise in the program for the musical. "If you liked the show, you'll love the book"
Didn't we have this thread last September, just under a different header?
https://meh.com/forum/topics/true-geek-confessions#54c01d8afb05badc03c11fdb
i collect lapel pins. please please please make a meh pin <3
and bats, i love halloween ^^V^^
@vampje - Does that partially explain your site name? I've long appreciated the "Bat Device" on Bacardi bottles.
@KDemo tl:dr yes. long answer: a long time ago in a galaxy far far away, i joined a telnet chat called olohof. i needed a name and was currently reading anne rice, so i became vampiress, and various forms of vampi. eventually on irc, many of my dutch friends started calling me vampje the -je ending being diminutive and endearing. i liked it, so i tend to go by vampje now as it isn't usually something i find has all ready been taken. i like the bicardi bat, but i prefer kracken or captain morgain for my rums. and rums in soda water with fresh lime is the best.
I collect Built NY neoprene sleeves.
@Crixus Me 30!
I collect dog hair.
@TheCO2 Dog hair has collected my house, my car, the rugs, the couch, a lot of my clothes....
I collect toys from my 70s childhood. Kung Fu Grip forever!
Bad habits. And Star Trek playing cards (not trading cards).