If the poll hadn’t had “mail” after “junk” I would not have had to come here. It isn’t all junk… some of it is stuff that I might use one day. And it occasionally comes in very handy to have something, IF I can actually find it when I need it.
Oh. Also cat hair…
FWIW, I’ve gotten pretty good at throwing out the junk mail so it no longer constitutes a collection.
@baqui63 I’m collecting the hair I take off of my four indoor cats and making a cushion with it. I figure they’ll like having a bed that’s made from their own fur. hehe
@rprebel Same, but I don’t try to catch em’ all anymore. That was a chore. Now if I happen to have a spare moment I try to custom-make figs that’ll never be made by LEGO. Like Uncle Grandpa figs:
@turtle_2014 About 300 of mine are CMF, including the Simpsons and Lego Movie CMFs. Another couple hundred Star Wars, some Lego Ideas figs, Marvel, Classic Space, and a handful of other themes. Which is your favorite CMF, either in your collection or out of all of them? I’d have to go with either Lady Liberty or the Serenader. Here’s my Mariachi band, as well as my “costumes” collection.
@mehcuda67 I’m still looking for a Bluetooth knife.
I’ve been able to cut back a lot on knifes since I got a Damascus blade a while back, but I’ve found out that a co-worker is making custom knives, so that could be trouble.
Real copper pennies come to me in change and never leave. Ever. I gave up on state quarters after filling in several collector books, but I still collect the park quarters and any bicentennials. And I still find one or two silver coins a year in change.
My wife thinks I collect too many books, just because my favorites get two copies; a reader set and a ‘keep safe’ set.
Shot glasses. Every time I travel somewhere new, or someone else travels and brings me a souvenir, I get a shot glass. I have quite a large collection that in NO WAY makes me look like an alcoholic.
I used to collect crystal angels for the mantle at Christmas until it became way too easy to give to me for gifts. Finally after about 80-some, I said no more.
@pooflady my mother collects nativity sets. I bet she’s got close to 100 now… she also collects fontanini figurines. She’s got well over 100 of those. Takes her forever to put that stuff out every year
@pooflady Ha! Years ago, someone gave me a few miniature porcelain animal figurines. Being polite, I put them on a table. After noticing them, people started giving me them as gifts and i ended up with a collection of things I didn’t even like.
I collect clearance items from a daily deal website. Well, I did until they started selling the same pearls, watches, and trashy figurines over and over and over and …
I collect cookbooks and weird kitchen gadgets. The husband collects old computers (he’s got a bunch of them from the 80s - several ataris, commodore 64, etc), video game systems (including a couple of famcom computers), and other random nerdy stuff like that
I collect too many things…
Antique operational tools
Modern tools
Coins
Antique radios, phonographs and electrical test equipment
Firearms & knives
78 rpm & LP records
German beer steins
@2many2no classy. They had a couple of half-complete units at the local electronics junk shop, before it closed a couple months ago. I was sorely tempted to buy one and try to repopulate it from ebay.
@lifftchi I haven’t booted it lately, but it ran last time I tried. It’s a 1989 IBM RT micro-channel box that had the first 486DX CPU (first on-chip math co-processor) running at a blazing 25 MHz. It originally ran SCO-UNIX on 8 MB of RAM and a 200 MB SCSI drive, but it’s been “upgraded” with Windows 3.1, 24 MB RAM and a 540 MB drive. It is lightning fast with that setup. I first got online with a 2400 baud external modem and 16-bit Netscape Navigator. Those were the good old days!
@2many2no I’m not sure “collect” is the right word, but I’ve still got 2 Amigas. And I’ve kept an old PClone I built years ago because it has an ISA slot for my old EPROM burner.
@blaineg That was my first, I’ve got about 8 others of various vintage. Also an Atari 2600 and an original NES, although the old TV finally bit the dust.
I would like to have an Amiga, or even a TRS-80 to play around with. Coding is too complicated for me now.
@2many2no@blaineg@wew
Still have my Apple ][plus and //GS computers; both still work fine; surprisingly even the old Disk-][ floppy drive and most of my 60+ floppy disk stash and boxes of games are still viable. But the collection was DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) systems… I was once able to run a 9 node cluster at home… but I had to divest. Only a couple machines left.
@2many2no@wew Back in the day I started getting people to pool some cash to buy the latest Fred Fish Amiga disks. That wound up with me becoming the secretary/librarian for the local Amiga user group, and then putting together disks for the user group as well. AUSM Disks! Amiga User’s Society Members. How’s that for a tortured acronym?
@2many2no@blaineg I sorta leaned the other way. All my friends were into the pirate scene. I’ve researched it, and they say that pirating didn’t bring down Commodore, but it was rampant.
I went to the Commodore bankruptcy auction in PA, and bought a bridgeboard and a few interesting prototypes.
They were selling huge box lots for a few dollars.
Then, years later, I got into webOS…that too crumbled and died.
@2many2no@blaineg@cpierce@wew Tragic. My //GS is a Woz Edition, and my Apple ][plus became a Woz edition when the Woz visited a local Las Vegas Apple Computer dealer when the winter CES was in town and signed it for me
@CaptAmehrican on related note - boat pins (preferably traditionally rigged sailing vessels) and for a while ships in a bottle and ship ornaments. Again preferably sailing vessels.
Vintage mechanical watches. Mostly Seiko: divers, chronographs, and higher-end dress watches. There’s a few Swiss examples in there, and a few mew startup/micro brand ones as well.
Bass guitars. Well, bass guitars and upright basses (one acoustic and two electric). Including those three I think I have a dozen. And a few guitars.
I have my stamp collection from when I was a kid. And my father-in-law’s from when he was a kid. I buy a lot of CDs but I don’t think that counts as collecting.
I said “no” because I thought I my collecting days were behind me (coins, beer cans, keychains, stuff like that).
Then I realized I’m still collecting t-shirts. And I’ve developed a habit of collecting fonts when they’re on sale. I collect frogs for the office. I collect songs on Spotify.
@blaineg@TheFLP I’m the t shirt hoarder in our house. I work at a college so every event ends up doling out t shirts to staff who work the events. And being in student services, i work many events a year. I have dozens of SAU Tech t shirts. And so many Arkansas razorback shirts. And my mom gives me t shirts with cats on them. I have a closet full of them. And i refuse to get rid of any of them.
I used to collect guitars, got to over 30, (small collection I know) mostly unusual or small luthier shops. Hamer, Steinberger, Breedlove, Stump Preacher, Larivee, Yairi, PRS, and the obligatory Strats, Teles and Les Paul. Marriage changed that.
Now the only thing I am allowed to collect are Meh buttons.
@bramby2 I have a decent set on my fridge. Some are memories but most are fun. Always wanted a set of the old state ones to do a map but I only have a handful.
@speediedelivery I, too, make sure I grab a state-shaped one from every state I go to when I can. There are a couple I didn’t get on my first trip, so it means I have to go back until my state collection is complete!
Hot Wheels. Though I’ve always just grabbed what I like, never trying for specific sets or themes. I started when they were introduced in 1968, and a dollar was a big deal to a little kid. I still have many of my originals, largely due to a loving and tolerant mom.
I again started collecting some a few years back, and I’ve been startled by two signs of aging:
Apparently my sense of “what I like” is stronger than my sense of “what I have”, and I’ve too often brought home a new treasure only to find I already have it. Oh well, the nieces and nephews have enjoyed the duplicates.
The second shock was this year is the 50th anniversary of Hot Wheels. How did that happen?
Whatever my hoarding parents dump on me and they say it is worth something or will be worth something. I keep out of guilt or they might ask for it back. Old canning jars,old dishware,copper that should just be melted.avon cars…ugh ,my poor attic.
I collect hockey jerseys. Mostly Philadelphia Flyers. I have about 50 or so. About half of them were worn in games by the actual player. This is a sample. I’m kinda proud of them
@jsh139 Nice! My husband collects football jerseys. He has a few cleats and gloves. He spends hours photo matching and searching for what is out there for sale. It keeps him out of other kinds of trouble!
i collect: Weapons - particularly swords (my husband knows me well - a hand made katana was our 15th anniversary gift!), but also sai, tonfa, and bokken. Dragons - figurines and art, not real ones (yet). Strays - usually cats & dogs, but in the past parrots/birds, chinchillas, hedgehogs… i can’t say no to an abandoned animal.
I said no in the poll, but then I remembered that between my laptop, desktop, and phone, I have several Gigabytes of memes. So I guess I collect memes.
@butter021 My Mom agrees with you. I can see the pretty colors but I have no talent to do anything with it. Mom is always working on a project or three.
Anything German Shepherd related. Shortly after I discovered EBay years ago I made the mistake of searching German Shepherd. I was perfectly fine with the shit I already had until I saw all the stuff that I didn’t have…now there’s Amazon… my house (and car decals)is a shrine to the mighty GSD
Plus I have the entire collection of presidential dollar coins, a whole roll each. And proof sets and mint sets from 1957 thru 2017, courtesy of my Dad❤
@Al_Coholic@blaineg yeah my problem is my husband and a friend of ours buy me games to entice me to play. Honest to god if i wanted to play, i would buy it. the games i like i have hundreds of hours in (like well over 300 hours in the sims). And then there’s European truck simulator taunting me in my list with its 2 hours played. I don’t even know how i got 2 hours. i did not enjoy driving a truck for 2 hours fighting off hateful other drivers.
And speaking of video games, I’ve got a couple of Vectrex systems, a lot of the games, and the elusive 3D Imager.
It’s a vector CRT, so it’s perfect for knockoffs of old vector arcade games like Asteroids, Space Wars and Tempest. It’s a B&W screen, so the games had transparent color overlays for the screen to give some color. The 3D Imager used a spinning wheel to alternately block one eye, and also create color with more flexibility than the screen overlays.
A lot of homebrew games have been created in the last few decades, and they may outnumber the original releases by now.
One of mine is dead now, so I’ll have to go through it and replace the capacitors.
I’ve also got a massive 19" vector display that I’ve been dreaming of hooking up to a Vectrex for about 20 years or so.
My first one was bought from a big chain toy store during the GCE/Vextrex bankruptcy sale, so it was pretty cheap. I bought my second one online in the pre-eBay days, and it came with the 3D Imager. That was a real find. It seemed expensive at the time, but I think it was in the neighborhood of $200 for the bundle.
And with Vectrex on my mind, I just bought my first Sean Kelly multicart tonight, having lusted after one for decades! Turns out he just did a new version of it last year.
We have a collection of 14 different tiny baseball helmets for ice cream collected from 12 Major League Baseball stadiums
Funko Pops. Mostly Marvel, but also random ones from movies or tv shows I like.
@Pony I came here to also say Funko Pop!
@Pony wonderful! yeah. I don’t own one yet
If the poll hadn’t had “mail” after “junk” I would not have had to come here. It isn’t all junk… some of it is stuff that I might use one day. And it occasionally comes in very handy to have something, IF I can actually find it when I need it.
Oh. Also cat hair…
FWIW, I’ve gotten pretty good at throwing out the junk mail so it no longer constitutes a collection.
@baqui63 I’m collecting the hair I take off of my four indoor cats and making a cushion with it. I figure they’ll like having a bed that’s made from their own fur. hehe
@baqui63 @Chakolate
Dog hair for me. “They call it FURniture for a reason”.
So many things.
I collect dust.
@heartny actually, as most dust is shed skin cells, you are generating that dust. BIOLOGY!
@heartny @simplersimon
So, he’s recycling dust?
Junk, dust, fat cells, etc…
Deit
I seem to collect a lot of bills (but I’m not a “bill collector”) – does that count as junk mail?
Actually, I seem to collect a lot more junk calls than junk mail.
Hoarders only need one option. Yes!*
Skull themed stuff, I guess.
Things that light up.
A lot of times the things fall into both categories.
Dive watches. I probably have about 20.
@chuckf1 A fellow WIS? What cool examples do you have?
Lego minifigures. I have about 700 different ones so far. There are multiple trading communities online which makes it a lot easier to get older ones.
@rprebel Same here. But mostly just the CMF, as well as sets from various themes.
@rprebel Same, but I don’t try to catch em’ all anymore. That was a chore. Now if I happen to have a spare moment I try to custom-make figs that’ll never be made by LEGO. Like Uncle Grandpa figs:
@NiteMareFuel Those are great, but never say never. They made a Deadpool minifig.
@turtle_2014 About 300 of mine are CMF, including the Simpsons and Lego Movie CMFs. Another couple hundred Star Wars, some Lego Ideas figs, Marvel, Classic Space, and a handful of other themes. Which is your favorite CMF, either in your collection or out of all of them? I’d have to go with either Lady Liberty or the Serenader. Here’s my Mariachi band, as well as my “costumes” collection.
@rprebel I like the costume ones as well. I have all the ones you have in the picture except for butterfly girl and the devil trick or treater
Bluetooth Speaker Dock Knives
Or any combination of the above.
@mehcuda67 I’m still looking for a Bluetooth knife.
I’ve been able to cut back a lot on knifes since I got a Damascus blade a while back, but I’ve found out that a co-worker is making custom knives, so that could be trouble.
@mehcuda67 All my friends said “No more knives please.” That sorta ruined the fun of it.
Real copper pennies come to me in change and never leave. Ever. I gave up on state quarters after filling in several collector books, but I still collect the park quarters and any bicentennials. And I still find one or two silver coins a year in change.
My wife thinks I collect too many books, just because my favorites get two copies; a reader set and a ‘keep safe’ set.
@duodec oh yeah. I forgot about my coins. I’ve got a bunch of silver quarters, silver notes, $2 bills, stuff like that.
Shot glasses. Every time I travel somewhere new, or someone else travels and brings me a souvenir, I get a shot glass. I have quite a large collection that in NO WAY makes me look like an alcoholic.
I used to collect crystal angels for the mantle at Christmas until it became way too easy to give to me for gifts. Finally after about 80-some, I said no more.
@pooflady my mother collects nativity sets. I bet she’s got close to 100 now… she also collects fontanini figurines. She’s got well over 100 of those. Takes her forever to put that stuff out every year
@pooflady For my wife it was frogs. Mostly figures, but a few years back a niece and nephew gave us a live frog. He lived a surprisingly long life.
These are my two proudest acquisitions, since both are puns:
{VMod edit: fixed the pic.}
It’s a bullfrog in a china shop, and a wooly jumper (he’s wearing a sweater).
@pooflady Ha! Years ago, someone gave me a few miniature porcelain animal figurines. Being polite, I put them on a table. After noticing them, people started giving me them as gifts and i ended up with a collection of things I didn’t even like.
@VMod Thanks, what did I mess up?
… I collect stuff to hold then resell later on internet, yard sales and bazaars… The difference is my junk is all brand new, never used or opened.
from my victims?
Painful memories.
@cpierce
I collect clearance items from a daily deal website. Well, I did until they started selling the same pearls, watches, and trashy figurines over and over and over and …
I collect cookbooks and weird kitchen gadgets. The husband collects old computers (he’s got a bunch of them from the 80s - several ataris, commodore 64, etc), video game systems (including a couple of famcom computers), and other random nerdy stuff like that
I collect too many things…
Antique operational tools
Modern tools
Coins
Antique radios, phonographs and electrical test equipment
Firearms & knives
78 rpm & LP records
German beer steins
Old computers.
@2many2no classy. They had a couple of half-complete units at the local electronics junk shop, before it closed a couple months ago. I was sorely tempted to buy one and try to repopulate it from ebay.
@lifftchi I haven’t booted it lately, but it ran last time I tried. It’s a 1989 IBM RT micro-channel box that had the first 486DX CPU (first on-chip math co-processor) running at a blazing 25 MHz. It originally ran SCO-UNIX on 8 MB of RAM and a 200 MB SCSI drive, but it’s been “upgraded” with Windows 3.1, 24 MB RAM and a 540 MB drive. It is lightning fast with that setup. I first got online with a 2400 baud external modem and 16-bit Netscape Navigator. Those were the good old days!
@2many2no I’m not sure “collect” is the right word, but I’ve still got 2 Amigas. And I’ve kept an old PClone I built years ago because it has an ISA slot for my old EPROM burner.
@blaineg That was my first, I’ve got about 8 others of various vintage. Also an Atari 2600 and an original NES, although the old TV finally bit the dust.
I would like to have an Amiga, or even a TRS-80 to play around with. Coding is too complicated for me now.
@2many2no @blaineg I have a few hundred Amiga discs from an old BBS called Magnetic Madness.
@2many2no @blaineg @wew
Still have my Apple ][plus and //GS computers; both still work fine; surprisingly even the old Disk-][ floppy drive and most of my 60+ floppy disk stash and boxes of games are still viable. But the collection was DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) systems… I was once able to run a 9 node cluster at home… but I had to divest. Only a couple machines left.
@2many2no @wew Back in the day I started getting people to pool some cash to buy the latest Fred Fish Amiga disks. That wound up with me becoming the secretary/librarian for the local Amiga user group, and then putting together disks for the user group as well. AUSM Disks! Amiga User’s Society Members. How’s that for a tortured acronym?
@duodec I’m pretty sure my Apple ]['s are gone, but I might still have a Laser 128 Apple ][ clone around somewhere.
I loved the open hardware and expansion slots of the Apple ][.
@2many2no @blaineg @duodec @wew I had a IIGS “Woz” edition that got lost in a move
@2many2no @blaineg I sorta leaned the other way. All my friends were into the pirate scene. I’ve researched it, and they say that pirating didn’t bring down Commodore, but it was rampant.
I went to the Commodore bankruptcy auction in PA, and bought a bridgeboard and a few interesting prototypes.
They were selling huge box lots for a few dollars.
Then, years later, I got into webOS…that too crumbled and died.
@2many2no @blaineg @cpierce @wew Tragic. My //GS is a Woz Edition, and my Apple ][plus became a Woz edition when the Woz visited a local Las Vegas Apple Computer dealer when the winter CES was in town and signed it for me
@2many2no @blaineg @cpierce @duodec I thought i had a good story, buy your’s is the best I’ve read in awhile!
@duodec That is actually pretty darn cool.
@2many2no @blaineg @cpierce @wew The Woz is a gentleman and a scholar
Burgees
@CaptAmehrican I had to look that up, I had no idea what a burgee was. I guess my excuse is I’m in a landlocked state.
@CaptAmehrican on related note - boat pins (preferably traditionally rigged sailing vessels) and for a while ships in a bottle and ship ornaments. Again preferably sailing vessels.
@CaptAmehrican You know you have an obscure hobby when Google asks, “Did you mean burger?”
Collecting burgers would be … unwise.
Vintage mechanical watches. Mostly Seiko: divers, chronographs, and higher-end dress watches. There’s a few Swiss examples in there, and a few mew startup/micro brand ones as well.
Bass guitars. Well, bass guitars and upright basses (one acoustic and two electric). Including those three I think I have a dozen. And a few guitars.
I have my stamp collection from when I was a kid. And my father-in-law’s from when he was a kid. I buy a lot of CDs but I don’t think that counts as collecting.
bikes and speakers
I said “no” because I thought I my collecting days were behind me (coins, beer cans, keychains, stuff like that).
Then I realized I’m still collecting t-shirts. And I’ve developed a habit of collecting fonts when they’re on sale. I collect frogs for the office. I collect songs on Spotify.
And I collect regrets, like bad poll choices.
@TheFLP Oh yeah, t-shirts. I hadn’t really thought of them, but my wife has said that if I get a new one, and old one has to go to make room.
And funny ties.
@blaineg Putting a t-shirt out on the street to fend for itself is inhumane. We should treasure them until they fall apart.
@blaineg @TheFLP I’m the t shirt hoarder in our house. I work at a college so every event ends up doling out t shirts to staff who work the events. And being in student services, i work many events a year. I have dozens of SAU Tech t shirts. And so many Arkansas razorback shirts. And my mom gives me t shirts with cats on them. I have a closet full of them. And i refuse to get rid of any of them.
@blaineg @ivannabc My dad disapproves of my t-shirt habit. I gave him this for his birthday last year so he can disapprove more effectively.
@blaineg @TheFLP um…i have a shirt like that. …
@blaineg @ivannabc You have the right kind of mom.
I collect meh.com junk.
I used to collect guitars, got to over 30, (small collection I know) mostly unusual or small luthier shops. Hamer, Steinberger, Breedlove, Stump Preacher, Larivee, Yairi, PRS, and the obligatory Strats, Teles and Les Paul. Marriage changed that.
Now the only thing I am allowed to collect are Meh buttons.
@enville No one should ever have to get rid of a Les Paul.
OTOH…
@2many2no Ah yes, the language barrier.
Wrinkles and gray hairs.
@aetris and, likely, aches and pains
@duodec - I try to pass on my aches and pains!
For those who didn’t play the scavenger hunt last month, I have an epic fridge magnet collection I am very proud of:
@bramby2 randomly purchased or does each have meaning?
@Kidsandliz I a collect fridge magnets from every place I travel to. My fridge represents the adventures in my life so far
@bramby2 That’s cool.
@bramby2 I have a decent set on my fridge. Some are memories but most are fun. Always wanted a set of the old state ones to do a map but I only have a handful.
@speediedelivery I, too, make sure I grab a state-shaped one from every state I go to when I can. There are a couple I didn’t get on my first trip, so it means I have to go back until my state collection is complete!
Dust bunnies and debt.
Comic books
Cat Art.
Hot Wheels. Though I’ve always just grabbed what I like, never trying for specific sets or themes. I started when they were introduced in 1968, and a dollar was a big deal to a little kid. I still have many of my originals, largely due to a loving and tolerant mom.
I again started collecting some a few years back, and I’ve been startled by two signs of aging:
Apparently my sense of “what I like” is stronger than my sense of “what I have”, and I’ve too often brought home a new treasure only to find I already have it.
Oh well, the nieces and nephews have enjoyed the duplicates.
The second shock was this year is the 50th anniversary of Hot Wheels. How did that happen?
Whatever my hoarding parents dump on me and they say it is worth something or will be worth something. I keep out of guilt or they might ask for it back. Old canning jars,old dishware,copper that should just be melted.avon cars…ugh ,my poor attic.
Ham radio QSL cards. #NerdAlert
@shiftace my husband is a ham radio operator. K5syn i think?
I collect hockey jerseys. Mostly Philadelphia Flyers. I have about 50 or so. About half of them were worn in games by the actual player. This is a sample. I’m kinda proud of them
@jsh139
I’m still waiting for you to gift me that gold toe Lemieux jersey.
@hems79
@jsh139 Nice! My husband collects football jerseys. He has a few cleats and gloves. He spends hours photo matching and searching for what is out there for sale. It keeps him out of other kinds of trouble!
@speediedelivery that’s awesome! I do the same with the photo-matching
I’m right there with ya. There are much worse things to be obsessed with!
I believe @narfcake collectes cat shirts and @barney collects purple.
@Kidsandliz Why not both?
/wootstalker https://shirt.woot.com/offers/the-internet-defined
The Internet Defined
Price: $12.00
Condition: Probably New
This deal is currently sold out
Super dumbass “life experiences”.
Scars, both physical and emotional. None have killed me yet so I guess, per Freddie Nietzsche, I’m stronger.
@macromeh it’s a shame the resale value is shit on those.
I collect video game music boxes. It is admittedly a small collection, because I have only found two so far, but more than one counts.
@YannaUsagi Photos?
@sammydog01 @YannaUsagi Sounds?
@blaineg @sammydog01
Here’s a video I took for my blog of my Undertale music box:
And here’s my Ni No Kuni II King’s Edition music box:
I really hope more video game collector’s editions start incorporating music boxes because I LOVE THEM.
@blaineg @YannaUsagi I love those too.
@YannaUsagi I had one of those types of boxes. I loved playing it and watching it work. I am not sure if I have it packed away or what happened to it.
@YannaUsagi I love music boxes too (although I like them for the music).
I collect socks.
@d2atfallen
Are you a clothes dryer?
@f00l yea and forget about leaving one sock behind, I’m taking them all.
i collect:
Weapons - particularly swords (my husband knows me well - a hand made katana was our 15th anniversary gift!), but also sai, tonfa, and bokken.
Dragons - figurines and art, not real ones (yet).
Strays - usually cats & dogs, but in the past parrots/birds, chinchillas, hedgehogs… i can’t say no to an abandoned animal.
@inanna Neat! My wife and I each got just one sword early on. It never became a collection for us but we still love the blades we got.
Nativity sets. Some are displayed all year.
I said no in the poll, but then I remembered that between my laptop, desktop, and phone, I have several Gigabytes of memes. So I guess I collect memes.
Bills…does that count?
Yarn. I know doesn’t really sound like a thing. But it is
@butter021 is this really a thing? like old yarns?
my grandpappy had a lot of those.
but seriously, I didn’t know yarn was collectible.
I have a closet full. In hopes to knit up. But some of it I got just because it was pretty.
@butter021 My Mom agrees with you. I can see the pretty colors but I have no talent to do anything with it. Mom is always working on a project or three.
1950’s stuff, and Roseville pottery.
Anything German Shepherd related. Shortly after I discovered EBay years ago I made the mistake of searching German Shepherd. I was perfectly fine with the shit I already had until I saw all the stuff that I didn’t have…now there’s Amazon… my house (and car decals)is a shrine to the mighty GSD
Plus I have the entire collection of presidential dollar coins, a whole roll each. And proof sets and mint sets from 1957 thru 2017, courtesy of my Dad❤
Plus I collect regrets…
Games on Steam that I never seem to find the time to play.
@Al_Coholic Oh, yea. That too.
They weren’t talking directly to me, but someone said of large Steam libraries: “Apparently you like buying games more than you like playing them.”
@Al_Coholic @blaineg yeah my problem is my husband and a friend of ours buy me games to entice me to play. Honest to god if i wanted to play, i would buy it.
the games i like i have hundreds of hours in (like well over 300 hours in the sims). And then there’s European truck simulator taunting me in my list with its 2 hours played. I don’t even know how i got 2 hours. i did not enjoy driving a truck for 2 hours fighting off hateful other drivers.
And speaking of video games, I’ve got a couple of Vectrex systems, a lot of the games, and the elusive 3D Imager.
It’s a vector CRT, so it’s perfect for knockoffs of old vector arcade games like Asteroids, Space Wars and Tempest. It’s a B&W screen, so the games had transparent color overlays for the screen to give some color. The 3D Imager used a spinning wheel to alternately block one eye, and also create color with more flexibility than the screen overlays.
A lot of homebrew games have been created in the last few decades, and they may outnumber the original releases by now.
One of mine is dead now, so I’ll have to go through it and replace the capacitors.
I’ve also got a massive 19" vector display that I’ve been dreaming of hooking up to a Vectrex for about 20 years or so.
http://www.racketboy.com/retro/vectrex-101-a-beginners-guide
@blaineg Oh yea, the Spike game was one of the first home games with speech. No support hardware, just software.
@blaineg I saw one for $80 at a classic game expo and thought about it… but couldn’t justify even $80 on a weird 80s game system at the time
@cpierce That would have been a good investment.
My first one was bought from a big chain toy store during the GCE/Vextrex bankruptcy sale, so it was pretty cheap. I bought my second one online in the pre-eBay days, and it came with the 3D Imager. That was a real find. It seemed expensive at the time, but I think it was in the neighborhood of $200 for the bundle.
And with Vectrex on my mind, I just bought my first Sean Kelly multicart tonight, having lusted after one for decades! Turns out he just did a new version of it last year.
Too many things.
Cairn Studio gnomes and animals although the studio is closed now.
Postcards, I like place ones with a little information on the back and any fun ones. I have a few from when I was a toddler that family mailed to me!
Mithril Lord of the Rings miniatures. Found them on a trip to Ireland and had to have a few.
Bluetooth speakers, knives, watches, fidget spinners, old candy corn, travel mugs, power banks, and now apparently, watches, Thanks?? meh
Shows on my DVR. Guess I’ll get around to watching them eventually…
@cinoclav i did that too till we moved and unhooked the dvr lol