i have a thing for vintage and kitch but my fave. collectables are:

vintage postcards
60-70s wallpaper scraps
60s dresses
vintage toys, esp. the wind up toys
art books

guitars

weird musical instruments....and guitars!

Horse manure mostly.

I've got truckloads in the back pasture if anyone has a really big garden.

"Horses are just an expensive way to produce fertilzer" - my wife

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Used to collect two or three trading card game cards...Star Wars CCG, Lord of the Rings TCG and .hack TCG

Not anymore though...too expensive

music magazines... guitar picks... blank CD jewel cases...

I collect Zippo lighters, books, thoughts, vinyl albums and yes - musical instruments (guitars, mandolins, banjo, accordian, harmonicas, and other musical paraphenalia.)

I used to collect rocks and coins in my youth but have since stopped.

- vintage wine
- pez dispensrs
- little shinny black rocks

blank jewel cases...

and oh yeah! MARGARITA SAYS: DAN GET OFF THE BOARD AND LET ME ON!!!!

nice!

(and the wine, well, yummy)

CD's: about 1,400 I think, and non-mp3 sourced bootlegs on CD-R (about 600).

I am a collector of nothing.

: )

Yet, I do seem to have a lotta $hit!

"collecting" is a euphemism for

... almost forgot i do this, i also collect random quotes from friends and people i come across in life. i have a quote book... great to look back on and laugh and remember those moments in life.

Yeah, but I keep telling myself I don't officially "collect" stuff because I don't have a complete set of anything!!

oh yeah

and boxes (wooden, tin etc)
friends art
mis matched sets (dishes, chairs etc)
and versions of "twas the night before christmas"

and in my dreams i collect the criterion collection

just about anything at thift stores

warner brothers cartoons

coen brothers movies on dvd

alfred hitchcock movies

beatles stuff

Hmm, I've got 3 different editions of The Little Prince, in hard- and softcover. Maybe I DO collect, a lil' bit.

: )

see! nice! (the perfect book to collect, btw)

i have it in english, german and french. looking for swedish and icelandic)

Mine are all in English (maybe I'm a Junior Collector?).

: )

I nearly swooned in high school when my best pal read me excerpts of Le Petit Prince in nearly perfect French-class French one afternoon!

I collect stickers.

Unofficial, discontinued, or difficult-to-continue collections include stamps (abandoned at six), seashells (abandoned at fourteen), sea glass (I'm never at the beach anymore - boo), books (can one really "collect" books in general?), and empty envelopes. I was a mad CD-buyer for a year before I moved out, too.

that has the same affect on me.

but more so when it was my ex reading it in german when i couldnt sleep

: )

And Libby, regarding stickers: They're cool! (Long as you don't stick 'em where they're not s'posed to be stuck -- i.e. certain types of furniture. I learned that WAY early in life!)

: )

Stuff. I collect stuff. I have tons of books, pictures, 'souviners', just stuff...

I really do not "collect" anything worthy of being called a collectable, but I have a lot of books and old family pictures and papers.

I don't know how I accumulate them... they just show up (blank jewel cases)...

Margarita's at school tonight... so I post...

and watch Pink Floyd The Wall movie...

your collection is so much worth while than any collectable! you must have a magnificent collection!

polar bears (not living ones, that's illegal)
rocks
foreign coins

I have large collections of books & music, but I don't think of myself as collecting those.

um.

old photos
anything that is sentimental
used to collect frog stuff
stickers
beads
vintage guitars(hehe - i have one vintage guitar, that is)
vintage furniture - mostly green stuff or dark wood.

...

That's a start!

: )

I collect Alice in Wonderland , Eloise, and vintage pennants for my kids.
I am just now working on a family history photo Wall.
I have hordes of Hopper prints {wish I had an original!}
I have 2 art deco silent flame lighters {1 I got in New Orleans 12 years ago/15$ the other I got on e-bay 100$}
I also collect dirty laundry and dust, any one know a good maid?
I almost forgot I have this old shoe box filled with old ticket stubs, I used to save every single
one and put the date and notes on the back, strange what we keep around!

I keep things that are sentimental.
especially photos, and programs, and other papery paraphanelia.
I have lots of books and cds.
sometimes I write down quotes
sometimes I collect dust.

No fair. I was going to say the same exact thing!!!!!

I will give you some of my dust for colllecting

um. lots of stuff.

but mostly ducks

and anything purple (special thanks to ray's girls, on that one ...)

I like purple stuff too. My favorite is my purple belts and my purple kneesocks.

sweet!! i have purple ducky socks (merry christmas from my boyfriend, on that one)

I have more CDs and records than any human being should have.
I also collect Marx Brothers memorabilia. I'm giddy that a new DVD box set is on it's way to my house from the good folks at Amazon... it's every Marx Brothers movie that hasn't been available before. Now I'll have them all... FEAR ME!

gargoyles
crosses, esp. from different cultures
books, particularly theology
chapbooks (friends' and strangers' self-published writings)
IKEA furniture... our apartment could be a showroom
magazines
and the ongoing collection- recycling bin cycle of junk mail from seemingly every single progressive organization in the country. i wouldn't be surprised if the FBI has a file on me purely on the basis of my junk mail.

MP3s and ex-girlfriends.

Tools
Kites
Spinning tops
Rocks (primarily opals)
Books (mostly non-fiction)
Crocheted Slugs (I think I hold the world's largest title on this one!)
Coins from around the world
Stickers
Love notes (mostly in post-it form)
fabric (I'm have time to make things again someday!)
Fine Art (a slowly growing collection:)

Set lists from concerts I've attended, preferably autographed by the bands of course.

Cher

Crosses

Yikes... no vampires allowed in Trudes house...

I also collect Native American DreamCatchers but I don't have a picture.

great question, d!

things i collect include:

books (especially the classics)
rare oop cds
a few baseball cards from my younger days

OK, here's a really sick list of my CD & DVD collection.

ok, now i want a divorce. don't worry, i'll only go for the beatles stuff.

No way. I had all that stuff before we were married, you have no claim to it.