Dr Who? Posted 27 January, 2012 Posted 27 January, 2012 I used to collect program's and Saints shirts. Then I collected American football helmets, followed by fridge magnets. Now I do not really collect anything, apart from pound coins! I have about 620 of them! Do any of you collect anything strange or normal.
Dr Who? Posted 27 January, 2012 Author Posted 27 January, 2012 Also used to collect so much porn, suitcases full of the stuff. I think I had a problem! Porn addict?
StDunko Posted 27 January, 2012 Posted 27 January, 2012 "Classic and Sportscar" magazines, I have all of the issues dating back about five years, then odd ones dating back as far as 1986. Plus I would love to add to my collection of (2) 80's BMWs, but just don't have the space to keep them. I have a mint '86 635csi and an '84 K100.
Colinjb Posted 27 January, 2012 Posted 27 January, 2012 I collect Saints shirts and F1 1:43 scale die cast models. It's becoming a bit excessive though.
Dr Who? Posted 27 January, 2012 Author Posted 27 January, 2012 I am also going backwards and collecting Lego!
dune Posted 27 January, 2012 Posted 27 January, 2012 17th century (and earlier) brass candlesticks (side ejector and pr1cket), georgian wine labels, old english/hanoverian serving spoons, cocquilla nut napoleonic pow carved pomanders, liptons empire exhibition tea caddies (although got too many the same and now stoped)
Jonnyboy Posted 28 January, 2012 Posted 28 January, 2012 Also used to collect so much porn, suitcases full of the stuff. I think I had a problem! Porn addict? It's easier to hide now!
Jillyanne Posted 28 January, 2012 Posted 28 January, 2012 Michael Jackson memorabilia, Fridge magnets, candles. Used to collect soaps (special ones) but my mum binned them all years ago!
hamster Posted 28 January, 2012 Posted 28 January, 2012 Dr Who, how much would you take for your £ coin collection?
hamster Posted 28 January, 2012 Posted 28 January, 2012 I collect pebbles from the beach. Got some rreally nice heart shaped ones.
Jillyanne Posted 28 January, 2012 Posted 28 January, 2012 I collect pebbles from the beach. Got some rreally nice heart shaped ones. I have also collected some stones from Shanklin Beach and made them into jewellery.
Dr Who? Posted 28 January, 2012 Author Posted 28 January, 2012 Dr Who, how much would you take for your £ coin collection? Well I think that with so many I would need a least £1,500 for that family holiday. It is strange, every time I have a pound coin I cannot spend it, I break another note, and then collect it. I suppose it is more of a saving than a collection, but was wondering if many people have more individual pounds than me?
Dr Who? Posted 28 January, 2012 Author Posted 28 January, 2012 I collect pebbles from the beach. Got some rreally nice heart shaped ones. Be careful or mr Weller will nick you sentence for lyrics!!!
dingbattigger Posted 28 January, 2012 Posted 28 January, 2012 Saints badges, Mrs D collects animale--live ones:rolleyes:
Colinjb Posted 28 January, 2012 Posted 28 January, 2012 Well I think that with so many I would need a least £1,500 for that family holiday. It is strange, every time I have a pound coin I cannot spend it, I break another note, and then collect it. I suppose it is more of a saving than a collection, but was wondering if many people have more individual pounds than me? Mum used to be the same with 2 pound coins, she carried on for a bout 3 years and ended up collecting close to 3 grand.
dune Posted 28 January, 2012 Posted 28 January, 2012 I have a thing for 20 pence pieces. I always check them looking one with a missing date. I purposely put a pound coin in the tea machine at work so it gives change in 20p's.
hamster Posted 28 January, 2012 Posted 28 January, 2012 Be careful or mr Weller will nick you sentence for lyrics!!! ? I like The Jam but don't know wtf you are on about. Please enlighten me? I also collect elastic bands left on the pavement by postmen. Lazy bastards
Jillyanne Posted 28 January, 2012 Posted 28 January, 2012 Shot glasses I also used to collect these, got about 500 from all round the world but now in the garage in boxes as ran out of room
dune Posted 28 January, 2012 Posted 28 January, 2012 Here you go Jill. You could not only collect but make your own. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RARE-OCELOT-LEOPARD-FUR-COAT-JACKET-1930S-SIZE-14-20-VINTAGE-RETRO-/330675302704?_trksid=p4340.m185&_trkparms=algo%3DDLSL%252BSIC.NPJS%26its%3DI%26itu%3DUCI%252BUA%26otn%3D10%26pmod%3D280745870508%252B280745870508%26po%3D%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D5928673804013975846
Dr Who? Posted 28 January, 2012 Author Posted 28 January, 2012 Shot glasses Yes I have about 15 of these...
Dr Who? Posted 28 January, 2012 Author Posted 28 January, 2012 Also after just making a brew it seems that we collect bloody tea cups, well not tea cups but mugs!!! We have a double cupboard stacked 2 high with mugs...is this normal?
EastleighSoulBoy Posted 28 January, 2012 Posted 28 January, 2012 Soul Music, Northern Soul, Motown, Philly. Also Dance and House with some ELP and Roxy for good measure.
CHAPEL END CHARLIE Posted 28 January, 2012 Posted 28 January, 2012 I must confess I have been an incorrigible bibliophile seen my early teens if not before, mostly historical subjects. It has gotten so bad I've bought books I've never read just for the pleasure of possessing them in my collection - the storage of which is a near insurmountable problem. But the internet has taken a lot of the fun out of it. There's a certain hard-to-explain pleasure to be had from calling into a decent second hand bookshop, having a good old rummage, and finding a title you've been seeking for years/decades perhaps that only someone suffering from a bad case of the true 'collecting mania' could possibly understand. You can find almost anything you want now with a quick internet search - it's just not the same somehow.
Verbal Posted 28 January, 2012 Posted 28 January, 2012 I don't suppose there's anything in your vast collection on King Constantine?
dune Posted 28 January, 2012 Posted 28 January, 2012 The problem with internet collecting is the price. Things tend to achieve their market value or above (with exceptions granted but this isn't that frequent). I do enjoy looking round second hand shops, antiques shops, car boot sales, charity shops (although they tend to overprice now) for little gems that have been underpriced. That said i've just purchased an 18th C brass chamberstick (side ejector) for a tenner online with no one else bidding.
CHAPEL END CHARLIE Posted 28 January, 2012 Posted 28 January, 2012 He's a good source of quotes I hear ...... although I prefer Chairman Mao.
Colinjb Posted 28 January, 2012 Posted 28 January, 2012 The problem with internet collecting is the price. Things tend to achieve their market value or above (with exceptions granted but this isn't that frequent). I do enjoy looking round second hand shops, antiques shops, car boot sales, charity shops (although they tend to overprice now) for little gems that have been underpriced. That said i've just purchased an 18th C brass chamberstick (side ejector) for a tenner online with no one else bidding. Some bargains can be had on ebay. You just have to get in there quick with the sellers who may know no better. Making offers for items can be a very good tool.
Dr Who? Posted 28 January, 2012 Author Posted 28 January, 2012 Some bargains can be had on ebay. You just have to get in there quick with the sellers who may know no better. Making offers for items can be a very good tool. Also a hint for this one is do searches for mis-spelt items. Like royal doulton.
Verbal Posted 28 January, 2012 Posted 28 January, 2012 He's a good source of quotes I hear ...... although I prefer Chairman Mao. How does Mao fit into your collection of royal mugs?
CHAPEL END CHARLIE Posted 29 January, 2012 Posted 29 January, 2012 How does Mao fit into your collection of royal mugs? Oh I only collect communist mugs, with so many to choose from it'll take me a while to amass them all. How are your remedial history studies coming along by the way ? I know you made a shaky start with early Athenian Democracy, 20th Century History & Constitutional Studies, but the secret of success sometimes lays more in perspiration rather than inspiration I'm told, so keep plugging away and you may get there eventually.
Whitey Grandad Posted 29 January, 2012 Posted 29 January, 2012 I collect £50 notes. If you have any spare I'll take them.
Verbal Posted 29 January, 2012 Posted 29 January, 2012 Husbands They appreciate in value when you trade them in. Excellent choice.
bridge too far Posted 29 January, 2012 Posted 29 January, 2012 They appreciate in value when you trade them in. Excellent choice. Not sure that I made that much of a killing (figuratively speaking)! I did swap the last one for a much newer model, however.
landford.saint Posted 29 January, 2012 Posted 29 January, 2012 Also after just making a brew it seems that we collect bloody tea cups, well not tea cups but mugs!!! We have a double cupboard stacked 2 high with mugs...is this normal? It is in my house. Well it is when I have rounded them all up from the kids rooms.
Dr Who? Posted 29 January, 2012 Author Posted 29 January, 2012 I have a thing for 20 pence pieces. I always check them looking one with a missing date. I purposely put a pound coin in the tea machine at work so it gives change in 20p's. That is the same as me with pund coins, I end up taking out notes and buying things so I get pound coins!
Dr Who? Posted 29 January, 2012 Author Posted 29 January, 2012 ? I like The Jam but don't know wtf you are on about. Please enlighten me? I also collect elastic bands left on the pavement by postmen. Lazy bastards Pebbles on a beach is a Weller song from his solo collection. Yes I collect the red elastic bands at work... I have a big ball going on!
Dr Who? Posted 29 January, 2012 Author Posted 29 January, 2012 It is called broken stones, by Paul Weller. http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=GB#/watch?v=lK2UUKuw2bo
Dimond Geezer Posted 29 January, 2012 Posted 29 January, 2012 I sed to collect loads of junk when I was a kid, badges, matchboxes, stamps, PG Tips cards, sadly I still have them all in the loft . All I actively collect now is Queen Fan Club magazines & Saints matchday programmes, I have one for every game I ever went too - with one exception - that being MLTs testimonial.
Monk Posted 29 January, 2012 Posted 29 January, 2012 Cigars, Corinthian figures (big heads) and Subbuteo!!!
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