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crone
Butterfly
Joined: May 21, 2007
Posts: 15
Location: Arizona
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 Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 12:06 am Post subject: Fairys! |
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| Not the ones that look like babies but the really neat ones that can blend in and hide. Funny story. I was going to do the bathroom and bedroom in aqua and my hubby bleached the aqua towels! I said "Ok, that does it." I did the bedroom in purple and put all the fairies in it so it looks like a veritable barfing of said creatures! That'll teach him. |
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Pearl
Emu Egg
Joined: May 23, 2007
Posts: 3
Location: Birmingham England
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 11:50 am Post subject: Re: Things you've "collected" over the years |
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| Beenthere wrote: | How many of us drag home or "almost" have drug home some really strange stuff in our years of "collecting"? I've always felt it was a hereditary issue with me (my dad did the same)...but I'm wondering.
...(it seemed like a good idea at the time...and of course it was nice and shiny). What is it with the shiny stuff?  |
My son used to collect bits of twig off trees and metal bits that had fallen off cars. I had to put them under my daughter's pushchair to bring home. I used to call him Steptoe after a programme on TV in England about a rag and bone man. I don't know if you ever saw that in America?
When we got home I would have to try and persuade him to put them in the garden which he always objected to.
As he got older it was Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh - a bit more socially acceptable. We viewed it all with good humour (most of the time!) |
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lostartist
Raven
Joined: Mar 20, 2007
Posts: 102
Location: Georgia
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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| PhilipWHolland wrote: | | I didn't even begin to all the heart shaped rocks, things that looked like faces, and if I ever find something on the ground that I don't know what it is, then I will take it home, or pick it up until I can figure it out. It's usually a little spring or component or something or nuther. I have hood ornaments out the ass. |
I could have written this, except for the hood ornaments (ouch). I am especially fond of interesting rocks. I pick up pieces of toys. I almost got run over in the Wal-mart parking lot doubling back to snag a bendy Wal-mart smiley. He's on my desk here at work, along with other parkinglot finds - my headless spaceman, and tiny supergirl. I also have a real fork that I found...in the road. It's flat. |
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lostartist
Raven
Joined: Mar 20, 2007
Posts: 102
Location: Georgia
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Arbie wrote: | A huge section of whale skull I found on the beach. It had to weigh at least 50 pounds and I was about 11 years old at the time.
I still have it, though it has shriveled since then.
I could list lots of other curious things, all of which found on the beach and all of which I still have. |
Hey Arbie, I used to live in Summerville, S.C. when I was a kid and I have a huge collection of fossils. I would have dragged home that whale skull, too.  |
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rideforever
Velociraptor
Joined: Mar 11, 2007
Posts: 412
Location: Brighton, UK
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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| I've got about 100 smurfs. |
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Zincubus
Toucan
Joined: May 18, 2007
Age: 50
Posts: 287
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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I have always collected DICE !!
Although I've only managed to solect about 9 altogher over the years !! |
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calandale
Stellar's Jay
Joined: Mar 10, 2007
Posts: 15131
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Zincubus wrote: | I have always collected DICE !!
Although I've only managed to solect about 9 altogher over the years !! |
How is this a collection? |
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wendytheweird
Deinonychus
Joined: Sep 10, 2006
Posts: 328
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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I periodically and tearfully go through and throw out my old collections. I currently have about 200lbs of fabric and maybe 20lbs of wool yarn.
My husband (who claims to not be an aspie, but it's painfully clear to all who know him), keeps bringing home bits of mass spectrometers. He even has 2 he built of Legos in his top dresser drawer. He's worse than the kids sometimes.   |
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parts
Jack of All Trades
Joined: Sep 03, 2005
Posts: 1623
Location: New England
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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I have over 1500 radio tubes and lots of other random stuff like a full set of blacksmith tools,TV's from the 1940's to present even a fifty some pound piece of petrified wood
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maldoror
Phoenix
Joined: Jan 19, 2007
Posts: 955
Location: Denver
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 12:27 am Post subject: |
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| I have a melted hay bale in the back, that's all I can think of right now. I used to have all kinds of stuff like that but lately I've been trying to get rid of excess property, so I've tossed a lot of it. |
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kclark
Velociraptor
Joined: May 11, 2007
Age: 27
Posts: 460
Location: NE Illinois
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I collected rocks for a while when I was little, but there is only so many different types you can get in your neighborhood. I did manage to find 2 large rocks with trillobite fossils in them. I still have those somewhere. I am still amazed by pumice. So strange and unrock like floating in water and all that.
I also saved the shed skins from my pet garter snake that I kept for a while after catching him in the park.
I collected trading cards of all sorts. Sports, games, pictures. Many of the ones that I collected I didn't have much of an interest in beside collecting them. Although I used to sort them in different ways constantly.
I also have a big collection of role playing and wargaming miniatures. Many which I have and most likely never will use.
I have a small collection of magnets. I have a large speaker magnet as a base and have some pretty strong ceramic magnets that are almost impossible to get off the speaker if you put them in the center. I had taken apart many things that had magnets like those plastic magnetic letters, computer hard drives, old electric motors. I magnetized some normal metal pieces to add to my collection. I can't even remember where I got most of them anymore.
I practically collect video game boxes. I just can't seem to throw them out even old ones like the original doom game. That box is somewhere in my closet. |
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Prof_Pretorius
troubled Soul
Joined: Aug 21, 2006
Age: 50
Posts: 4627
Location: Hiding in the attic of the Arkham Library
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:39 pm Post subject: |
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I stuff old computer parts away, I've sold some, but mostly I just get them out and look them over from time to time. I knew a chap who made a clock out of an old motherboard, and I keep telling myself that I'll get around to doing that one of these days.
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TZ
Blue Jay
Joined: Apr 17, 2007
Posts: 88
Location: Under the boardwalk
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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| I have way too many musical instruments. I also collect interesting rocks and bits of wood that feel good to touch and/or look at. I sometimes polish them in my tumbler, use them in making tool handles or other crafty stuff, use them to decorate my workshop. |
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ichtms
Butterfly
Joined: May 04, 2007
Posts: 9
Location: Sweden
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 11:12 am Post subject: |
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| My collection of head hair has been going for 15 years or so. For the last 6-7 years I've been taking care of plastic screw corks and I've got around 3000 so far. |
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lostartist
Raven
Joined: Mar 20, 2007
Posts: 102
Location: Georgia
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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| ichtms wrote: | | My collection of head hair has been going for 15 years or so. |
Your hair or just... whatever you find? |
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