GTKY: Collections

[Sammich_Cat]

Do you have a collection?
What do you collect?

[mrss44]

Rubber ducks

[BurritosAtEveryMeal]

I collect penguin things and Christmas ornaments. I try to get an ornament from every new place we visit. I am very particular about what penguin things I buy; don't want to be a weirdo with a whole room of penguin themed tchohkes.

[Ray]

I have a money collection. The only reason I have one is because my grandmother would get relatives to bring me back coins/small bills from wherever they visited.

After she passed it meant a lot more.

[Sammich_Cat]

Aug 21, 2015 19:39:21 GMT -5 Ray said:

I have a money collection. The only reason I have one is because my grandmother would get relatives to bring me back coins/small bills from wherever they visited.

After she passed it meant a lot more.

I thought you were being snarky and LOL'd.

[Sammich_Cat]

I collect rocks, but H collects hotel key cards-(WTF?)

[Deleted]

I used to sort of collect cookie jars. I have about 20 in chests back in IN. We only brought one with us. That's the only thing I've ever collected.

[aprilz81]

Like BurritosAtEveryMeal,, I collect Christmas ornaments from all of our travels. I started in 2003 when I bought my first house. The great think about this collection is that I only see it for about 4 weeks a year and don't have to dust around it.

[Ray]

Aug 21, 2015 20:09:54 GMT -5 Sammich_Cat said:

Aug 21, 2015 19:39:21 GMT -5 Ray said:

I have a money collection. The only reason I have one is because my grandmother would get relatives to bring me back coins/small bills from wherever they visited.

After she passed it meant a lot more.

I thought you were being snarky and LOL'd.

Haha

No I really do have a money collection.

I wish I had a collection of money though then I could make it rain.

[kayladawn91]

I collect Precious Moments. But it's funny this discussion was started because I just told MH that I need to pack them all away because we're converting our spare room into an actual guest room and there will no longer be room for them in there. We need a new house with more room.

[ohinvrtedworld]

It's not a hardcore collection, but when we travel somewhere and spend enough time there to feel like I earned it, I buy the corresponding city/state's Starbucks mug. I like using them at home and remembering our trips with each one.

[wilmaroo]

Exercise DVDs haha. I always need a new one and never use them. Ever.. But I always think I'm going to. I have like 30.

[singingsea]

I used to collect hamsters. Not real ones. Figurines and stuffed dancing hamsters. They're in a closet somewhere in this house.

[pinkcat]

Perfume! I spend way too much time every morning trying to decide which one to wear.

[LadyNymeria]

Movie stubs. For a while I just forgot to throw them away then I realized it was fun to keep them. I have them all back to 2004.

[LadyNymeria]

Aug 21, 2015 20:56:48 GMT -5 kayladawn91 said:

I collect Precious Moments. But it's funny this discussion was started because I just told MH that I need to pack them all away because we're converting our spare room into an actual guest room and there will no longer be room for them in there. We need a new house with more room.

I collect PMs as well, but a limited collection. My Godmother buys me the girl figurine ornament that comes out for Christmas every year. I have baby's first Christmas for the year I was born and every year since.

I also have the sweet sixteen, graduation, and a couple wedding ones.

[akraus2015]

I collect coffee mugs. It drives H crazy because they don't all fit in the kitchen cabinets and no one person could ever use that many mugs. My favorite one has a picture of me with my Papa from like 1992.

[cheshie6]

I also collect Precious Moments but mine are limited to Disney Sleeping Beauty stuff. But I do have the Graduating girl I got for graduating college from my Aunt, and my godmother got us the wedding couple for our wedding. I mostlyI collect Disney Sleeping Beauty collectibles.

[spaceapple]

+1 to Christmas ornaments from trips. We got our first one on our honeymoon in Costa Rica.

[onesweetworld]

Aug 21, 2015 18:16:12 GMT -5 mrss44 said:

Rubber ducks

This was me when I was younger! I even had a bride and groom rubber duck as our wedding cake topper.

[onesweetworld]

Aug 21, 2015 18:54:00 GMT -5 @underdog25 said:

I have close to 100 Ty beanie babies with mint condition tags that I was assured would be worth thousands one day.

I've held on to them for 15 years and they have only depreciated.

Yep.  Tag protectors and all.  Last time I counted I had almost 400.

[onesweetworld]

Aug 21, 2015 19:39:21 GMT -5 Ray said:

I have a money collection. The only reason I have one is because my grandmother would get relatives to bring me back coins/small bills from wherever they visited.

After she passed it meant a lot more.

My mother collects money too! She has tons of old bills from her great uncle who was a merchant marine.  I collect money all over the world for her.  It's a lot of fun! 

[onesweetworld]

Aug 21, 2015 20:44:33 GMT -5 aprilz81 said:

Like BurritosAtEveryMeal,, I collect Christmas ornaments from all of our travels. I started in 2003 when I bought my first house. The great think about this collection is that I only see it for about 4 weeks a year and don't have to dust around it.

I also do this.  I bring back a magnet for my MIL and MH and I get an ornament for us.  I also try to get something that I made in the country I am in and not made in China! (Unless I'm in China) 

[onesweetworld]

When I first read this GTKY I was like I don't collect anything...and now I realize that I collect a lot more than I thought.

[cjchio]

I collect disney stuff...mostly princess or haunted mansion themed.

I have an ear hat collection, pins, and Precious Moments.

My husband and I have a large pin collection. We have an entire wall devoted to different pin boards.


I always tease we need a separate room for our home office so we can make it disney themed

[easilyunamused]

Koozies, but we don't necessarily collect them. We have a ton from all over the place and it's great cause we use them all the time.

[sanibel21]

We collect shells and rocks and seaglass from any beaches we go to. We have a couple hurricane glasses with them in it.

[tincupchalice]

I'm trying to become a minimalist, but I have collected dragons before.

[Girlymama79]

Aug 23, 2015 21:44:20 GMT -5 tincupchalice said:

I'm trying to become a minimalist, but I have collected dragons before.

I want to be a minimalist too...but amazon calls my name way too often.

I collect magnets. Gotta hang up all that artwork some how!

[tincupchalice]

Aug 23, 2015 22:20:50 GMT -5 Girlymama79 said:

Aug 23, 2015 21:44:20 GMT -5 tincupchalice said:

I'm trying to become a minimalist, but I have collected dragons before.

I want to be a minimalist too...but amazon calls my name way too often.

I collect magnets. Gotta hang up all that artwork some how!

The struggle is real and I am definitely definitely not there yet.

Also DH is a packrat, that doesn't help.