Apparently those little foofy brush things you use to wipe dusts off of cars.

I didn't notice I had 5 of them till my friend pointed them out.

I bet dust trembles when it sees you coming ;) Sounds like you're well-armed!

I use to collect these small stagues called pocket dragons, but they dont sell them anymore which was a shame. I loved looking at them and seeing which one i could get next

Yep, that's the best part of collecting, figuring out which one you'd get next!

Different types of puzzles.

Neat! Like 1000 piecers and above and 3D puzzles and whatnot, or more focusing on the images the puzzles were of?

Various kinds. Jigsaws, Rubiks Cubes, and so on.

Small stupid little things like paperclips, little bits of twine or lace or even twisty ties. all kept in their own assorted little spots on my bookshelf to be used when I need them... :P

Very nice XD Practical, too! Now we know who to call if Macgyver ever has a shortage of doodads!

warhammer figures and magic cards. its silly because of the amount of cash im willing to pay to collect them

Aw, tell me about it -_- Fun but expensive hobbies - especially warhammer. Do you paint the little guys yourself?

hells yes. i practically paint all my friends models aswell. hehe. but all those tiny models are soooo cool.

I collect any key I find. House keys, car keys, etc. And if I move, I always keep the key to my previous residence. Last time I counted them, I had 93 keys.

Aw, neat!!! Do you display them out of curiosity? And how do you keep track which is which???

If someone replies here that they collect locks, I daresay that'd be a match made in heaven :3

Hmm... Well, sometimes I don't know what the keys are to... The mystery of it thrills me. XD
I do somtimes display them though, but most of the time I keep them all tucked inside a little tin box.
And if someone here collects locks, I must meet them!

windstone gargoyles
dragons
books

Cool! From the sound of it, I'm imagining your room resembles a wizard's library :D

lol well the gargoyles are around the house watchful guardians over the books lol
dragons are everywhere else

As a kid, I used to own a huge garbage bag full of toys as a kid: coloring books from various movies, still in good condition, toy soldiers, some action figures, a few games here or there. But the bulk of it was actually a TON of Hotwheels toys - both old, old old, and new. About maybe a good small portion of it were toys that my grandmother/grandpa had back when toy cars were still fresh concepts. So it was probably 60's, 70's, I wouldn't know.

I don't have it all anymore. It all went into the junkyard, I suppose. But the garage was like a poor man's K*B Toys for the longest time, and it was so awesome.

I bet people loved coming over to your house to play back in the day :D I had a bunch of MicroMachines myself (I miss that announcer guy!!!), but I think they may have suffered the same fate as your Hotwheels... what a shame!

Hehehe, well... sadly, no. xD I rarely had people over at my place that wasn't a relative from my grandfather's side, and the kids at my school usually picked on me for reasons I'll never understand. Once I got my first Nintendo, I eventually forgot all about the toys I collected, and it's been a single-player experience ever since. Which was kinda sad, but, eh-- such is life. xD lol.

Hm... aside from that, my mom still owns a lot of Beatles LPs and records from her heyday. We still got'im. We don't go out as much as we used to to collect more music, through casettes or CDs (We own six cases of classical music, musical or film soundtracks on casette tape, and we used to own a bunch of VHS stuff). Brahms, Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, it's all here.

In the wake of the mp3 though, we basically got them again online for free. xD

Aw, I'm sorry to hear that :( (Still... Beatles, classical music and Nintendo you say? Who needs anything more!?)

Record -> Casette -> CD -> mp3... I wonder what will be next? And how soon our current music collections will be rendered obsolete yet again, heh!

Hahaha, yeah. xD Man, this journal's got my memory going. I just remembered one more.

I used to attempt making my own radio station as a kid. :O I had about six tapes that were formerly read-along tapes that went with Sesame Street books, but I put tape over the top (or little pieces of paper in those hole slits) and recorded me being like, "Oh hai, welcome to the Aaron show!" and I'd record either what was on the station or various things around the house.

I only was able to salvage one, made in 1995, which featured nearly everyone in my family around me. :3 So awesome.

This is a good blog. ^^ I like it. Many great memories coming into my head now.

You know, that just jogged my own memories - I did that too! I remember trying to wield the old heavy microphone my Dad had plugged into the stereo, and trying to put on my best DJ voice for the recordings XD Man, it would be a blast to hear those tapes again. Wonder where they got off to...

I'm blown away by how big a response this has gotten ^^ Lots of good nostalgia here. Many thanks to you and everyone else who's shared!

Indeed! This is the first real blog any of my watchers have posted that actually responded back, or were worth posting into. xD Hardly anyone talks to me (this site or dA, lol! xD), so this was definitely relieving.

Furry art, music, books, hot wheels, adult toys, getting back into Legos, college degrees

How do you collect music? Do you steal musicians and tie them up in your basement?

Mp3 mostly, and CDs

You can't collect Mp3's xD It's like collecting...words.

I have over 120GB of Mp3s on my PC right now. Gonna be fun burning them to CDs

I'm still not counting it xD

Technically, it is a collection you know, one that will take me around a year to listen to from start to finish.

It's not tangible. That's just HAVING a shit-ton of stuff. You can HAVE a shit-ton of ideas or emotions or rage, but that doesn't mean you're collecting it.

Burning all that to disc would take around 200 blank CDs and tons of time.

That's not what I'm saying O.o

oh?

No, I'm saying that this stockpile of data isn't much of a collection xD

To some it won't be considered such, but it is my collection, same thing can be said for anything I collect

You're hopeless xP

you would say the same about my furry art collection as well

It's not tangible. That's just HAVING a shit-ton of stuff. You can HAVE a shit-ton of ideas or emotions or rage, but that doesn't mean you're collecting it.

Hahaha, one of these things is not like the other XD How many college degrees do you have in your 'collection'?

2 and working on my third as we speak (working on my bachelors degree in tech school right now). Getting them is extremely time consuming.

Tell me about it :) Hope they all come in handy once you're out and ready to start looking for a job!

Hope so as well.

So far I have an Associates Degree in Photography, and an Associates Degree in Computer Network Systems

DS styluses.....styli....whatever the plural of stylus is

Huh! Do the styluseses...es... they come in different styles? *knows very little about the DS*

They come in different colors and some are promotional

Knives, vintage stereos, computer components, and other old technology.

Neato! Are most still in working order (not counting the knives, of course :P)? Do you enjoy restoring old technology too?

Most of what I find are actually still working, but have a few minor issues. Like a Yamaha stereo I found at a thrift store for $15. The display lights were out, and the volume knob was sticking, but I've managed to fix most of those problems. This is stuff I do as a hobby.

Magic cards. Definitely. I also collect old things. It's a bit vague, but I LOVE old technology. Typewriters, gun parts, lanterns, mining equipment, copies of the Necronomicon, ect.

Also, crystals. I find them on the property, and I keep all the interesting ones.

Okay, you definitely sound like you'd have the coolest room yet of all the people here What kind of property do you live on that crystals show up!? That's awesome!!!

I live near a mine, so there's a TON of quartz around x3 Crystals just pop up after the rains wash away some of the dirt, and then I go down near the mine and pick them out of the side of the trail :3

This is also where I get some of the old mininq equipment and what not.

Wow, what a great place to explore - I'm way jealous!!!

It really is xD Or was, at least. We ended up getting rid of the one kind of vehicle that could navigate the trails, so now that they haven't been tended to, they're overgrown and a bit dangerous.

Hmmm...
Yiff arts)

Hear hear XD

Actually I used to collect pokemon or other trading cards. I still have a drawer full of the first cards to be sold in boosters and starters :3.

Be sure to hang onto 'em - they'll be worth something someday (may already be even!)!

They're not in the best condition really. I never had the chance to take good care of any after my first 200. I only had one book to keep them safe and I lost it in a move when I was young. We moved all the time cause we kept getting homes on church property so he could be the pastor. Kinda cheated a bit to get a home with our low income :P. I might take a gander at them again maybe, I might find some of value. But really I like having them, they have a lot of memories attached to them. Hopes mainly, dreams of a future with infinite horizons :3.

Cheers to that. If they hold fond memories for you, they're worth more than they could ever be on ebay! (At least, that's the optimistic-me talking )

Hehe, money has no value over the impossible dreams of childhood eh. Cheers to that indeed

stuffed animals, conbadges, books ( oh god, so many books ), wild dog themed things, and most of all, ART SUPPLIES |D i have like...boxes of glues, paints, markers, pencils, paper, how-to books, sketchbooks, etc. Every time I go to Boston and hit the art stores, I come home with bags of neat new things to try. Unfortunately, I'm not patient enough to learn new mediums, so the paint and whatnot generally lives in boxes and drawers forever.

Hey, it's the passion that counts right? And who knows, maybe if you leave them in those boxes and drawers long enough they'll form their own little art colony and start making wonderful art all on their own!

i collect miniture teddy bears.. i have at least 20 of them dotted about my room at my parent's place. i also collect paper. i should weigh my paper collection

Theodore Roosevelt would be proud When you say you collect paper, I assume you plan on drawing on it all eventually? Or is it to be left in its pristine white form for future generations to admire its... paperiness? :3

i plan on drawing on it eventually or writing on it (i have a lot of lined paper as well), though who knows? i like paper... oh i also collect CDs. i have too many

I don't really have any dfined "collection" sadly.... well, I have a random lots of bits and such, such as one of the first Mk2 british helmets from the first production runs from the forties, recently got an hold of a few old canadians coins when shuffling through my tips at work(specifically, canadian 1944-45 5 cent coins, where the beavear was replaced by a victory V, and a 1967 commemorative coin for Canada's 100th birthday).

The closest things I could be said to "collect" are european comics and video games otherwise <.<;

Pretty cool! If you ever decide to expand on your helmet collection-of-one, let me know ;)

Art material.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck it's too easy to do. I have sets of paint I have not even opened.

Currently I have about 5 or 6 tool boxes full, not counting paper and canvases.

Haha, I hear that! At least we'll be prepared for when we have copious quantities of free time to spend arting for ourselves! Which is bound to happen eventually... right? ^^;

I have collected a few things in my time - but all are gone now.

V.

Aw :( Hopefully nothing that's missed too terribly!

I have learned in life LN, that collecting usually leads to a lot of junk lying around. If it brings you pleasure that's still all right, as it's a real treasure hunt (which is the fun part) - so - nothing missing that I miss too greatly...

V.

Comic Books, oh sweet dear gods, and my list is depressingly growing smaller and smaller as to what is worth it to continue collecting....oooh and certain rpg book sets, like Deadlands, (original, not the craptacular d20 version)

Oh, it's so easy to get sucked into RPG books ^^ Get a chance to use them with any RPG buddies often?

*sighs* unfortunately not, the old crew has drifted apart by distance, jobs, and family responsibilities. And the area I live in has become a gamer wasteland, populated by only Magic-maniacs, Yu-gi-oh-yo-yos, and Pokemon cockfights...(okay, yeah, that last one was fail...)

Yeah, I can sympathize :/ Guess that's just what happens with old friends when we get to be our age. Hope you're able to stay in touch with everybody, at least!

(I thought Yu-gi-oh-yo-yos was really clever :3)

Well I collect and operate model trains (O scale) and anything boy scout related. I know it sounds nerdy but I'm really not :-P and im only 15 but if you would look at me would probably think I was a teenage jock or normal kid :-3

Very nice! Hey, it might be worth your while to check around your region and see if there are any local scale-model clubs; a lot of the old pros would be thrilled to have an opportunity to pass along their knowledge and experience to the next generation of enthusiasts! At least, I know the members in our local New Hampshire chapter would. Plus you may even get a few free models out of it ;)

Foreign money.

Domestic money. :B

Bits of trash and plastic crap I find on the ground.

Oh, that's a good one - I always try to grab a few coins from wherever I've been too! What all countries do you have represented so far in your foreign money collection?

(I'd try to collect domestic money too, but I keep spending it >_<)

You know, I need to actually catalog them, because I don't know. I'm not a very good collector. :B

I do know that I have Euros, as well as classic money from places like... fff, I dunno, Canada, UK, Netherlands, Germany, Italy... More far-flung places like St. Lucia, Comoros, China, Japan... I've got some paper money as well, some of it really old, WWII era. My domestic money collection includes a filled state quarters map, territories included. :D

Of course, I've never been to any of these places. :B But I definitely need to sort it all out.

Sounds like as good an excuse as any to go to these places! Have you started collecting the national park quarters too?

Yes, I've got the first three. :D

True, and I have really wanted to join one, but the closest one I know of is two hours away and I was thinking of just starting one here locally. I have already gotten my little "cuzzin" into model trains (he's 8) and it really seems he will stay with it. He only problem is he is a scale smaller than me (I'm O scale and he is HO) I only advised him to go with that scale because 1. Is cheaper than my scale buy more than half 2. His granddad has an attic full of HO scale trains, that is the main reason 3. If he breaks something, it's a cheap fix :-P

You're in NE Mississippi, right? According to this website, it looks like this group meets monthly at Tupelo MS which may not be too far for you!

http://mississippimodelers.tripod.com/

(Also, you must be the youngest 21-year-old I've met, according to your page :P)

Good call with the HO scale - if he likes it and stays interested, he can always graduate up later!

No, that's only 45 min! What is the name?!? And what scales do they do?

It's all there on their website :

http://mississippimodelers.tripod.com/

EVERYTHING :V

I mean.. video games and related chotchkies, I guess.

Merchandise related to the old Nintendo/Sega standbys, or more recent stuff? I hoarded a fair amount of Mario paraphernalia myself back in the day ^^

Anything >_>

boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooks =3

Book stores are sooo addicting >_< Going to be able to read them all eventually, you think?

maybe, i have a kindle now too so it's cheaper and easier to get books ;w;

I collect slide rules. Most of them have actually been donations from older gentleman who are happy to see them go from a dusty drawer to a loving home.

I have also been known to collect hobbies. I have far to many.

Aw, neat!!! I love to look at/play with slide rules, but I don't know it ever would have occurred to me that they could be accumulated XD That's got to be the most unique collectible I've heard of yet! How in the world did you get started collecting slide rules, and what turned you on to them in the first place?

And... dare I ask how many you have?

*humbled* I'm glad to be able to share the excitement. I honestly don't remember what exactly possessed me to get my first one, but I picked it up on ebay to satisfy a passing curiosity. I think it has to do with my natural inclination towards geeky things. It turns out it wasn't so passing. =P I have at the moment seven slide rules in various shapes and sizes, and actually plan on meeting with a gentleman tomorrow to pick up four more. My other favorite besides the large one in the picture is a 1967 Soviet pocket watch calculator (not mine btw, just the same model).

Since starting collecting I have learned a lot about the history of manual computing aids, and the theory that goes into making and using them. I think the usefulness of many concepts has been lost on the graphing calculator generation. As an engineering student I wouldn't do without my digital calculator on a daily basis, but as a teaching aid, slide rules provide an immense insight into things like logarithms. I hope to grow my collection to the point where I can go into the local high school while they are learning logarithmss and give a presentation with enough for everyone to play with one.

Cheers,

-M

Oh my... I collect a lot.

Pictures of beautiful things, pens and mechanical pencils, things with stars on them, blankets, hoodies, oWoD role playing books, air freshener scents, recipes and cookbooks, textbooks, and trivia.... to name some things.

lol I tend to collect a lot of stuff but since most of it's useful I use it and then there's a reason to collect more. lol XD

You've got one leg up on a lot of us, then, collecting useful stuff! I think my helmets would only come in handy if there was an earthquake or artillery shelling or summin'. And even then, probably what would be falling on me would be more helmets XD

(I miss oWoD... except for the botching part. I always botched horribly ;_;)

Botching made it FUN! But that depends on the personality of your ST. For me you had a pretty good shot of botching awesomely as you did botching horribly. (Sometimes a botch would result in an incredibly awkward but extremely impressive success. lol )

I collect a LOT of furry comics. I started buying them back in 1991. I don't really hold on to them for value sake, and while I try to keep them in good condition. I have no problem reading them, or letting others. I think I just like the media, and they tend to remind me of how I first got interested in the fandom to begin with...waaay back when it was mostly a comic book/cartoon/book subculture. :) My favorite are Doujin and fanzines in the mid 90s. I'm a sucker for xerox paper, independent works, with the brightly colored red,blue,goldenrod print out covers. ;) Last I checked I've for a few hundred total.

Also, as others have mentioned. Art Supplies. I'm not sure if I 'collect' them, so much as hoard and store in boxes. One must always prepare for the days after the zombie apocalypse. I mean, when the undead start feasting on the living, most of the Micheal's and major art depo's are going to get scooped right up by artist militias..

D: *wants to join an artist militia now*

Wow, that's really something :D The collection would be so neat to flip through, to see how things changed over the years as things furry became more accessible. I get glimpses into the art the fandom was founded on here with artists like  steamfox and  saara (off the top of my head), but I've never really seen the original printed stuff before! In terms of subjects and style, what would you say have evolved the most, and how?