What do you collect?

The Waterford post made me think of my ornaments. I collect Hallmark Christmas ornaments.

I have a couple GFs that we have exchanged ornaments for all the years we have been friends. I have special ones I buy every year to signify different events that have taken place in the family. DS for example, has a crisp red two wheel bicycle ornament the year he ditched his training wheels. When the time comes, I will pass them down to the children to have on their own trees.

The pics below are part of DD's collection. These are the completed series of moving wind up music boxes. They have small jewely drawers in the front, and each plays a different tune.

Every year I hand write a small note to DD expressing my love for her. It gets placed in the drawer. The individual ornament pic has a tiny piece of jewelry that was given to me as a baby shower gift for DD. A beautiful 24K gold heart/cross infant size necklace. It's in the drawer with the note for that year. It's DD's favorite:).

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I have two collections, books and female action figures. My name came from the elusive figure below that I have not been able to find at an affordable price in good condition. Books, I just love em and have a whole wall full of apple crates loaded with them. The action figures are mostly in storage, but there are about 400 of them-all women!.

I still have mine from sixth grade. The thermos, while not original, is just llike the one that came with it.
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Banana stickers! How did I ever get started on this? I don't know, but I have a really cool little assortment.
Barb

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Originally Posted by bacarver

Banana stickers! How did I ever get started on this? I don't know, but I have a really cool little assortment.
Barb

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OMG -- my dad and step-mom used to have a HUGE collection of banana stickers all over their kitchen phone when we were growing up. Everything else in the home (they were both architects) was "perfect" and "tidy", so the stickers were sort of their little area of rebellion and cutting loose. :D

Last time I was at my step-sister's house, she'd started the same thing on her kitchen phone. I don't eat a lot of bananas, but started putting all my organic apple stickers on my terminal display at work, just to funkify it up a bit. I don't know what my co-workers think. No one has commented. :D

My small blades. The one on the bottom is a beauty, mammoth ivory and damascus steel, a birthday present.

Not sharp, just a training sword for Iaido. Fear the Kitty!!

Wildhawk- You gave me the idea to start another collection, much to DH's disgust. I bought a patch from the state park we camped at this weekend. Now I want to go back to the others we have been to in the past couple years and get patches. DH said I should sew them on a camping duffle, not a bad idea since I have been looking for a nicer bag for camping. :)

I collect 1930's-1950's stuff. I have a collection of chrome appliances (toasters, blenders, coffeemakers), painted mixers, blenders, 3 green/cream porcelain stoves, dishes, advertising, cupboards, and the real deal jadite glass-shakers, canisters, bowls, and dishes. My kitchen and dining room runneth over. My dining room table is a chrome and yellow crushed ice pattern of formica and vinyl. OH, and can't forget the plaster fruit collection too. I want to achieve the ultimate of tackiness in my kitchen and diningroom...and I love everything in it.
I have decorated my bedroom in sorta the paris/french feel. I got lots of those 50's porcelain pink spaghetti poodles, and they all wear the cat eye glasses or have rhinestones on their collars. I have the cheap prints of ladies that look like they came from paris, with the parisols, lovely hats, gloves..

Longaberger baskets. I have about 300, in a 1,000 sq foot house. I might be selling some soon!

Oops, I forgot, I do have a collection! Refrigerator magnets from all the places we travel to. Inexpensive and easy to display. And no dusting required! :D

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Originally Posted by bacarver

Banana stickers! How did I ever get started on this? I don't know, but I have a really cool little assortment.
Barb

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Oh geez...
DH will stick them on ANYTHING other than the garbage! It's hard enough trying to get him to take them off at all and not throw them in the compost (plastic, non-biodegradable) but then they wind up on the range hood... the compost bin (where they will eventually wind up clogging the dishwasher drain)... the countertop... the refrigerator...

Stickers ALONE are half the reason I've been trying not to buy non-local produce. Unfortunately that's much tougher (aka nearly impossible) in Florida :mad:.


.... Zen, that's a FANTASTIC lunchbox! I love that!

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Not sharp, just a training sword for Iaido. Fear the Kitty!!

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I'll have to remember take a pic of mine, I have a WWII Japanese NCO's samurai sword...very sharp and very lethal looking. My Great Uncle was a Catholic chaplain in the South Pacific during the war, he brought it back when he came home and gave it to my dad.

Dreamsicles, although it has kind of morphed into angels in general.
My sisters and I exchange Christmas ornaments for the past several years. I enjoy that because every year when its time to put the tree up, I have ornaments that I have forgotten about.

Last, nail polish. I do my own nails, and I love funky colors.