Do you collect anything ?

Dust & books - they go together. Moorcroft pottery, only one design, from 20s or 30s but it’s quite expensive so don’t buy it often. Pottery bowls from holidays but they are useful for nibbles when we have people round (sigh). I also have a shelf in the attic for odds and ends bought to support local people in poor countries but I’ve come to the conclusion that most of it was made in China, bought an intricately carved turtle in Cuba only to see its twin Corfu 6 months later.

I collect small bits from places I've been, shells, pebbles, sea glass, tickets and so on. They go in a clear glass bowl, I keep it next to the reading chair in the dining room and often get lost in remembering.

Some of my best bits are Silver Dollar shells collected at different times from Florida, a ticket to The Museum of Wearable Art in NZ and some small shells from the Caribbean, wish I could revisit some of those places but so grateful to have the memories.

I used to buy tea towels from places we would visit, but nowadays they’re too expensive and I really don’t need any more. However ..... owls! Irresistible!

Dust!

Yes I'm a collector! My biggest is postcards, mostly horses, and some are from the early 1900s by Tuck. I also have phone cards which were popular before mobiles. China horses and Whimsies. Childrens books by Primrose Cumming. I'm trying to stop now as when helping my Mum downsize after 60 years, the stuff was overwhelming. I don't want to leave my children with such a mountainous task!

I love vintage and art deco china. I also have an interesting collection of mugs. Love quirky things of all sorts and have doves and hearts hanging in the corner of my narrow boat and in the cratch. Oh and the crystals hanging with the doves and hearts...hahaha

My favourite

Wooden stacking Russian Dolls.
I think I have about 18 of all sizes. I always wanted one as a child but was an adult before I got one. Then it sort of mushroomed ?

I collect fridge magnets from foreign countries we've visited. It's a manageable collection.

I also appear to have a rather large collection of craft supplies...

Hedgehog ornaments - I have well over 300!

There’s no hope for me, I collect plants. As I’ve decluttered the house, I’ve just added more outside.

When we downsized I sold or donated lots of ornaments books etc as didn't want to clutter up the new home. Unfortunately daughter did the same and now donates to me to sell, donate or bin stuff she's finished with, text books, DGDs clothes etc.

I have a collection of Coalport and Royal Doulton figurines, Gozo and Mdina glass, 20's & 30's coloured glasswear. 10 000 books and an awful lot of dust!

I am not counting books, as they are necessities and I seem to have a lot of "needs" of them. So, not really, although all my cupboards and boxes would say something different. Fabric, sewing bits and bobs, paint (oils and acrylics) canvasses. Not really collectibles but they do seem to be amassed and prove irresistible when spied when out and about.

Noritake China. I have two dressers full of it which I now want to dispose of, lovely as it is. Not really sure how to go about selling it as to fragile to post via eBay. Perhaps I’ll leave it to my AC to sort out when I pop my clogs ?

I am against 'stuff' in principle - but that needs qualifying. I like to own things that are functional and also attractive. And, I like to have some nice objects that are decorative or remind me of something, especially if I bought them from the artist that made them or they were chosed by one of my children. Even books, even the ones I love, when I have read them, I give them away. I cannot see the point in a book sitting on a shelf when it could be in active use by someone else. Besides, I can use the shelf space for other things that have current benefit.

I do love old teasets. but now I have several I wouldn't buy any more. I have a huge collection of magazines and cuttings, I did have a cull a while back still have a lot, British and American Vogue( the latter are as thick as encyclopedias ) and my special weakness, home decor mags. I tell my children that some of them might be collectable one day, so they can sell them . Well, they might !

Bathsheba that made me laugh, dusting destroys my own little ecosystem?

I collect eggs from all the places I visit plus a lot picked up in charity shops and auctions. China, glass, wood, stone or metal. They make a pretty display on egg racks and don’t take up too much room. Shame that I can’t remember where some of them are from. I always meant to label them, but never got round to it.

Urmstongran

Compliments.
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Oh, I like this one...a very worthwhile endeavour!

Bathsheba.... ?....
My first thought!

I used to collect bookmarks the leather ones. Everytime I went on holiday or somewhere I used to buy them and family used to bring me them back from holiday. I stopped after seeing some in a charity shop where I helped out before lockdown that someone had given away. I have a shoebox full sat in the cupboard.

I collect old Ladybird books - pre 1980 and dating back to the 1940's - have been collecting them for around 10 years now.

Wine bottles, which once were full

I dread recycling Thursday, its like an allotment of greenhouses smashing when they empty the bins ?

I do love coloured glass, and now mum's old china cabinet is bursting.
Most of it came from charity shops, so nothing of value, except to me.
Who will want it? No one I suspect.