Do you collect anything ?

Now completed sets of -
Observer books
Ladybird books
Wide Range Readers
Brooke Bond tea card albums.

All thanks to my Mum, who kept my originals and prompted me to collect the rest!

Oppps sorry about the spelling.

It does Bathsh3ba.
I v`e got some in every room and even on my lampshades at the moment.

Compliments.
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Apart from books (some of our shelves are double-stacked and I have so many waiting to go to the charity shop), no, except for knitting yarn. Despite a major stash I still never seem to have quite enough of the right colour - I have another delivery due today... and that’s in addition to 2 last week ?. (Not very big ones though.)

I collect sea glass too - I don’t have much, but if i’m ever on a beach, I just HAVE to look for it. I love it - and it doesn’t take up much room. As a child I collected stamps and this hobby lasted for years and I would never part with my stamp collection. I also collect pretty china cups and saucers and display them on an off-white painted Welsh dresser, but I feel I have enough now and it’s looking overcrowded as I also display photos of the GC on there so a bit of an edit is well overdue.

Bathsheba. That was exactly my thought when reading the post.?

I don't collect anything as I can't stand clutter.

Still manage to collect dust though!

I used to collect chickens and have loads of them.
So I've switched to flamingoes now.
(ornaments, jewellery, etc.)

Isn't it funny how many of us love the Chalet School books? I thought they were incredibly exotic when I was younger. Downtoearth The Chalet School in Exile is my favourite too. I loved the description of Tiernsee and the food!

I collect knitting yarn, I think it's more of a fetish.

Sea glass which I have in a large glass vase.

i also loved the chalet school books and still have many nowadays, some are collectables, i lost many when i divorced, at that time there were only a few i did not have

I also used to love the Chalet School books. I think mum got rid of them all when I got married and left home.

Bathsheba I have the same collection as you

Grandmabatty
I loved the chalet school, and longed to be able to go to a similar school.
The chalet school in Exile was my all time favourite I think number it was 14, I read it so many times, wish I had kept my collection.

I do not so much collect books as they are drawn to me, as by a magnetic force. Most of them are archaeological books, although I buy fewer now as so much is online. The rest are history or anything that interests me, but very few novels.

The closest I have to a collection is 7 pieces of Doulton Slater wear, decorative pottery with what looks like a moulded lace pattern on the outside. My mother had a hot water jug, and it fascinated me from childhood. I inherited it when she died and over the last 10 years, by other inheritance, gifts and 2 purchases, I now have 7 pieces and I have no intention of adding further to this collection.

When I was first married I started to buy ceramic elephants. Well it grew arms and legs and for decades people would buy me elephant related presents. I got rid of loads when I downsized and have warned the family that I don't want any more. The other collection is Chalet School books. I don't have them all and I'm trying to amass the whole set, the older the copy ,the better.

keyrings - i always buy them from wherever i am visiting, and sometimes other people buy them for me from where they are holidaying. i have them from all over, my most precious being from new zealand

Does dust qualify?

Tanith I too like to have small reminders of places we’ve been to. Nothing of value really, a piece of rock from Yosemite, a small bowl made of iridescent fish scales from Barbados, a thanka from Kashmir, a pebble necklace I bought in a farmers market in Northport, Michigan.

I used to collect miniature model cats. When I moved to this flat, I only brought three with me, including one I begged from a neighbour when I was seven.

I also collect books and memorabilia about Benjamin Britten, the result of a lifelong obsession with his music. I brought all of those with me when I moved. Quite a lot!

Pebbles, I have a one from most holidays I’ve been on. I always pick one up on my travels some I remember where I got them others not. There is a place in my garden where they are and a few precious ones that DH gave me on a shelf indoors. They are valueless but very precious to me.
I do wonder if I ever move into a flat how I would choose which ones to take ?

I collect books - books on or by Pepys and also now T E Lawrence. I also have a large collection of books on Arctic Exploration, now spreading into Himalayan mountain climbing. Finally, I a trying to collect a complete set of the Left Book Club books published in the 30s. I’m up to about 200 but the final 50 are eluding me. I once met a woman who said she didn’t collect anything but then talked about having 100 pairs of shoes.

I have a collection of paperweights and some Royal Doulton white figurines bought for special occasions.
I stopped collecting after I had to sort Mum’s house out, but I enjoy the ones I have.

I used to collect china, in particular coffee cans, I have some really pretty ones. When I moved to France all my china was boxed up and has remained so. I decided it was time to stop collecting as I can't imagine my family will want my collection when I die. One less job keeping it all clean. I have resisted temptation when visiting all the local brocantes.