Do you/ have you collected anything ?

I don't collect things as much as fail to get rid of stuff.

Now, where are those Ladybird books?

Hi there.
I dont tbh... My Mum had so much stuff and I wont be following in her footsteps...although I do have quite a bit of fabric in My blanket box

I haven't collected anything in particular since i was a massively devout Beatles fan back in the early 60s. I still have a box file with programmes from some of the concerts I went to (including their annual Christmas shows), plus cuttings from NME and Melody Maker with any Beatles news. I also still have numbers 1-24 of Beatles Monthly magazines. When I was about 14, you couldn't see my bedroom wallpaper for Beatles pics.

I started collecting Pocket Dragons, but stopped when the creator retired. Then it was Me to You bears, but have stopped now as I have no room.

I collect Chokin ware;https://www.google.com/search?source=univ&tbm=isch&q=japanese+chokin+ware&fir=eH1U2GwdQ7MCCM%252CXnyMmYHebT4_BM%252C_%253Bo_NTFJNrQhQgmM%252CO4ejpZAOakljZM%252C_%253BzQ1hEsOLrPLCZM%252CUqr_96QH2QXRXM%252C_%253BLl4TZEZfhO_-iM%252CDLVN4tyGubAlYM%252C_%253BAAuHBaB98yLVUM%252CrYgR4CNbeMfm9M%252C_%253BXEluBpTYPwKYlM%252CdJNs6PAHxGUtGM%252C_%253Bf4jzoSg5m3o-aM%252C5WKNi1n_IpoSjM%252C_%253ByccNhNv3fudgUM%252CLkKcOja2b7vqdM%252C_%253BdBRnAgHLqs65EM%252CjGSe4BV6wfnHBM%252C_%253B5nPIEV_o99WHXM%252CZpRfx0wZtXvBMM%252C_%253BzeDxvjW8RixOzM%252C0rx4RfNORGcc0M%252C_%253BYsGy1Ip2m3DAEM%252CNisLdT9xve--wM%252C_%253BR13haPFoDBFaTM%252CbbqNswvaZjaM5M%252C_%253B-mKRwpXACKT3xM%252CO4ejpZAOakljZM%252C_%253BGUhV8dDz1e9IpM%252CgeYibpEBA44wBM%252C_&usg=AI4_-kRiEgt36iIjgLvTqlkozne8XIG1yw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjEhNGJsOH3AhWQQcAKHeoYBS0QjJkEegQIAhAC
I get all my pieces from flea markets and car boot sales, and I've never paid more than £10, and usually a lot less. I also collect Lesley Ann Ivory cat paintings, mostly on plates.

I collected Noritake China and still have far too much but where to get rid of it? A lot of pieces are worth a lot of money!

JdotJ

I collect pre 1980 Ladybird Books and have done for around 15 years. I'm at the stage now where the ones I don't have are extremely valuable and very hard to find.
I'm still looking though

Well, I never knew they were valuable! I'm off to investigate.
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I have collected newspaper editions of the Royal family marriages. Princess Anne to Prince Harry so far. I have quite a few jugs too. I love them!

I guess I collect shoes, but only because I have very awkward bunions which have changed shape and made so many pairs unwearable. I keep them 'just in case' although I can't imagine ever accepting surgery for the bunions and anyway, unlikely to happen on the NHS these days... I should add, I'm size 43 so finding nice shoes isn't easy in the first place....

I collect pre 1980 Ladybird Books and have done for around 15 years. I'm at the stage now where the ones I don't have are extremely valuable and very hard to find.
I'm still looking though

I've collected all sorts of things over the years - china, pottery animals etc and books galore. I'm keen to have a good sort out but the people who bought some of them for me for birthdays etc might be a bit upset; so here they remain!!!

For years I collected Enchantica Dragons when they looked like dragons not all ‘blingy’ as dragons seem to be now! Have some very rare pieces that I love! They vie for space with my hundreds of books, fiction & no fiction which I do re read!

I collect owls, all different styles and materials. Try and bring one back every time we go on holiday. Keep them on a couple of high shelves but now running out of space. No additions since covid curtailed our travels.

I had a fine collection of wrapped sugar bags/cubes. They were souvenirs of travels as would have info on the place on this. 50 plus yrs on and dumped in recent declutter. I had to dispose of my mother's large jar of same on her death. Her motivation probably went back to wartime shortages and I think there was a shortage of sugar in the 1970's?

I collect ornamental frogs and have done for over 50 years
I used to have around 500 but have reduced the collection to around 200. One of them came from The Kremlin.
Some have been made for me or bought by someone special.

Years ago I was given a couple of Ginger Jars, then somehow people thought I collected them. I ended up with over 20 and I didn’t buy one of them. In had an aunt who lived in Hong Kong and she sent me two very old Chinese ones. My Mum kept buying me them from everywhere she went. It wasn’t until she died that I could bear to cull the collection, I only now have 5 special ones that are stored away.

Anybody remember Pendelfin, I remember my Auntie used to collect it. Youngsters are all minimilist now they don't bother with ornaments.

I used to collect matchboxes when I was a child/teenager. I have hundreds of them but they have never been displayed, just stuffed in boxes in the attic (possible fire hazard? )

We also used to collect pebbles, shells and sea glass from various holiday destinations. My daughter-in-law made some lovely pendants and earrings from the sea glass we collected from the beach at Sidney on Vancouver Island where my sister-in-law lived until three years ago. I have a set and so do my sister-in-law and her daughter, it reminds us of lovely times together in Canada. We also have a few pieces of Lladro and we have a lot of postcards from various holidays over the years.

For some reason, I didn't inherit the 'collector gene' from both my parents, but my DD did.

However, my eyes lit up at the mention of 'heart-shaped' pebbles!

I too have a basket of small heart-shaped glacial rocks, and yes, it took about 30 years also to find them all.

Heart-shaped are not so easy to find, that's for sure.

That is the extent of my collection

biglouis I am green with envy. ? I adore antique jewellery!
When the 1970s setting my engagement ring eventually became unrepairable, I had it remodelled in an Art Deco style.
I burst into tears when I saw the end result. The jeweller was quite bemused.

I trawl ebay and the internet, looking at Edwardian rings, but I could never afford them!

Oh, you're a dark horse!
Are you still enthralled with your collections?

I was probably born to collect!

As a child I collected a variety of things: flashy jewellery with big bright stones, little china whimsy figures and dolls house furniture.

As a young woman in the 1960s I became interested in antiques in a serious way and began to collect Victorian jewellery, particularly earrings. As a librarian I had access to all the latest books on the subject!

I began dealing in the late 1970s when my grandmother left me the entire contents of her house. She was a horder par excellence and had travelled very widely so her house was stuffed with anglo Indian furniture and ornaments. I stood at local antiques fairs in the area.

Dealing and collecting went onto the back burner during the 1980s/90s when I returned to education and did a series of degrees. I began dealing again as a side hustle in the late 1990s when I was working in the USA and discovered Ebay shops. I retired from the university in 2004 and becamse full time self employed.

I specialise in a very niche area of antiques and have written and published quite widely on this subject. Items from my shops have appeared in many well known films and TV series such as Downton Abby, Victoria and Poldark.

One of "my ladies" at work (well, her 96 year old mum, actually, but I counted them both as mine) was always sending me to the wool shop here to buy 2 yards of knicker elastic

MissAdventure

I collected animal ornaments when I was a child, and had almost all of the 'Whimsies'.

It sounds like an unpleasant condition now.

"I've got the whimsies"
"You can buy cream to put on that".

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