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It used to be match boxes, and then it was piggies. But now it is book mark's of places I visited, and I also have a very soft spot for antique garden tools.

Wine bottles for wine making, jars for preserves and movies, I'm a sucker for a good film!

As a kid I collected:

Whimsies
Matchboxes
Bookmarks

sold all of them and started collecting again in my teens:

Prinknash pottery - had over 500 pieces, and one day my shelves collapsed! lost over 450 pieces in less than a minute, so sold the rest!

In my 30s started collecting:

Guinness memorabilia
Polar Bears - not real ones!
VW Camper  - models and pictures
Thunderbirds stuff
Mr Potato Heads!!

Now in my 40s I want to start collecting:

Face Pots - ie. little pots for beetroot etc. in the shapes of the fruit
Kitchenalia enamelware

That'll probably do for now! :o

Old and new £5, £10, £20, £50 notes ;D ;D ;D

The other collection (obsession)  I have is knitting/crocheting yarn.

valmarg

Coloured glass, especially blue glass.

Don't really collect but I can't part with my hardback books so suppose that is a collection. Late husband collected JUNK wouldn't throw out anything ;D

I have hundreds - nay thousands! - of books, CDs, DVDs, videos (gradually being replaced with DVDs), lots of pretty china and crystal, (including some of that beautiful red Murano glass).  I don't really collect them: I've just bought stuff over the years when I could afford it and liked it. To be honest it's the books that matter most. Old friends full of memories and associations.

mmm, when you put it like that, Grawc, I must collect books, I have some I read over and over..plus some that were bought for me..so, books  ;D
oh, and I have pitures and cards I received when we were married, when we had the children, pictures and things they made me, now started on my grandchildren's masterpieces, can't throw them out, and letters and cards from Ray..wow, I'm a hoarder  ;D

I'm a real bibliophile too.  :)

I used to collect blue and white china, and horses (figures of them, not the real thing, sadly).  Then I had a bit of a clearout, and now I try to collect empty spaces on my shelves and surfaces.  Unfortunately I seem to be not as good at that as I was at filling the spaces.  :)

I too collect books especially cookery and gardening books!

I also collect jam jars (you never know when they come in handy!) and seeds (especially heritage beans and peas)

barkingdog

Books, seeds and Toy Soldiers... tried to collect money but didn't manage it!
::)

'cos you keep spending it on books, seds and toy soldiers, saddad  ;D

I'll admit to books (about 4,000) and seeds (er, quite a few...) too, also would collect comtemporary ceramics if I could afford to, make do with one 'Own Art' purchase a year......

I collect old 50's, 60's and  70's stuff (crockery, furniture, kitchenware, cruet sets, old jars and containers). My flat is a homage to the 60's and always has been.

Also old bikes, old cameras, old watches, old gardening books, singles and LP's.

I also collect grey hairs, I have thousands now.

I only collect empty beer bottles for my new home brew hobbie  ;)

used to collect American Comics. I've got DC comics back to 1959, and Marvel Comics back to 1961. Maybe Daredevil No 1 is the most valuable, but i've never checked

I guess the latest thing that I collect is garden birds, if I see a different species I couldnt be more thrilled.

Loads and loads of knitting patterns
Loads and loads of wool
Knitting needles
Hundreds of packets of seeds
China/porcelaine - loads of pieces of china, ornaments,
Secondhand books - hundreds
Loads of Iris plants
Loads of plants in general
Old British comedy DVD's - Carry Ons, Norman Wisdom, On the Buses, Dad's army etc.
Buttons - hundreds of buttons
And other assorted items of rubbish LOL

Quote from: Just Vegging Out on March 23, 2008, 17:21:43
Loads and loads of knitting patterns
Loads and loads of wool
Knitting needles
Hundreds of packets of seeds

Should really get together JVO to perhaps do a bit of a swap.  Patterns,  many, many yarns, needles, crochet hooks.

Seeds - where do I begin???

valmarg

wonder if we could have a knitting pattern swap hahahahaha