AquaVita

I collect stamps.







Yes really.




Please god....kill me now.

christ-on-a-stick

AquaVita - like, COOL stamps or just any old stamp?

Philately is nifty... I would say that falls under the category of "special value" and not something you can easily replace anytime.

You're going to have to try harder than that!!!

beth

I collect stickers. I buy makeup once a week. I have about four grocery sacks full of it. Most I don't even wear, but I always have the right color. I buy earrings(both real and costume) and lots of them. I have over two hundred pair. Only wear few of them, but I always have a pair to match an out fit. I also collect purses. I have over thirty purses.

Cofffee

I collect old computer equipment, but I don't really go looking for it, I just have trouble letting go of my computer systems.

I have a Vax Station II, a few dumb terminals, my Vic 20 and 64, and of course, my Amiga 500 as well as a whole range of various x86 PCs. I also have old monitors and old telephone equipment.

I also collect gross things like my old teeth and a fingernail that fell off once because I pinched it (Luckily a new one grew back in). Fortunately I don't have too many of these things.

I am buried in a sea of papers stashed away in boxes, old notes, diagrams, school assignments, letters, I still have just about everything I have ever done or made.

I have a few coins and bills in good condition as Canadian money changes it's look every decade or so, so I try to save a bit so I can remember what it used to look like. Mmm $1 and $2 bills.

christ-on-a-stick

blondegoddess, Me too, though not to the extreme of my lipstick fetish. I often don't even wear much makeup, but I have everything I need for whatever look I desire when I do (I love doing other people's makeup too, learned professional makeup artistry a while back, and have a huge professional makeup artists' case full of anything and everything).

lisarea

If I ever become an old person, I am going to be the worst one ever.

I do the lip balm thing. I have a few lipsticks, which I buy from time to time as some kind of experiment in self-improvement. ("I am going to start wearing lipstick.") But I never do. So, it's all just plain little tubes and jars of plain utilitarian lip balm. Drug store brands, mostly. I was once bored at work and was able to construct a pyramid of over 20 lip balms I just had in my pockets and my desk. Every room in my house has at least a couple of lip balms, as do the pockets of probably all of my outerwear.

The Communist Manifesto. I was looking for a particular book this weekend, and noticed that I have a lot of copies of The Communist Manifesto, so I went back and started counting. I have a pile of over thirty of them now, but I found what I was looking for, so I stopped. I have no idea how that happened. I'm not 100% sure, though, if I actually bought all those, or if it's some kind of a joke someone was playing on me.

Paper. I'm afraid of running out of paper. I make little notebooks out of used computer paper by stapling it together so I can use the other sides later. I also keep all of those real estate agent notepads I get, I have multiple reams of different kinds of computer paper, onion skin, stationery, and piles of notebooks of various types, etc. Guess what, though? I don't really use paper. I almost never print anything off (my used computer paper comes from workplaces), I use my PDA for lists, and I have a whiteboard and a chalkboard in the kitchen. So I maybe use a sheet or two of paper a week. But I continue to accumulate it.

Telephones. Mostly I just like the older AT&T phones--the 500 model and earlier, but I have probably 50 or so already, and still, I buys 'em when I sees 'em. In this room alone, I have three 500 models on top of my bookshelf, a pink Princess on the desk, and one cheapass vtech thing for the Caller ID. That's just the ones that are currently hooked up. I have at least six more under my table--various wall models and Trimlines and things.

IBM Model M keyboards. Next to the pile of phones is a pile of IBM Model M keyboards. There is also a box of them in the garage. I sometimes give these away to people, but inexplicably, that never causes me to have any fewer of them.

Mistinted paint. This started as a clever idea to save money and turned into a requirement for additional storage space. I'm going to guess I have at least 200 gallons of various colors of paint in my basement. I do sometimes repaint rooms with it, but not nearly at the rate that I buy it.

Nail polish! Best part: I have been biting my fingernails since I was five, so my approximately one hundred bottles of nail polish are just for my toenails. Second best part: I only ever use maybe five of them, all roughly the same color.

I also have too many:

Emergency candles
Flashlights
Bottle openers
Screwdrivers
Balls of yarn
Burlap and cotton rice bags
Bolts of fabric, and trim, and a tackle box full of buttons--yes, full

mecca777

Comic books.
Cover versions of "Jolene" by Dolly Parton.
Purple guitar picks.

I maintain that I'm not the collector of the family. My little brother collects highly expensive limited-edition Japanese toys; and he has a collection of copies of "Psyence Fiction" by UNKLE in alternate formats, editions and imports that blows the mind.

Gurdur

I personally collect:

books (first editions, and also books just for fun reading)

(to a previous poster: I have all the Terry Pratchett books, all the hardcovers, though I would die for a first copy of his first book)

teaspoons (yes, I know this sounds odd, but I'm not disclosing where the teaspoons come from, though if you read back in this thread you can make an educated guess)

plants

good artistic glass objects

mugs with interesting logos

christ-on-a-stick

Gurdur...... Stop Thief!!!!!!

I forgot about shot glasses. Yes, I know, tacky to the extreme... but I pick one up from wherever I roam. And they come in handy!!!

Gurdur

*blush*