Social Science Do you collect things?

[BarneyBent]

I have a beer wall, with empties of beers I have tried and liked. Whenever I drink a new beer which I particularly like, I always try to keep the bottle, even if it's at a pub/restaurant (when she's there, the gf's handbag comes in handy for these situations).

 

[Schulzenfest]

 

[Wish Wellingtons]

Debt...

 

[Schism]

Pics?

6 swords.

old

 

[davywap]

AFL Trading Cards and Collectible Action Figures (mainly Star Wars and WWE so far). Oh and also navel lint.

 

[BomberFletch31]

1:400 scale diecast aircraft models. I have about 34 so far. If I wan't a poor uni student I'd buy quite a few more, along with a 1:400 scale airport terminal to match.

I also have other diecast scale models - 1:76 scale buses, as well as 1:43 and 1:18 cars (especially F1 cars).

I have every Wheels magazine since March 1993, every F1 Racing magazine since March 2000, and every Airliner World magazine since January 2009.

 

[Echo Bravo]

Rocks. If I go on holiday somewhere I haven't been before, particularly if I visit the beach, I'll try find an interesting looking rock.

 

[SpaceCow]

Video Games
Stamps (although I've stopped recently)
Money (foreign money that is)
Figures (both Minatures and other Pop Culture figures eg: Star Wars, Video Game figures etc...)

 

[Asgardian]

I have got the first edition of Australian Playboy magazine with Karen Pini in it.

 

[Xtreme]

Dvds - didn't start off that way, more a form of entertainment + enjoyment. But over the last 10 years i've got quite the collection .

Video games

Books (novels, sport personality biographies, comics, movies/tv show making of information etc)

Sporting clothes,


Used to collect magazines, not intentionally but over the years i purchased a lot of magazines (eg: video game magazines from March 93 - 2008, various FHM/Ralph/Playboy/Penthouse magazines from 2000 - 2008 etc) and never threw them out. As they kept piling up, i neglected to throw them out, my logic was that i had gradually spent THOUSANDS on them over the years... i'm not "throwing out money". I used to go back and re-read them plenty of times too (except over the last few years before i stopped buying them as regularly as i normally would).

I began the clean out process in 2008 when i realised that i had to make room where i used to keep them, at the time i only kept my favorites... even some of them went over the next few months.

 

[360noscope]

I used to collect AFL chipz. Last year I got all but 6.

 

[Tulip]

Bump.

I collect classic paperbacks.

 

[Gough]

Bump.

I collect classic paperbacks.

You're wasting your time with that, will never be worth morth than the paper it's written on. Find a few contemporary authors, Margaret Attwood, Malouf, Patrick Gale, Pat Barker, David Mitchell, writers like that and try to pick up decent firsts and signed editions of theirs. They're still not massively expensive and you will make a bit of money down the line on them. I've been investing in Clive James futures, or rather his lack of one recently, and having been stocking up on a bit of his stuff.

 

[Tulip]

You're wasting your time with that, will never be worth morth than the paper it's written on. Find a few contemporary authors, Margaret Attwood, Malouf, Patrick Gale, Pat Barker, David Mitchell, writers like that and try to pick up decent firsts and signed editions of theirs. They're still not massively expensive and you will make a bit of money down the line on them. I've been investing in Clive James futures, or rather his lack of one recently, and having been stocking up on a bit of his stuff.

Not trying to make money Gough, all for the love of physical books.

There will be a period, not too far down the line, when mass paperback publishing is extinguished.

 

[Gough]

Not trying to make money Gough, all for the love of physical books.

There will be a period, not too far down the line, when mass paperback publishing is extinguished.

Look don't get me wrong, I love books too, they're amongst my most prized possesions, but you can make a bit of cash along the way if you know what you're doing.
I agree about the mass market paperback, that's staring death in the face. Kindles are so damn useful and the internet has slowly killed traditional bookselling.

 

[Tulip]

Look don't get me wrong, I love books too, they're amongst my most prized possesions, but you can make a bit of cash along the way if you know what you're doing.
I agree about the mass market paperback, that's staring death in the face. Kindles are so damn useful and the internet has slowly killed traditional bookselling.

Where's the individuality in a Kindle? Every tear and mark on my books remind me of something.

 

[Tulip]

And I do appreciate the advice btw, just that hoarding things that could be worth a lot in years to come isn't really my caper.

 

[treefingers]

I used to keep all my old metcards, I've got a stack of about 2 or 3 hundred in my room somewhere: was a shattered man the day they swapped to myki.

 

[Borry]

Stubby holders.

 

[SugarShane]

I collect Canadian quarters. I've got about 6 of them.

 

[Ed_Gein]

I collect plastic bags, got a drawer in the kitchen full of them.

TV likes collecting dust.

 

[JuddsABlue]

I try to collect money but struggle

 

[Doss]

Beer bottles.

Every bottle has to be of a different beer, and I have to have drunk the beer myself.

The standard of said beers is across the full spectrum- from absolute cat piss like Carlton Cold, all the way through to beers like Delirium Noctornum.

I currently have around 600 bottles in the collection.

 

[Natho]

Got a heap of beer bottles caps

Afl guernseys got at least 60-70

 

[PP34]

Sports magazines.