things you used to collect

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 14 Nov 2008, 00:09

Or maybe even still do! The most dogged I ever was with stamps. I used to cherish what must have been a very basic collection. I had some first editions, penny reds and even a penny black. Used to love sticking the little paper stickers on the back. I got the Stanley gibbobs catalogue. Collected some other stuff too.

BeachBum · Post by **BeachBum** » 14 Nov 2008, 08:18

Does spraff from Ebay count?

As I look around me im surrounded by utter crap that ive never used and not likly to need from that blooming website.

rathbone · Post by **rathbone** » 14 Nov 2008, 09:07

I collect misprints.......... I'm just about to add "Stanley gibbobs" to my collection.

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 14 Nov 2008, 09:24

That is some misprint _ this blackberry is tiny. I guess eBay stuff does count anthing does. What about transfers I used to collect then too. Had about 100 different types of cherub!

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 14 Nov 2008, 10:06

Comics such as the Sparky and Bazooka Joe coupons.

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 14 Nov 2008, 13:14

I collect books, can't stop buying them and have a huge pile to read.

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 14 Nov 2008, 13:22

Me too
Had a HUGE clear out and got rid of some, mostly kids books
BUt we've now got room to store more

I have an impressive dust collection on the mantlepiece

Jay · Post by **Jay** » 14 Nov 2008, 14:30

Elephants. Still do collect them

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 14 Nov 2008, 15:02

Wow you must have a big house

someone had to say it

teddygirl · Post by **teddygirl** » 14 Nov 2008, 17:13

Oh boy. where do I start with this one. I've always collected things. As a child I collected all sorts, badges, key rings, stamps, coins, cards from sweeties of various sorts, cactus plants, model horses and model dogs to name just a few.
Now that I have grown up I am more selective in the things I collect, like vintage bears and dogs, ceramic dogs, pictures of dogs(terriers of course), honey pots and quite a few other smaller collections of various things. I am generally a hoarder and although I don't actually collect them, I have an impressive "hoarding" of carrier bags, my oldest being a Biba bag from the seventies

You just never know when they will come in handy for something but then some of them are just too good to use

I know, I have a problem

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 14 Nov 2008, 17:22

You do have a problem, which may come in handy as I seem to collect them these days!

teddygirl · Post by **teddygirl** » 14 Nov 2008, 17:36

Well, I've got more than one problem so you can have your pick

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 14 Nov 2008, 19:16

I used to collect bus tickets in the 70s - it was during my early 20s too!

It only lasted a couple of years, but I kept them until recently.

rapunzell · Post by **rapunzell** » 14 Nov 2008, 19:22

diaries. keeping a new one already. when I was a kid I imagined shelves of neat matching books, but actually its a boxfull of unsorted trash and papers.

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 14 Nov 2008, 19:23

Collecting bus tickets is definitely a younger persons game . One would have to be a bit loony to start collecting them at 65! I used to collect car registration numbers. Mainly on the Milton road.

Jay · Post by **Jay** » 14 Nov 2008, 20:51

SoupDragon wrote:Wow you must have a big house

someone had to say it

Yes, well, I was expecting a few remarks!!!

Haven't you seen my herd exercising on Porty beach?

Jay · Post by **Jay** » 14 Nov 2008, 20:55

I once acquired a bottle of champagne because I used to keep my theatre tickets with the programmes!

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 14 Nov 2008, 21:12

Jay wrote:
Haven't you seen my herd exercising on Porty beach?

Ah, here's me thinking it was the wine.

teddygirl · Post by **teddygirl** » 14 Nov 2008, 23:45

Poppy wrote:I used to collect bus tickets in the 70s - it was during my early 20s too! It only lasted a couple of years, but I kept them until recently.

That just reminded me I used to collect beer mats in the seventies, I had them stuck up all over the place.

teddygirl · Post by **teddygirl** » 14 Nov 2008, 23:56

rapunzell wrote:diaries. keeping a new one already. when I was a kid I imagined shelves of neat matching books, but actually its a boxfull of unsorted trash and papers.

....that's another one, I have all my diaries going back over the last twenty years or so. They are invaluable when we are trying to remember when we did something, the old diaries seldom let us down eg I can tell you that I was at Soupy's for a coffe on 25th April 1989.

just a random entry

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 15 Nov 2008, 03:13

Thats what I'm getting at - stuff we used to collect but can barely recall - I went through a short phase of collecting the lollipop mans' discarded pay packets. It lasted nearly a year - the collection made perfect sense to me at the time but why was that? '

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 15 Nov 2008, 03:19

Dadaist leave everything else at the door time for you to contribute again, I miss you.its a lesser place without you.