Saw a post like this on Reddit once and I thought some of the responses were quite interesting.
I collect all sorts of stuff from vinyl records and vintage game consoles to Harley-Davidson dealer t-shirts.
I’m curious about what some of you guys collect, the weirder the better :D
Vinyl records and playing cards (Western, Hanafuda, and Tarot decks.) The vinyl collection started when I got my parent’s old record player and started hitting thrift stores for bargains.
The card thing was sort of an accident; my wife (gf at the time) and I played a lot of Hwatu and cribbage and kept finding decks we liked.
hitting thrift stores for bargains
That’s what I enjoyed most about collecting vinyl as well, going into small record stores and just spend an hour or two browsing the isles.
Yeah we finally got a decent used record store in town and it’s awesome. Before that, I had to dig through a lot of John Denver to find any ELO and Blue Oyster Cult
I like Watches. The problem is I’m basically working minimum wage job and have two kids to feed, so I have to be pretty careful about what I buy.
My most expensive watch was £300, and I’ve got a few more in the £150+ range. Not exactly a Rolex, but I like how they look on my wrist and I like how they make me feel like maybe I do have some part of my life together.
The brand doesn’t matter at all as long as wearing it makes you feel good. Especially with watches where certain models can just be so ridiculously expensive sometimes less is really more I think.
What’s your favourite time piece in your collection so far?
I’ve got this absolutely gorgeous Orient Kamuso thats got a green face and it looks and feels amazing on my wrist. That one cost me £220 iirc.
On the other end of I’ve got this Timex Weekender that’s super cheap (like £40) that’s an absolutely stunning watch for the money. Great nightlight too. Just a shame about the rather loud ticking.
The Weekender looks really nice, just a no-thrills classic watch face. I rather like that.
Super versatile too. I’ve got a few NATO straps for it and I change it up whenever I feel like it.
Me too! My most expensive was in the £300 range as well, I’m currently rocking a Steeldive “Captain Willard” homage (I think the model is a 1972) I absolutely love it. I have no interest in spending thousands on a watch even if I could.
I collect mint condition unplayed steam games
Nice! Me too.
Little boxes! My grandmother started my collection with her gift of a small gumball machine-shaped box with little colorful wooden balls inside for gumballs. I became obsessed with tiny versions of big things and haven’t looked back! Now I have around 20 various-shaped tiny boxes (safely stored away in a much larger box).
Animals, temperarily.
I just let two turtles go to make room for a newborn rattlesnake i found. Used to have a sugar glider i found in my backyard. I usually keep stuff a few week/months and alternate it out with new friends i find.
Im in the process of moving to a forest i bought so ill have more room for more tanks, and more time outdoors. I only keep as many as i can keep thriving instead of surviving, of course. But when i need to downsize i usually let stuff go in my forest.
It started when i found out my family and neighbors just shoot all the animals on sight so i started rehoming them
I’m kinda on the fence here, on one hand it’s pretty cool to be able to care for all those animals and even potentially save them from being killed, on the other hand I kinda think that we, as humans, shouldn’t disturb wild animals any more than we already do but I can see that your intentions are good.
Do you ever get like too emotionally attached to animals you find (to a point where you actually keep them as pets permanently)? Do you still have “normal” pets besides them?
Also, correct me if I’m wrong, but I immediately thought to myself “yep, they’re Australian” :D
Nah im in the american south.
And im not so worried about disturbing nature as its all land i own not public land. I have like 50 acres of hunting land, i live on 2 acres rn with acess to a like 300+ft wide river with a beach(just camped out there last night actually), and the forest i said im releasing them is 40 acres of untouched woods with a 15ft river through the center. Im building a house there starting like 2 months from now and it will be my permanant residence. I want it FOR the nature so im being much more low impact than everyone else. I could bulldose the trees and put in a cow pasture on the whole thing like my neighbors do. But i bought the forest as a nature preserve basically. So me playing with animals here and there is still significantly better than what others would do.
Yeah i have 2 big dogs that are super friendly. They go everywhere i go, they go grocery shopping with me. But yeah i do get attached to the animals i find, but my forest if fucking perfect for animals idk how to explain it without pictures and maps lol. They’re happy out there. So it doesnt bother me to let em go
So actually now that i think about it i collect land
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I don’t have too major of a collection as far as quality, but I have been holding on to all my old Nintendo games and consoles since I first got them back with the OG game boy and NES, and I occasionally expand it when I find other old games I like when I have the money and can find them out in the wild. I have most of the consoles except for the more obscure old handhelds. (Still working on getting an original game boy advance to fill out the collection, but they are fairly expensive considering the costs of the later SP variant, which I have floating around.
Yeah, the prices some of these older consoles go for are just insane. Most first-party GameCube games, for instance, are really overpriced nowadays, let alone the more obscure acccessories (Wavebird, component cables etc.).
I’d love to have a GameBoy Micro but I probably don’t have to tell you why I’m most likely never gonna get one… The SPs can be pretty expensive too if you want one with a backlit screen (AGS-101).
Money! Unfortunately I’m broke, but I do have a sizeable collection of foreign coins and bills. I don’t remember how it started but at some point in my life people just started bringing me their foreign currency. “Hey, I heard you like collecting coins, I got this from Algeria” “Hey, I heard you collect money, I got this from Taiwan”
I think my favorites right now are the currency no longer printed or of nations that no longer exist. USSR, Nazi Germany, Mao Zedong bills, some Eire from Ireland. I also have several misprints that are very cool, a silver penny misprint, and I have a ridiculously old bronze coin from a Chinese dynasty.
What’s your favourite bank note or coin in your collection? Personally, I really enjoy oddly shaped coins. I always carry an Australian 50 cent coin with me as it’s just so great to fiddle with.
Odd shaped coins are great. I have some coins from the Bahamas with scalloped edges. Those are neat! My favorite odd-shaped one is a misprint. It’s a blank round of copper except for a small sliver on the edge that is pinched into a penny.
Unfortunately I can’t narrow down my favorite coin as there are too many to choose from.
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Enamel pins. Some are really cool artist made ones that were done in 2-3 variants and maybe only 25 of one variant were even produced. Those are difficult to come by when released and gain value usually 30 days after their release date. But I also have a bunch of just smaller ones I pick up here and there. They’re just neat
I thought about getting some cool ones for a battle jacket I wanted to make.
It’s impressive how detailed and colourful they can get for their size.
I like to collect board games, trading cards, and vinyl records. I am very concerned about storage space so I try to collect only what I really enjoy or what I’ll realistically use.
I don’t really collect any one thing in particular, but I do have small collections of videogames and books.
I guess I’ve got a multiple mouse plushies. Not sure if I have enough to call it a collection though!
A small collection is still a collection :D What kind of videogames, just one platform/time period or all over the place?
Mostly PS4 and Switch games. Although I did buy a PS3 the other year and I’m gradually building up a collection of classics! I also have some Gameboy, GBA and DS games (but no cases unfortunately). What vintage consoles/games do you have?
I pretty much grew up with PS3 and Wii games and I still have a lot of PS3 games (only rivaled by my Xbox One collection), the Wii games were pretty much all lost along the way unfortunately. When it comes to vintage stuff I’ve got a PS2 (mostly to play Silent Hill 2, 3 and 4 on), a PS1 (Silent Hill 1), a Gameboy Color that’s pretty much mint in box with some also mint Pokémon games I rarely play and a Nintendo 64 (European Pokémon edition) for which I have yet to buy any games.
I also have a few GameCube games but unfortunately no GameCube.
I sadly sold most of my Wii stuff a number of years back. And prior to that I’d traded my PS2 in to get the Wii when it came out.
Main reason I got a PS3 was to play MGS4 and the other Metal Gear games. I’m happy to emulate anything else that I can get to run.
Sounds like you’ve got a decent collection! Hopefully you can find a Gamecube at some point (are they expensive nowadays?)
are they expensive nowadays?
Depends on the condition but they can get pretty pricey (at least here in Germany).
I bottle up my emotions! Does that count?
Video games. I like having a physical library to browse and the original hardware to play the games on. I go for games that are complete with their manuals, but if it’s a good enough deal the manual isn’t a must. My backlog is ridiculous
I have a small collection of art books and tarot decks
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