What do you collect?

[CallOnMeBaby]

Just that really. Tell me about your collections. I have always been fascinated by people who collect things. What they collect. Do they display them. How attached are you too them. Will they be left to someone once you're gone.

Well I seem to have amassed an extraordinary amount of Christmas wrapping paper. I mean seriously - I have about 50 plus rolls. Probably more (these are mostly opened, I'm not talking about brand new paper i never use). So what did I do this year? Bought some more vintage stuff off of eBay. All are beautiful. I do have a bit of a theme each year (obviously this year it's 60s/70s vintage) so not all appropriate, but really my future grandchildren will probably have enough to last their lifetimes!
This is an unconscious collection. I also collect Christmas ornaments- this is more purposeful, started by my parents who would buy ornaments whenever they travelled. I have yarn doll ornaments from Peru, straw Ángels from Mexico, glass chillies from New Mexico, Delft pottery miniature windmills from Holland. A felted koala from a trip to Australia. This year we bought lace Ángels when we went to Bruge - you get the picture!

I collect Matryoshka dolls (Russian dolls). I absolutely love them. I don’t have a big collection (I decided to donate a few to charity when we moved, thinking I wasn’t in to them as much anymore, but I soon realised I was wrong 😔). I’m not fussy with them, and let the children play with them. I doubt they will keep them when I depart, but who knows?

Sorry forgot to answer your other questions. Magnets are on the fridge for everyone to see. Books are in a vintage style bookcase. I am really attached to all my collection. I will leave them to my children. I do hope they keep one of the table cloths as it's over 200 years old.

Snowglobes (not all Christmas ones). Semi-precious stones. Perfumes. Mid-century glass. And lego.

Oh yes and fridge magnets from places I have visited. Lovely memories.

Lalique. One of my vases is radioactive.

Another stone collector here. I have small
jars for when I have collected a few on specific holidays. The rest are from our local beach and I also have them in pockets as a comfort thing!

I started collecting sea glass but I haven’t been anywhere that has any so I only have 2 very small bits!!

Also postcards. I buy them when visiting places, buy in charity shops etc and also do Postcrossings. My DPs always send me one when the go away.

The snow globes just because I like how they look. Unusual ones like robots and astronauts and stuff.

The glass just because it is beautiful. Such craftsmanship.

The stones because they are fascinating. How the chemicals combine to make different ones, the conditions they form in. Some are nothing special to look at, others are astonishingly beautiful and I'll have made into jewellery at some point.

The perfumes because I'm autistic and I have a very, very strong sense of smell. This has huge downsides (nappies, emptying bins) so it's nice to have an upside to it. It's also why I enjoy cooking so much I guess, very developed sense of taste/ smell.

I guess that's why I collect the visually beautiful things, too: sensory stuff to look at/ touch.

And lego, well. Autistic much. 🤣

I collect rubber duckies. I have about 75 or so of varying sizes all over my bathroom. If there's a surface there's a duck on it. I have some shelves I need to get on the wall for them but even then I think I need more shelving.

DC hate them. They don't like all the faces in the bathroom when they're in there but I don't have anywhere else to keep them. 🙈

@WhatWouldHopperDo, Seaham is one of the best place for sea glass. Well worth a visit if you can get there.

I have a 'mound' of stones or pebbles that my children and my husband and I have collected from various places over the years.

They live on the hearth and every time my eye catches them , my mind wanders back to a lovely place or time.

Broken dolls heads
Religious stuff ( but not religious)
Anything weird really

I collect Susan Coolidge books. Not just the Katy books, but different editions and so on. I also have her signature and other ephemera.

I'm very attached to them. Some are in glass fronted bookshelves, others elsewhere, out of light. One poor condition, but rare book, is in storage. Some are valuable. I'll leave them to my children to do with as they wish.

I have other collections, some book related, but more outing to list them all together in one post.

I collect vintage pottery especially art deco. DH collects automobilia which includes garage signs, vintage cabbages and oil cans.

Vintage cabbages? 😅

18th century creamware.
Parian.
18th century porcelain, especially Newhall and Worcester.
Richard Gyatt mugs
meconopsis
stray dogs
OH collects Yixing teapots (he has about 100)
anything else that takes my interest or I love. I've collected lots of things over the years but sometimes they go off to be sold to improve a core collection. I'm stopping acquiring new stuff now apart from the meconopsis and the occasional dog.

Crockery and vases in "quirky" designs. For example a lettuce vase, a cabbage fruit bowl, guggle jugs, pineapple glassware etc. And I use them all! Not just for display

yankee candles and them squashed 1p

i used to collect 50ps and pound coins untill my Dd1 ex stole them from me and other things he also stole the ps5 and nintendo switch i boughtfor my two grandkids 2 christmas ago. sold them for some white stuff and don't mean the snow glad my dd got rid of him when she found out he was sleeping with her so called best mate of 17 years now they have a baby now too poor child.

Dust

I collect vintage bits and bobs-whatever catches my eye

i have Victorian milk bottles,Victorian postcards/birthday cards (from someone called florrie,wishing a friend a happy birthday),gas mask tins,cups,a vintage pencil tin,old glass bottles,a vintage first aid kit,two vintage mirrors,vases,toys-the list goes on

we lost my fil and we cleared out his shed-I came home with a car full of vintage bits he’d shoved in there

my dining room is my vintage space where I display it all

i also collect 1980’s my little ponies-that’s a throwback to being my little pony mad as a child,but only having 3 real ones and a fake

ive bought all the ones I didn’t have as a child

vintage fascinates me-I’m the owner for now-others have come before me,when I pass,my children will either keep it or sell it onto the next owner

🤣

@Mollyplop999 I also need to know more about the vintage cabbages

Ceramics, mainly bowls but also plates, jugs etc.

I ask bipolar so I'm naturally a bit of a magpie .

I collect irregular choice conceit heels and don't wear any of them apart from one daily pair of flats. I buy them in the sales and then occasionally sell them later on for the RRP to buy more. My husband joked that they are my pension as I've got 80+ pairs in boxes and they are worth £80-£375 a pair.

I collect house plants. Love love love taking cuttings and sharing the love for free on fb and plant groups.

I collect glass Christmas tree decorations. Lots of vintage and lots of new. All really funky and nothing shines like glass. I also collect nutcrackers.

I am learning stained glass and there is something absurdly addictive about the different textures and colours of sheet glass. The Ltd edition ones can be worth their weight in gold after a few years.

I collect and propagate magic mushrooms strains and have over 25 species.

Yes to fridge magnets.