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.

A particular type of French pottery

Pin badges , mainly of places I've visited , for decades. And yes, my Bunty club badge is very precious!

A few Portmeirion Botanic Garden pieces

Some particular Emma Bridgewater pieces. K

This is such a great thread @CallOnMeBaby, thank you. So interesting!

I forgot to mention my sea glass collection! It’s so addictive looking for it, and I’ve got family members on the lookout for it too 😁. I keep planning to use it for crafting, but not yet used much. I do have to stop myself from looking for more whenever I am on a beach.

I collect coins, limited edition stamps and figures. Really in the hopes that it'll be worth something some day for my DCs. Its quite addictive and I have had to limit myself somewhat 🙈

Well, that took a sudden turn.

@Anubis68 I know on the one hand that is not at all amusing

But on the other hand, it made me roar with laughter. I'm sorry 😀

Lady Carlisle? Royal Ascot? I do too :)

Antique dolls…..but they have to be bargains….not just swapping expensive dolls via eBay etc. General antiques too, if they’re a ‘find’.

They’re sat about here and there. I have got loads but I like the hunt!

I'm so glad people are loving the thread. I truly find collections fascinating and I'm so grateful people have shared. I'm much more a minimalist and have never considered the opposite would be a maximulist as a pp stated.

I collect anything related to Country Companions. I've got thousands of greetings cards plus cuddly toys, ceramic figures, stationery, sewing kits... You name it, I've got it!

CherrySocks · 😆that should read car badges!! Bloody predictive text.

Different editions of Alice in Wonderland (illustrators, translations)

Historic newspapers - as they happen, so it takes a bit of guesswork.

Both inherited from my dad. The newspapers he inherited from his dad. There are headlines going back to the Boer War. And a Telegraph from 1963, with two words in the little bit of blank space they used to leave for breaking news: "JFK shot".

I forgot. Also snow globes, dream catchers and political campaign leaflets.

Champagne corks, with attendees and event written on them x

Disney sketchbook Christmas decs
Have gone off them since they stopped dating them though 😭😭

Children 😂 I'm not into stuff.

@gjkufbb oooh me too. I counted the books I had on my shelf and it was 518 and I said I wouldn't buy anymore but every time I pass a bookshop or charity shop I come out with more. And I've discovered a lovely lady who has a massive telephone box outside her house with books that people can take so I get more from there too.
I won't bother counting again because the number will be significantly higher 🤦🏽‍♀️

its fine probably posted wrong my heads bragged got covid and chest infection

Over the years we've had a few collections -

When I first met DH as a student I had about thirty Sylvac rabbits.

Later, DS had miniatures (mostly painted pewter by Hantel given as gifts when he was very little) and Hotwheels cars, DH had vintage Christmas decorations and Liliput Lane Christmas cottages, whilst for me it was vintage taxidermy butterflies (about 200 frames at one point), Pre-Raphaelite prints, Art Nouveau style posters and anything Arts & Crafts Movement/Art Nouveau related including furniture and textiles. We also had loads of books!

After moving to a smaller property we reduced our stuff and now just have - my collection of 30+ pieces of Bretby Jewel Ware pottery, DH's Christmas books (only about 50), my Art books (approx 150), vintage bird prints and the Art Nouveau posters plus about 40 taxidermy butterflies. We also kept a few smaller Art Nouveau/Arts & Crafts Movement furniture items.

We are still very much maximalists and love buying things that mean something to us and that have an interesting history. Can't resist books either 😀

I collect vintage black and white postcards from all the places we have been on holiday. They are entirely valueless. They hang in frames in my downstairs loo and bring me great joy. I especially like the posted ones and the messages on them. My London tower bridge one was sent from a man to his mother in 1941, I like to imagine their lives and the joy that little piece of cardboard brought them, and how precious it must have been to them to save it all these years.

Oh me too. I love school friend annuals too

Also Enid Blyton first editions with dust jackets. These are quite valuable. I have thousands and thousands of books all over the house.

I also love Art Deco China and Demi tasse coffee cups. And post war Pyrex cookware

As a child I collected loads of things and was very much indulged by my family

Coins , I Spy books, armada paperbacks, Wade Wimsies. Matchbox cars, post cards, stickers, pencils, marbles, rubbers and miniature bottles.

I tend to collect enemies lol

I'm a haunter of local auctions and one thing you can guarantee will be in any general sale is a lot of 30+ Lilliput Lane cottages. And another lot of 30. And another lot of 30. The most I've ever counted in one sale was approx 350 tiny cottages, over several separate lots. I often wonder whether that was one person's nightmarish houseful of tiny cottages, or the result of a run of unsold collections, swept along like flotsam and ivy-covered jetsam from one sale to the next until it formed one massive tiny ivy-covered housing development.

Germs.

Books

and shot glasses 😂