What do you collect?

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I want to start a collection of something. I love charity shops and car boots etc. My main thing is mid century furniture. That or collecting pretty mix n match plates and bowls. What do you collect?

Coffee cups/mugs. I dont have a matching set they are all different I love them. Brings me joy every day choosing a different mug for my coffee

Blue and white china. I've got loads and I absolutely love it.

Well I did collect coffee pots, but the shelf got full and that was that. I also have a large collection of gardening books & botanical textbooks, although the bookcase is now overflowing so I'm going to have to stop that too. Otherwise, I collect antique/vintage brooches, very early photographic postcards, interesting-looking stones & fossils, and an old glass vase or three.

I've recently gone back to stamp collecting. That's started to take on a life of its own just lately.

I think I was a magpie in a previous life.

I used to collect Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts Movement furniture/decorative items. This eventually became an obsession with anything remotely connected - so cushions/curtains/bedding, artwork, rugs...even the loo roll holders! - till everything in our house was on that theme.

I loved it all, but it was way too much. People commented that our house resembled a museum. When we began downsizing a few years back, lots had to go including my prized possession, a fabulous Liberty sideboard believed to be a one-off, exhibition piece.

We still have fourteen (smaller) pieces of Art Nouveau/Arts & Crafts furniture, a few decorative bits (mirrors, busts etc) and my collection of Bretby jewelware pottery (23 vases/jugs), which I have no plan to part with even though my style is now much more eclectic.

The other things I collect are books (I have around 100 on the subject of Art Nouveau/Arts & Crafts Movement/Pre-raphaelite art) and framed taxidermy butterflies.

Tbh, our home still resembles a museum - but a more jumbled one these days!

I highly recommend you start collecting sets of vintage limited edition collectable plates.

I have several box loads inherited which would make a great start to that collection...

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When can I pick up? 😅

Tonight??? I’ll put a ribbon on them 😂

Its a delightful collection featuring several sets of the finest themes - steam trains, Victorian cries of London, British natural history scenes, flowers etc. Sadly she never bought the highly desirable photo plates of Charles and Di in different outfits.

Truly rare, highly collectable limited editions of only a few million. Future heirlooms (well that is what the 80’s sales puff said).

I have a rather snazzy collection of vintage Pyrex

Oooh, I like that. My parents had the one in the top left, I saw one in a charity shop recently and nearly bought it, but we really don't have much storage space.

For me blue glass bottles, but again limited space. They are on a windowsill, if it gets too full something has to go. And I only pick up things that are a proper deep blue colour and nice shape, not just any old blue glass.

Also the limited edition 50ps, getting harder now though as I rarely use cash.

I’m minimalist, so only a few things and only a few of each.

Willow blue and white plates
Blue and white striped canisters

What - no kittens?

Dust. I mainly collect dust.

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Cornishware, have quite a collection of it.

I have a vast collection of Chelsea pattern Pyrex. DH tries to stop me buying it in charity shops but I can’t leave it. I keep discovering different shaped serving dishes and cereal bowls. We recently started collecting dark blue glass bottles which look lovely on the landing window ledge. Other than that, books. They are all over the house.

Sadly no. I think she must have been on holiday when those particular delights were released (no cutesy puppies either). TBF her sets were the less offensive designs but dear Om they were ubiquitous in the 80s. Were you blessed with the kittens?

I suspect there are enough of these sets sitting in attics to supply hard core for a new hospital. Apparently they do still sell in the US but I can’t find a passing ship to take my donation.

Sylvac china, mainly the vases
1960s bubble vases
Babycham memorabilia
flamingo items
Love you to the moon and back. Items or Hares will do.
beach huts

No plates thankfully, but late DM was rather fond of Wade Whimsies and special-issue mint coins & postage stamps. They don't take up quite so much room. 😁

If I was brave enough, I'd collect uranium glass, and display it in a lead-lined cupboard with a UV light shining on it, so it would glow. Apparently, it is actually quite safe as long as you don't eat off it!

https://www.decorativecollective.com/blog/a-beginners-guide-to-uranium-glass

I collect obelisks. I’ve got a couple of David Linley, a Versace, antique tunbridgeware, Victorian garden size, marble, glass, wood etc. I’m also partial to mini chests of drawers and have antique and modern.