What else do you collect besides DVDS?

[sneakers]

I collect Tea bags. For some reason I just like em. I have about 100 different ones.

[Andrew Forbes]

The skins of any toddlers who wander within ten feet of me.

[tucco]

Old rock/music magazines/comic books Nothing captures the tone of an era like the attitudes expressed in an old magazine.......sometimes the advertisements are even more telling.....Certain "ideas" and "attitudes" I'd totally forgotten about from the '70s for example can be gleaned.

One example is a magazine from '78 called "Rock Scene". On the cover it said "for you metallers:Aerosmith, and for you punkers: AC/DC. Wow! They kicked up each bands "extreme" factor up a notch! then I remember that Aerosmith was indeed what heavy metal was back then....another euphemism for hard rock. Led Zeppelin were considered metal too....And AC/DC before they became super-huge (and with Bon Scott) were indeed often lumped in with punk rock acts, I'd just forgotten that it was that blatant.

And also the shift within certain decades.
Like how from '70-'74 was your Brady Bunch/Pet Rock/Watergate/Planet of the Apes/movie monster/Evel Knievel '70s....then came '75-'78 (usually the part of the decade that is depicted/remembered the most) with the advent of disco,space-themed movies,Bubble Yum, younger brother teen idols (Jimmy Osmond, Shaun Cassidy, Randy Jackson)and the blockbuster movie and other super-hyped media, like television shows.(Mork&Mindy,CHiPs etc.)
And then there's '79, the "bastard year". The first half was an extension of what had been going on up until that point. But I'll be damned if back to school that year if disco, KISS, Aerosmith, and many other things were DEAD (Except for Star Wars).
But anyhow that is some of what else I collect besides DVD's, and what I get out of it.

[Paul Kile]

Electric fans - my favorite era is the 1940's-1950's streamlined era, before the crappy plastic imported ones took over the market.

Vintage Christmas lights - C-7 incandescent, bubble lights, and the cool fluorescent ones, made for only 3 years 1949-1951. If I had more money I would lay in a stock of Matchless stars as well.

Floor lamps, the ornate brass ones with the central mogul bulb surrounded by 3 or 4 candelabra lamps. They have to have the little night lights as well. One of mine even has an electric clock built into the pole.

Books - I have a full set of Nevil Shute's novels in the British Pan paperbacks, that took awhile to collect.

And if you consider two a collection, I collect BMWs. We have a 2003 330ci and a 2001 Z3 coupe. One of my buddies is also tempting me with a 1989 E30 convertible that needs some work.

[molly1216]

lots of stuff
but in trying to keep my collections from overwhelming me i only keep the nicest things.

typewriters, cameras....right now bicycles
1956 Raleigh Robin Hood - near mint


1969 Raleigh Armstrong

[Paul Kile]

Molly, those bikes are great! When I was a kid, the hot setup was to have an "English Racer" with the Sturmey-Archer 3-speed hub. I noticed your 1956 is lacking handgrips, here is a website that shows some repros (although if you are a Raleigh enthusiast you already have probably stumbled upon it).

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/harris/hand ... ebars.html

Now all you need is a 1956 MGA to go along with it...

[molly1216]

Molly, those bikes are great! When I was a kid, the hot setup was to have an "English Racer" with the Sturmey-Archer 3-speed hub. I noticed your 1956 is lacking handgrips, here is a website that shows some repros (although if you are a Raleigh enthusiast you already have probably stumbled upon it).

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/harris/hand ... ebars.html

Now all you need is a 1956 MGA to go along with it...

the handgrips from Harris came the day after i took the picture
the original ones had deterioriated.

yes i am a 3 speed diva - the sturmey archer hubs are to die for.
my next 'tear down' will be this black Raleigh Hercules


which has a SA hub...i may rebuild the hub while I am at it.
it's the only way to learn.

[hoytereden]

Movie posters in all sizes but mainly lobby cards. Certain magazines such as Famous Monsters of Filmland, and Video Watchdog. Video Games and Consoles, I guess, since I never get rid of either. I have a lot of vintage airplane model kits which, despite my good intentions, I've never built.

[Neal Masri]

NASCAR diecast cars. Insert your favorite redneck joke here.

[molly1216]

can't knock die cast cars
used to have a few myself

but i do have a few 12" action figures
Ernie Pyle from GI JOE
Rosie the Riviter
and a few custom kitbashed ones

manual typewriters
i have a 1933 portable Underwood MINT IN BOX - no shit.
and a 1978 smith corona and a 1959 royal

cameras -
1959 rolleiflex twin reflex lens 6x6

1920s Kodak Vest Pocket

[cdouglas]

I collect film scores. I'm particularly nuts for all things Jerry Goldsmith, and I am getting pretty close to a complete collection of every Goldsmith score that has been released. I have also collected comics for quite a long time, and am currently in the process of slowly but surely binding them into hardbound volumes (about 15-20 issues per volume). Some purists may cry foul, but I find this a very satisfying way to preserve my collection.

[mavrach]

I've got a decent CD collection going, especially lately. When I was in high school, I was in one of those "3 for the price of 1" CD clubs, which is how I built a lot up quickly. Now I've been going for a lot of used CD's.

The real kicker for this was my move to the current apartment earlier in the year. Now that I have a 2-hour total commute each day, I've become bored with everything on the radio. They really do overplay everything. You'd think 40 years of "classic rock" would not be so repetitive, and would entail hearing new songs every now and then. So alas I've been buying up CD's to get new music.


I collect video games too, but I'm picky and won't buy any that I don't think I would play. Along with the current systems, I've tried to go backwards in time as well, mainly to recreate my collection from my youth. I sold my NES games and kept abandoning them when I was young, solely on the basis that the newer games were better just because they had better graphics. I discovered a retro gaming store near work too, which has stuff from every old system there is.

[Steve T Power]

Mainly Video games, most eras, not sure of exact numbers, but i rarely trade anything off anymore, breakdown is something like:

ATARI: 50-ish
NES: 70-80
SNES: 50-ish
PSOne: 30-ish
N64:15-20
PS2: 100 or so
Xbox: 75-80
Gamecube: 20-odd
Xbox360: 40-odd
PS3: 30-odd
PC: 30-odd

Really need to re-catalog everything. My biggest rule is I only own stuff i'm generally willing to play - i don't buy for the heck of it, though i do have some pretty rare PS2 stuff that i haven't really spent much time with, and i'm a sucker for collector's editions.

[Boba Fett]

I used to collect Star Wars stuff, but quit around 2002 when the flooding of the market reached new levels of absurdity.

[TemporalWisdom]

I collect regrets.