What do you collect???

[Greg Ward]

Humans (and some animals) seem to be hoarders. It may be a throwback to times where food caches meant the difference between survival or death.

I have noticed that all collectors get a flush of great pleasure when they gain a much sought after article.
And the good thing is that the intensity pleasure flush doesn't depend on the value of the item.

A multi-millionaire with their Picasso in fact may be less pleasured as they have to hide their wonderful painting behind such security, they it can't be displayed in the open home/castle.

So what do you collect?

Bottle-tops?
Model trains?
Garden plants?
Cedar boards?
Stamps?
Picassos?
Affairs?

And does the pleasure-hit from finding a rare specimen equal that from good sex?

Greg

[echnidna]

I used to collect
Butterflies
Rocks & Minerals
Sea Shells.

Until ex #1 put them all in the driveway and drove her car back & forth across them. She still hasn't worked out why she's now an ex.

I've still got a few butterflies and a stuffed crocodile

[Greg Q]

Wives.:eek:

And I don't understand the last question. They are mutually exclusive.

[Stuart]

Wives.:eek:

And I don't understand the last question. They are mutually exclusive.

and if I explained that one to you, I'd be off to the orange room


Collections:
tools
money (but nothing that the bank manager cares about)

As to hoarding, as opposed to collecting...
tools
photographic equipment
tools

[womble]

I collect:

old bottles
kero lamps
model ships/aeroplanes etc
old furniture
shells

[Daddles]

I collect:

old bottles
kero lamps
model ships/aeroplanes etc
old furniture
shells

I always thought Womble was a ring in - this proves it, he didn't mention tools

For the record, I'm not recording what I collect ... apart from tools:eek:

Richard

[ptc]

Ginger Jars.
any one else out there collect them ?

[Zed]

tools
bonsai
books
music

currently I am collecting baby spew, one nappy load at a time, as an associated activity I am also collecting tissues (which I cant seem to get enough of)... a summary effect of this is I also collect lint in my clothes when i forget to remove dirty tissues from my pockets before washing them... ahhh.... daddy day care! I love it!!

[echnidna]

Wives.:eek:

And I don't understand the last question. They are mutually exclusive.

Been there, done that.

Trouble is collecting women is a high cost hobby

[womble]

I always thought Womble was a ring in - this proves it, he didn't mention tools

For the record, I'm not recording what I collect ... apart from tools:eek:

Richard

well I would have mentioned my gmc stuff...but is that tools???

[Iain]

Clocks
Watches (mainly fusee)
Sheet music, preferably old and some tablature
Books
a couple of old camera's (HIT and a couple of old italian roll film which is no longer available)
Tiger snakes, we have a few here

[Clinton1]

Australian Pottery (mostly Victorian Brunswick pottery school, some Bendigo pottery stuff)
Stuff for the shed (including things I have no idea about )
Thats it for now - I've got a house to pay off.

I'd like to collect:
oil paintings (by Ken Knight in particular)
motors
farms
implements of destructions (guns and stuff)
houses
businesses
small islands
political influence
weapons of mass destruction (the odd army and warship/plane)

... maybe later, when the house is paid off

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[Daddles]

Can I get one of those nuke things on time share?

Richard

and Womble, I am forced to concede that GMC implements are indeed tools as I seem to be able to make as many blues with my GMC gear as I do with more expensive weapons of destruction (and I'm about to add to my collection, with the big GMC circular saw to replace the reliable but tiny Hitachi in my Triton ... oh no, I just swore twice in the one sentence :eek: )

[AlexS]

Offcuts, old books on hydrology/hydrography. Four generations of ancestors were miners, and I have 2 big boxes of specimens collected by them. Unfortunately, they didn't label them.:confused: