so anyone collect bit unusual collection... ?

I used to collect wrappers when I was younger - mostly sweets, chocolate, chewing gum, a few cans, etc. - I must have several hundred from around 1994-1998, including a lot of crazy shit that's since long gone (anyone remember Vice Versas or Polo Holes? ^_^).

I'm also not the kind of person who throws stuff away, so I've collected a lot of pointless shit over the years. I have pretty much every magazine that I've had since I was 7 in my bedroom (mostly under my bed), and I always keep manuals and boxes and shit - I realised recently I have the manual for a toaster we bought in Saudi in 1991. Don't ask.

 

Bloody hell. Over lunch today the conversation drifted towards food and the great foods of yesteryear that we can no longer get....and this is really spooky...but one of the chaps is from Galway and he mentioned those 2 same items. Fuuuuuck. (all I could come up with was turkey and ham pies from M&S and the odd bag of crisps)

 

There's a lot more where that came from! I've tried scanning some of them and plan on trying to make some sort of database website, but scanning them ain't easy - especially when a lot of the wrappers don't flatten too easily (I need a camera for some of them, really) -_-

Here's an example (or should I say "atrocity") for ya:

 

usually when I see musical/etc I'd get the mug cup if they have one for sale...
don't buy it on trip nowadays though...

 

I like Hello Kitty stuff.

I don't have much of it, though - just a stamp kit, the PSX game, a couple of pins, a cash-tin thingie, some stationery, pens, many stickers, a packet of pretz (unopened, of course), and my radio-alarm clock. I'd kill for the pink Kitty Dreamcast. OR the "personal massager". Not that I'd use it, but it's a great "shock" item to have ~_^

I like game related paraphernalia too - you know, magazines, stickers. I once stole a Tron 2.0 display from a store, and now it keeps my PS2 games and my Ojamajo Doremi dolls. I generally ask for the displays and stuff, and usually get shot down. GamePlanet sucks ass in terms of generosity.

Oh, yeah, as written up there, I collect Ojamajo Doremi dolls, those little cute keychain-size ones.

Of course, I collect consoles but I don't have that many, and none are really mint. I have boxes and documentation for many, though.

I sort of collect books. Every once in a while, something comes up that I just HAVE to read. So I get it.

I like to collect stuff that glows in the dark, too.

More "accumulate" than colect, though.

 

I too have Working Designs' extras that come with their premium release games. I own the Lunar 2 puppet, Lunar 1 cloth map. As for Arc The Lad Collection, I have the watch, the strategy guide, the poster that comes with it as well as the original packaging it came with because it has the WD logo on it, and I'll soon own the latest game in the series (with strategy guide), the OSTs for Arc 1 2 and 3, and the whole DVD anime collection of the series that was shortly released after ATLC came out. I'm keeping an eye on a few Arc related items that are up for sale on ebay. So as you can see, I'm a big ATLC fan .

I also own a few FFIX items too. Well I currently own the 4disc OST and the ARt of FF IX book.

 

I still own my Vivi Plush Toy Bought at gamestop no less

 

Crap, someones a bigger Arc fan than me!!!

 

if you ever go to a nascar/drag racing event, the teams give away these "hero" cards, 7x8 incg cards that feature the driver, car and othe stats, ive been collecting them through the ages, last time i checked i had close to 600

 

Most impressive. I used to have around 400 weekly programs from various race tracks but I had to get rid of most of them. Still have a few good ones, like the one from the '95 Busch Grand National race at Hickory, NC and Richie Evans and Charlie Jarzombek Memorials from Riverhead Raceway in Long Island, NY, and the one from the final race at Flemington, NJ.

 

really?....thats sweet...i actually got my dad and mom to drive to north carolina for vacation just to pick up a couple mark martin cars and get his maybe last hero card, every 2 years or so we go down just to visit the shops( i highly recommend it) and see lowes speedway

ive also got bout 50 usar hooters pro cup cards(they dont race cayuga anymore ....and bout 200 cascar cards, spaced out from 97 to 2003, ive got 90% of the 2005 nextel cup hero cards,.......there quite fun to collect

 

I'll buy anything Elder Scrolls-related that I can get my hands on. I guess that's not too wierd, compared to some of the other posts.

 

still collecting metal shirts.. mostly grindcore, death&blackmetal got ~150by now

 

Bottles/cans from strange brands or countries.
*glances at shelf*

-1L can of Kirin
-"Kotayk" bottle from Armenia
-Murree bottle from the Western Himalayas
-a few bottles from local Dorset breweries
-can of "Amsterdam" beer that seems to be available everywhere but actually in NL
etc.
I also have a mad amount of beer bottlecaps, me and my housemates intend to make some sort of mosaic out of them one day.

That and I also collect Laserdiscs and vinyl (ie records, not the actual substance).

 

So would that make collecting games a 'cheap' hobby to you then? At least by comparison.

(PS: check your pm box, sent you one a couple days ago)

 

if assembler were to say that his game collection pales in comparison to his car collection i would be sh*^%$@ bricks

 

I collect Laurel and Hardy films and books....got 103 of their films....seen 1 reel of the 104th film and one clip of 105th film and seen none of 106th film - but then no one living is known to have seen the 106th film!

Also got a friend who collects Great Western Railway cutlery?!?!?!?!?!...weird....

 

Oh and a friend of mine claims to collect "pictures of Aeroflot offices" :smt1062

What really makes me scratch my head though are the people who collect wood. Just planks of various types of wood, I've seen it on TV once.

 

Hey..my dad does, we gots loads of oak, pine, wlanut, etc, but we use it, ...and i have a friend who collects small pieces of wood so that he has a sort of like "wood encyclopedia"