What do you collect???

When i was younger i used to collect coins but that bored me too fast so then i got into collecting football cards. Ive been collecting them since like 2nd or 3rd grade. I had tens of thousands of cards at one point. Ive got a much smaller collection now of jersey/numbered/auto cards. Besides cards i collect sports autographs and memorbilia too. 99% of my collection is football but i have a little bit of hockey, bruins stuff, mixed in.
Other stuff that interests me are old signs and license plates and beer/soda bottles and cans. But i dont collect them, i just think theyre cool. I see alot of that stuff on the show American Pickers on History Channel which i love :)

Soooo besides snakes or herps (which is obvious if youre on this site already lol), what do you all collect???

When I was a kid, it used to be pokemon cards. haha...
Now I collect hats and key chains from different places.

Cool thread!

nicknacks.. Any little cheesy thing I can get my hands on.. I love it. I am seriously running out of shelf space though.

I collect beer bottles, beer glasses, and beer coasters that I have picked up along the way traveling...the traveling has slowed down a bit, so the collecting has as well, but looking to pick it up again soon.

You mean there are things to collect besides bps?? :O

For me, cookbooks.

Shot glasses, although I haven't bought any new ones in a few years with them all being packed in a box from my move almost 5 years ago. I went through a phase of collecting shot glasses of unusual shapes, sizes and designs.

Other than that, beer bottle caps. I got an idea in my mind to do a wall mosaic using beer bottle tops, so I started collecting them a few years ago. I decided to spend 5 years or so collecting as many as I can and from different brands, different colored tops and different designs. Once I figure out what I have, the fun will really begin... Well, not that emptying all the bottles hasn't been fun... lol

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Originally Posted by Inknsteel

I got an idea in my mind to do a wall mosaic using beer bottle tops

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That's pretty much my idea with my beer coasters...a huge, framed collage of beer coasters from around the world for my "man" room.

And yes, consuming mass quantities of beer is by far the greatest benefit of collecting beer related items.

I was think about starting to collect energy drink cans bc i think alot of their designs are cool...
Ink: my dad did alot of travelling for work when he was younger and he always bought 2 shot glasses from every Hard Rock Cafe from every city he went to. He has a whole display case full of them. I thought about collect beer bottle caps too when i was younger but most of my family only drinks Becks lol

I collect guns, hardbound books and Knives. when I was young I collected things like baseball cards and foreign coins.

I collect old school analogue synthesizer gear (99% Moog) as well as old computer hardware (I've got many pieces of circuitry, but my favorite is an old Apple IIe that still works)