Hobbies - Collections

[volf]

Simple really - What do you collect? I wont laugh if you say you collect stamps *Snigger* I view it as "Each to their own"

So,

1. What do you collect?
2. Why did you start?
3. How big is your collection?
4. Any photos?

My answers

1. I collect, Inflatable animal toys. Mainly the kind you can ride on, Such as Whales, Sharks etc.

2. I dont really know to be honest! I started back when I was 13 I think, For my birthday, I was given a Crocodile which lasted 3 years as I never took it to a pool (couldnt go half the time) Which brust sadly, after that, I got another one... and then a whale and I just kept buying more! After that, I thought I'd make a collection out of it.

You'l be surpirzed to know that there are other people out there who too collect inflatable toys as I do, Many of which have spent alot of money getting some items! But I wont go that far!

3. Ive never really given it much thought to how many I have. I think its within the area of about 18+

4. I think I would have to get them all out in one day for one big photo... But I dont think thats going to happen for a long time! No space!

[southside]

I used to collect model cars from when i was about 5-6 all the way up to 17 then i got my 1st real car. Got thousands all in the loft now, some are worth a fortune but cant bare to part with them. I just seam to collect full size cars now much to my moms annoyance

[BlueRover]

1. What do you collect?
2. Why did you start?
3. How big is your collection?
4. Any photos?

1: I collect all sorts of things, my latest one is dust.
2: Because I can't be bothered dusting.
3: I've got a houseful.
4: I'd be too embarassed to show you...

I do have a few printed milk bottles.
I have a few cameras.
I have quite a lot of Lego.

[bjrespect]

i seem to collect induction kits there scattered all over my garage

[BrackenFox]

1 - Aside from random bits of Rover (and dust, obviously!), I collect foxes. Well, not real ones, but anything remotely vulpine-based, pictures, paintings, books, ornaments, etc. I also have a smaller wolf collection for those moments when I run out of foxes to buy.

2 - I started when I was two, apparently, when my brother bought me a big Basil Brush toy. It's kind of gone downhill from there!

3 - Very big. If it has a fox on it, I probably have it, from a 10p ornament to an original painting by a famous wildlife illustrator worth about five times as much as my car, which was found at a car boot sale for £45.

4 - Nope!

[listie]

1. What do you collect?
2. Why did you start?
3. How big is your collection?
4. Any photos?

Did Collect
1. Little matchbox / dinky / corgi cars
2. Started when I was about 5
3. Chuffing huge boxes amd boxes of the stuff in the loft
4. No

Just starting to collect

1. Rc cars
2. Its fun
3. 4 at the moment
4. not yet

[Raistlin]

I collect books.

Don't know why or when it started - it just happened

Approximately 1600 at the moment - some good first editions as well

Who wants to look a photograph of books

Rob has seen some of them, makes the living room look pretty boring actually.

[Punx0r]

I feel sorry for whoever helps you move house!

[victor3]

Approximately 1600 at the moment - some good first editions as well

Not unexpected, Paul! Do you have a favourite fiction author and non-fiction author?

Mine are - Frederick Forsyth and Dale Carnegie.

I have a relatively small collection as I tend to give away most of the ones that I've read.

[NoobCannon]

1. I collect, Inflatable animal toys. Mainly the kind you can ride on, Such as Whales, Sharks etc.

are they all of the wipe clean variety i take it, rofl

[Raistlin]

Not unexpected, Paul!

Not quite sure what you mean Victor

Do you have a favourite fiction author and non-fiction author?

John Mortimer, of course , Chaucer (in his original text) and Colin Dexter. Nobody specific in terms of non fiction though - my interests are too wide I think.

I have a relatively small collection as I tend to give away most of the ones that I've read.

I have NEVER parted with a book. I still have my Rupert 1960 annual

[shen]

1: souls

2: an agreement with death

3: billions

4: only celebrities

[volf]

1. I collect, Inflatable animal toys. Mainly the kind you can ride on, Such as Whales, Sharks etc.

are they all of the wipe clean variety i take it, rofl

EEwwwww!

[618ireland]

Not unexpected, Paul!

Not quite sure what you mean Victor

I would imagine that he was not surprised as you come across as a very articulate, well read chap, such chaps often have many books. Although he could have been calling you a boring bastad (doubt it though)

[Raistlin]

Not unexpected, Paul!

Not quite sure what you mean Victor

I would imagine that he was not surprised as you come across as a very articulate, well read chap, such chaps often have many books. Although he could have been calling you a boring bastad (doubt it though)

AH - maybe you're right. My "auto defence mechanism" is probably working overtime today

[mach1rob]

Although he could have been calling you a boring bastad (doubt it though)

Weeeeeeeeeeeell

Of course there is one huge bonus about having a bookshelf that takes up so much space, it saves redecorating

[victor3]

Not unexpected, Paul!

Not quite sure what you mean Victor

I would imagine that he was not surprised as you come across as a very articulate, well read chap, such chaps often have many books. Although he could have been calling you a boring bastad (doubt it though)

AH - maybe you're right. My "auto defence mechanism" is probably working overtime today

Paul, I assume that most of them are now fully coloured in!

[dave-mg]

1. What do you collect? keyrings

2. Why did you start? i started to collect them when i was working in iraq,i was getting paid local money as well and had nothing to spend it on.

3. How big is your collection? i gave up counting them after 600 (and that was a few years ago now)

4. Any photos? no pics theyre all in cardboard boxes and scattered around the house

[Roger Red Hat]

cars again

i have the entire del prado collection...its worth about 600 quid.

[benno_bro]

1: Beanie Babies (TY) Only the bears though
2: Got one as a present for the Mrs
3: I guess around 80ish
4: Nope

It's her collection really, I just tend to encourage the matter when I see one we haven't got in the local shop.

[volf]

Just had a count up and a clear out, so far Ive got 24 and counting! I really should do somthing about space thou.

Link to online album for those who might be interested.
http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y264/__Volf__/Toys/

[mg-richard]

Just had a count up and a clear out, so far Ive got 24 and counting! I really should do somthing about space thou.

Link to online album for those who might be interested.
http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y264/__Volf__/Toys/

now that is funny, you should play pooh sticks with them

[volf]

Just had a count up and a clear out, so far Ive got 24 and counting! I really should do somthing about space thou.

Link to online album for those who might be interested.
http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y264/__Volf__/Toys/

now that is funny, you should play pooh sticks with them

If there was a stream big enough for them all! I dont fancy taking some of them out, been looking for a few for a LONG time now, its taken some time to get some of the more rare ones!

[Vard66]

1: beer bottles, all empty. Bottle caps, all bent off in the process of opening. (That one's only half sarcastic, I've actually started taking bottle caps off really carefully, but only off the ales. Guitars. I love guitars. Seems to be going towards a car collection atm, but only till my 214 is sold (HINT HINT CHECK THE CARS FOR SALE AREA). I'm also thinking about starting up a collection of 1:12 or similar size die casts of all the cars I've owned. Specific models, just as a memento. Also, pieces of car. I've got the 'Peugeot' badge off of the side of my 205 sewn onto a t-shirt that I'm particularly fond of, and I'm thinking of getting a Rover badge like the ones I made into a keyring, to make one of them into a pin, just soldering a spring pin on the back of it...

2:The only one with a reason behind it is the die cast cars idea, though that's not started yet, I've got to have spare cash to do it with...

3: hundreds, thousands, four, two and none, in that respective order.

4: I've a few photos of the cars, maybe some photos of the guitars individually somewhere on here, but they'll most of them be poor quality of me on various stages around local pubs/ village halls etc etc. I don't think I'll bother taking photos of the beer bottles/caps...

[volf]

New item for the growing collection...



And one which Im still trying to find...

[KyleAsh]

1. I collect, Inflatable animal toys. Mainly the kind you can ride on, Such as Whales, Sharks etc.

are they all of the wipe clean variety i take it, rofl

I was waiting for that


^ thats huuuugggee!

I collect junk!

Started from lazyness!

I have lots!

No pictures! Just a garage full of bits of rover 200 that i say may be useful ( even though i know it wont)

[volf]

Indeed huge! 6foot tall by 9foot long

[Punx0r]

It'll be one of these next...

[volf]

whaaat the heeeeelll?

[Vard66]

How often do you get told you're weird, Volf? Just curiosity...

[Roger Red Hat]

ha!

made me giggle


edit

the bondage person thing not vard being werid...i alredy knew that

[Vard66]

ha! ... vard being werid...i alredy knew that

I can quite, quite easily take back every nice thing I've said about your GSi, Rog... Chose your words carefully... *Strokes imaginary gargantuanly fluffy white cat on lap*

[Roger Red Hat]

hmm i ment to say volf!

i was reading your post and typed your name instead!

*strokes really fluffy ginger cat i have sitting on my lap rite now "

[Vard66]

*wishes he had a cat as well as a dog, as the dog's infinitely too big to fit on anyone's lap*

[volf]

How often do you get told you're weird, Volf? Just curiosity...

All the time