What is the strangest thing you have ever heard of anyone collecting?

BigE · February 21, 2007 4:00AM

In another post Shiro pointed out that some collect pie tins and toasters

Can you top this?-------------BigE

dcarr · February 21, 2007 4:02AM

I collect El Caminos and related items (models, vintage brochures, etc.).
Also have five of the full-size version.

Barndog · February 21, 2007 4:07AM

"celebrity" sandwiches and other foods...you know the type: Chicken patty shaped like Lincoln, ,Virgin Mary grilled cheese, Nixon potato chips, etc.

Light12 · February 21, 2007 4:09AM

Just as dumb, I collect duck calls.

shirohniichan · February 21, 2007 4:09AM

Step vans

Hugegut · February 21, 2007 4:13AM

Artist · February 21, 2007 4:20AM

I knew a girl who collected those wierd, jagged, plastic pieces that hold supermarket bread bags closed.

In grade school, when I was on the swim team, I collected fifth place ribbons - quite frankly, I thought the green (5th place) was more attractive than the blue (1st place) and so I would try to time my races accordingly - yes, Artist was an Artist even then.

jmcu12 · February 21, 2007 4:23AM

I collect Hard Rock Cafe Pins, Medals, and Coins. (Most of my friends and family, who know, think I am loco for paying for money. Especially when they hear that I spend $250 on a silver $1 coin.)

But a friend of mine collects key chains. He has over 2000, now even I think that is nuts. They just hang on a wall...

combatmailman · February 21, 2007 4:33AM

I know a man who collects teeth, both human and animal. Wierd huh!!

66Tbird · February 21, 2007 4:37AM

I have a small hoard of red LED calculators. One of them, my first, was my grandfathers 'National Simicondutor' (sp?) it is a simple 4 function pocket size and cost $800 new. 1967/68 I think.

Nysoto · February 21, 2007 4:38AM

When I had a summer job in my college years, we put a driveway in for a person who collected one-man submarines. He had four or five arranged in his yard with beauty bark around them. These were submarines he had designed and built, each one was an improvement over the previous, the old model would be "put out to pasture."

kmcoin · February 21, 2007 4:40AM

During WWII in the South Pacific a fellow soldier of my uncle's collected
gold teeth.

I'll let you guess where he found them.

-k

BlindedByEgo · February 21, 2007 4:40AM

Belly button lint.

guitarwes · February 21, 2007 4:43AM

<< During WWII in the South Pacific a fellow soldier of my uncle's collected
gold teeth.

I'll let you guess where he found them.

My neighbor and his brother were in WWII together, and they got their share of these too. I don't think they people they got them from knew it though, well...quite sure they didn't know it!

that's just sick.........................but profitable

boatbldr · February 21, 2007 4:43AM

I've heard of doctors collecting kidney stones, no kidding.

foodude · February 21, 2007 4:44AM

I shudder to see Marty's response to this

OKbustchaser · February 21, 2007 4:47AM

I collect ice cream wrappers.

richardshipp · February 21, 2007 4:52AM

My wife thinks there is something wrong with me collecting these....... maybe she's right, now that I think of it.

walkerminus1 · February 21, 2007 5:06AM

I kid you not, a guy I know collects female pubic hairs. Celeberties and girls he knows. Flipping gross.

SmallTownCoins · February 21, 2007 5:28AM

Clutch · February 21, 2007 5:36AM

My buddy collects old Coca Cola machines.

I collect shark teeth, the old fossilized kind which can be found along the shore (East Coast) occasionally.

I once heard that depending on the type, and size, a shark tooth can be worth several thousand dollars to a museum, or collector.

RichieURich · February 21, 2007 5:37AM

to the boards, Clutch! Enjoy!

stephunter · February 21, 2007 5:39AM

rug beaters

remumc · February 21, 2007 5:46AM

I collect antique, obsolete, and experimental ammunition and miniature weapons. I have a friends that collect Remington typewriters.

Regards,

Wayne

Cladiator · February 21, 2007 5:47AM

Amber. I'd never heard of collecting it until I heard of collecting it.

ABSilvercoins · February 21, 2007 5:56AM

My ex-wife has a collection of ex-husbands.

My mother threw out 400-500 of my comic books from 1957-63. I ALMOST collected on her life insurance.

Shamika · February 21, 2007 6:14AM

I collect elements of the Periodic Table and am not the only board member that does so.

skeeterhawk · February 21, 2007 6:29AM

<< I kid you not, a guy I know collects female pubic hairs. Celeberties and girls he knows. Flipping gross. >>

Does Dansco makes an album that too??????

DNADave · February 21, 2007 6:33AM

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If I push one, will they all fall down?

shirohniichan · February 21, 2007 6:41AM

<< I collect elements of the Periodic Table and am not the only board member that does so. >>

Where do you store the plutonium?

Musky1011 · February 21, 2007 6:51AM

I used to collect 8 Gauge shotgun shells

Michigan · February 21, 2007 6:59AM

I have heard of someone who collectors letters and signatures of infamous murderers and other evil doers. (Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer etc.) They write to the person in prison and hope for a reply. (of course that can't be done with Dahmer these days).

Another unusual collection I have heard of is a collection of barf bags from various airlines. (hopefully without the barf included).

fastrudy · February 21, 2007 8:03AM

I have heard of a doctor who collects ovarian cysts.

cladking · February 21, 2007 8:16AM

I'm always on the lookout for old consumer goods but they are almost impossible to locate. Even
the empty containers are usually unavailable. I probably have the sole remaining bottle of Woodburys
face cream from the late 1920's. It survived because the original owner didn't want it and threw it
away. The aluminum cap somehow saved it. Razor blades, packaged cigarettes, tooth picks, all these
kinds of things have incredible attrition and rarely survive even five years. They get used up or thrown
out because they are too old to use.

This stuff would be highly collectible if it were available.

lathmach · February 21, 2007 8:16AM

My wife (the girl in my sig line), collected nutcrackers. My house is full of these little dolls.
I've promised two of my granddaughters they would be divided between them after I pass away. Some of them cost only a buck or so, some of the fancy ones from Germany cost a little more.
One is made of cast iron.
She never once complained of my collecting coins, and I encourged her collecting hobby.

Ray

droopyd · February 21, 2007 8:44AM

Every Easter, my younger brother would keep an EGG YOLK collection. He'd eat the whites from the hard boiled eggs and keep the yolks, always hiding them very well because he knew that Mom would toss them as soon as she found them.

Of course, the smell would eventually give away their location... but one year she couldn't track them down for a couple of months!

coindeuce · February 21, 2007 9:12AM

On Tuesday 2/20 ABC evening news had a segment about an individual that collects locks of hair from historical icons. His most valued sample of hair is from the head of Abraham Lincoln, which came directly(via previous owners) from the surgeon that attended the mortally wounded President. This all came about in reaction to the fact that some turd who was present at the salon where Britney Spears shaved her head had collected the substance abusing pop stars' recently shed blonde and is offering it in auction.

Rodius · February 21, 2007 9:17AM

I collect christian religious icons. I especially like Roman Catholic and Episcopal. Do you have any for Sale?????

Goober · February 21, 2007 9:27AM

I'm putting together a series of high school yearbooks from my school. Oldest one is 1913. In the 1921 yearbook I purchased I found a 1919 cent.

Fairlaneman · February 21, 2007 9:34AM

Oregon valley people that collect tumbleweeds from eastern Oregon....

Ken

Shamika · February 21, 2007 9:38AM

<< <>

Where do you store the plutonium? >>

Fortunately, some elements are just beyond my reach.

CaptainRon · February 21, 2007 9:44AM

A friend of the family collects old Electric Razors, and shaving devices. And no he is not a barber.

BRdude · February 21, 2007 9:45AM

Got a collectioon of deer antlers in my puter room

Each one they came from was tasty!

Savvy · February 21, 2007 9:58AM

Rodius, I have two .925 silver art medals from the Musei Vaticana dated 1992 in commeration of the renovation of the Sistine Chapel ceiling. They're absolutely beautiful and in a gorgeous presentation case. I got them in Rome on a trip at which several of us had a private audience with John Paul II; I got to shake his hand. Both of them pay tribute to Michel Angelo. I have no idea what they're worth, and I have no photographic capability. PM me if you're interested.

yellowjacket · February 21, 2007 10:06AM

I have a collection of Motel Soaps in their original wrappers. These were popular in the 1940's when peolple traveled by the US highway routes. The wrappers have the Motel's name and address. These include Ivory, Cashmere Bouquet, Dial and the like.

Garrow

messydesk · February 21, 2007 10:09AM

I ought to have my wife read this thread.

ccex · February 21, 2007 10:15AM

<< A friend of the family collects old Electric Razors, and shaving devices. And no he is not a barber. >>

I collect Barber coins, as well as obsolete hard drives, and I am neither a barber nor a driver.

MrHalfDime · February 21, 2007 10:23AM

Many here won't even know what they are, but as an engineer I collect old slide rules. I only have a dozen or so. When I visited Russ Logan (author of the half dime book) several years ago (also an engineer) he showed me his collection of slide rules, numbering in the hundreds!

foxxze · February 21, 2007 10:59AM

turtle peckers.....

OKbustchaser · February 21, 2007 12:25PM

<< Many here won't even know what they are, but as an engineer I collect old slide rules. I only have a dozen or so. When I visited Russ Logan (author of the half dime book) several years ago (also an engineer) he showed me his collection of slide rules, numbering in the hundreds! >>

I used to frustrate the daylights out of my two sons (both chemical engineers) because I used a slide rule rather than a calculator...That was before on a bet I proved to them that I was faster with that slide rule then either of them were with their calculators. I still really enjoy the 1820 curled 2 half that they ended up buying me.

jmj3esq · February 21, 2007 12:31PM

Shark teeth

What is the strangest thing you have ever heard of anyone collecting?

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