Do yall only collect cards?

handyman · June 11, 2007 3:02PM

What does everyone collect?
I collect cards, coins and guns.
just wondering if everyone here just collects one thing.

Leiascards · June 11, 2007 3:07PM

Cards and old GI JOE and Transformers from the 1980s.

DayneDrain · June 11, 2007 3:11PM

i collect tons of stuff, mostly cards and autographed items from anyone and everyone..i also collect some video games and anything bengals or reds...so pretty much a crap load! lol but thats part of the fun!

almo

envoy98 · June 11, 2007 3:12PM

I collect signed memorabilia. Not game used stuff...baseballs, bats, jerseys, helmets, 16x20's... Actually, my wife says I accumulate more than I "collect" but I disagree. It all fits nicely in a pile behind my bar.

...I wish I was joking....

Publius · June 11, 2007 3:24PM

Presidential signatures, land grants, 4 ship papers, and coins

Here is one of my favorite land grants, a James Monroe from 1818.

pandrews · June 11, 2007 3:27PM

money, hoes, cars and clothes, thats how all my homiez roll.

and rickey henderson baseball cards.

WarHoundR69 · June 11, 2007 3:30PM

Non=Sports Cards, Sgt. Fury & His Howling Commandoes comics plus Pre Super Hero Marvel Comics.

Barfvader · June 11, 2007 8:38PM

I collect everything.

Click the link and it should give you an idea as to my insanity.

stevek · June 11, 2007 9:29PM

I'm attempting to corner the market in pyrite.

SoFLPhillyFan · June 11, 2007 9:35PM

Vintage Swedish nudist camp magazines.

TNTonPMS · June 11, 2007 10:33PM

I collect Baseball cards , Game used and autographed baseballs , jerseys , stamps , Swords , coins and I used to collect vintage drum sets , but I came to quickly understand I need a hell of a lot of room to store them , so I sold them all and only held onto one set .
I would love to collect guns , but since we had our son 8 years ago, the old lady is just not trying to hear that, she is dead set against them being in the house .
Don't tell her I told ya , I keep only one for home protection .
If she found out , I might get the Bobbit treatment .

Estil · June 11, 2007 10:50PM

I collect only baseball cards and now baseball Becketts (though I MIGHT someday do a Topps football set run). But the wierd thing is that I don't usually have the patience to sit through an actual baseball game unless it's All-Star Game, World Series, or a very special/historical one. However I LOVE baseball history and cards. Isn't that odd?

Jdurg · June 11, 2007 10:53PM

I've got my baseball card collection, my baseball card pack collection, and various other baseball related material. For a while I had a collection of NY Yankees Yearbooks going, but I just lost interest in it and space.

I have a very meager comic book collection of pretty much only Spider-Man comic books. I stopped collecting comic books quite a few years ago (Around Amazing Spider-Man #400) when they made their story lines absolutely ridiculous and you also needed to spend 30 bucks a month just to get all the different versions. If I win the lottery I may go back to collecting these as I really liked the older 1960's - 1990's stories.

I collect modern coins which is basically any coin currently in circulation. I have a completed set of all Roosevelt Dimes including all the proofs that have been minted. It's the only one, besides Sacagawea, that I have completed. The Kennedy Halves will be my next target to complete, eventually.

My pride and joy, however, is what's in my avatar. I love chemistry (have a B.S. in Forensic Chemistry) and decided to collect a sample of every element on the periodic table that you could feasibly collect. I can now say that I have a pure sample of every stable element on the table, as well as samples of Thorium Metal, Uranium Metal, Radium Chloride, Promethium Chloride, and Americium Oxide. I love this collection with all my heart and am just amazed when I hold a sample of Uranium Metal (sealed in an ampoule) in my hand, or see the golden liquidity of cesium metal, the blue hint to osmium metal, the INCREDIBLE density of iridium metal, the beauty of pure gold, the way gallium liquifies in your hand, the many different allotropes of phosphorus, the beautiful colors given off by discharge tubes of the gases, etc. etc. It's an amazing collection and I always get compliments about it when people see it. It's especially neat seeing their reaction when they finally see what certain elements look and feel like in real life. (In my office here are work the wall behind me is covered by a large printed poster of photos of all my elements).

fiveniner · June 11, 2007 11:01PM

Baseball cards mostly 50s and 60s,Old Baseball pubs from same era and Baseball autographs 50s,60s era.

TNTonPMS · June 11, 2007 11:12PM

That is a very interesting collection JDurg .
I love chemistry too but I don't have the brains to really do anything with the love .
It is interesting to read about other peoples projects though .
Very cool .

fandango · June 11, 2007 11:20PM

jdurg, any closeup pictures of your elements? sounds interesting..

is anyone allowed to have uranium?

PuertoRicanFogBank · June 12, 2007 1:00AM

My pride and joy, however, is what's in my avatar. I love chemistry (have a B.S. in Forensic Chemistry) and decided to collect a sample of every element on the periodic table that you could feasibly collect. I can now say that I have a pure sample of every stable element on the table, as well as samples of Thorium Metal, Uranium Metal, Radium Chloride, Promethium Chloride, and Americium Oxide. I love this collection with all my heart and am just amazed when I hold a sample of Uranium Metal (sealed in an ampoule) in my hand, or see the golden liquidity of cesium metal, the blue hint to osmium metal, the INCREDIBLE density of iridium metal, the beauty of pure gold, the way gallium liquifies in your hand, the many different allotropes of phosphorus, the beautiful colors given off by discharge tubes of the gases, etc. etc. It's an amazing collection and I always get compliments about it when people see it. It's especially neat seeing their reaction when they finally see what certain elements look and feel like in real life. (In my office here are work the wall behind me is covered by a large printed poster of photos of all my elements).

I want to party with you, cowboy!

Oh yeah, I collect beer cans, too.

HeritageAddict · June 12, 2007 1:22AM

Baseball cards and guns.

kylehess10 · June 12, 2007 1:28AM

I'm collect game used memorabilia..........been collecting for over a year now after collecting cards for like 5 years

TheVon · June 12, 2007 2:02AM

I like to collect baseball team yearbooks.

stown · June 12, 2007 2:12AM

Cards, autos on my HOF bat and helmet, some autos on my newly created Heisman helmet, and last but not least, my favorite 'Stros on a bat.

Whew.

1989FleerBillRipkencollector · June 12, 2007 2:18AM

Star Wars Troopers-Single carded, one of each, vintage to present.
Snow Trooper
Storm Trooper
Sand Trooper
Clone Trooper
Dark Trooper
Scout Trooper
Space Trooper
etc....I love it. My boys do too !! appx. 85 so far !

BobaFett72 · June 12, 2007 3:47AM

Star Wars stuff, especially the bad guys and Bounty Hunters

evil is just so much cooler....
Cleveland Indians memorabilia, the occaisional coin here and there....

and I also collect dust, especially when I sit at my computer playing card games...(it's Chinchilla dust

from my Chinchilla....its EVERYWHERE lol.

MooseDog · June 12, 2007 3:51AM

I used to collect everything, then concentrated on autographs. Got into ticket stubs for awhile.

Now I just collect more debt.

roastedcat · June 12, 2007 5:03AM

I'm a starwars freak, Jery's starwars collection on page 2

PasadenaMudSlide · June 12, 2007 7:50AM

Now I just collect more debt.

I hear you barkin'.

Knuckles · June 12, 2007 8:29AM

Autographs, speedng tickets and game used/worn stuff.

jimq112 · June 12, 2007 8:35AM

I collect cars also, my wife is much happier when I buy a card than a car

MeteoriteGuy · June 12, 2007 8:59AM

It is hard to draw the line for me on what I collect and what I buy and resale. I haven't had a paycheck in about 7-8 years, but I own my own house completely paid for, in which every room (minus the laundry and bathroom) are boxes of inventory and collectibles.

I sell coins, stamps, cards, postcards, minerals and just about anything I can offer someone via e-mail or list on ebay. I am now to the point that I am more of a seller then a collector so I have learned to find things I like to collect that do not cost a lot of money.

Having said that, I have pretty vast personal collections of coins, US stamps (and first day covers of the 7-1-1971 stamp), meteorites, original war letters, Cracked Magazine Art, Steve Young cards, 1980-1990's card sets and modern PSA 10's. Or at least this has been more my interest the last couple years.

Mark

originalisbest · June 12, 2007 9:43AM

Besides cards - coins, comics, models (aurora and cars.) That's about it in a nutshell - "ephemera" (largely paper) is also welcome.

RedHeart54 · June 12, 2007 10:05AM

For a while I was collecting the very action figures I played with as a kid (though in the unopened state) such as CHiPs, A-Team, Emergency. I sold those off a year or so ago for space reasons but I enjoyed havin them "again". I still collect memorabilia from the original Major Indoor Soccer League, especially games on DVD/VHS. My father has a stamp collection in which I'm going to have to learn about one of these days. He's collected as long as I've been alive but I just never educated myself about the hobby.

PasadenaMudSlide · June 12, 2007 10:15AM

This is an interesting thread.

Nice job, guys.

chaz43 · June 12, 2007 11:13AM

just hoes... it' s not hard gettin'em, the tough part is gettin' rid of em'. chaz

Jdurg · June 12, 2007 12:41PM

<< jdurg, any closeup pictures of your elements? sounds interesting..

is anyone allowed to have uranium? >>

Yup. Go to www.chemicalforums.com and click on the link on the left-hand side titled 'Periodic Table'. The photos you see there are ones I've taken of my samples in my collection. I will admit that I have been way too busy to update them lately so some of the photos are a bit outdated. (E.G. I've gotten better samples or traded away lesser samples).

Uranium metal is really cool. It is so incredibly dense that it makes lead seem like tin-foil. You do not need a license to own up to about five pounds of depleted uranium. Depleted Uranium has such a low amount of fissionable U-235 in it that it is really useless as anything but a metal. Yes, uranium is radioactive but it's half life is on the order of BILLIONS of years so in all reality it's not that radioactive. It is primarily an alpha particle emitter and some gamma rays but nothing of any concern. Alpha particles are stopped by a few inches of air or the dead layer of skin on your body. Therefore, externally uranium metal is not a concern. Internally, it can be nasty but that's more of a toxicological effect than it is a radiological effect. It is, after all, a heavy metal akin to lead and mercury. Oddly enough, Depleted Uranium is actually used to make shipping containers for highly radioactive materials. The Uranium is so dense that it is far greater at blocking radiation than lead is. If you take a can made out of uranium and surround that with some lead, you will have an EXTREMELY heavy but perfect container for holding radioactive material.

Thulnanth · June 12, 2007 2:19PM

1. Cards - primarily Magic: the Gathering
2. Coins - primarily $5 gold
3. Comics - primarily Spider-Man
4. Mechwarrior - see avatar

5. Roleplaying books - primarily D&D
6. Vintage Star Wars action figures

I used to collect lots of other stuff, but lately I've been thinning down my "junk". Currently I'm in the process of organizing/ displaying/ inventoring all my hobby stuff - getting close to finishing now

Take it easy,
Jared

JeremyDie1 · June 12, 2007 2:45PM

Sport cards,coins,comics,sport figurines,currency,stamps,starwars figures,coin books,matchbox cars,and watches.

bigdcards · June 12, 2007 2:56PM

80's non-sport wax packs. Completely worthless and I love 'em!

Wait these are still cards aren't they...

clarkbar04 · June 12, 2007 3:19PM

Coins, cards, and cars.

TNTonPMS · June 12, 2007 9:24PM

<< just hoes... it' s not hard gettin'em, the tough part is gettin' rid of em'. chaz >>

Ah ha ha ha ha

Baby . . .baby . . . baby , you got's to go ! . . you aint got's to go home , but you can't stay here .

Man . . .do I miss those days .

cohocorp · June 12, 2007 11:49PM

cards, coins, guns and anitique cars. the cars are alittle more difficult due to pricing and space.

earlycalguy · June 13, 2007 12:03AM

<< just hoes... it' s not hard gettin'em, the tough part is gettin' rid of em'. chaz >>

Chaz - don't you mean hoes and sheet cut cards?

Bigstep · June 13, 2007 2:19AM

Beer steins, cards, antique guns and the parallel collectables that go with them like medals, signs ,mags, photos etc. What I need is a Collectors Anonymous Group "Hi my name is Rich and I'm a collectaholic"

FavreFan1971 · June 13, 2007 2:36AM

Football cards in General. Focus on Packer Cards and memoribilia. Secondary focus and a 10+ year project is the HOF Rookie set for football. I have a few cool auto's of Packers and a load of 8x10's. I will finish my basement off and turn it into a Packer Sports basement. There will be 6 larger walls and four of them will be dedicated to Packer stuff the other two will be WI Badger, Milw Brewers, Bucks, UW-Milwaukee, and UW-Green Bay.

chaz43 · June 13, 2007 3:46AM

<< 

<< just hoes... it' s not hard gettin'em, the tough part is gettin' rid of em'. chaz >>

Chaz - don't you mean hoes and sheet cut cards? >>

Sheet cut hoes' are the WORST !!!!!! chaz

chaz43 · June 13, 2007 3:49AM

<< 

<< 

<< just hoes... it' s not hard gettin'em, the tough part is gettin' rid of em'. chaz >>

Chaz - don't you mean hoes and sheet cut cards? >>

Sheet cut hoes' are the WORST !!!!!! chaz >>

Ooops... I forgot...Hand Cut Hoes' are really the WORST!!!!! chaz

TheCARDKid · June 13, 2007 6:45AM

-Cards

-1980's toys (GI Joe, Transformers, maybe some MASK toys later on)

-1980's Garbage Pail Kids

1989FleerBillRipkencollector · June 13, 2007 7:23AM

ah I remember MASK. Picked up the 1st comic at the Goodwill for .25 a while back.

chaz43 · June 13, 2007 10:11AM

Sheet cut or hand cut?? chaz

JustAl · June 14, 2007 9:45AM

Basbeball cards and...
- Vietnam War NVA/VC propaganda to American troops (leaflets, posters, etc)
- Lots of other random crap that drives my wife nuts

Jdurg · June 14, 2007 11:45AM

I know this is kind of off-topic, but it is in relation to one of my other collections. Today I was surfing the web and came across a site that was using some of my Element Collection photos on their site. (They properly referenced me as the source of the photos so I had absolutey zero issues with them using the photos). Anyway, I e-mailed them and let them know that I have far more photos they can use if they want to. The person e-mailed me back and let me know that a certain corporation recently asked to use some of the photos I had taken as part of an art gallery at one of their sites. Well, the corporation that asked her is the corporation I work for! In fact, the site they have the art gallery in (Sandwich, Kent, UK) is the site that nearly all of my work is based out of. In fact, I was at the site last November on a business trip. I was so psyched to hear that my company likes my photos so much that they wanted to use them. The person gave me the contact name of the person who aske her for permission and I'm going to get in touch with that person and offer up more photos if she wants them.

Do yall only collect cards?

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