What do you collect?

I sometimes think I'm odd in what I like to collect.....>8)

I collect dishes, tea pots, fancy tea things...

I also have a weird obsession with Queen Mary, of all people! I read a biography about her once and have been obsessed with her ever since!

So I collect all sorts of Queen Mary stuff! My latest 'treasure' is a child's tea set with her and King George V's faces on them.:0!

I live in a small house and have no room for all of this stuff!!:|(



Barb

old keys
clocks (no numbers allowed)

I think old keys are cool! What sort of clocks have no numbers? I'm dying to know!

Queen Mary stuff! That's cool! I have a small collection of Royalty tins that I use in a picnic set. I think one of them is a George and Mary tin.

My main collections are children's picture books and Victorian dishes and dinnerware items. I'm no longer buying these things, though I linger over Victorian cranberry glass pickle castors and salt dishes.

I spent the last few years unloading stuff.

But still, I find small collections popping up! I've got a small number of tiny artist's books and I look on Etsy for those.

Skills, languages, experiences, tools, firearms, edged weapons, watches.

And if you ask my wife, boats and automobiles, though I am positive each of those has a very useful purpose and cannot be parted with.

Dust! Seriously, I've started to collect small and unique nativities from different countries we visit during our traveling.

Antique linens, mostly napkins, table coverings, and handkerchiefs.

Miniature chairs. Tiny teapots. Purchased 90% at thrift stores. Won a blue ribbon at the state fair for the miniature chair collection, and a second place ribbon for the tiny teapots.

Fun, but I'm going to be down-sizing both of those collections soon to only what I absolutely love.

I don't consider my books to be an official collection, but everyone else does. A few very cool antique whisky bottles and a very few antique kitchen items. US coins (very specific examples, not all of them). Sold off other various antiques, a beer can collection, a wine collection, a stamp collection and a large junk collection in a recent decluttering binge. We discovered a collection of memories doesn't take up much room so are working on that.

Thimbles. I started in 1979 thinking "oh, these are cute and small and won't take up a lot of room". Not counting duplicates, I have over 1000. About two years ago I boxed up all but about my favorite 200-250 which are in two wall display cases. Have been trying to figure out what to do with the rest, as they are not something anyone else in the family is interested in and I would hate to leave them for my kids to have to deal with when I'm dead. Maybe some museum somewhere might be interested? Something to look into, I guess.