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[aaamusements]

Watching a program as named above... there was a man on it who had an obsessively ordered collection of over 7000 beer cans.

So the question is, what odd collections do people have (other than fruit machine related stuff)?

[vectra666]

I collected matchboxes then onto pin badges now I collect dust especially if I don,t move a lot

[straekseims]

I used to collect alcopop bottles had em for years (some has BBE 1996) on em when I moved out 15 months ago and had to bin a lot of em...kept some.

 

at school we collected shoe tags like Kickers and CAT tags and ring pulls.

[vectra666]

I remember collecting ring pulls what were they for, was it like collecting tin foil milk bottle tops for the aluminium price and lets not forget them football stickers I never collected them but remember the playground saying got, got got, need got, got , got need lol

[adb]

used to do Pogs..... Tazo's too, would really love to get myself a few just for the nostalgia.

Edited by adb, 12 March 2014 - 09:51 PM.

[wayne123]

i collect £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes - if anyone has any, please donate them to me!

[saynowt]

now don't laugh but I used to collect plugs (omg I know) I had hundreds of the buggers I kept them in my shed in an old box I couldn't chuck anything out till I had the plug off it I always said you will always need plugs,needless to say where most of them went eventually

[aaamusements]

now don't laugh but I used to collect plugs (omg I know) I had hundreds of the buggers I kept them in my shed in an old box I couldn't chuck anything out till I had the plug off it I always said you will always need plugs,needless to say where most of them went eventually

 

I never throw out a modern plug. I use them all eventually.

[Johnnyafc]

I collect Dust

now don't laugh but I used to collect plugs (omg I know) I had hundreds of the buggers I kept them in my shed in an old box I couldn't chuck anything out till I had the plug off it I always said you will always need plugs,needless to say where most of them went eventually

Even Butt ones

[ady]

Watching a program as named above... there was a man on it who had an obsessively ordered collection of over 7000 beer cans.

So the question is, what odd collections do people have (other than fruit machine related stuff)?

 

I have 7001 of those

 

*Edit*

 

7002

[spa]

After all this hype about 50ps I checked a rather large amount I have and found none of those kew gardens. I did gather a large amount of different designs though.

 

So went to royal mint and ordered a couple of albums to put them in. Proper 50p albums and also a £2 coin album also. 

 

New hobby created

[Bencrest]

Once I get a 'collector' type hobby it rapidly gets out of control so I try not to bother these days.

 

One example being my old Pachislo / Pachinko collection. At one point I had 4 Japanese machines in my bedroom - from memory it was a Super Blackjack, King Camel and Neo Pharaoh Zetz (all pachislo) and a Lord of the Rings Pachinko. Doesn't sound like much but took up pretty much all space on my fitted bedroom units - and the weight didn't do them any good!!

 

My main collection at the moment would be music, film and TV, but luckily I keep it on a set of internal / external HDDs, and keep the discs in the garage (somewhere!) so everything is easy to keep in order on the PC - but as part of my 'perfectionist' type behaviour, all files have to be perfectly named, in the correct format, no spelling mistakes, all capital letters in the correct place, correctly tagged, e.t.c.

 

Doesn't sound bad but if I make a change on one drive I have to then make the same change across all other drives, most of which aren't networked

 

Stupid thing is, I've got hundreds of films that I always intend to watch, but tend to stick to the same 20 or so. Same with music, I have a great collection of rock / metal, but once I get a particular album in my rotation, it stays there until I feel like a chance - bit of a waste having such a huge collection

Edited by Bencrest, 13 March 2014 - 08:10 PM.

[vectra666]

I have a big collection of music including the entire now collection from 1-86 so far

[aaamusements]

I have a big collection of music including the entire now collection from 1-86 so far

 

Some of the early ones are very expensive now aren't they?

[vectra666]

only got cd,s from now10 but the early ones are dear now4 upto £500 and any now upto approx 19 can be upto £30

[aaamusements]

only got cd,s from now10 but the early ones are dear now4 upto £500 and any now upto approx 19 can be upto £30

 

Yes, most of the early ones that I have seen are on cassette tape.

[adb]

Can't forget HD DVD!