OT: Other than whistles, what do you collect?

Tyghress · Post by **Tyghress** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 1:10 pm

Tiger stuff. . .all of it was at work, but now, with FIVE DAYS TO GO, I've brought it all home.

Used to have a fairly wide unicorn collection...now I've paired back to the unique ones...numbered, hand crafted, etc

Tyghre has a collection of flashlights that is awesome and bewildering, but he doesn't think of it as a collection per se, rather, each one is vital and useful and necessary in the house. Kind of like my whistles

Lot of books, but that's not a collection

Hostas...28 varieties in my 1/4 acre piece of property.

Ridseard · Post by **Ridseard** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 1:54 pm

I do not collect whistles or anything else. However, books do tend to accumulate somehow.

Jane · Post by **Jane** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 2:42 pm

Art supplies! Everything from blow torches to crochet hooks. Glass work to rubber stamps.....

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 3:06 pm

Children.

Arleen collects them, actually. She goes to ridiculous places to collect them, like Siberia.

The standard conversation goes like this:

"How many children have you?"

"Well, let's see. This is Sunday. Five, I think. Three more on the way."

Best wishes,
Jerry

spittin_in_the_wind · Post by **spittin_in_the_wind** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 3:18 pm

We have an impressive collection of wine corks after 14 years of weekly steak and wine dinners with the spouse....14 years minus nine months for each of the kids, approximately, makes about 650 corks! We're starting to run out of room so I've had to start throwing them away. Someday we'll figure out a use for them!

Robin

cj · Post by cj » Sun Sep 07, 2003 3:44 pm

Books and musical instruments and books regarding musical instruments (have too many tutorials). Obviously I have WhOA really bad, and I also have a mando, an octave mando, flutes (yes, the Boehm kind and a cool Native American flute), recorders

, a fife, a keyboard, and a few guitars. I like folk instruments, and the Boehm flute and piano were instruments I learned as a child and still like.

I never get bored though!

jim_mc · Post by **jim_mc** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 5:19 pm

I have a bunch of turtle figurines, stuffed animals and art, including two that were sculpted by my older son, one carved from wood and one permanently inked on my back. I only collect instruments that I actually play, which means less than 20 whistles and a smaller, but really excellent, collection of fifes.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 6:30 pm

I didn't think of instruments as a 'collection', right away, so <a href="http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php ... 5">here</a> is mine.

Quote @ Sara

I just wanted to say, I really dig your avatar - very cool!

I like yours, too.

Sara · Post by **Sara** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 6:37 pm

Cranberry wrote:
Quote @ Sara
I just wanted to say, I really dig your avatar - very cool!
I like yours, too.

Thank you!!

Tyghress · Post by **Tyghress** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 7:03 pm

Shewt...I thought I was done, but you people reminded me of the little collections....um, rubber stamps (primarily botanicals) and frogs...two very specific mini-collections, one outdoor collection of froggy garden figurines (hiding amid the hostae) and one indoor collection of paired froggies. . .um. . .caught in the act.

lilymaid · Post by **lilymaid** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 7:08 pm

Objects:
Antique books. Scarves, shawls, and wraps. Beads.
Thoughts:
Quotations and versions of my favourite ballads.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 7:15 pm

I love hostas, especially when they're all bunched together, under a tree.

Speaking of plants, I have a <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering ... >wandering jew plant</a> on the porch that's 'collected' itself beyond hope this summer (it's at least a few feet long, started out as a couple of inches). I'm going to cut most of it away, but if anybody here wants some just PM me and I'll give it to you for free. It's sending roots everywhere. Grows super easy and super fast.

Rod Sprague · Post by **Rod Sprague** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 8:04 pm

I collect clones of native edible, useful and just interesting fungal fruiting bodies (mushrooms). I have most of the clones in the fridge growing on cornmeal agar. I also have the equipment to go with that hobby, so I also collect microbiological equipment including a 50-gallon pressure cooker to autoclave stuff in and numerous mason jars to make mushroom spawn in. I even made my own small propane burner from aquarium and gas line fittings, an aquarium pump and an oilcan to flame sterilize microbiology tools as I inoculate petri dishes and other culture containers.
Rod

spittin_in_the_wind · Post by **spittin_in_the_wind** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 8:31 pm

Rod Sprague wrote:I collect clones of native edible, useful and just interesting fungal fruiting bodies (mushrooms). I have most of the clones in the fridge growing on cornmeal agar. I also have the equipment to go with that hobby, so I also collect microbiological equipment including a 50-gallon pressure cooker to autoclave stuff in and numerous mason jars to make mushroom spawn in. I even made my own small propane burner from aquarium and gas line fittings, an aquarium pump and an oilcan to flame sterilize microbiology tools as I inoculate petri dishes and other culture containers.
Rod

Oh boy, don't EVEN talk to my husband, he keeps going on about growing morels in our basement...

:roll:

Robin

PapoAnaya · Post by **PapoAnaya** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 8:36 pm

Good Evening:

Well...

I collect old cameras and musical instruments. I think I have way to many of them that my time allows to play them.

My wife collects cooking books.

Luis