Weird Collections

[Angel Tarragon]

I collect the twist off bottletops of soda containers. Acyually, I do it as a service for a friend of mine. He has a large collection of posable Star Wars figures and plans to use the bottletops as a standee base for his figures. He had over 6000 blue bottletops but the people that supervise his cleaning affairs decided to get rid of them for him. So I decided to help him out in replacing those. Luckily my mom and dad go through a minimum of one 2 liter of soda every day, so that equates to at least 14 bottletops a week.

I myself collect magazines, most notably TV Guides. My most prized on is the issue that porclaims Fantasia 50th anniversary. What weird collections do you have?

 

[Turanil]

No weird colection, but I wanted to be the first to reply...
(Wel, I just collect some dice, some minis, and some DVDs) :\

 

[Hand of Evil]

Small boxes and smalls Swords. A number of years ago I decided at each GENCON I would bring back something different to remember it, I started with small swords, you see them mixed at jewelry booths, they look cool but there was just a limited number, so, I moved on to boxes. These are normally made out of resin, one I have is green and has an octopus in relief on its lid, last year in the art show I found one that had a dragon head in on the lid, that is just wonderful in detail.

 

[James Heard]

I collect monkeys, from the many stuffed plush monkey sorts to craft art monkeys to monkey mugs and I even have resin sculptures of monkeys to match my monkey shot glasses. My little buddha collection seems to freak people out more, because I've started collecting these little fat dudes with satanic looking children hanging off of them done up in some common reddish style. I've been trying to figure out exactly what to call them, since all the clerks in the holes I've been finding them in weren't exactly understanding why I'd care or find them appealing. Beyond that my "collections" include old wire and wood sculptures that I've made that no one wanted, similar paintings and half finished/abandoned paintings, and my grandmother made me a whole crapload of plates one year that I feel obligated to put up even though they really don't do anything for me. A lot of my furniture was made by my grandfather, who's a 50+ year carpenter by trade but has some weird ideas about furniture so it looks like a collection too. I used to have a really awesome RPG collection starting from about 1981 or so, but critters got into it all when I had it in storage while I was living in Hawaii and there's some water damage/mold on a lot of it too. Oh well, I like the monkeys more anyways.

 

[Zander]

Some things I collect that are a bit unusual:

• Fantasy/gaming mugs
• Fantasy toys
• Fantasy/gaming badges ("buttons" in the US)
• Books about RPGs and gamers

I also collect minis, dice, RPG ephemera/collectibles and fantasy movies but those aren't unusual among gamers.

 

[reveal]

What weird collections do you have?

The hearts of my enemies.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

and some DVDs

imports?

 

[BullMarkOne]

According to my girlfriend I collect dust.

 

[der_kluge]

I collect pop tabs. I intend to make a suit of armor out of them.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

I collect pop tabs. I intend to make a suit of armor out of them.

Back in the day (this was in '85) when cans had "real" pull tabs that came completely off the can, I saw a guy at an outdoor concert wearing a shirt he'd made from beer tabs that day. He just saved the ones from cans he drank, collected the rest from others, and throughout the course of the day put together a pretty cool looking shirt.

I don't really collect anything anymore. I used to be a pretty avid album collector, with the goal of collecting every release from the particular artist or band I was into at the time. The real world stepped in and halted that. My son collects those super-bouncy rubber balls you get from vending machines. He's got over 200 that I'm aware of.