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Hey TL, I searched for a similar thread but could not find one.
This is the thread where you can post stories, pictures, and just show off what you collect. For some its coins, others it may be stamps, or 1st edition novels. Whatever it is, lets see it!
Post the basics please:
Why you started collecting
How you got into collecting
and of course, what you collect, and of the collection, which are you most proud of?
I collect leather bound journals
+ Show Spoiler + This is the latest of my collection, hand made and 100% cotton pages. I'm on vacation so I cant post the images of them all together.
I got into journal collecting while on vacation in the country, and I came across a stand where an old man was selling empty journals that he made. I bought one, and have been somewhat addicted ever since.
I'm thinking about starting a collection of antique dip pens like the one showed here but they can get a bit pricey.
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So TL, What do you collect?
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I collect porn, hentai and anime. Should I screen it and post it here?
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On January 22 2013 11:02 OutlaW- wrote: I collect porn, hentai and anime. Should I screen it and post it here?
Haha. Funny.
I actually collect gaming mice. Done it since LMO came out. But it is quite expensive hobby.
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I never sell my video games, so they've become quite a sizeable collection. I'll try to get them all together to post them here sometime. Other than that, I'm still in college so I haven't really had the cash to start collecting anything else that I'd like to, at least not to an amount worth mentioning.
I really like the idea to this thread though, I'll definitely be checking back here from time to time. Seeing what people on TL collect could be quite interesting.
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On January 22 2013 11:05 Chronos. wrote: I really like the idea to this thread though, I'll definitely be checking back here from time to time. Seeing what people on TL collect could be quite interesting.
Thanks! I've met some people that collect cool and unusual things. My aunts old boyfriend would collect drift wood and then paint the wood in the shape of something that looked similar. was really cool unique. Another guy collected bottle caps (which are pretty hard to find now) and had some back from the 50's which I thought was awesome.
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I collect smurfs haha, it started when i was young and my mum bought me some, i now can't stop have over 400 and some are worth $1200 + )
P.S its a secret since all my friends and family wouldn't take me as the man to collect such things.. i'm not the average gamer i'm more Buff and tough then most who game
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On January 22 2013 11:16 Severe wrote:I collect smurfs haha, it started when i was young and my mum bought me some, i now can't stop have over 400 and some are worth $1200 + ) P.S its a secret since all my friends and family wouldn't take me as the man to collect such things.. i'm not the average gamer i'm more Buff and tough then most who game
sounds like you collect insecurities on the side too
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i collect books. currently working on getting the entire Dragonlance collection. i am up to maybe 80 or 90 books. starting to get expensive looking for the outliers.
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On January 22 2013 11:22 bjwithbraces wrote:Show nested quote +On January 22 2013 11:16 Severe wrote:I collect smurfs haha, it started when i was young and my mum bought me some, i now can't stop have over 400 and some are worth $1200 + ) P.S its a secret since all my friends and family wouldn't take me as the man to collect such things.. i'm not the average gamer i'm more Buff and tough then most who game sounds like you collect insecurities on the side too
slamt
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i make/ collect swords! i have 2 that i bought, and many more that i have made! ive kinda always been into the whole fantasy, sword and sorcery thing so i started making them when i was really small, like 7. at that time i made wooden swords and bows and spears, but now i make them out of metal.
i live in a fantasy ;D
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Hm, I didn't really realize it, but in a way, I collect Roger Federer polos.
I don't have all of them by a long shot, because there are a ton of iterations each year and then different colorways on top of that, but I actually have quite a few polo shirts. No way I'm intentionally going to try to collect them, though, because it would be way too expensive, not to mention old ones are hard to find.
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Girl's Virginities.
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On January 22 2013 11:41 HazMat wrote: Girl's Virginities. Doesn't really count when you've only got 0 though
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On January 22 2013 11:35 Gprime wrote: i make/ collect swords! i have 2 that i bought, and many more that i have made! ive kinda always been into the whole fantasy, sword and sorcery thing so i started making them when i was really small, like 7. at that time i made wooden swords and bows and spears, but now i make them out of metal.
i live in a fantasy ;D
You should post vids, and tutorials. O_O
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What is decisive in collecting is that the object is detached from all its original functions in order to enter into the closest coneivable relation to things of the same kind. This relation is the diametric opposite of any utility, and falls into the peculiar category of completeness. What is this “completeness”? It is a grand attempt to overcome the wholly irrational character of the object’s mere presence at hand through its integration into a new, expressly devised historical system: the collection. And for the true collector, every single thing in this system becomes an encyclopedia of all knowledge of the epoch, the landscape, the industry, and the owner from which it comes. It is the deepest enchantment of the collector to enclose the particular item within a magic circle, where, as a last shudder runs through it (the shudder of being acquired), it turns to stone. Everything remembered, everything thought, everything conscious becomes socle, frame, pedestal, seal of his possession. It must not be assumed that the collector, in particular, would find anything strange in the topos hyperouranios - that place beyond the heavens which, for Plato, shelters the unchangeable archetypes of things. He loses himself, assuredly. But he has the strength to pull himself up again by nothing more than a straw; and from out of the sea of fog that envelops his senses rises the newly acquired piece, like an island. - Collecting is a form of practical memory, and of all the profane manifestations of “nearness” it is the most binding. Thus, in a certain sense, the smallest act of political reflection makes for an epoch in the antiques business. We construct here an alarm clock that rouses the kitsch of the previous century to “assembly.”
Perhaps the most deeply hidden motive of the person who collects can be described this way: he takes up the struggle against dispersion. Right from the start, the great collector is struck by the confusion, by the scatter, in which the things of the world are found. It is the same spectacle that so preoccupied the men of the Baroque; in particular, the world image of the allegorist cannot be explained apart from the passionate, distraught concern with this spectacle. The allegorist is, as it were, the polar opposite of the collector. He has given up the attempt to elucidate things through research into their properties and relations. He dislodges things from their context and, from the outset, relies on his profundity to illuminate their meaning. The collector, by contrast, brings together what belongs together; by keeping in mind their affinities and their succession in time, he can eventually furnish information about their objects. Nevertheless - and this is more important than all the differences that may exist between them - in every collector hides an allegorist, and in every allegorist a collector. As far as the collector is concerned, his collection is never complete; for let him discover just a single piece missing, and everything he’s collected remains a patchwork, which is what things are for allegory from the beginning. On the other hand, the allegorist - for whom objects represent only keywords in a secret dictionary, which will make known their meanings to the initiated - precisely the allegorist can never have enough of things. With him, one thing is so little capable of taking the place of another that no possible reflection suffices to foresee what meaning his profundity might lay cleam to for each one of them.
Walter Benjamin
edit: (I collect books and this is in one of them)
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I collect ladder points and terran tears :D
But really I don't collect anything. I'm sort of a minimalist so I don't like to hold on to many things. That being said, I do still have my grandparent's stamp collection I don't really know what to do with.
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On January 22 2013 11:02 OutlaW- wrote: I collect porn, hentai and anime. Should I screen it and post it here? If they are on blu-ray, DVD, or some other physical format, I don't see why not lol
I collect... umm... Unread emails in my inbox? lol I have 2330 across 3 emails atm and I think I cleared my main inbox when it had like 1300 or so a while ago...
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From age 8-14 I was obsessed with lego star wars. I have well over a thousands dollars worth of sets on a shelf.
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I collect virtual cards in the virtual card game Elements. I would require at least 12 screenshots to show the whole collection.
edit: Also, I collect wins and score in the game :D
Not to mention a large multitude of posts across at least 3 forum sites.
A rather old pic of my score and wins. I got quite a bit more score since. 500k area now. + Show Spoiler +
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I collect shot glasses from the places that I've travelled around the world So far I have 12 lol
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