So what do you hoard?

[curses]

In the packing boxes thread (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14399), lees said:
I hoard other stupid stuff - but that's a whole 'nother thread..

So here's the other thread. What do you hoard? Me? It's shoes. I amass huge quantities of the buggers, most with no intention of ever wearing. My favorite pair to look at now are a pair of 7" heels. Stripper shoes, if you will, with patent leather bottoms and fake zebra skin tops. Very cute. I can wear them, but where the hell would I realistically wear a pair of 7" heels? Preemptive :glare: for anyone who says "The strip club".

[Naruto]

I can wear them, but where the hell would I realistically wear a pair of 7" heels? Preemptive :glare: for anyone who says "The strip club".

What about as a patron?

[curses]

Alcohol = big heels = an accident waiting to happen ;)

* curses actually LIKES going to strip clubs so long as the girls ain't fugly.

[godfry n. glad]

Teeshirts. I've an entire trunk full of them. They're either too small (most of them) or too large (a few), but I keep 'em 'cause I just might be able to fit into them...sometime...in the future.

Books. 'Nuff said.

I also hoard hats...but I call them a collection.

[Leesifer]

* Leesifer gromps curses - twice. Once for the thread and second for the shoes

Oh dear, I hoard clothes. I know I'm never going to wear them again but I keep them.

My worst hoardationess is books! I have tons of books here. I also have boxes of books at my parents house and at my brothers house.

[wildernesse]

I hoard magazines. This was apparent in our last move. I decided to let go of my Smithsonian magazine collection, which I haven't even gotten new issues of in several years. I have a multiple year Martha Stewart Living hoard. I purged my Bon Appetit's by cutting out the recipes that I loved, and did the same for my Backpacker magazines on lists and pictures I like. I also have 3 years of Everyday Food, which aren't going anywhere.

Other than that, I don't think anything I have would qualify as a hoard. Books don't count!

[Qingdai]

Children's clothes, shoes, t-shirts, children's books, paper bags, all my old bills, too much crap. If I had room I'd keep more. My husband dreams about having a room with a table and a chair in it, and nothing else. Not when he's living with me!

[livius drusus]

Yeah, books totally don't count!1 It's not a hoard; it's a library.

:caught:

[livius drusus]

:lol: I love your new sig, Qingdai.

[Dingfod]

Teeshirts. I've an entire trunk full of them. They're either too small (most of them) or too large (a few), but I keep 'em 'cause I just might be able to fit into them...sometime...in the future.Me too. And jeans, and dress shirts, and dress pants, and sports jackets, and overcoats. In fact, over half of my closet is full of stuff I would have to lose over 50 pounds to wear again. One of these days, ...

I also hoard hats...but I call them a collection.I once had a collection of oilfield "gimme" caps, about 40 different ones, some from oil companies, many from oilfield service companies and a few were farm equipment related. My wife, not realizing it was a collection I valued, sold the lot of them for 10 cents each at a garage sale. I had spent about 10 years collecting them, they went out the door for $3.90 to one solitary buyer.

[Qingdai]

:lol: I love your new sig, Qingdai.

Thank you. It's the text of one of the inspirational posters in the prison on My Name is Earl.
Had there been a warden giving a "thumbs up" gesture, I would have used that.
Luckily my second choice, back stabbing smilies, was widely available. Must come up a lot!

[Ymir's blood]

Books :glare:
metal miniatures, more than I'll ever get painted
curios. resin gargoyles, candlesticks, oddities.
I have a lot of footwear for a guy, mostly boots

[freemonkey]

I have lots of books, but I wouldn't say I horde them, because I do get rid of the ones I don't want anymore. By taking them to Half-Price Books and trading them. For more books. It is an efficient system. :curtsey:

I also love ceramic stoneware & pottery. But not so much the fancy-schmancy stuff (well, I like the art pottery, but I can't afford any of it, except for a couple very lucky finds). I like old Asian ceramics and something that's somewhere between what they call "studio" pottery and "hobby" pottery. I like bowls and pots and vases. And raku. When I buy stuff its almost always from thrifts.

Now here's my weird horde stuff. Don't laugh.

I love to beachcomb and I will fill my pockets with broken shells, stones that catch my eye, bones, driftwood, rusty metal, you name it.

I also pick up metal - rusty and otherwise - things I find in parking lots and on the street, or at the local thrift. I always say I will use them in art someday. And I have done so, but most of it just sits there, waiting.

For instance, I have a collection of some flat metal things that I am pretty certain come off of cars, because I find them in parking lots all the time. I have no idea what they are. I'm sure that if I took one to an auto parts store or a mechanic, they could tell me right away, but I kind of like living with that mystery. :wink:

[Qingdai]

I wondered about flat metal things found on the street for a long time, look at a street sweeper's brushes some time.

My husband collects playing cards he finds on the street. There are a lot of them, and we live nowhere near Lost Wages.

[chick]

I hoard papers. Documents, files, mail; if it's made of paper, I'm saving it.

Also, old clothes, glad I'm not alone there.

[Dingfod]

Found Photos (http://www.10eastern.com/foundphotos/)is just that, found photos.

[inland wave]

whoopty, fucking do?? Photos, random fucking photos of no one you know, that mean absoultely nothing to you or me for that matter......So the hell what....I mean really.

[freemonkey]

I wondered about flat metal things found on the street for a long time, look at a street sweeper's brushes some time.
Thanks! If I can ever close enough to one, I will do that.

whoopty, fucking do?? Photos, random fucking photos of no one you know

I have some of those, too. :blush:

[Pinecone]

I have too many of quite a few things but no hoard of anything that I think will be useful someday so I'm storing it.

If the world goes all insane never mind attacking this place, I'll be out of anything worth while in a month.

I should start hoarding chocolate, sugar and coffee!!! I won't want to live past a month without those.

[seebs]

Weird candy, computer parts and cables (I unloaded about three TONS a while back), books of course, any and all paper correspondence, financial paperwork, and video games.

[godfry n. glad]

:dddp:

[godfry n. glad]

whoopty, fucking do?? Photos, random fucking photos of no one you know, that mean absoultely nothing to you or me for that matter......So the hell what....I mean really.

LOL

That reminds me of the holiday gift my paternal grandmother got for my father one year. She was of the era when she raised nine kids through the Great Depression, so she was tightfisted. Evidently, she'd found a whole shoebox of somebody's photos, probably at a jumble sale of some kind, and bought it for a dollar. She then wrapped it up nice and gave it to my father as a gift. I was an adult at the time.

Everybody gathered for the holiday meal thumbed through them, looking for anything that looked familiar, thinking they must be valued old family photos. No such luck.

When it dawned on all of us gathered that this was Gramma's idea of a joke, we all had a good laugh. We're still not quite sure why.

[curses]

Weird candy, computer parts and cables (I unloaded about three TONS a while back), Oh shit I'd forgotten about my computer part horde! More cat 5 than I know what to do with, several old switches, a few non-working HDDs, one or two non-working laptops, and other bits and bobs.

Oh, and I horde fabric. One day I'll learn to sew well, and I'll have the bestest fabric evar to work with!

[Qingdai]

whoopty, fucking do?? Photos, random fucking photos of no one you know, that mean absoultely nothing to you or me for that matter......So the hell what....I mean really.

I suppose if you went underground or were estranged from your family, tada! Instant relatives!
Concoct a whole fake background.
See I can find a (potential) use for any piece of crap.

[lisarea]

Rotary phones, especially Henry Dreyfus models
Clacky keyboards (Model Ms and PC-ATs, although I decided it was a sin to have so many, so I gave a bunch away)
Cashmere sweaters
Yarn
Computers (two Sinclair 1000s, an RS/6000, and lots of stuff in between)
Office supplies, especially pens and narrow ruled paper when I can find it
Cables and adapters
Buttons and sundry notions
Altoids tins

Plus everything else in the world I guess, except for books because those don't count.

[Plant Woman]

Books! Although I am like Freemonkey, I sell or donate ones I don't use anymore.

Plants! I have so many plants in the pot ghetto right now. And I keep collecting more.

[Watser?]

Records and cds mostly. Also books and comics.

[Leesifer]

I love to beachcomb and I will fill my pockets with broken shells, stones that catch my eye, bones, driftwood, rusty metal, you name it.

I do this too! The rockery round my pond is covered in stuff I've found on beaches. I've never found any bones or fossils though.

[Petra]

As this is my second move this year, I will try to make a point of hoarding a lot less stuff. I have all kinds of things that I cram into storage spaces, thinking that one day I will find a use for them, but knowing that if I were to be honest, I will never find a use for them because ...well, just because.

I have shells and old bottles, and bits of paper and string, and old paint, and old picture frames, and computer bits and pieces, and cables, and old cellphones, and clothes my mum gave me that I've never worn and never will, and scraps of paper with phone numbers and email addresses that are long out of date, old birthday cards, old magazines, old VHS videos, out of date business cards...you name it!

But I will have considerably less of it after this week. I think. :shiftier: I've hauled it around for too long, and the piles of junk just keep getting bigger and bigger and more and more burdensome.

I need one of those ruthless lifestyle guru types that specialise in reducing unnecessary clutter. And I've no idea why I'm such a hoarder - I spent many years living out of a backpack, and none of my family are hoarders. :shrug:

[Adora]

Probably the only thing I hoard is non-pornographic digital images of all sorts of random shit.

Or digital bookmarks. Problem is, I'm too lazy to really put both into some kind of order, so things like del.ic.ious are useless for me.

[inland wave]

Don't get me wrong, I have a few things that I can't seem to let go and I tend to collect. After seven years of staying in place, I have been slowly trying to go through items to see what I should throw away....There are several things however that I have boxed up and am going to hold for another six months. If they remain in the box for this length of time with not being used, out the door they will go.

[Shelli]

Everything.

[ms_ann_thrope]

Books, fabric scraps/sewing notions, arts-n-crafts supplies, useless ephemera.

[Uthgar the Brazen]

Books. Great piles of them causing the 12 or so bookcases I have to sag and protest. One day, I'll finish reading all of them.

If I can stop buying more. Which isn't bloody likely.

[LadyShea]

Bags. I am a bag lady. I have a selection of duffel bags, makeup/ditty bags, tote bags, beach bags, boat bags, overnight bags, camera bags, baby bags, and luggage. I keep my actual everyday purses to a bare minimum, mostly because I carry nice ones that don't need replacing, but everything else I have in multiples.

When planning for my last vacation one of the hardest aspects was choosing which bags to carry.

[LadyShea]

I love to beachcomb and I will fill my pockets with broken shells, stones that catch my eye, bones, driftwood, rusty metal, you name it.




Yep, it's all in my garden...somewhat artfully placed...I guess. I get compliments sometimes on my garden accents.

[JamesBannon]

Books for me. I have so many I probably couldn't read them all. Oh, and cartoon videos!

[Plant Woman]

So does anyone else catalog their books? So far I cataloged about 250 books of mine on aNobii: Create, Share, and Explore booklists (www.anobii.com). I was using LibraryThing | Catalog your books online (www.librarything.com) but found the former to be much better.

What would be fantastic is the index of all my resource books be online. That way when I am looking something up I don't have to pull a half dozen books down to see if the information is in there.

Oops sorry for the side note. Back to pack ratting.

(Wow! I love how the url's title is found and an automatic hyperlink made. I was going to go back and edit it in, when I found it wasn't necessary.)

[freemonkey]

So does anyone else catalog their books? So far I cataloged about 250 books of mine on aNobii: Create, Share, and Explore booklists (www.anobii.com). I was using LibraryThing | Catalog your books online (www.librarything.com) but found the former to be much better.
I got Library Thing for Christmas last year. I have lots listed, and sometimes forget to add books. And I almost always forget to remove them when they leave. I did not know about anobii, what's better about them?

[Plant Woman]

I can't remember all the pros and cons that made me switch. I paid for one year when I reached the 200 book limit at Library Thing. At Anobii I liked how you could batch edit books, categorize them and there was no limit on books, and no fees. However, Library Thing is cheap for a lifetime membership.

[Deadlokd]

Teeshirts. I've an entire trunk full of them. They're either too small (most of them) or too large (a few), but I keep 'em 'cause I just might be able to fit into them...sometime...in the future.

Books. 'Nuff said.

I also hoard hats...but I call them a collection.

* Leesifer gromps curses - twice. Once for the thread and second for the shoes

Oh dear, I hoard clothes. I know I'm never going to wear them again but I keep them.

My worst hoardationess is books! I have tons of books here. I also have boxes of books at my parents house and at my brothers house.

Books :glare:
metal miniatures, more than I'll ever get painted
curios. resin gargoyles, candlesticks, oddities.
I have a lot of footwear for a guy, mostly boots

Records and cds mostly. Also books and comics.

Books, fabric scraps/sewing notions, arts-n-crafts supplies, useless ephemera.

Books. Great piles of them causing the 12 or so bookcases I have to sag and protest. One day, I'll finish reading all of them.

If I can stop buying more. Which isn't bloody likely.

Books for me. I have so many I probably couldn't read them all. Oh, and cartoon videos!

Yeah, books totally don't count!1 It's not a hoard; it's a library.

:caught::glare::shakegummibear::glare:

This many people can't be wrong. Books count.

Books! Boxes and boxes of books!

Wow, I've highlighted books so many times now that the word looks very weird.

[Uthgar the Brazen]

So does anyone else catalog their books? So far I cataloged about 250 books of mine on aNobii: Create, Share, and Explore booklists (www.anobii.com). I was using LibraryThing | Catalog your books online (www.librarything.com) but found the former to be much better.

What would be fantastic is the index of all my resource books be online. That way when I am looking something up I don't have to pull a half dozen books down to see if the information is in there.

Oops sorry for the side note. Back to pack ratting.

(Wow! I love how the url's title is found and an automatic hyperlink made. I was going to go back and edit it in, when I found it wasn't necessary.)

I use the Collectorz (http://www.collectorz.com/) software. I managed to bork it on my WinPC, but will be hopefully getting the Mac versions soon and happily inputting data again. :)

[JamesBannon]

They we're just a bunch of geeks! :wave: :giggle:

[Kyuss Apollo]

I have a bunch of piles of books.




In several rooms here, and in storage, and at work. Books.



I have a lot of extra motorcycle parts too, from back in the days before the childrens. Enough to build a bike or three.

And teh music. Boxes and boxes of cassette tapes, shelves full of cd's, about 500 LP's (haven't owned a phonograph in over 20 years...) and about 3 hard drives filled mostly with mp3's.

[vremya]

Kittens! :P

Do books count? We have a gazillion books.

[Caligulette]

Books, fabric scraps/sewing notions, arts-n-crafts supplies, useless ephemera.

Former costumer here and I still have doodads and whatnot. I have not sewn a garment in a couple of years (ok, how old's the kid? Four years), but I still gather scrapettes and geegaws.

Books don't so much not count as I can't count all the books, really.

Paper. Old Official Documents because one day someone will ask if I have it and I need to be able to say yes or they will arrest me....I guess.

[curses]

I've discovered another hoard. CDs. Combined my husband and I have over 2,000. And both of us have gotten rid of the majority of our collections.

Oh, and Breyer model horses.

[wildernesse]

Oh, and Breyer model horses.

Are they in their boxes or all played with?

[curses]

Played with. I didn't have the foresight at 13 to leave them in their boxes. I did win several competitions with them. I can't remember the name of the magazine, but what you did was make your own tack and barn, take photos, and mail them in according to class. I lost the ribbons, though.

[But]

Broken electronics. (screens, printers, CD players, washing machines, sat receivers, radios etc.). 99% of their parts are perfectly good. I take the useful ones out (like motors or power transistors) and throw the rest away.

[wildernesse]

Played with. I didn't have the foresight at 13 to leave them in their boxes. I did win several competitions with them. I can't remember the name of the magazine, but what you did was make your own tack and barn, take photos, and mail them in according to class. I lost the ribbons, though.

That is like the coolest thing ever. The coolest thing that ever happened to my Breyer horses is that one somehow jumped/fell off my mantel and cracked my cheval mirror.

Well, actually that was totally uncool and I am still glad that my mom didn't freak out when I told her.

[Deadlokd]

Kyuss Apollo, I'd love to get my hands on your hard drives.

[Kyuss Apollo]

They! Your sexual innuendos are priceless!

[Deadlokd]

My sexual what-nows? :D

[InTheServiceOfZeke]

i hoard everything vm has ever written.

[Chris Porter]

So does anyone else catalog their books? So far I cataloged about 250 books of mine on aNobii: Create, Share, and Explore booklists (www.anobii.com). I was using LibraryThing | Catalog your books online (www.librarything.com) but found the former to be much better.

What would be fantastic is the index of all my resource books be online. That way when I am looking something up I don't have to pull a half dozen books down to see if the information is in there.

Oops sorry for the side note. Back to pack ratting.

(Wow! I love how the url's title is found and an automatic hyperlink made. I was going to go back and edit it in, when I found it wasn't necessary.)

I use Delicious Library. (http://www.delicious-monster.com/)

[freemonkey]

I use Delicious Library. (http://www.delicious-monster.com/)

Just point any FireWire digital video camera, like an Apple iSight®, at the barcode on the back of any book, movie, music, or video game. Delicious Library does the rest. The barcode is scanned and within seconds the item's cover appears on your digital shelves

Now, that? Is cool.

[BDS]

I still have every Academy Award I ever won.

[Deadlokd]

Where do you keep them all?

[SunflashTheMace]

I horde shitty, yard sale statuettes. I'm sorry: they're dirt cheap and they make me laugh. (Someday I'll do something with all of them, I swear. Someday...) White elephant, anyone?

I've got the ugliest garden gnomes you'll ever see, thoroughly unidentifiable busts, china cats, some really wretched Christmas characters. What's your pleasure? A personal favorite: Paint-it-yourself ceramic dog. I do believe the artist vomited on it, called it good, and called it a night. In that order.

Why would anyone put these things in their home? (...Myself excluded, of course. :sly:)

[Petra]

I horde shitty, yard sale statuettes. I'm sorry: they're dirt cheap and they make me laugh. (Someday I'll do something with all of them, I swear. Someday...) White elephant, anyone?

I've got the ugliest garden gnomes you'll ever see, thoroughly unidentifiable busts, china cats, some really wretched Christmas characters. What's your pleasure? A personal favorite: Paint-it-yourself ceramic dog. I do believe the artist vomited on it, called it good, and called it a night. In that order.

Why would anyone put these things in their home? (...Myself excluded, of course. :sly:)

Hi! Welcome, SunflashTheMace!

Funny you should mention White Elephants, as we have a very special annual event at the FF. You can find it here (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14467). :D

[freemonkey]

I wondered about flat metal things found on the street for a long time, look at a street sweeper's brushes some time.

The other day I found a whole bunch of these things in one area of a parking lot, leading me to believe that you are on to something here.

[Plant Woman]

SunflashTheMace, you reminded me of a contest we used to have on the internet called Ugly Yard Art. People would take pics of people's awful yard art and submit them. Stuff as you described always seems to be the theme in these yards.

There used to be a spot along the highway to Port Townsend that I would pass where the person decorated their yard in stuffed animals. Not a few, but hundreds of them. It was so weird it was fun to go by.

[Qingdai]

I wondered about flat metal things found on the street for a long time, look at a street sweeper's brushes some time.

The other day I found a whole bunch of these things in one area of a parking lot, leading me to believe that you are on to something here.

I thought of you today when I saw some on the street. Now to stalk your prey with guile and subterfuge! :elmer:

If there is an ugly yard competition, I have a great one in mind.

[Chris Porter]

I use Delicious Library. (http://www.delicious-monster.com/)

Just point any FireWire digital video camera, like an Apple iSight®, at the barcode on the back of any book, movie, music, or video game. Delicious Library does the rest. The barcode is scanned and within seconds the item's cover appears on your digital shelves

Now, that? Is cool.

It is cool, if all your books are current. However, I've collected old books, books without ISBN numbers, many, many without ISBN codes, so for those, I have to scan the covers in.

I'm trying to think of things I collect, other than books, naturally, and I'm not coming up with a great deal. In the past, I have collected quite a lot, but over the years, I've pared stuff down to keeping just one or two of the most favored items. I've got a collection of really rusty old tools that I love, but I won't be adding more to them. I've got a few really nice boxes made out of different materials. I own 5 vases, but I use them on a rotational basis (I like flowers in my home). I've got three unused computers, but I'm not hoarding them, I'm just waiting to toss them. I guess the only thing I'm currently collecting is a variety of artificial flowers that I can use throughout the year for room accents.

[lisarea]

Oh, hey. Speaking of hoarding, I got one of them Cue:Cat scanners back when everyone was getting mad about them, but I've never really figured out anything I wanted to do with it, so after neutering it and then screwing around aimlessly, I put it in a drawer with a bunch of my other stuff I'll need someday. (I also never opened the package with the software, so I have not agreed to their dumb clickwrap license.)

Maybe I need to be cataloging my books with it. You guys who do that, do you actually use your catalog much, and what for?

[Chris Porter]

Yes, I use it on a fair basis. It was/is most important for insurance purposes, however. Delicious Library has a lending scheme, it records who I lend books/videos to, which I've also used. For recent books, I can just hold the ISBN code up to my iMac's built-in scanner, and it can grab info from Amazon.

[freemonkey]

Maybe I need to be cataloging my books with it. You guys who do that, do you actually use your catalog much, and what for?

I don't scan my books, and I only enter new ones when I think about it. Then, when I get rid of a book, I sometimes forget to remove it.

I don't really use it for much, though. Just to look and see what I have sometime. You can tag your books with LibraryThing, and search the tags to see how many books you have with a certain tag. For instance, I have cataloged 147 books with the tag "art".

You can also see how many other LibraryThing members have the same books as you, how they tagged theirs, what other books they have, etc... that's pretty cool, when you feel like being nosy.

Then, I went and signed up for the one aNobii PW linked to and was able to import most of my books from LibraryThing. But it missed almost 200 of them, something wrong with the ISBN's, I think. So those would need to be entered by hand. I did a couple, then found a book that did not exist for them, so I had to submit it to be added. Too much trouble!!

[xyza]

I hoard all sorts, recently just moved twice in as many months and have had to get rid of a lot of things, these included ...

Books
electronics
clothes
shoes

And general silly little of things.

I kept all my Panda teddies though, they are still packed.

[livius drusus]

:girlwave:, xyza.

[xyza]

:girltong:livius drusus

[inland wave]

Okay, I will confess, I hoard costume jewelry. (a little therapy here) Years back while the girls were teenagers, I was very large. I used take them shopping and I would try on clothes, get very depressed and finally buy a pair of earrings to help me feel better. Then we moved to Sapulpa and a little shop with cheap costume and vintage jewelry opened. I started with her little funky earrings at three dollars a pair and every payday I would find a fun pair to buy. Then she started making sets with earrings and bracelets. They were cute and around six or seven dollars a set, affordable. So after a few years I have a large collection of costume jewelry and this doesn't include the jewelry that has been given to me either. This past year I bought a full length mirror
with a jewelry case attached and now have it pretty well filled up. This does not include all the scarfs that I have added to this wonderful accessory collection.
It is my passion which I am slowing trying to make a break from or at least maybe not make it to the store so often. Ding has threatened to take a picture and post it in this thread. So you know he feels it is a compulsive disorder. Well, at least it is cheap jewelry!!! I find it fun to shop for cheap earrings. Yard sales are the best! :hellyes:

[Ensign Steve]

You know what I hoard? I thought I didn't hoard anything, because I am a compulsive thrower-awayer (which is a nice quirk to have when you live in 500 sqft.). But I realized a couple days ago that I hoard digital copies of television shows. If I have one episode of a show, I have to get the whole season. If I have one season, I better get the whole show. And then I start collecting the spin-offs. I am constantly downloading, or ripping, or converting, or tagging, or doing three of those things at once. It's honestly like a second full-time job.

And I never ever watch them. I've probably only seen 10% of my library. I always say that I'll watch them on my iPod when I travel. Or I'll sit down and watch a whole series over a weekend one time. But that never happens.

I'm currently working on Season 2 of Mystery Science Theater 3000, having completed Season 1 over the weekend. Every episode of that show is as long as a full-length movie. Where do I think I'm going to fly with my iPod? New Zealand? The battery wouldn't even last long enough.

[LadyShea]

That's funny Ensign...you seriously never watch them?

[Ensign Steve]

Not never ever. But the ratio of hours acquired to hours watched is all out of whack. I'll watch maybe 30 minutes to an hour of my computer shows for every 24 hours of programming that I acquire. I do most of my TV watching on the DVR, which is completely separate from the hoard. I have a totally healthy relationship with the DVR, too, deleting shows that I'm done with or that I'm obviously never going to get around to.

[freemonkey]

Okay, I will confess, I hoard costume jewelry. ........ Then we moved to Sapulpa and a little shop with cheap costume and vintage jewelry opened. ..... Yard sales are the best! :hellyes:

Oh, cool. I don't wear it much anymore, but I used to go through collecting phases.

First it was 20's-30's-40's vintage. Then it was funky contemporary. Then it was native American. Then it was this and then it was that. For awhile there I was buying things because I liked the beads. Then I would disassemble it and make something new. :artist:

I still have boxes of beads, but all my jewelry (mostly earrings) (actually looks like a jumble of between 25 & 50 pair plus a bunch of singles) fits in a smallish box.

[freemonkey]

Paper. I also hoard paper. Watercolor paper, handmade paper, decorative paper, textured paper... I use a lot of it, but I also hoard a lot of it.

[Shelli]

Pens
Writing pads
Rocks (that I find outside, not bought rocks.. that's just weird :giggle:)
:tigger:s mainly but anything depicting The Hundred Acre Woods characters
Coats
Mittens
Plastic bags and totes
Books :abook:
Turtle brick-a-brack :turtle:
Lip Gloss (I have piles of it, literally)
Lotions
Perfumes
Teas :tea:

That's all I can think of for now.. :think2:


ETA: Now, if the above's not a Secret Santa's wet dream, I dunno what is. :giggle:

[freemonkey]

Rocks (that I find outside, not bought rocks.. that's just weird :giggle:)


Me too!! They hang out with the seashells I pick up at the beach. I might have mentioned that earlier.

[Shelli]

Rocks (that I find outside, not bought rocks.. that's just weird :giggle:)


Me too!! They hang out with the seashells I pick up at the beach. I might have mentioned that earlier.Oh yeah, those too :yup2: except I haven't added anything new in years since I haven't been. :seashell: