What do you collect

Sef said:
I collect sugar!! Well, packets of sugar!
My dad started the collection BITD when they were very scarce, and I just carried on collecting.
It was weird as he was a type 1 diabetic!
I now have literally thousands, in cardboard boxes from all around the world! (Packets of sugar, not cardboard boxes )
I get any friends to pick me up packets, from anywhere they go, especially, when they go on holiday!
(There you go Neil )
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pm me your address and i'll send some moroccan ones if you haven't already got any.
 
Scottyboi said:
When I worked for the council we had to empty a house of two old Jewish printers who had passed and they were major hoarders. I found a massive jar of Threepenny bits all with the same date of 1967, how they ended up with so many ill never know.
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The date may have had some significance to them or they might have had massive OCD:)

I have a few but mainly collect the silver Victorian maundy money (Given to the poor on Maundy day)versions or the circulated ones. They are tiny but I keep them in plastic holders with foam inserts.



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Mt favourite coin other than a mint half farthing from George IV is my Edward I penny from the 13 century.

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mexico1970 said:
The date may have had some significance to them or they might have had massive OCD:)

I have a few but mainly collect the silver Victorian maundy money (Given to the poor on Maundy day)versions or the circulated ones. They are tiny but I keep them in plastic holders with foam inserts.



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Mt favourite coin other than a mint half farthing from George IV is my Edward I penny from the 13 century.

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I guessed it would be for the war of 1967 in Israel. O they had OCD alright found stacks of bricks wrapped in green parcel paper, every room was head height in clutter. Made me wonder if they were survivors of the Holocaust and it made them collect anything and everything.

That Edward Penny is nice how much they worth atm?
 
oakiecokie said:
Single Playing Cards advertising Airlines and have a collection of 4700 different ones and all are Catalogued
Also a lovely collection of of 500 different Guinness Metal Pin Badges
Yes I know ...I`m a saddo. ;).
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Guinness is at the height of its popularity right now.
 
Scottyboi said:
I guessed it would be for the war of 1967 in Israel. O they had OCD alright found stacks of bricks wrapped in green parcel paper, every room was head height in clutter. Made me wonder if they were survivors of the Holocaust and it made them collect anything and everything.

That Edward Penny is nice how much they worth atm?
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They must know my wife she's awful at throwing things away.

The Edward penny believe it or not wasn't that expensive, you can buy one for as little as £15 in iffy condition but the one I got was a present so it was nearer the £50 mark.

I get itchy when I see a nice coin for the right price, great bit of history in my hands.
 
Scottyboi said:
When I worked for the council we had to empty a house of two old Jewish printers who had passed and they were major hoarders. I found a massive jar of Threepenny bits all with the same date of 1967, how they ended up with so many ill never know.
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Just a thought but....in the olden days the Jews had a slang name, ' Shavers ' . They would take coins and shave off a thin layer then melt the shavings down and pour it in a mould made of one of the other coins, maybe that first coin was dated 1967. Not sure if threepenny bits would be cost effective or not but hey ho.
 
Tuearts right boot said:
Just a thought but....in the olden days the Jews had a slang name, ' Shavers ' . They would take coins and shave off a thin layer then melt the shavings down and pour it in a mould made of one of the other coins, maybe that first coin was dated 1967. Not sure if threepenny bits would be cost effective or not but hey ho.
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I watched a t.v series recently about this. I forget the name.
They called them clippers and I don't think they were Jewish. Set in the north of England somewhere.
 
When my son was young (early 2000s), we went swimming every week and I bought him a bouncy ball every week. He now has a collection of about 100 bouncy balls, probably worth £50.

My second son came along a few years later and he had a perforated ear drum, so swimming wasn't a regular activity. We collected 50 pence pieces for him, with all the different designs. This extended to £2 coins. His collection is probably worth £500, with some quite rare coins including Kew Gardens.
 
Talking about collecting things - when I was working for a certain local authority, the lads whose job it was to clear houses found a room full of shoe boxes. Every box had a date on it. Inside each box was a turd.

I have a friend in the antiques trade and she says it isn't exactly booming. For example, even the most beautiful china tea sets are only worth two or three quid. (This astonishes people who rock up with Royal Doulton or whatever, expecting it to be worth hundreds.)

A lot of it is indeed about memories. A bit back she was selling clockwork trains for stupid amounts of cash. But the generation who had them has largely dropped off the twig, so now they're almost worthless and she's given up selling them.

Some stuff does have inherent value - but it's largely top-end that few of us have hanging about. Silver and gold, of course, is always saleable, but the market goes up and down.
 
BrianW said:
Talking about collecting things - when I was working for a certain local authority, the lads whose job it was to clear houses found a room full of shoe boxes. Every box had a date on it. Inside each box was a turd.

I have a friend in the antiques trade and she says it isn't exactly booming. For example, even the most beautiful china tea sets are only worth two or three quid. (This astonishes people who rock up with Royal Doulton or whatever, expecting it to be worth hundreds.)

A lot of it is indeed about memories. A bit back she was selling clockwork trains for stupid amounts of cash. But the generation who had them has largely dropped off the twig, so now they're almost worthless and she's given up selling them.

Some stuff does have inherent value - but it's largely top-end that few of us have hanging about. Silver and gold, of course, is always saleable, but the market goes up and down.
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Just collect things you have an interest in, if you like it then you can't go far wrong.
 
Cats.

I collect cats.

Until about 2 years ago I'd never owned a cat. Then, I adopted two and it was wonderful.

And over Christmas I adopted a third.

Third cat is lovely - but doesn't get along with one of the original two.

Now, I'm no longer a collector.
 
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