I collect rhinestone campaign pins (so far IKE and NIXON), penpals, and guilloche enamel (by way of my mother)!

i collect something interesting that is red, specifically, from everywhere i go. from brazil to thailand to new zealand. just has to be red!

I have a very extensive collection of salt and pepper shakers. Not just the plain ones, they’ve made rare ones that are worth thousands. Since the collection was started from my great grandma I’ve got some really old oddly shapen ones. I literally have 4 full size boxes filled with them.

A collection of mice teeth from several countries.

I collect nautical items so that I can imagine my apartment is a ship. I have a real life ring, an oar, a clock in the shape of a ship wheel, a ship in a bottle, etc. In my imaginary apartment ship you will find me browsing a selection of vintage smut mags from my coffee table. Ahh, a life at sea…

My VHS collection is pretty sweet. Here’s one of my prized possessions:

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I lived in Europe for four months in college and saved every single ticket, stamp, train pass and map from every city I visited; including Casablanca, Antwerp and Monaco.

Every time there is an opportunity to steal a magnet, I do. And then when I go home, I stick them to my Parsons Room & Board bed frame (http://bit.ly/27bq4g). Among the collection are one magnetic owl head and one HelpNet magnet for people with suicidal thoughts, “When life gets you down, Call Us,” it says next to a bi-plane falling out of the sky toward imminent death.

I’ve got more scarves than you can imagine! They are are a sight to see and fun to incorporate into outfits/table settings/whatever. From all over Asia particularly Laos, Cambodia, Thailand plus a host of wools and handmade woven ones from the U.S.

Bless The Selby!

Ahhh! I want this book SO BAD. I collect … little ceramic dishes. When I was a kid I collected porcelain figurines of forest animals. Man those were the days.

I collect toys/action figures circa 1980-1995. Okay, so this may seem typical (and super nerdy), but there is one huge difference… they toys have to be used or played with. And when people visit my home, the toys are there for them to play with. I hate those “keep it in the mint condition box”!

I have samples of dirt from every place I visit, I live, etc. all in mason jars…

My boyfriend collects African masks and I collect anything design related. We both travel a lot for work and nearly always bring home interesting tchotchkes, be it Parisian subway stubs or Nigerian beads. I love the Selby blog and have been a fan for a while!

Trash.

I find a comfort in collecting for some reason and each year I accidentally find myself amassing piles of useless crap that I eventually craft into some art project. Here’s my most recent:

• Receipts. I had a suitcase full of them by the end of a year and I glued them all to a large canvas.
• Post-it notes by me and others. I was going to scan them all and create blog à la Post Secret, but I lost motivation..
• Covers of the New Yorker Magazine. Taped them all together to create a giant poster.
• Ritter Sport wrappers (while living in Berlin) which became another large quilt/poster.
• Beer bottle caps, of which now I have two shoe boxes full. They’re very pretty all together. So many options.
• At the moment, napkins. I have them from EVERYWHERE in huge stacks! Not sure what that will become..

PS. I’m an NYU junior living in the city. How the hell can I intern for you guys? You all seem to have the best jobs EVER. Man.

antique piggy banks, my top 3:
1.)an uncle sam bank, you place change in his hand, press a button and he drops it in a $ bag. 2.)a metal circus elephant, you place change in his trunk, pull his tail and he flips back his head depositing the change in his back. 3.)a bank of a man riding a bike with an old school ice cream cart attached to it.

I collect smashed pennies – where you insert a penny and a little machine rolls and embosses an image….attractions like zoos, st. louis arch, etc….

Eery time I walk on a beach, which is pretty easy as I live two blocks from Ocean Beach, San Francisco, I look for a special little stone, shell, or other interesting piece of detritus to display in my living room.

I have two kind of insane collections: (1) a truckload of unique and colorful religious candles– most in Spanish language and featuring some sort of saint or intense prayer to recite while lighting it, and (2) a killer collection of vintage kids cartoon sheets and pillowcases. Disney characters from the ’70s, Peanuts sleepover collection, and a pristine and unopened set of Jem & the Holograms sheets.

non-animal animal heads

I collect asshole boyfriends and lovers, all kinds of music, vintage jewelry, fancy underwear, dope clothes,trashy movies,non-white men action figures,vintage lipstick cases and National Geographic mags.

I love sea glass but I live inland so I don’t have much. I really don’t like collections of anything. when you get two of something you like people start buying to add to your collection, then it’s not YOUR collection anymore. I do have a number of smooth rocks, but no one feels compelled to add to that thank goodness. :)

I collect fountain pens. Some are from the early 1900s.

1. Memories 2. vintage postcards 3. vitamins

i collect shoes, used tissues and plastic bracelets. ok, maybe i don’t collect used tissue, but it seems to collect in my room unbeknownst to me. also collect pez dispensers but that seems so passe.
can i please win?

I collect shells, sea glass, sand dollars, beach stones, etc. It never seemed too crazy until the dried up starfish started moving around in the bowl with all my other shells. Woops – looks like it was alive, after all.

i collect bouncy balls from quarter machines and pencils. both are stored in fish bowls around my room.

My house is in Virginia mountains where I collect art fossils furniture guitars music photos friends family. Sometimes they all blend together into a wonderful transfusion of living, where you cannot tell any difference between them. Those are the days I like best!!!!

1. matador-themed art – have three paintings of matadors hanging in my living room.
2. decanters of all shapes, sizes, and colors – have about 6 right now, some of which are stored in my bar globe. Yes, bar globe. Wish I had a collection of bar globes, but alas, I only own one…

I collect Film LA filiming notices.

Lot’s of stuffed monkeys and other monkey memorabilia.

I don’t really collect anything. A lot of concert tickets collect in the bottom of my purses. I wish I collected solid red objects from all my travels like Cassie. I bet they look really cool together.

I collected stamps as a kid- my mom is a gardener for this high-society lady, who had an english butler- and he knew another butler that worked for buckingham palace. He got his friend to send me a huge envelope of stamps from the palace, also invitations and little inconsequential notes to the royal family!
i now collect cameras of all sorts and sewing machines. i love mechanisms and apparatuses.

I collect paint-by-numbers paintings, and especially like the religious and velvet ones.

I collect vintage photos of random, stylish parents so I can reference them in the future when I’m someone’s parent. I’m sure I’ll be embarrassing enough so hopefully my style will be legit!

I’m not sure how this could fit in to a photograph, but i collect AA Medallions

All my life I have collected a little bit of everything … Baseball programs , when the brooklyn dodgers came to LA..
Concert tickets from the 60′s..campaign buttons … penny collection … stamps…newspapers… plants , California pottery…paintings…masks.. books….and now I have reversed my mode of interests .. and letting go has freed me , I didn’t know how wonderful it feels to enjoy looking but not collecting…

Some metal street signs from Germany, one from 日本 and some from the U.S.

I collect dreams, especially those of other people. Yes, they can be photographed.

cross stitch portraits of my nerd boyfriends that i’ve made and designed myself my favourites are woody allen, bill murray and jean luc godard

I collect my life and all my follies. Instead of collecting some items of the same kind, I like to collect things that drew my attention at some time in my life, or that I’ve been obsessed to at some time in my life (and that, for sure, includes a lot of stupid stuff), and somehow managed to change the way I am, or maybe describe how and who I am today.
I have this wooden box on my desktop that, initially, was meant to hold smoked fish, and I keep my collection in there.
I collect dictionaries, pictures, drawings, pens, scents, train tickets, notebooks, a road sign, colors from a magazine’s headline, a zinc plate and a lot of dust .. in there.
And although it might not be the best collection, it well is worth being photographed .. I might be biased but, hey, it looks good!!!

I haven’t kept up with it lately, but I used to collect sea shells, rocks/crystals (cool ones like agate, geodes, and such), fossils, and foreign currency. the colorful ones of the rocks would photograph well, i think.

i collect moonlihgt in glass jars that I keep by the window.

I collect cameras, mostly old Polaroid so I’m happy to see the film coming back so I can use them again. I also collect books about plants, wildflowers mostly. I would like to collect dead bugs in glass vials but so far I only have one, which is a bee in a glass vial that I found while hiking.

I collect NJ TRANSIT Monthly Passes … I know this sounds pretty boring (like a metrocard or something) but its not…every month they are a different color (which is stereotypically determined by the month), they have a cool foil along the edge with color accents and SOMETIMES, like this past december and january, they put a seasonal graphic like a snowflake on it. I’m still figuring out exactly how i’d want them photographed…

Mexican animal pottery.

Gothic furniture including a funeral parlor kneeling pew.

Stained Glass shards.

I’m British, London UK, I collect dust.

I collect collections.

I collect beautiful textured paper

I collect lint because I want to be in the guinness book of world records for the biggest lint ball. Also, I collect marbles.

I have a collection of old construction signs that I used to take for myself when I was younger. Actually, I have a whole wall of just that! It’s totally worth photographing!!!

Found letters. It started with a trip to a motel room in S.F. I saw the man and woman leave, and found a makeup-and-breakup letter on the ground outside.

I collect cut outs from magazines…a lot of eyes, lips and noses, also I collect a lot of colorful things, things with feathers, strange things, people say I collect useless stuff, but they have a use for me. They keep some sort of memmories from past times and experiences in my life.

The ones I know you would like are my gnomes. For my birthday my family & friends each painted a gnome for me. I made my gnomes a home out of an old kitchen drqwer & now they hang on the wall. Each one is so different from the others & reflects the personality of the artists. They are so cool!

I collect the popsicle sticks I have from eating popsicles and then use them to make things.

on my bedroom wall, i make collages or maps of different kinds of men I encounter.

I’m not sure why, but I’ve always collected Scrabble pieces. You find more than you’d think at thrift shops.

I collect hankies. When I was a girl it was a cherished thrill for me to iron my grannie’s hankies. Each one was like a ticket to different land. I would get lost in the stories behind these hankies, the people who’d held them, the places they came from, their delicacy and beauty. My grannie always had a hankie in her pocket and it seemed to me a wonderful gesture from a bygone era, filled with nobility, kindness and utility. When she passed I inherited her collection which comprises the majority of mine. I keep most of them in a large red velvet chocolate box. I don’t look at them often enough but my heart is there.

For quite a while now, I’ve collected film cameras and prints of photos. It’s become so hectic that I have an entire wall almost filled with polaroids, as well as all of my wall hooks have cameras dangling down from them. I come home with a new one about every month or so. In addition, I also have a collection of crocodile feet from New Orleans and a little store up in Canada that sells everything from crocodile feet keychains to backscratchers.

Awesome interview style!

I collect, Mr. Potato Heads, but only at work.

i scour thrift stores for cameras…but only ones with film left behind by the previous owner! once i develop the rolls, i then collect the random photos of people, places or things and i like to make up stories in my head of who they are and why they took those photos.

I collect decorative candy. Like animal shaped bubblegum in these little containers, handmade pokemon lolipops, etc.

i have a collection of saved clipped finger nails, and a massive collection of old movie marquee letters!

I collect souls.

My wife collects “sticks” from our property that little boys “naturally” pick up and use as weapons.

I collect other peoples notes/lists that I find abandoned. Like, shopping lists, to do lists, love letters that were screwed up and left on cafe tables…I even fund the draft of someone’s will in the cabinet by my hospital bed. I like imagining the person from what they were going to buy, or say, or do.

I take and collect poloroid photos of all my special friends that I meet

Sneakers and cameras

I collect glass bottles. Small ones, preferably not beer bottles. I place them on my window sills and stick dried roses I usually get at concerts and then don’t take care of in them.

I collect my best friends letter for me since we go to different schools now that we are on highschool. I also collect bracelets and souvenir items from places I have gone here in our country. Now, I am starting to collect the candy wrappers that my friends are giving me (of course, I’ll eat the sweet first then I’ll collect its wrapper).

Love the post! I collect subway and streetcar transfers in the winter and put them in one jar. All together, they’re really pretty.

religious tracts. i have couple hundred of those little pamphlets about god and whatever that people hand you on the street. some are little comic books with crazy illustrations, some are pretty tame little papers with just text, some are absolutely bizarre. i have some that describe the mark of the beast as a microchip implanted in your skin complete with illustrations, some that describe the evils of harry potter, and some that link ufo’s to satan.

thermoses from the ’60s and ’70s, Weekly Reader Book Club children’s books from the ’60s and ’70s, and mid-century astrological decor!

i collected the things that come to me, like an sigaret that i found in the street because i had an accident … lot of things like that….
then i scan them and they are in an album and thak it with me

1. Anything rhinoceros related. I have paintings of rhinos, figurines from various countries, pictures from my research projects on rhinos, a rhino lamp and a rhino hair bracelet from a rhino in S Africa I worked on. 2. “Veterinary Barbie” in the boxes. I’m an equine vet. There is something so hilarious about the reality of what I do and this flaxen haired figurine in a pristine pink box. 3. Blueprints. It started with a box of blueprints I found discarded on a NYC street corner of waterworks designs.

Honestly, I’m jealous of people that collect things.

All I seem to collect is a crapload of glasses in my room.

I haven’t thrown away a light bulb in something like twelve years, so I’ve got large fruit bowls full of burnt out incandescent bulbs scattered throughout my house. I started collecting them in college with the idea of making something from them, but then never did because I fell in love with the aesthetic of just having a bowl full of light bulbs. Now they’re everywhere.

I collect clocks. I love their shape and design.

Also, souvenir playing cards.

My collections are not very large yet. But I like to collect liquer bottles (actually, glass bottles in general, but the liquer ones are usually more beautiful), mugs and panflets. :D

I collect tortoise-related memorabilia, neckties, and clocks.

Not a particularly great photography subject, but I worked in a bar a long time ago, and the kept all the ID cards and credit cards people lost or left behind. When it closed, I took them all as a souvenir.

I collect things I find in the woods. I have jars of snail shells and dried mushrooms. I have vases of pine cones and the centers of magnolia blooms. I have twigs and branches with the seed casings still holding on; some burst open like the beaks of birds. I have preserved ground dwelling plants, roots and all. I have moss covered rocks. I have autumn leaves.

I collect pictures. Not just any pictures, old pictures, new pictures, polaroids, scenery, people, events. Any thing that can give me a spark of imagination of memory when I look at it.

it’s a toss up between the heirloom/ exotic vegetables in our garden (does that count?! i’m always buying more… ie. who knew mint came in so many varieties… apple mint, chocolate mint, orange mint, bob marley mint etc. we have like 30 types of lettuce – all colors! did you know there’s such thing as a garden peach tomato?!)

and my collection of cameras… all shapes, sizes, formats… from the avedon-esque rolleiflex my uncle bought in pawn shop in peru in the 70′s to my brownies, original polaroids, leicas and holgas… i also have an assortment of viewmasters and other fun visual ‘devices’.

i collect my little ponies, and old editions of alice in wonderland. and i’m starting on flamingoes soon.

I collect
1. memories: bus tickets, cinema tickets, old letters and postcards, confetti from weddings, little christmas and birthday present tags and those coloured paper bands that you are given when going swimming :)
2. cardboard boxes! this used to be to make houses when i was little. i even made a key for it, haha. now i collect it for materials as i use it a lot for different things in my art work.
3. used christmas/birthday card envelopes and used christmas/birthday wrapping paper!

I collect miniature fake food. I have pieces from Japan and all over the place. Rubber food is the best.

I collect beads from different countries and celebrity autographs.

I collect books….Nothing more, nothing less

We have some small stuffed animals from the 60′s that my sister used to play with. They are in pretty good condition.

I collect things that other people don’t want. Ummmm… curb shopper. And on the flip side, artwork made by friends.

- friends’ baby and wisdom teeth, denture teeth, and dental molds
- gray hairs (my own – I’m 25 and they’re accumulating quickly!)
- taxidermy (so far: a black bear, a springbok, a rabbit, lots of piranhas, and a raggedy coyote)
- ferns
- vintage kitchen utensils
- vintage ball jars (looks like everyone does this though!)

My Mr. T, Colonel Sanders and Count Chocula Bobbleheads.

i collect taxidermied animals (I have a fishie, 2 ravens and a cock), byzantine 2-tiered crosses, and ticket stubs for raves, shows and travel.

My fiance recently moved in and he collects sci fi action figures, GI Joes, japanese barbie dolls, skulls, random prosthetic body parts/bones, model kits, weird rubber monster eraser caps from the 70′s, gargoyles, mannequin torsos, see no evil monkeys, captain americas, medical tools and lab equipment — all in our NYC studio apartment. We also mutually collect cats (5).

I have every single ticket of every single train and bus I have ever been on, in addition to every ticket to every movie, sporting event, play, etc. I have been to. One of my earliest was from when I was 8 years old in 1998, I have a ticket from Beauty and the Beast on Broadway. I also have every book I have owned since I was basically born. My family hoards books and we have three huge bookshelves in addition to the books I have acquired in college.

I collect key necklaces, shells, glass bottles, driftwood, folded stars, miniature desserts, anime figurines, flags, PINS (too many), metal/glass bits (the metal bits are for steampunk gear, the glass I put into clear glass bottles with marbles and pretty rocks as decoration. Eventually it all turns into sand though…), continuous pencil shavings (rare these days, they look like roses if you do them right), and finger puppets.

My room is rather cluttered because of this.

Awesome photos. What I have and it’s worth taking a photo (or several) of is a room with computer antiques turned into usable items for example a talaria projector (like a movie theater projector) gutted and turned into a fridge, my grandmother’s collection of elephants turned into lamps and computer mouses (although some are impossible to hold, but they work) all this among two breuer chairs, a LeCorbu chaise lounge, a collection of 12″ action figures on the racks by the wall, two laptops on a large table, a slide scanner, RC aiplanes ( 4 ) and a work bench with a saw and my guitars( 2 ).

My grandmother (still with us and beautiful as ever!) is a natural redheaded Jew from Kansas City, Missouri by way of Chicago. She worked at Macy’s / Dillard’s for years during most of her adult life, where she accrued a TON of amazing jewelry, most of it bought with her employee discount. Some of the pieces still have their original tags attached, 40 years later; Others are well-worn. I have the bulk of it now. Nothing inherently priceless, per se, but priceless for me! Costume jewelry, clip-on earrings, hat pins and broken watches. Mixed into the collection are items gifted to her by my grandfather, jewelry brought back from Europe after his service in WWII, as well as pins and medals from the Jewish War Veterans and Ladies Auxiliary. These aren’t heirlooms, but they offer a unique tangibility for my family’s history, and give a glimpse at the life(style) of middle-income heartlanders after the war.

May I also vote for Da BlaqueNessa? Cause really, who doesn’t collect asshole boyfriends and lovers?

There’s no rhyme or reason to my collecting. The coolest thing may be the oversized (8″ tall) zippo lighter that my wife’s grandfather received upon retirement from the CIA in 50s. It has that crow in a hat & cape from Spy vs Spy. Something great to photograph would be our chalkboard ‘wallpapered’ wall

I am 23 and a proud new homeowner. While I’m on a tight budget with my beginnings I have found the best way to make a house “your own” is by accenting with art and books. Lots of them!

I collect design books and art books and childrens books, used, new and the like anything with color and bold graphics

I collect Mexican Day of the Dead figures, vintage airplane memorabilia (esp. TWA), and foreign currency (esp. of countries which are no longer in existence).

mechanical coin banks, charms/toys from the fifties and sixties bubble gum vending machines, canes and walking sticks.

Things i collect that would be cool to photograph (books, dvds, magazines and shoes go without saying)

-Vintage Scarves (Dior, Oscar De La Renta, Burberry, Givenchy, etc)
-Cute Bars of Soap
-Tae Kwon Do Belts and Weapons (I used to teach when I was in high school)
-NARS Eyeshadows
-Garter Belts
-Bar Tools, specifically strainers
-Fabric (I have more fabric than I know what to do with, and I keep buying it!!)
-Tea
-Teacups
-Cocktail Hats
-Calligraphy Pens and Bottles of Ink From Florence

Pick any three and i’ll send photographic evidence!

MORE STUFF

-cookie cutters
-mirrored objects
-pictures of street art i see
-business cards from my trips
-vintage gloves
-gershwin and cole porter sheet music
-perfume in cool bottles
-tins, especially long rectangular box tins
-coins

this is why my room is such a mess…

I collect receipts. Sadly, over the last decade, most businesses made the transition to thermal paper which deteriorates over time.

i collect pipes. like old man pipes. most of them are from my grandfather who died last summer and i love them because they are from all over the world from his travels. my favorites are the meerschaum pipes from algeria because they are made of this smooth ivory mineral and they have mens faces carved into them and when you smoke them, their faces turn shades of brown and red.

for years i’ve collected different shades of hair from people I know/meet. i also collect insects.
lately i’ve been making replicas of insects out of the hair. it’s a beautiful collection — and not creepy i promise. :)

I collect binoculars, because I really like to spy on people.

this book looks excellent! please let me win it!
i collect:

1. san francisco MUNI bus transfers (beautiful retro design!)
2. green plastic strawberry crates (what better way to hold bus transfers)
3. lurpak butter containers from the UK. they look like something from the jetsons!
4. black glass frames without lenses
5. chapstick containers (once they are finished)

No collections. Everything gets ruined and the trailer is too small. Working on this winter’s collection of shattered water lines. A few more pipes, connectors and glue from Lowe’s and they SHOULD (we know what should is all about) be ready to feed the washer, sinks, tub and toilets. Then we dry out the carpets and reinstall the ugly kitchen parquet. The annual ordeal of home ownership, and in return, nothing looks good.

avocado seeds :D

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I collect coins from different countries. Don’t know yet if the coins have value!!!!