Collections....
What do you?
Tuesday, November 6, 2007 by Jafo | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Over time, people get all sorts of manic interests...that manifest themselves as 'collections'.
Snowman, for eg has 'every' skin ever made....for any proggy.....
My interests are diverse....so there's more than one thing I like to collect.
It gets a bit crowded when you have 16+ bicycles........I'm attempting to rationalize that.... so currently, including frames there are....er.... 21.
When I was five I got into Meccano ....so 48 years later I still have that No. 3 set ....plus the equivalent of beyond a '10'..... 7 or 8 boxes of the stuff.
Motor Racing Officiating....over 30 years..... I try to limit myself just to caps for the World Superbikes [they're particularly well embroidered....FIM badges, etc..... I end up with 4 or 5 others each year....so the F1 and Moto are passed on to other 'fans'.... but then there's service badges...pins....programs....posters....tabbards....and pieces of car/bike.....
When I was 10 it was Magnus the Robot Fighter [comic - Gold Key] .....I wish I'd kept them all back then.....they're worth money now....but I have 'most'.
When I was 5 - 6 I had all 72 [I think] Matchbox cars...as on the typical display case .... and I sure wish I'd kept those.... could just about retire now...
Anyway.....what monopolizes your collective juices?
Jafo rephrases that....
What do you collect?
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Reply #42 Thursday, November 8, 2007 11:34 AM
Before I moved to Oz from Devon in 69, I had a stamp collection that was the envy of quite a few serious collectors: 2 mint penny blacks; 7 mint penny reds; a mint twopenny blue; several franked reds & 3 blacks; the complete Silver Jubilee set, both mint and franked; the complete Elizabeth II Coronation set; dozens of other commemorative sets of most eras and the 1908 & 1948 London Olympics sets.
Sadly, because it would be worth quite a bit these days, I was unable to bring it with me and the 'didn't have a friggin' clue' uncle I left with took every single stamp out of their albums (5 in all) and glued them onto a huge sheet of paper to create a very expensive mural 'of sorts'.
We was very lucky that I was half-way around the world...or his premature demise would have been on the cards.
Reply #43 Thursday, November 8, 2007 12:08 PM
Well, as Jafo allready pointed out; I collect skins, and have over the years (since 98/99) stacked up quite a few.
Standing count is 53116 (18 GB of HD space) skins and themes for 175 different applications, and the count goes up every day.
Most of the applications went out of use ages ago but I still keep the skins just in case someone might need'em
I've also helped a lot of people recovering their precious creations, lost in various hardware failures.
The 'pride' of my collection and the topranking section, is offcouse the WindowBlind skins.
Totalling in, at a standing count of 7779, I am probably (or most likely) the one person on this planet who has the most WindowBlinds 
Many of them cannot be found anywhere else other than on my pc 
Reply #44 Thursday, November 8, 2007 12:31 PM
Reply #45 Thursday, November 8, 2007 1:09 PM
I collect lunatic ex-girlfirends.
Maybe it's just me who sends them that way 
Reply #46 Friday, November 9, 2007 6:31 AM
Maybe it's just me who sends them that way
you are not alone
Reply #47 Friday, November 9, 2007 6:40 AM
Snow....can you dump them to DVD and pass them on...to someone else...as a backup archive....just in case something 'clever' happens to your machine...like you install Windows on it and it takes exception GPF-ly....
You have my addy...surely...
Reply #48 Friday, November 9, 2007 7:05 AM
This might interest you Jafo...I also collect number plates(licence plates to the americans).I have one or two that are hard to come by.My fav collection is of hard to get iron maiden picture discs.
Reply #49 Friday, November 9, 2007 7:14 AM
SGT
Reply #50 Friday, November 9, 2007 8:04 AM
OH Maaann!! just tragic.. speachless
Reply #51 Friday, November 9, 2007 11:36 AM
Yeah, and when my grandmother told him how valuable some of them were, he took a pair of scissors to the whole damned thing to try cut them off. The stamp shop owner told him what I already knew, that they were totally & utterly worthless.
No use crying over split milk now...should have known better at the time not to have given the collection to someone who had little or no appreciation of such things...and being that he used to paint model aircraft and ships with pinks, purples and reds, etc, I should have known he was sixpence short of a shilling.
Reply #52 Friday, November 9, 2007 1:25 PM
Reply #53 Friday, November 9, 2007 2:52 PM
Hehe don't worry Jafo. They are stored on an external HD.
And yes, I do back them up on DVD's. Actually. I think it's time for a new round of backup'ing
Reply #54 Friday, November 9, 2007 10:34 PM
Rocks and minerals...started when I was a kid finding pretty rocks in the driveway...I have a *teardrop* from a volcano , geodes from Arizona , huge chunks of pink quartz, just to name a few
...and pens, drawing pencils and drawing papers!! 
Reply #55 Saturday, November 10, 2007 12:43 AM
I also collected Steins, but with 5 kids.. I now collect fragments of steins.
As of lately it seems I collect bills more than anything...
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Reply #41 Thursday, November 8, 2007 9:44 AM