I like to collect natural things from nature- shells i have found on the shore ( and rocks sorry I missed your simon cyn) ...feathers ect.. here are a few of the shells I have found... what do you collect?

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Great idea for a Simon Kimmer! Well, looking around my office, I saw two things that I collect. The biggest I suppose is music. I have a large CD collection and broad range of tastes. Pictured above is what I have piled next to my computer at work. I also collect Thomas the Train stuff...for my kids. ;oP

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Wish I could upload something here but my new PC is deader than a doornail.But if I could,I'd show my 'Nightmare Before Christmas' figures,etc.I also collect things from,'Alice in Wonderland'.Sigh,it would've been fun showing them... :( Lovely collection Kimmie.I love how you presented it here.Wonderful the way you framed it like a shadowbox.I have a ton of CD's,too,Kort.Tons of them.But since I got i-tunes,THEY mostly collect dust.LOL. :)

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... I collect ... photos ... among other things :)

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Just a sample of things...I collect a lot of old wierd things...tools, bottles I find when excavating building sites. Birks silverware or flatware.Coins....If it is old and interesting I save it.

I even have a collection I found on a jobsite,
of new Limited Special Edition Playboy books from about 1969 to 1977(the American Versions).
Plus a bunch of MAD magazines.
Stuff that will pack around with me till who knows when. Now I'm getting quite the camera collection too.Old Brownies to my new one.

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hmmmmm...i don't collect anything. It's a fantastic thread though!! curious to see what everyone collects! ya'all have some neat images and collections here!!!!! night night ya'all! :)

lovely thread kim, well see what l can do .. but collect blue glass, delft (((dutch pottery, blue and white with paintings of windmills))) poole pottery..
Old postcards have about 800...one from when istanbul was constantinople, with all the old ships in the harbour...
ohhhhhh just a magpie really..
antique poetry books... they have to inscripted with a poem to the person who recieved the gift...
Then books books books in general surrounded by books..

paintings from friends, old buckles from gowns or belts, mostly victorian...
nikki:)

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Well, more to prove someone ACTUALLY collects these (M&Ms) than showing off an impressive collection. After all, no one wants me to bring out my collection of Pokemon cards! *wink*

PS: @ DB... I used to have a Coke bottle collection that included bottles from around 25 different countries (my most impressive being one from Iran) but I gave it away.

M and Ms!! i never would have guessed anyone would coolect them!! do you store them in your freezer ? i would be afraind they would melt!! DOug that is a wonderful collection you got there!! how fanicnating all those treasures found on job sites!! my Dad used to bring stuff home one time we even got an old pool table that we played in the garage with all my teen friends back in the 80s!... i love that collection nice shot and great tones too,., and hmmm a collection of photos hehe i think we all might coolect those!!.. nice pic.. :O) you have lotsa cds there Kort... sigh i wish i could listen to mine my dvd player broke on here ,.!i need a real sterio system i ususally just listen to the cable tv on adult alternitive!

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"do you store them in your freezer ?" Naw, just a clear air-tight container and stored at room temp. (I just got the ones that are orange and black today...the ones that have jack-o-lanterns printed on them instead of the letter, "M") Cheers!

i don't think i could collect m&ms..lol....this is my collection of cameras.

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WOW! They all work?

not all, some of the little ones require a battery modificatiion and the fed3 is a basket case :))

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Still, pretty impressive! Hehe, figures someone would collect cameras!

lol...more a case of accidental collector....i did not start out with a definite idea to collect them :)

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couldn't decide.. but i do treasure my collection of small boxes here is just a sampling.. ;]

cool, like the one at the back with the face on it :)

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tried putting a lot more in but it got to look like such a jumble cool cam collection!! would luv to collect the antique ones just as i do collect antiques.. lol.. like Doug (nice shot) & shells are all over the bathroom but terribly dusty :P beautiful arrangement kimmers M&Ms? hehe.. would have to constantly restock.. :d yum photos & cds.. absolutely!!! :D

Those are gorgeous, Cyn! Something magical about little boxes. At the Rennaisance (sp?) Festival years back, there was a guy who sold puzzle boxes made from gnarled roots of trees. He made them entirely with a bandsaw and then hand-polished them to a wonderful shininess. And you had little trick handles and drawers that, once removed, showed more smaller drawers. Really unique and wonderful.

they do sound wonderful.. & you didn't pick me up one? :(

was just looking at your M&Ms again.. i guess some of those colors are now retired..
could maybe even get a big return on Ebay for them!

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The paizly (sp?) ones were hard to find. And the breast cancer ones took me a couple months to find after they came out. Now, I'm just debating whether to get some from the M&M website that you can personalize (but they are expensive). Hehe, and I wasn't even able to take a photo of my wrapper collection (it's at work). Cyn, those puzzle boxes were $125 to $250. As I look back on them (about 10 years ago), I'm thinking they were a good price. The average size was about equal to a very large grapefruit (if you can imagine an oblong grapefruit). But, the grain and swirls on the wood were magical!

Very cool collection of stuff here peeps! Well, I love TOYZ...OLD, NEW....doesn't matter really, just anything that catches my eyes! Goto ALOT of yard sales and flea markets...to get my fix! Here's a small sample of some of my robot stuff!

cool old toyz joe! rock em sock em!! GO! WOW i had to sit and look at that camera collection for quite some time how many of those do you use!! COOL! love your boxes cyn sound like you collect allot of stuff from what i have seen your taste is amazin as well thanks for sharing this was fun!!! yeaaaaaaa!! lol and i am glad you got the orange and black m and ms i am a chocolate hoilic and they would have a hard time being saved!! LOL we always used to joke about the green ones!! :OP

kimmers ♥ :O)

This is some of the sea glass that I collect, I couldn't
begin to photograph it all. I've been collecting it for
years...

oh WOW I HAVE NEVER SEEN SO MUCH SEA GLASS AWESOME!!! what a collection it i were you i would do a mosaic tile inthe house with it!! .,.WOWWWWWWWW!! COOL! how many years you been collecting that how did you find so much you must live near the beach!

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Hi Kim, most of them are usable but i use four of them as my main cameras for different situations

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kimariehere, nice idea for nongo's glass. I was thinking of a nice table-top about 1 and a half to 2 inches wide with clear acrylic poured over all of it. I wonder why there are no reds and purples and yellows?

Chuck, I guess because they didn't make to many bottles out of those colors??? All these pieces came from what people through into the ocean, and yes to you Kimmers I do live on an island and I love to walk the beaches, over time a couple of pocket fulls add up. I also have a large collection of agates too. Each day more wash up on the beach so I haven't depleted the source at all... Akemi

Yeah, maybe the dyes that were available at the time. (I like agates, too) Thanks for sharing.

We collect SAND from our trips (and our friends too). we have several little cabinet with all the little bottles... As we see them, we remember the great moments we spent there !

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Wow that's a great idea, must be interesting seeing all the diferent types of sand, very cool!!!1

What an impressive collection! (figured nongo would like it...hehe). I used to collect sand, too, but I forgot to label all the onces from a trip once and got upset (LOL). My favorite was the one from Greece that was "black" sand (volcanic sand, I guess).

A great "collection" of collections everyone. It is very neat to see what everyone collects...it says something about you. What exactly that is, I have no idea, lol! =]

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