Do You Collect Anything?

[dsrchamp04]

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i collect old amf racing snowmobiles...i started with my dads old race sled...its a 71 xx 340 racer that he gave me and i have a few other xx racers and a supertwin built by amf that is the only survivor of its kind.

 

[SS MAYFLOAT]

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My wife collects bears of all kinds except real ones. But she would if she could. One of the rooms in the house is a dedicated "bear room". All of them combined makes a total of over 1000 of the critters. She has names for them, then she gets mad when I don't know their names. Heck she can't remember how much she spent at the store just 5 minutes ago, but she knows each bear and where and how it sits on the shelf.<br /><br />Yep, guess what my boats name is "Jeannie Bear"<br />Don't it figure?

 

[one more cast]

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I also have a collection of miscellaneous old things such as an old gasoline powered Maytag washer, a 1931 Moto-mower, several old outboards, some old car jacks, old farm items, draw shaves, scythes, a jari self propelled sickle bar mower.

 

[Elmer Fudge]

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Originally posted by deputydawg:<br /> I am sure I have the most unique collection of any of you here.<br />I collect drug paraphernalia. <br />I also have an impressive collection of the weapons I have seized from these waterheads.<br />So far I have close to 1,000 peices, including pipes and syriunges.

Hey dd, won't that come under the heading of states evidence? <br /><br />I've never really been a collector of anything, though when i was about nine or ten i tried collecting stamps but that proved to be fleeting

 

[BLU LUNCH]

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I collect vintage New Haven Railroad pre-1950 negatives and pre-1960 slides a hobbies turned in to a nice side bussiness selling pictures at model railroad shows. I all so had some of my items published on websites and a up coming book "The History of the Budd Company" I recently donated a rare print to the Flying Yankee Restoration Group check out the website at www.flyingyankee.com go to yankee news on the front page and click on 11/04/2004 and read about it and go back to the top and click photos, mine is the second photo on the left.

 

[Serentiy]

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Tents and camping gear.at one time I had 7 tents<br />Serenity

 

[heyttown]

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Hockey cards, and Game worn hockey jerseys for me.....

 

[snapperbait]

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Sitting here looking at 9 guitars.. Guess that could be construed as a collection..<br /><br />Like Neumanns, I have quite the collection of nuts, bolts, screws, and a various assortment of small parts from who knows what that i'll probably never use...

 

[roscoe]

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I collect weird looks, I manage to get a dozen or so every day.

 

[what66]

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I collect outboard motors. <br />I startedwith one I now have 7

 

[dolluper]

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Car parts , Cars , tools, auto manuals some day I'm going to have an auction and it will all go unless the nephew gets interested real fast

 

[WillyBWright]

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I'm layed off so I'm collecting dust. <br /><br />Otherwise, antique and oddball outboard motors.

 

[OBJ]

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Well....got an arrow head collection I've picked up over the years from along the Muddy Banks....Me Mum and me been collecting coins for what seems forever.....Got some old outboards....large collection of antique fishing lures.......OH YEAH....and a huge collection of head bumps I get/got from she herself....

 

[TexomaAv8r]

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My girlfriend collects pigs, little firguriens, pictures, books, anything..she wants a real pig bad but the best she has been able to do so far is me

 

[LazyJ]

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We have very similar interests OJB. I'm working on my 4th shoeboxfull of arrowheads. Just acquired my 26th Lucky 13 lure. <br /><br />My son turned 10 in '00 at which point he inherited my 10 1/2 gallon Jim Beam jugs full of various wheatleafs, indianhead, and buffalo nickel coins. We buried them on our farm and nobody living know they exist except him, me, and you folks. He is not to dig them up until he has a ten year old of his own to pass them on to, dearly hope I'm still around to enjoy that moment.<br /><br />I really like the old stuff, simply admiring an arrowhead gives me goosebumps thinking about the stories it could tell. How many "gee whiz" fish have them old lures caught? How many of them buffalo nickels was the only nickel some ol' sharecropper family had to their name?

 

[ob]

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My MIL collects bells of all kinds.Ceramic,brass,you name it. <br /><br />I've got quite an assortment of 1/24 scale slot cars.Oh ,and lots of fish hooks.

 

[Bassy]

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I collect shot glasses from places I've visited. Also old US coins and foreign coins. And those of you with those arrowhead collections, keep those safe and pass on to someone you care about. Its a great collection to pass on to younger generations. We'll see which one of us kids gets Grandpa's arrowhead collection. Dad has it now and won't let anyone do anything but look at it. A nice valuable collection.<br />Bassy

 

[NYMINUTE]

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Originally posted by roscoe:<br /> I collect weird looks, I manage to get a dozen or so every day.

Roscoe, you are rockin'

 

[deputydawg]

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When I was a kid on the rosebud reservation in SD, we were just south of ST. Francis Mission I collected arrowheads and spearheads. The newer ones were pipestone, older ones flint. If you look close you can tell which one was used for what. This area I was in was the last of the battlegrounds. You would find them easily on prairie dog holes and washouts.<br />An old indian man we used to rent ground from, he was close to 100 back in the 70's when I was a kid. He said that the Souix never made arrowheads. He said the spiders made them. To explain he said they would walk the area looking for wolf spider holes. As the spiders dug out their holes they would shove pebbles and other things to the surface, including arrowheads. This is why they said the spiders made them. The arrowheads were actually made by tribes that were there before the Souix, those the Souix drove out when they moved in. Other animals also made arrowheads and spearheads for them, badgers, foxes, coyotes, any digging animal or bug.<br />Back on topic, I had over 200 arrowheads but when I moved I left them with my uncle. He was making a display case, but I think my cousin decided they were his and took them.

 

[Bassy]

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Originally posted by deputydawg:<br /><br />Back on topic, I had over 200 arrowheads but when I moved I left them with my uncle. He was making a display case, but I think my cousin decided they were his and took them.

So sorry to hear that,DD. That was a huge loss. Could you ask your cousin about them? Maybe you could get them back.<br />Bassy