<p>Wow…</p>
<p>I’m not being sarcastic. I had to fill up the line or my post wouldn’t go through.</p>
<p>We collect magnets from places we have been and family members often add to our collection. The frig. is covered.</p>
<p>Also collect different kinds of pottery like Roseville, McCoy, Hull… but really love the kind made here in our own state (NC).</p>
<p>Have bought a dated Hallmark Christmas ornament every year since we got married.</p>
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I love that. That is great!! It reminds me of the Johnny Cash song:</p>
<p>*I was totin’ my pack along the long dusty Winnamucka road
When along came a semi with a high canvas covered load
If your goin’ to Winnamucka, Mack, with me you can ride
And so I climbed into the cab and then I settled down inside
He asked me if I’d seen a road with so much dust and sand
And I said, ‘Listen! I’ve traveled every road in this here land’</p>
<p>I’ve been everywhere, man
I’ve been everywhere, man
Crossed the deserts bare, man
I’ve breathed the mountain air, man
Travel…I’ve had my share, man
I’ve been everywhere
I’ve been to
Reno Chicago Fargo Minnesota Buffalo Toronto Winslow Sarasota Wichita Tulsa Ottawa Oklahoma Tampa Panama Mattua La Paloma Bangor Baltimore Salvador Amarillo Tocapillo Pocotello Amperdello I’m a killer</p>
<p>I’ve been everywhere, man
I’ve been everywhere, man
Crossed the deserts bare, man
I’ve breathed the mountain air, man
Travel…I’ve had my share, man
I’ve been everywhere
I’ve been to:
Boston Charleston Dayton Lousiana Washington Houston Kingston Texas County Monterey Fairaday Santa Fe Tollaperson Glen Rock Black Rock Little Rock Oskaloussa Tennessee Tinnesay Chickapee Spirit Lake Grand Lake Devil’s Lake Crater Lake For Pete’s sake</p>
<p>I’ve been everywhere, man
I’ve been everywhere, man
Crossed the deserts bare, man
I’ve breathed the mountain air, man
Travel…I’ve had my share, man
I’ve been everywhere
I’ve been to
Louisville Nashville Knoxville Omerback Shereville Jacksonville Waterville Costa Rock Richfield Springfield Bakersfield Shreveport Hackensack Cadallac Fond du Lac Davenport Idaho Jellico Argentina Diamondtina Pasadena Catalina See what I mean</p>
<p>I’ve been everywhere, man
I’ve been everywhere, man
Crossed the deserts bare, man
I’ve breathed the mountain air, man
Travel…I’ve had my share, man
I’ve been everywhere
I’ve been to
Pittsburgh Parkersburg Gravelburg Colorado Ellisburg Rexburg Vicksburg El Dorado Larimore Adimore Habastock Chadanocka Shasta Nebraska Alaska Opalacka Baraboo Waterloo Kalamazoo Kansas City Sioux City Cedar City Dodge City What a pity</p>
<p>I’ve been everywhere, man
I’ve been everywhere, man
Crossed the deserts bare, man
I’ve breathed the mountain air, man
Travel…I’ve had my share, man
I’ve been everywhere.*</p>
<p>I’ve never been much of a collector or a saver of anything with one exception. I’ve never thrown out anything made or given to me by the kids! On the other hand, H had a large baseball card collection and a huge ticket stub collection from concerts and sporting events he’s attended. We made some of it into a piece of artwork for his office!</p>
<p>My collection is those Starbucks “city” mugs. I started by getting one for myself in a special town where I stayed for quite a while. I thought it would be a nice remembrance and would make a nice cup of tea. But every one kept using it, ice cream, cereal, soup, coffee, tea, we all use them and like them. So I got another one from another nearby town, then another, thinking one for each of us would be fun. I now have most of the West Coast towns covered plus other nearby states, but the coolest part is that friends saw my collection on visits and began getting them for me, I have several from European destinations, an entire set of the Arab world, and quite a few really cool looking Asian ones. I guess I need South America and Africa to complete the continents- I wonder- I have acquaintances there…hmmm! However can I drop that hint :D?</p>
<p>No, I have not been to any of these fun places, but every time I see the mugs, I feel the love of my well-traveled friends 
I actually came up with a display for some of the more unusual looking ones, so whilst I have 20 or 30 or maybe even more, about a dozen are used in home decor. </p>
<p>It’s funny, every one in the family has their favourites based on size & weight & other factors. My kids friends, off on university adventures abroad sometimes know of my addiction and tell me they are bringing back a mug for me, but those are rarely delivered- but I still smile that they are thinking of me.</p>
<p>I used to collect perfume but I’m paring down and selling it all off now. Time to find another obsession :)</p>
<p>I collect ship shaped bookends. Don’t know why . . .</p>
<p>To keep your book collection in ship shape?</p>
<p>^^bookiemom!</p>
<p>OMG, <strong><em>ROFLMAO</em></strong>!!! :D</p>
<p>Good one, bookiemom. Actually, they line up across the mantel and serve no purpose at all, which might be the best thing about collecting something–the aimlessness of it.</p>
<p>Berurah: I dunno who would dare give YOU the evil eye. Maybe if you wrote your posts in blue or aqua, that might be a good defense.</p>
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Yeah, maybe it’s just my overworked imagination. 
Nevertheless, I’m writing the powers-that-be to suggest a new hamsas icon. In blue. :D</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>The funny thing about collections is that you never start out specifically to collect things, but after a few acquisitions, you suddenly have one.</p>
<p>For example, take my newest collection: strange CC friends. I started with one, a lady with a crazy idea to start a college admissions advice site, added a “sweetie” with six kids to get through the process (and an abundance of exclamation points to distribute), another with a kid in film school drawing down the family savings, and another and another and another and another and suddenly… it’s a collection!</p>
<p>Now I know this is not a unique collection for those reading this, so maybe we can do what collectors of similar things do: a little trading: </p>
<p>Whaddaya give me for a oenophile from California with a daughter at Smith? Condition: slightly aged; some foxing may be present.</p>
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<em>sniffle</em>…and {{{{{hugs!!!}}}}} Now, the <em>ONLY</em> rule is, <em>YOU</em> can’t trade away <em>anyone</em> with six kids. Entirely too much baggage! You’re stuck with me, digster! :D</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>shoooooeeeesssssss</p>
<p>and earrings</p>
<p>and evening bags</p>
<p>and oh yeah, one of each kind of sock…its my SPECIAL collection</p>
<p>I collect Christmas in the City pieces by Dept 56. I didn’t really set out to collect them. I saw a piece I liked years ago, so my husband bought it for me and each year I add a large piece and a couple of small pieces.</p>
<p>There are some really fascinating collections in this thread!</p>
<p>I started collecting ocean liner deck plans and brochures when I was twelve.
Now I have our library filled with books, plates etc…on the subject. All the art on the walls in our home are linen-backed original ocean liner advertising posters.</p>
<p>My collections are all inexpensive antique (or at least old) items:</p>
<p>Kitchen utensils/tools such as pastry wheels, rolling pins, cookie and butter molds, mortars and pestles, waffle irons, and aebelskiver pans (I doubt if that is spelled correctly–the pans for those little round Danish pancake balls)</p>
<p>Blue transferware dinner plates that I use for everyday–most of them are from the 40s-50s and no two are alike, but it makes a pretty table (I went to a great market in Belgium on Sunday and this lady was assuring me in some language I didn’t quite understand, probably Flemish, that her plates were old, one hundred years, very old, etc. and I turned one of the dishes over and learned that it was dishwasher and microwave safe…hmmmmm!)</p>
<p>Hymnals from the late 1800s-early 1900s and also sheet music with pretty cover art from the same era</p>
<p>I’ve started a collection of antique maps, but they are pretty expensive compared to an old corkscrew or something like that.</p>
<p>Oh, and speaking of corkscrews, we started throwing corks in a little basket when we moved here five years ago, and the basket has been replaced with a bigger one at least six times since then, and now I have an old bushel basket full of wine corks in the corner of the kitchen.</p>
<p>A close friend of ours has an amazing bobble head collection. He had his home office shelving done specifically for them - he has hundreds if not thousands of these by now, some quite valuable. I always love going in there to look at them!!</p>
<p>cgmom—maybe we should compare our orphan sock collections…maybe we’d be able to finally come up with some matching pairs!!!</p>