<p>LOL. I definitely have an orphan sock collection. I keep thinking the mates will turn up. How long should one wait before giving up?</p>
<p>Another collection I have is origami paper. I used to make earrings and ornaments from them to sell, but I’ve gotten too busy architecturally to really do it any more. But I still can’t resist the paper. In fact, it’s all I can do not to buy any nice paper I see. I had to stuff my hands in my pockets going through the scrapbook section of the art store today. They had really nice paper today!</p>
OMG, <em>ROFL</em>, I can relate! I handpaint storage boxes for gifts sometimes (like, I’ll put Broadway musical logos on boxes that girls can haul their make-up and such in to the theatre), and I’m constantly buying cool boxes, even though I rarely get around to painting them. I especially started collecting when one of the girls’ moms saw one of the boxes I’d done and “ordered” some from me (I’d never been paid for them before <em>lol</em>). Now, I’ve got all of these boxes sitting around here, amidst the other clutter! ;)</p>
<p>And yeah, I could join the orphan sock club in a big way! :D</p>
<p>Interesting collections.
Children’s tea sets. Watercolor paintings from one artist that I like and would love to find more. Christmas ornaments. Collectible card games.</p>
<p>My lost-in-the-washer socks reappear reincarnated as wire hangers in the closet (and other random places - no clue how they get there.)</p>
<p>I have a bulletin board in my laundry room where I hang orphan socks. Occasionally they get adopted or reunited. In the meantime, my “decor” gets lots of comments.</p>
<p>motherdear, I like your collection! I’m partial to the same items, but can’t say I actually have a “collection.” It’s more like random items tucked away in closets and china cabinets.</p>
<p>Binx, I’ve taken to putting mismatched socks together – usually athletic socks. Under jeans they aren’t noticed, and I hate to waste anything!</p>
<p>I have a small collection of vintage - three piece, glass cream and sugar sets. The little cream bowl and sugar bowl sit next to each other on a little glass tray.</p>
<p>I also have the world’s ugliest collection of Limoges trinket boxes…thanks to DH. Actually, the last few he has given me for presents have been beautiful. But I think D has taken over the job of selecting which Limoges H gives me.</p>
<p>D has a collection of miniature shoes by “Just the Right Shoe”. </p>
<p>I also have a collection of Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe series) audiobooks.</p>
<p>I have a collection of fancy shopping bags…some from stores that no longer exist.</p>
<p>Oh, I forgot my collection of vintage – 2 piece, glass luncheon sets. Most of the sets (a cup and little glass plate w/ round indentation for the cup) are of the wheat pattern; but my favorites are the apple shape sets.</p>
<p>To ward them off, you just say the magical words. as my greataunts said in anglicized Yiddish, “Kaynahora!” Here’s the context, “She looks healthy, kaynahora!” and “They’re getting married next spring, kaynahora.”
I thought they were sneezing or something.</p>
<p>Years later I learned it came from Hebrew, “k-eiyin-ha-rah!”
(k=“like”, eiyin= “eye”, ha= “the”, “rah”= evil, bad)</p>
<p>By merely UTTERING the words, it warns away the evil eye. You are aware of its possible presence, and like all jealousies, it’s really a cowardly bully and will run away.</p>
<p>Try it, it works (not…). That’s why I wear my hamsas. I have some beautiful hamsa earrings. A student once asked me, “Why do you have hands on your ears?”</p>
<p>I always thought that Kaynahora (which was said VERY often by my mother, aunt, grandmothers, etc.) meant something like “G-d willing” or “If everything goes as we hope it does” and didn’t learn until much later that it had to do with the “evil eye”</p>
<p>Ya know, randc, I never thought about it, but I’ll bet I could come up with dust from all over! I’m quite certain there is dust here from Germany, and probably from several other countries. </p>
<p>SJMom - when we were packing up the house to move to Germany, I remember sorting through some old sheets and finding a long lost sock, stuck by static cling inside a sheet. I still had the match on my wall. Perfectly good pair, but several sizes too small by then for anyone living in my house!</p>
<p>I’m a human pack rat! I collect anything and everything I come into contact with :D</p>
<p>My main collection though is books. A rather inherited one this, as my grandma was a librarian and looking after books permeated through the family, as did a passion for buying them. I’ve got bookshelves full of old first edition hardbacks of certain children’s authors (my mum and I have this as a joint collection, thankfully when it comes to the price of some of the rarest ones!). I valued one of my big sets recently and one series alone is worth about $6000! Old Shakespeare plays, preferably complete works, as well. I have the most amazing little ones (sadly only 5, long way to go for the full set!) that are only the size of a coin!</p>
<p>Stuffed animals too if they count. I must have at least 300, all with their own name, voice and personality of course! That’s not so much a collection as me falling in love with anything cute and fluffy! :o</p>
<p>I found out they were published as freebies with a newspaper (also some sort of little shelving thing to keep them in) so a curiosity really, but I’d love to try checking my lines with them even if they’d probably get lost on my pocket. They are actually surprisingly still a readable size, with only about six lines on each page!</p>