I collect old cameos. What about you?
I kind of collect postcards. They’re cool and remind me of places I’ve been or other weird things. They are like small movie posters. I also have some Christmas cards that are cool. I bought them for Christmas, obviously, but then liked them to much to actually mail them to anyone. Every year, at Christmas, I buy new Christmas cards and mail the ones I like the least to the people I like the least. So, in other words, the people I like the most get the coolest cards.
Don’t act like that doesn’t make perfect sense :-).
Easy, seeds. I have lots of seeds. Almost 500 packets of different types. But they do t last forever. I need to sprout them.
Shoes. They are my wearable collectibles. 
My great-grandmother’s sterling silver pattern. I’m always on the lookout for more pieces, especially the six place settings that went to some now-distant cousin.
Antiques. My grandparents were antique dealers in their later life and I inherited quite a bit from them. Most of it is worthless but I LOVE the way most old things look.
I collect dust.
I used to collect teapots, bear figurines, and antique kitchen items. Now I’m just trying to figure out how to purge these items.
Dust. (had to say it)
Santas but I have reigned myself in in recent years.
Eastern Bluebird things are are really authentic to their look and coloring. I inherited the start of them from my mom when she downsized for assisted living.
I collect plants from friends/family for my gardens. I have a rose bush and forget-me-nots from my mom, peonies from my sister, lilacs from my husband’s mom, and assorted perennials from various friends. My mom gave me some plants not long after my husband and I bought our first house, and over the years she shared flowers from her garden every time she had to separate plants. I always try to take extras from friends who are thinning out their gardens too. I think of them whenever I’m out there working.
GoNoles-and it pains me to type your name (look at mine!)–I collect old post cards–especially love humorous ones. I love cards also–the cool Christmas cards go to good friends (and I save one for myself.)
I love old cameos!
My ex-husband collected contemporary art and almost bankrupted us. Got some of it in the divorce.
I have small collections of all sorts of things that you’d find in a early 19th-century gentleman’s library – portrait miniatures, mounted insects, books of natural history engravings, some fossils, some other natural history specimens, Japanese ceramics, etc. i tried to take a picture of a small sampling of objects and made it my profile picture but it didn’t work very well. You can see it better if you click on the image
PS in the picture is an 18th century portrait miniature, a page from Histoire Naturelle de Buffon (1802), a contemporary mounted insect, and peeking in the corner, a bit of a Japanese ceramic plate I don’t know too much about.
books…
I have one child who collects/collected everything from used gift cards to erasers to rings…we have enjoyed the many creative displays and at one point turned a hall closet into a museum (took the door off, hung a sign, put in shelves). DH collects paintbrushes, slide rules, very old math textbooks, other child collected pocketknives, old glass bottles, election buttons…
Oops I just saw that the picture i tried to post didn’t work. It looked okay on my phone but then when i logged out i saw it was cropped to an unintelligible close up. Oh well, probably better not to post identifying info anyway
I collect tea cups and saucers. D has already expressed interest in a few of them. I told I’d give them to her when she finds her first home.
Signed posters of concerts I have attended.
But I only buy them when I really love the poster & show.
I do have one poster I bought at a charity auction of a concert I did not attend in Hawaii, with U2 & Pearl Jam( only have Pearl Jams autographs, but if Bono & co want to sign it before I get it framed, they are welcome to)
I just remembered… we collect flotsam and jetsam… I’m not kidding: some of the objects we found on the bottom of the ocean or just floating in the waters off HI shores make great Christmas tree ornaments. We made it our tradition - we always bring an ornament form our trips to HI. If we can’t find anything decent, we just buy a locally made object.
(I also collect cat ornaments for the tree… Shhhh… don’t tell Mr. B!)
I am in the process of collecting items for my future “Bag a Week” club.
Speaking as a daughter in law of two collectors, I beg all the collectors out there to clearly identify items in your collections that have objective value. My inlaws have some extraordinarily valuable/rare postcards, coins, toys, and antiques… All mixed in with stuff that is (objectively) worthless. And while their kids know there are valuable items, nobody knows exactly which have value and where the valuable items are.
Either take a week (or weekend, or day, or couple of hours or five minutes) to catalogue the objectively valuable items, or identify who should inherit what, or know that your death is going to cause issues.
My inlaws have so many collections, are in failing health, and have yet to simply even identify what is sentimental, what was Nana 's (fill in the blank) that should stay in the family because (whatever), which little tin car is the one that was once appraised for a thousand dollars… Where they stashed that loose one carat diamond … What is the combination to the safe…
The aftermath of their death will be either a nightmare of digging through stuff, finding appraisers, selling stuff and determining who gets what… or an Antiques Road Show festival of “I bought this loose diamond that was stuffed inside a button box for $1 at an estate sale”.
Not much these days - I would say I’m De-collecting!!!
However, in the past I collected a couple things.
Old porcelain/ceramic/etc. baby dishes - some simple, some the ones that had the spout that you would pour hot water in to keep baby’s food warm… (have sold most of them recently except my own three kids baby dishes and a couple I actually use for “collecting” coins, jewelry, etc.)
Baskets - (of course!!! 
) Longaberger and others. I had quite a few. But have sold some that were not really being used for any purpose. Mostly that was a reason to buy them - I did use them for actual purpose, but have widdled down the collection to favorites and most useful ones.