Collections

[serene]

Copied over from a comment I made on porcinea's LJ:

Things I collect, with "collection" defined as "I already have more items than any sane person would consider reasonable or necessary, *and* I would cheerfully welcome additional inputs to the collection (and indeed have no compunction about buying)".

* books, including cookbooks (but I do cull them regularly). The ones that take up the most category-specific shelfspace are comics/graphic novels, books on writing, books about atheism/skepticism/etc., and of course cookbooks, which threaten daily to take over my apartment, even though I give away dozens of them a year.
* spheres (the only actual, conscious collection we have -- in the sense that we *decided* to collect them, when a friend gave us a cool fiber-optic sphere as a housewarming gift)
* books and art (including jewelry (including the way-fab bracelet porcinea made me)) by people we know
* fridge magnets
* building toys
* cooking magazines (filed in magazine organizers by month)
* sex-related toys, gadgets, gear, and clothing (they have their own dresser, but they've overflowed it)
* schlocky old horror/sci-fi movies on DVD

I think that's it, but I'll probably think of more.

What do you collect?

Comments

[wimsey70.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I deliberately collect anything. That is, I don't go out looking for different specimens to create a collection.

That said, I have a lot of books. I don't "collect" them, really. I just buy a lot of them :) Despite the fact that I give away, easily, 100 books to my library each year, my collection just keeps growing and growing (over 1600 now). That was fine when my ex and I shared a huge four-bedroom house (together, we had over 3000, not counting Greg's graphic novels), but in my tidy little house here, I've got half of them in the basement, and the rest overpowering my third bedroom.

I also have quite few movies and TV series on DVD, although not nearly as many as some people I know.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

That said, I have a lot of books. I don't "collect" them, really.

Sounds like you may fit the definition the porcinea gave for "collect", though. :-)