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What do you collect?
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right now i'm collecting some PS3 games
!! i don't really care for "limited editions" in videogames i'm also collecting some Vinyl/Picture Vinyl, CD's, Posters and T-Shirts band !! maybe later i might post a picture!!
!! i don't really care for "limited editions" in videogames i'm also collecting some Vinyl/Picture Vinyl, CD's, Posters and T-Shirts band !! maybe later i might post a picture!!
Been collecting since my late teens. In my 20's I spent more money on records than ANYTHING else. In my early 30's I still purchased records although not as much, also inherited a collection of a few thousand records. Since I purchased an ipod, I haven't bought any records and at one point stopped digitizing the records. It's a long arduous process that took up all my time.
I started a music swap with some people I met online, that live in NYC to create a music swap. It has netted me an obscene amount of music. Ironic that the entire library can fit on about 3x2t drives. The first two pictures are of a basement turned into as you can tell, shelving with thousands of records. Doubles are not a rare thing. Third picture is an apartment in NYC.
No they are not for sale.
I started a music swap with some people I met online, that live in NYC to create a music swap. It has netted me an obscene amount of music. Ironic that the entire library can fit on about 3x2t drives. The first two pictures are of a basement turned into as you can tell, shelving with thousands of records. Doubles are not a rare thing. Third picture is an apartment in NYC.
No they are not for sale.
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The friend of mine who gave them to me said I'd better not. Although he told me this after saying the guy he got them from said not to but he did anyways and nothing happened
That is a difficult question to answer. There are so many that span genres as well as eras that to have one favorite is too hard.
old clocktower faces
it kinda started as joke years ago, i didnt have money to buy glasses, and at work i could never see the clock on the wall so i would have to get up and walk over to the clock to see what time it was. one day i came to work and bossman had a 3 and a half foot clock from an old train station mounted on the wall for me. i still have it to this day, and it sits beside me against the wall at this moment. my collection kinda grew from there, though i do have the money to afford glasses nowadays. these clockfaces pictured are all french and date back to the late 1800's and early 1900's. i have a couple others elsewhere, and just picked up a 7 and a half foot belgian clockface in paris, circa 1860, its so big i need to have a large plate glass window from my office removed in order to bring the clockface inside. i also collect 'old' apple computers...
it kinda started as joke years ago, i didnt have money to buy glasses, and at work i could never see the clock on the wall so i would have to get up and walk over to the clock to see what time it was. one day i came to work and bossman had a 3 and a half foot clock from an old train station mounted on the wall for me. i still have it to this day, and it sits beside me against the wall at this moment. my collection kinda grew from there, though i do have the money to afford glasses nowadays. these clockfaces pictured are all french and date back to the late 1800's and early 1900's. i have a couple others elsewhere, and just picked up a 7 and a half foot belgian clockface in paris, circa 1860, its so big i need to have a large plate glass window from my office removed in order to bring the clockface inside. i also collect 'old' apple computers...
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I started getting rid of old school work from grad school (school is a hobby, but keeping old papers isn't) and I also realized there's no good reason to take up space and collect old pictures.
I also gave away what was left of my stamp collection and gave away the second half of my coin collection. I had all common types so it wasn't worth trying to sell anything.
You could call me an anti-collector and if anything I want to collect, it's more free cubic footage in my living space and I am not about to be able to afford (or size up even if I had all the cash in the world) and enter the still dangerous world of real estate.
So I am doing the best thing for now which is getting rid of all collections which are pretty much nothing more than clutter with a fancy name attached to it. I also think in these times, while it may sound boring, it's good to save for a rainy day and/or pay off debts.
For those who collect things like MP3s, diplomas, or downloaded internet movies and tv shows, they don't take up a lot of space and won't clutter the house and seem to be common things people pursue these days. I think collecting works my worst part of my addictive personality so I don't collect, even the MP3s, and it was only last year I started using iTunes and that appears to potentially be the most addictive thing in our society as far as buying stuff (thus Apple Inc's great rise with devices and downloads).
I also gave away what was left of my stamp collection and gave away the second half of my coin collection. I had all common types so it wasn't worth trying to sell anything.
You could call me an anti-collector and if anything I want to collect, it's more free cubic footage in my living space and I am not about to be able to afford (or size up even if I had all the cash in the world) and enter the still dangerous world of real estate.
So I am doing the best thing for now which is getting rid of all collections which are pretty much nothing more than clutter with a fancy name attached to it. I also think in these times, while it may sound boring, it's good to save for a rainy day and/or pay off debts.
For those who collect things like MP3s, diplomas, or downloaded internet movies and tv shows, they don't take up a lot of space and won't clutter the house and seem to be common things people pursue these days. I think collecting works my worst part of my addictive personality so I don't collect, even the MP3s, and it was only last year I started using iTunes and that appears to potentially be the most addictive thing in our society as far as buying stuff (thus Apple Inc's great rise with devices and downloads).
on it.When I was a kid I collected comics and then as a teen/twentysomething it was all about music & Movies.
The wierd thing is I have digitised everything I have ever owned and have put into storage all of the old physical media.
Now I feel that I have achieved this kind of minimalist nirvana, no physical media clutters up my house.. I have more than I could ever have possibly imagined I could have fitted in to my life let alone my apartment... yet I feel strangley empty....
I know they say the stuff that you own also can begin to own you, and yet by fighting against that and getting rid of everything so as to be myself I have ended up feeling as empty on the inside as my apartment.
Don't worry this is not a cry for help... just a general thing I have noticed....
And no I will not try to fill the gap by buying more crap.
The wierd thing is I have digitised everything I have ever owned and have put into storage all of the old physical media.
Now I feel that I have achieved this kind of minimalist nirvana, no physical media clutters up my house.. I have more than I could ever have possibly imagined I could have fitted in to my life let alone my apartment... yet I feel strangley empty....
I know they say the stuff that you own also can begin to own you, and yet by fighting against that and getting rid of everything so as to be myself I have ended up feeling as empty on the inside as my apartment.
Don't worry this is not a cry for help... just a general thing I have noticed....
And no I will not try to fill the gap by buying more crap.