Little boxes! My grandmother started my collection with her gift of a small gumball machine-shaped box with little colorful wooden balls inside for gumballs. I became obsessed with tiny versions of big things and haven’t looked back! Now I have around 20 various-shaped tiny boxes (safely stored away in a much larger box).
Enamel pins. Some are really cool artist made ones that were done in 2-3 variants and maybe only 25 of one variant were even produced. Those are difficult to come by when released and gain value usually 30 days after their release date. But I also have a bunch of just smaller ones I pick up here and there. They’re just neat
Nah the biggest ones I have are the Millennium Falcon and Star Destroyer that were like $100 20-ish years ago lol. But I’ve got a big bookshelf that I’ve got them all on :) as for the handhelds I have a bunch of anbernic and retroid, as well as like an og Gameboy, gbc, gbasp, hylian shield 2dsxl, and vita :D
I’ve been learning to speedcube for about 3 months now, and I’m nearing my 40s. I have 3 shit cubes solved on display on my desk, an RS3M 2020 in my pocket at all times and a Tornado sat in my basket waiting for me to have a spare £30 to just drop on another cube.
The struggle is real.
I got my first sub 40 second solve yesterday, twice! I’ve tried telling people in my life but nobody cares, but I’m proud of that
I just let two turtles go to make room for a newborn rattlesnake i found. Used to have a sugar glider i found in my backyard. I usually keep stuff a few week/months and alternate it out with new friends i find.
Im in the process of moving to a forest i bought so ill have more room for more tanks, and more time outdoors. I only keep as many as i can keep thriving instead of surviving, of course. But when i need to downsize i usually let stuff go in my forest.
It started when i found out my family and neighbors just shoot all the animals on sight so i started rehoming them
I’m kinda on the fence here, on one hand it’s pretty cool to be able to care for all those animals and even potentially save them from being killed, on the other hand I kinda think that we, as humans, shouldn’t disturb wild animals any more than we already do but I can see that your intentions are good.
Do you ever get like too emotionally attached to animals you find (to a point where you actually keep them as pets permanently)? Do you still have “normal” pets besides them?
Also, correct me if I’m wrong, but I immediately thought to myself “yep, they’re Australian” :D
And im not so worried about disturbing nature as its all land i own not public land. I have like 50 acres of hunting land, i live on 2 acres rn with acess to a like 300+ft wide river with a beach(just camped out there last night actually), and the forest i said im releasing them is 40 acres of untouched woods with a 15ft river through the center. Im building a house there starting like 2 months from now and it will be my permanant residence. I want it FOR the nature so im being much more low impact than everyone else. I could bulldose the trees and put in a cow pasture on the whole thing like my neighbors do. But i bought the forest as a nature preserve basically. So me playing with animals here and there is still significantly better than what others would do.
Yeah i have 2 big dogs that are super friendly. They go everywhere i go, they go grocery shopping with me. But yeah i do get attached to the animals i find, but my forest if fucking perfect for animals idk how to explain it without pictures and maps lol. They’re happy out there. So it doesnt bother me to let em go
So actually now that i think about it i collect land
I don’t really collect physical objects as such. Until a few years ago I used to collect/buy books, but for a long time I ran out of space. There are probably 600-700 books in my bookcase and another 2 small trunks filled with books. Then there are further two cabinets filled with my study books. Now that I have run out of space, I am collecting epubs and pdfs on my laptop and phone.
Very small glass bottles. The smaller the better. Bonus points if it’s an unusual shape. I have a lot of them and didn’t even try hard, people around me see a small bottle and automatically bring it to me.
I can see the appeal, my mum used to collect these tiny (glass) bottles of alcohol that you get near the cash registers in supermarkets (in Europe at least). I pretty much inhereted them when she wanted to throw them out, I even still have them and some are really cool looking.
As far as non-alcoholic beverages go, the small pear-shaped Orangina bottles are pretty cool but I’m sure you’ve got a million of those lol
What’s your favourite bottle in your collection? Do you also keep unopened bottles sealed or do you drain/drink whatever’s inside first?
Oh yea! My collection started with those little alcohol bottles. They’re so joyful! Unfortunately my ex threw them out when we broke up so I had to start all over. This time I decided to keep an open mind and accept all kind of bottles.
My pride is a vintage bottle of boonekamp. Found it in a flea market. The seller told me it was at least 50 year old. I also love old things so… it cost me something like 2 bucks back then. It was open but had a little bit of alcohol left. The second is a extra small tabasco bottle, holds only 0.7 ml! That one is sealed.
I don’t have a standard really, if it’s something enjoyable then it’s long gone. Jack Daniels & absolut, grey goose bottles all emptied during weak moments lol. If it’s something like a herb oil or tabasco I keep it sealed. I appreciate the bottle more than what’s inside anyways so.
I have to say it’s been a while since I last looked at them and I’m not even sure where they are… but I kept them pretty much sealed, the alcohol has long vapourised out of most of them anyway. There’s one I quite like, I don’t know what beverage it held originally but it’s like a tiny wine bottle with a small basket around it that goes around the whole bottle.
I can’t describe it very well but hopefully you know what I mean.
I think I know what you mean. I’ve never seen a miniature wine bottle, let alone one with its own basket. Sounds super cool. So cool that I’ll try to buy one online. Thanks for that!
Both of these collections have more or less ‘dropped off’.
Menus are mostly printed take-out menus, though I swiped the in-house menu as well when I could. Now, most of the casual dining places have replaced menus with QR codes.
The grass clippings were just a snip of a memorable event (cousin’s college football game, first time solo camping, special event, new home, etc.).
Vinyl records and playing cards (Western, Hanafuda, and Tarot decks.) The vinyl collection started when I got my parent’s old record player and started hitting thrift stores for bargains.
The card thing was sort of an accident; my wife (gf at the time) and I played a lot of Hwatu and cribbage and kept finding decks we liked.
Yeah we finally got a decent used record store in town and it’s awesome. Before that, I had to dig through a lot of John Denver to find any ELO and Blue Oyster Cult
I like to collect board games, trading cards, and vinyl records. I am very concerned about storage space so I try to collect only what I really enjoy or what I’ll realistically use.
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