Ladyvreni - love your attitude. And you're right, no matter how anyone's feeling, a smile is always a picker-upper.
And Tincup's name I'm going to guess comes from a Jimmy Buffett song, whose music I'm also going to guess she has collected...
And fatherguido, I don't think I'd have the guts to do what you do even if I was well!
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Checking in and enjoying reading all the posts.
But no one has guessed what I collect yet. Sorry! Got to think "boring".
But ... now that I think about it... actually I do collect some tin cups. Maddog gave me one years ago, so now folks do give me one here and there on occasion. I have them hanging from a string in my office.
But they aren't boring. In fact, they are quite noisy when the breeze is blowing or I move them around.
Rattling all over the place!
I'll check back.. gotta go skydiving as someone suggested. Sounds fun!!!
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Tincup, I called you out So you DO collect tin cups afterall!
I bet you also collect shells from FL and antique stuff. Am I close??
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Socks are boring... so are empty milk cartons.
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Transportable and boring....??????
Completed Sudoku puzzles?
Post cards, hair clips, handkerchiefs, scarfs, pins-
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Cool!! Thanks for posting this, Tincup. Very interesting and fun!!
I used to collect rocks.. stamps, coins. I have a few German steins too. Love them.
I try NOT to collect anything!! I tend to be a packrat too... so I struggle against collecting.
I used to collect antique ( or antique-looking ) women's boots.. you know the kind you put on the shelf? I've made a few out of ceramics, some my mother made. Some are Fenton glass, etc.
I also used to collect bells. Just all kinds of bells. Started when my husband gave me two crystal bells early in our marriage.
When we lost our house due to my illness, I stopped collecting, but still have my old collection in storage. I miss not having them around. They are in TX, and I am here!
I love Christmas ornaments too, but have only a small tree.. so that is limited too!
Since I don't have children, someone will one day appreciate the fact that I no longer collect!!
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TC: chocolate wrappers and ice cream lids. No wait, supposed to be boring. Pens.
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Tincup,
The MOST boring thing to collect would be drill bits. They bore for you every time you use them.
Bore on!!!
Or maybe you dont have THEE 'most' boring collection because I am here and you are there,,,and I am always told "I" am so boring!!!
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books. I pretty much collect books and read I love to cook too so I tinker with that a lot...writing my own recipes and making my family be my guinea pigs...ha ha.
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How bout nothing? Tincup collects nothing. HA!
Oh, hey what do we win if we're right??
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just don.. I'm still laughing at that one!!
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You all are just too funny!
With you all naming "boring" things I now remember I actually do/did have a collection of other "boring" stuff that I'd forgotten about.
Now how boring is that? So boring I forgot! HA!
Yes, boring golf balls is one collection! A couple hundred of them. But they are so boring they are packed away in the attic. To my credit they do all have special stamps on them from businesses and charity events... so not just totally boring plain old golf balls!
I also do have a lot of sea shells (hoping someday they become our national currency when the debt gets so high paper money isn't worth a toot).
Also have a collection of rocks, a big collection of old colored broken glass I collected from remote beaches, sharks teeth, tin cups, potato mashers, little bird houses, old wooden hand-carved duck and goose decoys, native American artifacts and religious statues.
Then there are fish statues, crab replicas, and underwater pretty creatures, miniature boats, etc. I use most of them on the Christmas tree.
Also some fun Cal Ripen and Harold Baines baseball cards (from the early years) ... along with some others.
And yes you smarty pants, I had a collection of the old crystal salt shakers that use to set at individual place settings.
Some of the stuff I sold years ago to pay bills after I got sick, so now I am curious as to what I do still have packed away.
But the BIG boring collection... 2 roads got it right. Post cards!
I like them, but it has always been a way to clear everyone out of the house whenever I wanted. "Mom's got her postcards out again- everybody run or you'll have to look at them!"
So what else do you all collect? I am enjoying reading about them.
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Finally Tincup! I have been reading for 2days waiting for the finale
I used to collect carousels....passed them down to my grandaughter.
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Dog hair. Lots and lots and lots of it.
I even collect it in my own hair!
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OH yeah!! I still have baseball cards from the 60's. I sold a few of them about 20 yrs ago, but kept the others. I can't remember which ones I had that were valuable that I sold. What a memory I have!!
I got about $30 for a few cards back then.
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I collect funnies. Here's one, abbreviated from a news clipping:
A convenience store clerk got a little unexpected help this week, as he tried to tell police about the man who had just robbed his store.
"He's about 5 foot 10," the clerk told police over the phone.
Then the suspect, who had suddenly returned to the store, spoke up to correct him. "I'm 6-2."
"About 6-2," the clerk said, "and about 38 years old."
"I'm 34," the man said, correcting the clerk. Then he asked for his wallet back, which he had dropped earlier when he tried to steal a bag of cigarette cartons and took off running.
A moment later, a deputy sheriff arrived and arrested the 6-foot-2, 34-year-old suspect.
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Hey, I just remembered... I collect compost!
More specifically, kitchen compost, chicken compost, rabbit compost, grass compost, and leaf compost.
Mix it all together and you get black gold!
Now isn't that a strange collection?
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Here's another one from my funnies composting pile, from Overheard On The Town:
"Stop calling your brother Ex-lax! That's not his name. Ex-lax is not on his birth certificate."
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You'd think smurfs, but no. =) I collect Coca-Cola stuff. Especially if it is authentic, like old blotters from the 50s, or giant plastic glasses used in restaurants. And Coca-Cola bottles. I have lots of those.
My mom even made me a Coca-Cola bucket. She painted the Coke symbol on one side and the Sprite boy and a bottle of the Real Thing on the other. =)
The old Coca-Cola Christmas stuff with the Santa is my favorite though. My kitchen is full of coke mugs, plates, pitchers, coasters, etc. And of course I have playing cards and lots of ornaments for the Christmas tree!
I also collect books. I got rid of over a thousand childrens book several years ago and have regretted it ever since. =( I pick books up every time I go to the thrift store. Mostly childrens books, but I also collect medical, homeschool, teacher resource, and Christian books as well.
My mom got me a set of medical textbooks for Christmas a couple of years ago. Sometimes when my brain is working, I'll just pick one up and start reading. =)
The last thing is daisies. I don't have many, but I'm a sucker for anything with daisies. A lot of my clothes have daisies incorporated into them somehow.
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OH, I LOVE raccoons!! At my last teaching job, our school mascot was a raccoon. We chose it ourselves since it was a brand new school.
I'm a sucker for anything with a Texas flag on it or pictures of bluebonnets .. anything Texan.
You should see our bathroom! The shower curtain is a Texas flag and I have matching rugs and towels and all kinds of great stuff on the walls. People here get a kick out of it!
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