No at all impressive, but..
At primary school I used to use a fountain pen. The ink cartridges had a little plastic ball in the top that got pushed inside the cartridge when you loaded the pen. Yep, I collected the little balls. Had over a hundred at one point, kept them in my catridge tin. Then someone threw them over the classroom floor - can't say I was that bothered, it was more of a habit.

Also have collected (and then binned)
- 100 or so real ale bottles
- Every FHM since 1996 til about sep 2006
- Almost every Fortean Times since 2006 (not yet binned though)

Oh, and at the moment 1191 mp3's, which I rarely listen to but couldn't bear to delete.

I also own a replica Polynesian club as used in an episode of Xena: Warrior Princess. God knows why...
(egon spengler, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 16:06, Reply)

I collect...
Items of clothing from hookers in the Norfolk area.

(I almost felt wrong typing that, taxi and coat for Hound)
(The_Greyhound wrote www.luckymcdanger.blog.co.uk on, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 16:05, Reply)

I collect...
..farts in jars.
I've just 'bottled' a late vintage 2007 'low rider' which has a marvellous egg and peanut bouquet.
I have a wide selection in my fart cellar dating back to 1986 when a particularly virulent batch of school cabbage caused a loud and untimely eruption of marsh gas to escape.
My "Kebab and Pizza" diet of the early 90's did little to palour my production.

I'm pure class, me.
(LunarJim, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 15:55, Reply)

I have a collection of used cinema tickets...
...and far too many of them. Its nice to go back through them and reminisce about all the *really* crap films I've paid to see. Matrix revolutions and Jar Jar Binks anyone?

Edit: Oh god! Can you imagine if Jar Jar Binks was *in* Matrix Revolutions ~shudder~
(bigquack, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 15:52, Reply)

I have a collection of virgins' hymens.
I'm looking to sew them together into a snatchwork quilt when I have enough.
( Naive Amoeba Bored Cig, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 15:47, Reply)

I collect insects....
...they are all kept on the front of my car!
(anon_is_best, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 15:46, Reply)

I collect skulls. . . .
When i was little my dad found a perfectly clean and sun-bleach bird's skull in his garage. He gave it to me and it was my pride and joy, until I put it in my back pocket and sat on it.

Now that I am twenty-something I have started collecting skulls again. I've only just started and only have a few birds skulls, but I'm hoping to aquire a badger skull off of a biologist friend. I'm not keen on collecting anything I find in the wild as i don't wish to contract TB.

I think i would draw the line at human remains as that would be disrespectfull.
(phys! The Horror! The Horror!, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 15:44, Reply)

Hammers, teeth
I have a friend who collects hammers and has a very fetching display of them on her living room walls.

She also collects human teeth, carefully labelled with name and extraction date in wooden dislay cabinets.

She also has a shoe last collection and an oil can collection.

She's lovely
(tonyhrx, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 15:40, Reply)

maladicta
I also keep my make up in a tool box! Seemed the most appropriate place somehow.

I collect collections.
(Siouxfan I'm not staring at you, I am just short sighted, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 15:36, Reply)

It grows by the day.
For about three or four months now I've been abusing my uni LAN connection by downloading episodes of whatever I fancy from the boyfriend's server. Mainly Top Gear, which we watch together most evenings (he's in England and I'm in Switzerland). I also have a handful of South Park and Simpsons episodes, The Notebook, and a few little videos of kittens and things like that.

I also have an ever-growing collection of MP3s, which people send me over MSN or I nick from the boyfriend again. I've discovered some fantastic music this way (Rilo Kiley anyone?). I need an external.

Oh, and a fairly ridiculous collection of make-up, some of which has to be at least 6 years old, and has been kept because you either can't get the colour any more, or I just like the packaging. I keep it in a toolbox.
( Maladicta, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 15:27, Reply)

I collect on behalf of my boyfriend
whether he likes it or not.

He's got two projects on at the mo; the first is covering all of his worldy possessions (well, his CD racks) with stickers. Not just silly little ones, but big artistic ones. So if I see any stickers, I collect them for him. Including the NY "Proud to be Gay" ones they were handing out at the parade when we were on holiday there. He hasn't used that one.

The second one is for his draught-excluder. His mother heard him complaining about how cold it gets in his house, so bought him a draught excluder. It's in the shape of a long sausage-dog, and the material is printed with flowers and hearts in various shades of pastel. In short, it looks ridiculous. So I'm on a personal crusade to by sew-on patches, mostly for bands, to turn it into a ROCK DOG. This will be helped by sticking safety pins through its ears. So far I've got patches for Iron Maiden, Kiss, Metallica, British Sea Power and a random one of Che Guevara.

If anyone has any patches they'd like to donate/sell, please get in touch...
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 15:23, Reply)

Orbit Spearmint
I have a pin-badge collection that's about as old as I am, a mountain of old computer games magazines (anyone remember Mean Machines Sega?) and every Viz from the past 11 years or so.

But at the moment I am hoarding packs of Orbit Spearmint. The 7 packs where the gum is in thin strips, not the rubbish new Orbit Complete things with 14 squat little lumps in a pathetic box that gets crushed out of shape in the most forgiving of pockets. I'm convinced that not only has the amount of gum gone down but the manufacturing process for the gum itself has changed. I think I've got enough of the old kind to keep me going for another month or two but I'm running out fast.

Which is a shame as I'm quite liking the look of bemusement on shopkeepers' faces as I'm buying a quick pint of milk or a few tins and suddenly add the remaining 30 packets of Orbit Spearmint they have to my list of purchases.

Can anyone help me?
( djtrialprice, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 15:13, Reply)

I am a Hoarder
I keep just about everything.
( M o D, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 14:55, Reply)

Not me, but...
...I started him off. My chum collects novelty-shaped tinned-pasta shapes. But only the movie/TV tie-ins. It started with 3 different "Gladiator" tins, and has grown ever since. I'll admit that it's an interesting barometer of popular culture. (Shit, that sounded like I'm a sociologist.) He's not obsessive, but he still keeps an eye out for new ones..
( Tepid_Halibut felt like a cold, empty shell of a human...until, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 14:38, Reply)

Unwanted collection
I collect calories and I am now looking to
get rid of my collection. I keep them in various parts of my body and would like to hear from any skinny minnies who would appreciate them.

Nobody loves a calorie collector.
( girlinthehole, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 14:28, Reply)

Must collect...
I have collections of:

Star wars Tazo's - still need a 47 to complete
Lego
Transformers- old school is best
Transformers comics - number 1 to 230
Battle action force comics - from the start in about 1984 until it finished. they are in a bad old state as aged 9 i actually read them

Since my teens i have collected 1/8s and 1/4s but although i keep finding new ones i just can't seem to store them without them reducing next time i go and look for them. Must be reacting with the air and light.

i know i am not alone in this - whom out there WOULDN'T love a collection Room. Just like in Bond, where a door is opened - instead of Ninja's training there would be loads and loads of cabinets of curiosities........
( bazza van der trance , ooh baby baby, baby baby. Get up on this., Fri 12 Jan 2007, 14:20, Reply)

umbrellas
i have an impressive collection of novelty childrens umbrellas, the best are the animal ones with bits sticking out, i have a frog with sticking up eyes and a zebra with sticking out ears, and a goldfish with fins and a tail (i used to have a tortoise with a head and tail sticking out but that got run over by a bus - sniffle) i also have an assaltment of generally brightly coloured ones with pictures of bunnies and dinosaurs and the like on. i do frequently get mocked for this habit, although as a 22 yr old girl i can just about get away with it most of the time...

one occasion i was about to come home from uni when i noticed it was pissing it down - ah lucky i brought that new brolly my sister gave me i thought - but alas when i opened it i realised it must have been aimed at particularly small children, as it was barely big enough to cover most of my head
nonetheless i persevered, walking past the row of people giving out flyers in front of uni, literally all of whom felt the need to take the piss :( and i got utterly soaked anyway

another time was when my family and then boyf came up to visit on a rainy day and we all needed to walk somewhere, impressively i managed to lend all five of them a brolly, but the sight of a trail of 6 novelty umbrellas going down the highstreet was a little too much for some of the locals.....
(skankgirl, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 14:15, Reply)

I collect....
S.T.D's...I've got some pretty good ones too.
(benny 1806, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 14:12, Reply)

Ace of Spades Cards
Started when I was looking for the design for my Ace of Spades tattoo, and haven't stopped since.

Have about 120 different styles on about 200 cards.

Only problem is I can never find a deck of cards to play with anymore
( Risk It For A Biscuit has a helicopter and lives in space, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 14:12, Reply)

OK so someone said it first.
I have the world's largest seashell collection. I keep it scattered around the globe on beaches. Perhaps you've seen some of it?









Ok so Stephen Wright said it, it's still funny.

"knob gag"
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 14:10, Reply)

I collect...
...call
(davefromkent, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 14:01, Reply)

fluff
in my belly button

i don't why... i just do
( ExactlyHowLongDoIHaveToBeHere, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 14:01, Reply)

rubble
i collect bricks, pretty ones, or ones from exciting places i've visited, or ones people have given me (which obviously have even more sentimental value)
they're all in a little pile in the corner of my room covered in fairy lights....... it actually looks quite pretty
also, little packets of sugar, beer mats (mostly when drunk) sand (in little sample bottles) and general junk as i dont think i've thrown anything away ever..... i did try to get rid of some of the junk over summer at car boots etc, but apparantly no-one wants to buy my rubbish.......
(skankgirl, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:58, Reply)

Ralphseviltwin reminded me
of a story my mother told me a few years ago. She was doing her PhD in Cambridge, sharing a terraced house with a couple of female friends. They, like most people on their street, hung their washing out overnight in the summer.

One day, getting the drying in, they started to think that they had fewer knickers than they thought. The following week, it was definitely fewer. And it wasn't just them. Up and down the street, women were standing in their gardens, looking perplexed at the knicker-sized gaps that had appeared on their washing lines.

One day they caught a man in the act. He confessed all, and took the police to his house, where he'd built up a huge collection of ladies knickers. Hundreds upon hundreds of them. They victims of his crime were offered their knickers back once he'd been convicted.

They declined.


ewwwwww.


Me? I used to collect nail varnish. I had about 100 bottles, and because I'm a flautist and have to keep my nails short, I never used them. They went manky and I threw them away when I was 17. meh.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:57, Reply)

Bob Marley ashtrays
For the past five or so years, for just about every single birthday and xmas involving my mother and my stepfather, i have managed to buy them a bob marley related ashtray, usually of a rasta doing something that a rasta usually does.I think its about time i started getting them something else, im starting to forget which ones ive got for them and i might end up buying them a duplicate one day....they now have about ten of them.

I collect:

Musical instruments, currently i own and can play somewhat(variable standard), viola violin guitar keyboard didj panpipe chinese flute kazoo....hoping to obtain another flute and two more guitars soon....

I also collect stuff. Any stuff. if someone says do you want it i go YES!!Id make a killing at a car boot sale.

I have an unnatural amount of tablespoons. And bins, and shoes, and clothes, and furniture. I have lots of baccy pouches, envelopes and bus tickets.

I dont collect DVDS.
(Salbo_baggins, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:50, Reply)

an early habit of collecting bottles.
mainly soft drink and beer bottles of all the different drinks I have tried - started to get quite a collection.

Then one night my sister comes home for xmas and she brings her fluffy samoyed dogs with her!

Obviously my Brother's cat (which was now spending it's retirement days at mum & dad's) panicked and ran for my bedroom - decided to jump to safety and headbutted a few bottles that were perched on top of the upper window ledge.

Spent the rest of the night cleaning broken glass off my bed. I stopped collecting more bottles but still have a few interesting ones left...
(mudslinger lives in a house surrounded by pussy....... cats!, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:49, Reply)

Rachelswipe
I've collected her, she's in the boot of my car.

**Evil cackle**

Length? I'll show her later Heheheheheh

/apologises profusely
(james_tiger_woods is going to start his killing spree on the, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:45, Reply)

Blue Peter...........
Many moons ago Blue Peter asked viewers to write in with their weird hobbies, similar to this QOTW actually. Other kids wrote in about collecting really "cool" stuff like badges and CD's. I wrote in about my stamp collection! I had less than quarter of an album and yet I saw fit to write into Blue Peter bragging of my extensive collection. I believe I even sent a picture in with my grinning like a loon proudly holding my "collection". A few weeks later, the letter long since forgotten, I recieved a letter from the presenters saying how interesting my collection was and because they had found it so interesting awarded me a Blue Peter badge! I still have both the stamp album and badge somewhere!
(NotSaying lurking is fun, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:44, Reply)

Sexual conquests

(Oops....did I say that out loud cos I really bloody want to., Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:27, Reply)

Currently
I'm collecting information as to when the Google Maps satellite passes o'erhead the house, so I can go and lie spreadeagled naked on the grass and give everyone in the world the eyeful they deserve.

Failing that, I'd settle for American Military satellites - they'd hardly waste a $16'000'000 warhead on my little todger.
(Chickenwire social lubricator extraordinaire, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:22, Reply)