What do you collect?

I like old/military surplus guns.. I was fortunate to start collecting them 05ish when there was still a decent variety of affordable surplus.. Wish I hadn't been a broke college student then! I bought Swiss K31, M44 Mosin, M91/30 Mosin, M48 Yugo, M95 Steyr all for $100 or less from dealers.. I also remember buying a 400rnd tin of nice Romanian 8mm for under $40. Was lucky to pick up a couple Carcano's for reasonable money recently.
 
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As I get older I have less of a desire to " collect " things . It's just something else that the family will have to deal with when I'm gone .
I can see that. Used to have a friend whose parents always went to yard sales. In the 90's when I visited, the 1700 sq ft home on LI was filled to every ceiling with stuff. We came home after a night of partying, and when we went to leave the next morning, I could not find the keys to the rental car. Visions of $200 to replace the fob ran through my mind. Luckily, my friend's mom who knew very well how things were laid out (looks like hoarding to anybody else), was able to find the keys.

As an aside, one would think a 1922 house like that would be 1.5 mil. today being so close to the ocean. But no, it's Long Island, $750k, not like CA. In CA that would be 3 mil. lol
 
I think that’s why she keeps telling me to deal with it now 😷
Well, at least your are living my dream (new Tahoe). There are times I just say, get it. It's not that mysterious or undoable.... :)
 
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One thing I haven’t mentioned in my last two posts is shot glasses and just regular pint glasses too. Particularly anything baseball related or history related in those two things. Just picked up two more today at the antique store. And baseball hats and tool related hats. Heck what don’t I collect? Lol.
 
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scale models - I'm not even sure how that got started. I stopped collecting many years ago. I could open a scale model museum. I started organizing them some time ago and I plan on displaying a small number ( a few hundred) while keeping most of them in storage.
watches - I'm more of an enthusiast than I am a collector. I wear all my watches and I don't buy any just for the sake of owning them. All my watches are tool watches.
pocket knives - again, I'm more an enthusiast than I am a collector. I use all my knives and I don't buy any for display.
 
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One thing I haven’t mentioned in my last two posts is shot glasses and just regular pint glasses too. Particularly anything baseball related or history related in those two things. Just picked up two more today at the antique store. And baseball hats and tool related hats. Heck what don’t I collect? Lol.
You don't collect chopsticks or fortune cookies? What gives?
 
I collect dust. It isn't glamorous or exciting, but it easily fits within the budget and there aren't the deadlines and competition as with other things. Best of all, I don't have to leave my recliner.
 
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