What do you collect?

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Originally posted by Laura's Babies
Wouldn't you know that since I am a cook, I collect kitchen stuff! I LOVE Jewel Tea Autum Leaf China. It started when I got my Mom's nesting bowls when she died. I had admired them every since I can remember and hoped that someday, they would be mine. Most of what I have, my sister got me for birthdays and Christmas's. My collection is small but I am SO proud of it.. If anyone here has any they want to get rid of..I have room for it!!


Some of my Jewel Tea and one of the bun warmers.
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Laura, my mother has, okay that was hard, had those dishes and said that she had heard they may be antiques now. Last year she gave me a lidded casserole dish like on your bottom shelf. She also has the tea pitcher and used it regularly for tea. My sis-in-law about died when she was that mom used it almost everyday and told her to put it away but mom said it was for tea - period. She had a platter and a few other pieces that my dad broke over the years.

She also had (and it's probably at the house somewhere) a silver bun warmer like that. It has black handles on the side and a black handle on the lid which turns to vent. It used to have some kind of black design around it but it had worn off over years of use. My brother and I used to call it the space capsule because it looked so similar to things NASA used on the moon.

It's really neat to see all the pieces you have.

I collect anything with cats on it especially abyssinians, and I also collect whiskers. I have a whisker box that has at least 100 in there.

I collect anything to do with Tigers. I love them.
I even have one adopted from the World Wildlife Foundation.

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Originally posted by neko1
I also collect whiskers. I have a whisker box that has at least 100 in there.

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I know I need to get a little box for Mishi's whiskers. They're so cute, but I've already lost one.

Does wishing you collect certain things count when you can't afford it but would if you could? Fiesta Ware, Shaker baskets, I do have a collection of antique photos including a box full of tintypes, I have antique tins, a doll that belonged to my grandmother (190-something) but only her so that's not a collection... what if you just have a collection of mics. antique junk? does that count as a collection? Jan just gave me an antique Victoria pie plate stand. But I guess I need more of those too----Like i said, what about a collection of "junk" that is going to be worth something one day? Ok, I know I'm stretching it here!! Just wanted to be part of the conversation!

I collect:

Swarovski Crystal
Limited Edition Montblanc Fountain Pens
South African Limited Edition Proof Gold Coins
Shot / Tot Glasses from everywhere we visit or go on vacation

My hubby collects watches and scale-model Harley Davidsons

I WANT to start collecting Clarice Cliff porcelain, but havent found any nice pieces I can afford at the moment!!

Also in my kitchen I have loads of tins (they sometimes have items packed in tins instead of the regular boxes, and I always buy those)

and TONS of cat stuff - some I bought for myself, but other peopLE also buy me cat stuff for pressies!

Little Cat Figurines , stuuffed Cats and Cat Photos , of older Cats , that are years old!

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Originally posted by neko1
I have a whisker box that has at least 100 in there.

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WOW!!!:eek: Neko and RH, since I collect boxes and YOU collect whiskers - would you like a BOX to collect your whiskers in??? Send me your snail and I will part with one just for each of you!!

I collect
-Lenox 'Lynn Bywaters' Snowpeople.
-Santa Claus figurines. I buy at least one every Christmas season.
-Hard Rock Cafe 'City' Guitar Pins
-Homies (little figures from gumball machines)
-and my favorite...cute and 'different' cat figurines and items. (my co worker gave me a 'cat food can scooper' with a little cat head on the end of the handle...it's so 1960's and will be great for my collection. I love it!)
-small Buddhas

I used to collect Hallmark ornaments, but I got too too too many and decided to phase out the collecting as of 2000. (thats 2000 the year...but I probably have about 2000 ornaments if I counted them.

You're gonna laugh.....But I collect vintage 70' dinnerware & kitchen accessories. I have entire collection of the heavy brown plates with black designs on them with matching bowls and cups. I also have the tan ones with the starburst pattern in the middle in orange. I also have the two tone brown and tan coffee mugs. Every time I go scavenging for vintage stuff, I have someone tell me, "Oh my. I got that same set for a wedding gift in 1972." I also collect the woven straw trivets from the 70's that are many colors and usually all swirly and cool. I think I was born in the wrong era! I also love cat stuff and nautical.

I have a number of Limoges boxes! Mostly food but one that is a gray cat!

I collect what you might see in a souvenir shop along with the tiny spoons, timbles and shot glasses.

But, I might add that I dare say I have the worlds largest, most ridiculous colletion of:

BIG PENCILS! (the 15 inch type)

I have over 50 countries, and that takes a lot of travel.

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I collect Muffy Vanderbears (a really cute little plush bear who believes that the best way to have fun is to dress up for it). I have to protect them from Dinah Lee, my pesky girlcat, because she will swoop down on one of them, run and hide with it and then CHEW IT UP!! WHAT a BAD GIRL! It's lucky I love her more than my Muffy collection!

I collect antique's from the early 1800's, anything as small as a thumble to as big as bed. If it's early 1800's, puritan pieces mostly, I'll buy it. :D

Also antique Aunt Jamima pieces, I have shelfs full of them, cookie jars, salt and pepper shakers, cast iron figures etc etc etc.

Like my husband says if it's old "junk" I want it. :D

And frogs, I like frogs, they are so cute. :) before all my kittens came along, my back porch was wall to wall frogs. They are now in boxes till the day I get my screen porch back, if I ever do.

The husband collects anything to do with RX-7's and rotary, so we got a odd looking home, with my antiques and his car stuff. :rolleyes: