What do you collect.

I started collecting fire hydrants a couple of years ago, I now have three in my collection.

After I get the other two painted and mounted on a flat steel plate my dog wont have so far to go for a whizz.

Originally Posted by GeorgeB

baseball cards, used to do pogs/slammers but got rid of the pogs/slammers a lot time ago.

In another life I had a very extensive collection of split bamboo fly fishing rods. Lost most in a fire, then I gave my last rod away to a fishing guide at the King Pacific Lodge were I spent a summer working as a mechanic.

Go figure all the boats and engines were brand new, everything ran like a swiss clock. One evening a guide forgot to shut down his sump pump and drained the battery that was the only thing I ever had to do while I was there in the way of work the rest was play and fishing.

Got free use of the work boat and all the fuel, it was one of those golden jobs.

I'm not always a full time scrapper, I do have other vocations to fall back on.

Here is the lodge I worked at http://www.kingpacificlodge.com/

I collect vintage firefighter items. Both of my grandfathers and my father were firefighters. Right now I am sticking to badges and other smaller items until we move and then I will expand once my man-cave is up and going.
My other main collection is books. I collect first editions from authors like Dean Koontz and a few others. I like to find the rare items, like first editions published under pen names and early books before the authors were big names. My wife found me an early Koontz edition that was listed incorrectly on eBay. She picked it up for $5.00 and it is currently worth in the area of $500.00. That was a good birthday.
Years ago I was an avid collector of vintage Star Wars items but I eventually sold off my entire collection. It was getting harder to find with eBay up and running.

I'm a car nut so I used to collect die cast cars (Hot Wheels, etc.) but I'm in the process of selling off my whole collection. I have literally thousands of them and they are taking up too much space. I like collecting old motorized things now. Chainsaws, mowers, hit and miss engines. If it's loud, greasy and old, I like it! Unfortunately a lot of these things get scrapped from people like ourselves but when I find them, I hold onto them and breath new life into them.

Originally Posted by gustavus

What do you collect.

Dust.

I used to hoard performance car parts for cars that I never built. But I let most of them go last winter.

Originally Posted by forwardlookguy

I'm a car nut so I used to collect die cast cars (Hot Wheels, etc.) but I'm in the process of selling off my whole collection. I have literally thousands of them and they are taking up too much space. I like collecting old motorized things now. Chainsaws, mowers, hit and miss engines. If it's loud, greasy and old, I like it! Unfortunately a lot of these things get scrapped from people like ourselves but when I find them, I hold onto them and breath new life into them.

You would probably love the show that comes to my little town every year...The Antique Tractor and Engine Show....If it has a motor and is old then it is sold for a whole week....People come from as far as Germany to buy different engines and tractors and to show off their wares. I have seen some very interesting stuff during the show.