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What do you collect?
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Emotional trauma
Hyperfixations in the form of hobbies.
Books. Slowly working on organizing them by Library of Congress number, but it’s a large collection and a lot of effort. I give fiction and contemporary political nonfiction to little free libraries once I read them, but still have quite a lot.
Hobbies
A fellow SCAdian?
That one popped up on my radar, but I typically tilt toward hobbies which are literally productive.
Pretty clothes, hats, jewelry, crystals and cool rocks, musical instruments, board games, video games, antique wooden puzzles, books, ice cream recipes, crafting supplies and good fabrics, vintage kitchen equipment and appliances, solid wood furniture, projects, skills, hobbies.... everything is interesting and my house is a glorious mess full of fascinating things.
Regrets.
Music. I've got an extensive collection of vinyl records, and a smaller collection of CDs, tapes, and MiniDiscs.
Music!
I've been building up my collection for a few years now. Mostly just video game soundtracks and classical music. I don't have any interest in popular music.
Nice. For classical music, is there anything you look for specifically or do you go for any performance?
For classical music, is there anything you look for specifically?
Currently, my collection mostly contains works from well-known composers like Beethoven, Mozart, and Debussy. However, I do have some compilations from lesser-known composers such as Antonin Dvorak and Franz Schubert.
Do you go for any performance?
I'm open to any classical piece, be it from famous composers like Mozart, to lesser known composers like Dvorak.
I get composers, but what about performances? I assume two separate orchestras would play the same piece differently and your experience might be able to pick out the differences.
Coffee mugs.
I actually have next to no glassware in my home aside from a few beer glasses and such that were gifted to me. Otherwise, I just use the mugs for everything lol.
Trauma
Physical PS5 games
My condolences.
Seeds, firewood, axes and tools, information, collaborators and community, ammo, firearms; though my collection is set and not planning more. Silver and gold but haven’t bought in years.
At my age, wrinkles.
I ended up with three crucifixes by various happenstance, and then I kinda just started buying cool ones whenever I'd see any in thrift stores.
What makes them "cool"?
An extremely subjective and esoteric set of criteria. Sometimes it's because the representation of Jesus is hot, sometimes the crucifix is rather ornate, sometimes it's just different from what I've seen before.
nothing anymore really. I have a few things that I sorta don't want to part with from my earlier consumer days but now I just want to dejunk and live sparesly.
Guitars.
I mean I actually do use all of them. Most of them. Some of them.
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One of them.
But the other ones looked so pretty.
You get me.
I stopped because I don't want it to overtake my living space more but X-Men figures.
Debt
Stop calling me!
I knew this would be here
Broken universes.
CDs! i love putting albums in my stereo and listening to them :)
I started collecting CDs a few months back because I got fed up of not owning my music, now I'm looking into refurbished mini pcs to use as a server for it all.
A charity shop nearby sold 10 CDs in mystery packs for the price of one normal cd so my collection grew pretty quick, some of the stuff is shit but some of the CDs were multi disk compilations that have really helped bulk it out.
i personally like buying exactly what I want, if my trash shelf gets too full its time to clean up! if I had the room though I'd totally just buy batches of them wherever I can find
I've started collecting specific things now but at the start I just wanted to build up my library. It's pretty rare to find my favourites even when buying new stuff though. The random packs helped me to find some new songs at least.
Experience from bad decisions.
Good judgement come from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Regrets.
Nothing and I have no interest in collecting unused material items.
I started a british tea towel collection. But than I figured out that life is ridiculously expensive, so I haven't traveled abroad in 20 years. My tea towel collection is still 3.
I collect envelopes and computers.
Why envelopes?
It might sound weird but I like their texture and I will sit there and fidget with an envelope or a piece of paper in my hand. I have over 50 of them so far in my bag now 😆
The ones I don't like the feel of get tossed into the recycling bin.
A textural difference makes a lot of sense.
You know I don't collect laptops on purpose, I just don't get rid of them for some reason
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Knives, flashlights, and books.
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Actively, at the moment nothing. Well, maybe buttons.
Reluctantly, I have a weakness for typewriters, I like to fix them and I have what I consider way too many in the restoration queue.
Magic cards. Specifically old border black foils.
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Albumarworks. I also share it to my community !Albumartworkheaven@lemmy.world
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