I have a lot of small bottles and vials waiting to be filled. It started decades ago when I found a quaint little glass tube with a stopper in an antique shop at my favorite beach town and thought it'd be nice to take home some sand from my favorite spot, thereafter becoming a tradition for subsequent visits. Now I pick one up whenever I see one to have a cache available for any future adventures.
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Thats a really cool idea! Like a science lab of memories. Might have to grab a vial if I see one thrifting/antiqueing
It's super easy to just collect then when you see them (even at craft stores and plant shops) and then it ends up kinda encouraging you to think up adventures so you can fill them.
I've got some with sand, dirt, ocean/lake water, gravel, some with just air (captured a cloud/fog while high atop a mountain), tears, paper, burnt campfire wood, etc.
My secret sauce is that I don't label them so I have to try to call up the origin story in memory and I get an excuse to tell a tale whenever someone asks me about one.
I started collecting shot glasses when I was in my 20s. Somewhere in my 30s, I stopped. Now I collect shirts from 5k runs that I participated in.
Misery. I collect misery.
Knives. I don't know why.
I started collecting knives which evolved into balisongs which I love to flip
As a kid, we were so poor, it was scary. I remember living in a car, having to choose between going hungry or eating food that was past its prime, and learning Santa wasn't real too young (I couldn't understand why my friends got expensive dream gifts... I thought I had been good)
After going through all that and my mom overdosing, I started collecting things that would accumulate value or were an investment. Comic books and figurines are my go to, but I've also got machines for creating cosplays (as that's my career now). I won't buy anything that I can't pawn off in an emergency to survive, or use it to make money. I really should have been collecting coins/gold/silver, but I picked what was fun.
Also, shoutout to my elementary school's lunch lady, who noticed a tiny, thin girl using the free lunch program, and offered her seconds, after everyone else had been served. I don't think she knows how much she touched my life.
Would digital collection count? I've been collecting completed TV shows.
"That'll be very handy in the future!"
I collect everything material-ish
I like to collect “hacked” retro consoles. It’s so cool to see them in action and what people were able to do with them.
I'm also into the retro scene, I just got my first console mod done. Whats your favorite system you have?
I’d have to go with the PS3, 3DS, and Wii. I know that’s three, but they each have qualities that I just absolutely adore that I can’t choose!
It's crazy that those consoles could be considered retro nowadays
You’re telling me!
I’ve had the same Wii since I was a child though, so… it does hurt my knees to know that it is a retro console these days. 🥲
Dude I was working at Gamestop when the Wii came out, you're telling me.
I collect ttrpgs! I love reading how mechanics work together and I've never found value in collecting things I don't use, so ttrpgs it is. Plus there are some really wild ones out there that are fun to look at. It started with 3.5/Pathfinder but eventually I branched out to a couple other games that I like to play. I spend the most effort on my Car Wars collection, think I'm going to try getting a complete set of ADQ on that front next.
My single prized book so far though is a copy of HōL's supplement buttery wholesomeness. Specifically the second printing of it with the cover that's written like BUTTery HOLsomeness which ended up being so hard to track down over like 5 years that I started to question if it even had a physical printing or if it was just in PDF form. Finally found the thing though last year
Always love the feeling of finally tracking down a grail :^)
Any scifi ttrpg books you'd recommend from your collection? I always love reading those.
Depends what you're in the mood for:
- I personally love Paranoia. It is very much a comedy game but it can be played with a serious take with the right work. Plus it is just a fun read even if you don't play it.
- Rifts is pretty baller conceptually but I don't have first hand experience playing it.
- GURPS has a Car Wars crossover making it objectively one of the best games, can be played with any level of tech, and has buckets of supplements.
- The Burning Wheel is more fantasy but the book is basically a philosophy of play which could be adapted to lots of things, and the same author wrote Burning Empires which is more scifi but I haven't acquired that one so can't give first hand info on it either.
- Can't forget Car Wars. It is scifi though it is a mix of ttrpg and strategy/board. If you want to drive a car off a cliff while dropping mines on a helicopter as you go by and have your robot gunner leaning out the window shooting lasers at a tank it is the way to go.
- Finally I'll pitch HōL because the game is just so unhinged. It is all hand written and scanned, it's edgy and crass, and is a great parody of roleplaying games. It's engaging and fun to read with great art but realistically quite difficult to functionally play because the rules are intentionally a mess. The Buttery Wholesomeness supplement added character creation rules which don't exist in the base game because it is a mess.
Sounds like a dope collection if you have this much of one genre! Thanks for the recs.
I'm rather proud of it. Resolution isn't great but here we go:
Main roleplaying shelf: 
Board games and box sets: 
I've also got all 3 books for Monsters of Murka, limited covers, signed by several of the people who worked on it. I think my copies of Thirsty Sword Lesbians and Mork Borg are on other shelves. Finally, an unopened box set for Boat Wars which I'll be opening sometime soon so I can pretend I lived in the 80s and just came home with a box from the lgs.
I wouldn't call it collecting in the sense of owning them all, but I've been building up my game library on GOG and archiving all the installers on an external hard drive. It at least gives me more of a sense of ownership than my Steam library does, because if GOG went away tomorrow I'd still have my games.
House and techno vinyl records - got about 800 or so and always on the lookout for more.
Also, home shirts (and some away) for my football team, Dunfermline Athletic - got every home top going back to 1986.
What’s your favorite record you have, and is it “Baby Wants to Ride”?
Ha, it's not, although I do have it (two versions actually, one where it's the b-side of Your Love)
Favourite record is a tough one. Impossible maybe. One I finally got a couple of weeks ago, that I've wanted for ages, is Go by Moby. Probably still not my favourite, but I was delighted to get it :-)
Actually, make that 3 versions - just bought a 12" with remixes including the wonderful House of Trix mix, my favourite version of the tune.
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