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I started collecting digital album covers

Boarding passes. I fly a lot as part of the job, and in the beginning I kept them so I could register the air miles if they didn't tick in automatically. Then it became an archive of every air travel. Then it became a stack that I just kept adding to. It is now ~15cm high.

Yes

It’s just a thing I do because my brain likes it

I collect magnets of places I’ve visited. I have two collections: one is upstairs on a magnetic chalkboard and it’s only amusement parks (along with my scratch-off map of parks) and the other is downstairs on the fridge and it’s a random mix of cities, states, countries, and attractions.

You could say I collect websites (kind of). I have the world record for the most sites having signed up for. It just sort of happened and then it stuck through maintenance.

Pocket knives, and Swiss army knives in particular. I've loved them since I was given my first one as a child, which was the impetus for me to stop biting my nails.

Guitar pedals. My collection is fairly modest (20-30 pedals) but I have some neat pieces, like a couple Japanese Boss pedals from the 80's. They are functional so I don't feel like it's a waste of space per se. Also they look cool, so there's that.

A few Theory11 playing card packs, because they're beautifully designed. Besides that, some Bicycle sets too.

"Ooo... This is neat. I want it."

"Ooo... That one is neat too. I want it."

Bam! Now you're a collector.

I collect unfinished projects.

Nintendo 64 games.
It was the first game console I really played much of growing up. I'd go to my dads on the weekends and he had it there, so it was this magical time, playing Ocarina of Time and Mario Kart 64. I've collected nearly all the games I grew up with, as well as some I never played as a kid. I like having it, knowing that at any time I can play them, in their original forms on hardware. Emulation is great but playing on hardware just hits different.

Not exactly a coherent collection of a specific thing, but I like to gather older video game consoles and retro tech to hook them all up in the most interesting way possible. I've currently got an SNES, N64, GameCube, and Sega Saturn hooked up to an old decent quality CRT security monitor over s-video. I plan to get an s-video matrix to hook up all the consoles at once and switch between them easier, and I also plan to at some point add a PS2, Xbox, and Dreamcast into the mix.

I might also at some point try to find an old early 2000s or even late 90s computer and hook that up too. I don't have a lot of space, so I might have to hook it up to the TV, but as long as it can play the games from my childhood without issue, I don't care what wonky setup I need. Old games just aren't as fun on an LCD.
I do probably need to degauss the CRT though. When I first picked it up it looked fine, but I ran a metal fan a little too close to it for too long and now it's got distorted geometry on that side.

So I suppose I collect retro electronics. I don't even collect games for the consoles I own. I just bought them for the fun of hooking them up.

No, possessions are annoying to have, you just have to clean them, worry about them the more you have.

I have a small collection of Lego sets. I mainly collect the minifigure-scale Star Wars space ships (yes, I have the crazy big Millenium Falcon), but only original trilogy ships. My wife collects the big Lego Creator cars.

I have a 15,000 card Magic: The Gathering collection. Some years I’m into it, some years it just sits in boxes. I used to make some money trading them but it’s more effort than my usual work. It’s nice to get them out sometimes and go through them, lots of good memories.

Nah, I don't.

But yes, I also do need all these board games. 😛

(I got ~80 of them, was once >100 but I started selling more I never get to the table off. Still fills 6x4 Kallax spaces. Started uuuuh... about 20 years ago, buying Alhambra, the Spiel des Jahres 2003 at the Spiel 2003 in Essen. Since then been an avid board gamer.)

I like to collect mugs - nothing better than drinking your morning coffee from a crazy mug :))

I collect mugs with my boyfriend (and the rest of my collective) and it is such a nice hobby. I can almost always guess who brought the mug into the house, based on people's interest.

Yesterday I drank coffe from a Friday the 13th Mug and I know one of my collectivists loves that series :))

the only issue, as with all collections, it takes up so much room in the kitchen 🥲

My parents each had things they collected (Dad actually owned a comic shop at one point) so I grew up with the concept.

I personally have a small collection of year 2000 memorabilia. (Was an important year in my life, and I also spent it gathering knickknacks that mentioned it)

I collect decks of cards from different countries/places. Usually if someone from my family/friend circle travels just buys me one at the airport of that country, but I also have a few special ones, like the Norwegian Ice Hotel, or a spicy sexy one from Greece.

It started randomly, I realized that I have 3-4 decks from random places and that was it, I became a collector.

I used to collect movies on DVD/Bluray but kinda fell out of love with it thanks to streaming, taking up room and being annoying when moving places. They are not worth anything so I don’t want to go through the trouble of selling, so I’m throwing away the cases and put the discs in CD organizers to make them more compact. Most of the labels got sunbleached anyways.

It’s a bit sad. I mean some films are not and will never be available on streaming but overall this became just a nuisance.

I began collecting dwarf trees. They typically range in max height no larger than 12 ft. But most are under 2 feet.

I collect vintage computers. I have a bunch of laptops from 2000 and earlier, as well as an Atari 800xl, an emachine, and a ti 99/4a. The reason I started was because when I started studying computer science, I fell in love with the history of computing

I guess you could say that I collect data. After Ally I need to use as the storage space for something. Don't worry, not personal data.

Playing cards. It started with me picking up a few decks because I liked the designs. My collection has grown over the last few years, but there is definitely room for more. If a deck looks cool and is reasonably priced it's an easy thing to pick up on a whim.

Action figures, chef knives, Ramen, tinned seafood, winter coats, 4K blurays, keyboards are really tempting.

I have an almost complete collection of Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt novels. I'm missing about three of them published before Valhalla Rising, and I kinda lost track of how many he wrote after that. I was kinda into them in high school, and would pick them up for $6 or $8 here and there. Most are paperbacks, I bought them to read not to display (though like almost all books they sit on the shelf most of the time) and I would hardly call myself a "collector." But I own a thigh high stack of NUMA adventures.

I inherited a collection of prints from a relatively local artist called Ed Berger, who spent his working life as a civil engineer in Washington DC before moving to North Carolina to work on his artwork, much of which are kind of bleak and dreary landscapes focusing on old decrepit farm buildings, houses etc. I've got a dozen of them or so, the whole collection would sell at auction for almost $10.

Oh I forgot! I have a very small collection of T-shirts from theme parks I've visited throughout my life, usually one from my favorite ride in the park. My favorites among the collection are from Alpengeist at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, Maverick from Cedar Point and Fury 305 at Carowinds. I've been thinking of pulling down Ed Berger's "It sucked when it was new and now it's old" collection and framing those T-shirts, as I never wear them.

Comic books. I learned to read when I was 2, but there wasn't a ton of reading material for 2 year olds.

Back then, comic books were only a quarter and soooo... 52 years later...

The big one:

I also run the comic books community on lemmy.world. Pop by and say hello!

Star Trek playmates figures from the 90s.

A completionist's nightmare.

I'm almost there. 29 to go.

Carnaval Emblems! In the province of Noord-Brabant, Netherlands it is customary to decorate your carnaval coat or "boerenkiel" (farmer's coat?) with emblems from carnaval events or clubs.

I started because I completely fell in love with carnaval!