Most people collect something. What do you collect?
I collect good childrens books and teaching materials. I plan to use it on my kids and maybe my future classroom. My most recent find that i can't wait to get is The 30th Anniversary School House Rock. Its 2 DVD's. Contains 46 Emmy Award winning songs. It teaches Government, Nouns, Verbs... I thought maybe the catchyness of the songs might help my kids on their schoolwork.
Recently I started collecting frog stuff. I've always found frog stuff cute and admire those who have cool collections.
I have a small collection of Mardi Gra masks and dream catchers. They remind me of my brother. Him and I were close growing up. He's in police protection.
Other then that I love pictures. Kids grow too fast and memories fade. I just find it hard to find the time, room and energy to keep up the scrapbooking my pictures.
Well, I too collect Masks and Frogs. I also collect Elephants, windchimes and angels. I have a pretty good size collection of shot glasses, but have quit collecting those. I collect clowns on swings. I also have some castles, but do not really collect them. I collect a lot of stuff I guess....
I collect foreign coins. I have so many but they don't take up much room. My brother usually picks some up for me whenever he goes to another country. Otherwise I don't really collect anything.
I spent a lot of years collecting foreign coins. They're so fascinating. I'd look up the countries, some of which I'd never heard of. Plus it feels like holding a bit of history. I've got some from Nazi Germany, for instance. Unlike US coins, you can get old foreign coins cheap. I have a box full of hundreds of them. I drifted away from it around 5 years ago. Decided I really had enough. But I'll hold onto them until my kids are older and will try to get them interested. I'm hoping we can get them out and look up the places and times they came from and use it as a springboard for history and geography.
The other thing I collect is books. Before I had kids, I was an avid reader. I learned to read at age 3 and went through books like nuts. Science fiction and fantasy are my favorites. I've slowed way down on book collecting, though, because it takes up far too much space. Every once and a while I take a batch of them down to the Book Trader in La Crosse. I have my favorite authors that I won't give up but the rest are fair game once I've read them. That keeps the storage requirements down and I alway shave new books to read.
For a while, I collected antique books. I'd pick them up at rummage sales and antique stores. But they take up way, way too much space and I don't really doe anything with them. So those I'm trying to get rid of. If anyone is interested, let me know.
Michelle
I like books too, but I only read non-fiction.
I never could get into non fiction outside of newspapers and magazines. Even regular fiction I find boring. Has to have that element of fantasy for me. Don't know why... My dad read a lot of westerns and general fiction. I just never got into it.
Michelle
I just have to be interested and have time. Harry Potter is intersting so I've read those. I have quite a few pregnancy books from when i was pregnant. I read a child called It but didn't read the ones that followed. If i had the time I'd probibly read mystery, fantasy or Romance.
Ok I guess you could call me a book collector too. I can't stand getting rid of books and even turned one room in my home into a library. All the bookshelves are full! I love reading. I like fantasy, romance, christian, gothic, etc. My brothers & I actually have our own book club so that we keep each other well read because we all like totally different things. One brother had us read Down the River by Edward Abbey, while another had us read Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. I chose Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier as one of mine. I could just go on & on.
Oooh, I love Harry Potter. That woman sure can write! So sad that there won't be any more of them.
That's the cool thing about series like Pern... there's so many stories to explore.
Time... Yeah... Not so much of that. I sneak in reading where I can but it's hard to follow a book. I mostly read short stories. Been going through my stash of Analog / Asimov from the 80s. LOL
Michelle
Whoops, I had this tab open and missed stacia_angel's reply. I would love to turn a room into a library. I wouldn't get rid of any books if I could do that. Alas, these children think they need lots of toys so we're turning the guestroom into a playroom instead. But some day...
A book club is a neat idea. That's a great way to broaden your reading tastes and read things you normally wouldn't. If I had the time, I'd start one on here. But I wouldn't be able to keep up. Maybe when the kids are older.
Michelle
The only books I have alot of are childrens books, lesson plan books and pregnancy books.
What I would say my husband and i collect is DVD's. We have 3 media towers full of movies. I tower is all childrens movies. The other 2 PG13 and up and TV series's. We have 9 seasons of Stargate SG1 (Sci-fi) 10 seasons of Friends, 5 seasons of Smallville... An expensive thing to collect.
Not on purpose but we just about collect gaming systems.
We have Sega, Super Nintendo, Playstation, Playstation 2, XBox, XBox 360, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, PSP (Playstation Partable) Our Game Cube broke and we gave someone our original Nintendo.
I guess I collect DVD's too. One of these days I'll count them...lol.
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