Stuff you Collect

[Idaho]

Anyone have anything they like to collect? 

I collect vintage gas station stuff.... classic cars.... vintage skateboards from my competitive skateboarding days... 80's stuff ... and classic rock stuff.  What about you? 

 

[jross]

Baseball cards

Pinball machines

Magnets

My eldest is collecting cassette tapes if anyone has some to part with.  It started with a thrift store boombox find recently. It cleaned up nice and we had to replace the cassette player belts.

[Idaho]

@jross  That's awesome. I havent' done the pinball thing, but they are really cool.... I have quite a collection of cassette tapes as well. Local auctions, thrift stores  and local facebook marketplace are some good places to look. I have gone through phases of collections .... as a kid and in my 20's I collected a ton of cards and memorabilia, which I still have most of it. Then I went through my arcade game phase when I drove the PNW to get arcade games and set up an arcade in my garage. I had pac man, punch-out, track and field, etc. I ended up selling most of them and got two machines with tons of games on them. 

I have never collected magnets...What kind of magnets do you collect? My wife always gets them for places we go on vacation. What Pinballs do you have? 

[Ohio Elite]

Mini college football helmets. I have all the Division 1 teams. 130+ teams 

Edited January 15 by Ohio Elite

[WrestlingRasta]

Back a few days ago…

I was collecting all of the Pink Floyd albums on cassette. Took a while to find Pipers, but I finally got it. About a week later I’m at a bonfire party, went to my car to leave and passenger window was shattered. 
 

Shame on me for having the collection in my car, but damn, if I would have ever found the prick…

[jross]

I buy magnets like others do spoons.  Whenever I go someplace interesting, I buy a magnet and put it on the fridge.  They accumulate until the wife gets frustrated and disappears them. 

The latest captures a moment from December 28th... 39 degrees outside.

 

[Wrestleknownothing]

15 hours ago, jross said:

Baseball cards

Pinball machines

Magnets

My eldest is collecting cassette tapes if anyone has some to part with.  It started with a thrift store boombox find recently. It cleaned up nice and we had to replace the cassette player belts.

Not a collector of anything, butI do have an Apollo 13 pinball machine that I love.

What is your favorite.

[jross]

Current Pinball Collection. 

 

Slugfest dispenses baseball cards... its a way to redistribute my 40K cards to my son and his teammates.  I also give out cards to my son's team at practice for effort and winning mini competitions.

I'm wanting Metallica but am not wanting to pay current Metallica pinball prices.

[ionel]

1 minute ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

Not a collector ...

...  tables & pie charts?  

[Wrestleknownothing]

4 minutes ago, ionel said:

...  tables & pie charts?  

Good point. I collect college wrestling data. The funny thing is I don't really collect the tables, charts, and graphs. I do not save many of them.

[jross]

8 minutes ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

Not a collector of anything, but I do have an Apollo 13 pinball machine that I love.

What is your favorite.

I've heard the Apollo multiball is something else!

I was able to play these pins on Friday night during down time for my daughter's wrestling tournament... I didn't feel a compelling need to buy any of them.  Many people like Godzilla.  Deadpool was okay.  Rush was horrible like Led Zeppelin.  The Big Lebowski game play was so so but the music and artwork were great.

• Godzilla
• Iron Maiden
• Foo Fighters
• Deadpool
• Monster Bash
• The Big Lebowski
• Rush
• Stranger Things
• The Mandalorian
• Guardians of the Galaxy
• High Speed
• Pinbot
• Elvis
• Star Trek

These are the next pins I'd like to own: Metallica, Medieval Madness, Attack from Mars, Stranger Things, Addams Family, Iron Maiden, No Good Gofers.

It is a good time to sell pins and not a good time to buy!  Each of my pins have ~ doubled in value.

[mspart]

I collect  nuts and bolts just in case I need them some time.   Same with electrical wiring and doo dads.   I wouldn't say I collect them rather I hoard them.   That's probably a more fair summary. 

However I do have 2 guitar amps, 1 bass amp, 1 bass, 2 electric guitars (one is on the market), and 2 acoustic guitars.   None are high dollar units.   The 2 guitar amps are Marshall, Code 50 and Origin 20  head paired with a speaker cabinet I bought and upgraded.   One electric guitar is an Epiphone Les Paul (very nice I must say) but not high dollar.  

I also have an impressive amount of tools, most of which get used.   Table Saw, Mitre saw, a bunch of hand tools.   In fact, when it was below 20F on Saturday I was in the shed cutting boards for my wife with the mitre saw.   Fingers nearly froze off.   It is tough to work when your fingers fall off.  

mspart

[ionel]

3 minutes ago, mspart said:

I collect  nuts and bolts just in case I need them some time.   Same with electrical wiring and doo dads.   I wouldn't say I collect them rather I hoard them.   That's probably a more fair summary. 

However I do have 2 guitar amps, 1 bass amp, 1 bass, 2 electric guitars (one is on the market), and 2 acoustic guitars.   None are high dollar units.   The 2 guitar amps are Marshall, Code 50 and Origin 20  head paired with a speaker cabinet I bought and upgraded.   One electric guitar is an Epiphone Les Paul (very nice I must say) but not high dollar.  

I also have an impressive amount of tools, most of which get used.   Table Saw, Mitre saw, a bunch of hand tools.   In fact, when it was below 20F on Saturday I was in the shed cutting boards for my wife with the mitre saw.   Fingers nearly froze off.   It is tough to work when your fingers fall off.  

mspart

Can never have enough doo dads. 

[mspart]

True that.   It's them doo dads that make it all worthwhile. 

mspart

[Jason Bryant]

Craft brewery stickers, inadvertently collecting wrestling t-shirts, but those are more rotated in and out. Hats.

I have a small collection of vintage pennants from defunct minor league and rogue sports league teams from both Minnesota and Virginia.

Still have my 25K baseball cards from the “worthless era” of collecting in the late 80s.

[mspart]

That's a lot of rotten bubble gum to gnaw on!!!

mspart

[Jason Bryant]

They’re not still in the wax packs.

[flyingcement]

I collect passport stamps.  I have filled out my last passport to the point of no blank spaces and needed to request additional pages.  This is not some sort of wealth braggery either.  Traveled with humble means to 40 countries and hope to keep growing the number 

[Wrestleknownothing]

5 hours ago, mspart said:

I collect  nuts and bolts just in case I need them some time.   Same with electrical wiring and doo dads.   I wouldn't say I collect them rather I hoard them.   That's probably a more fair summary. 

However I do have 2 guitar amps, 1 bass amp, 1 bass, 2 electric guitars (one is on the market), and 2 acoustic guitars.   None are high dollar units.   The 2 guitar amps are Marshall, Code 50 and Origin 20  head paired with a speaker cabinet I bought and upgraded.   One electric guitar is an Epiphone Les Paul (very nice I must say) but not high dollar.  

I also have an impressive amount of tools, most of which get used.   Table Saw, Mitre saw, a bunch of hand tools.   In fact, when it was below 20F on Saturday I was in the shed cutting boards for my wife with the mitre saw.   Fingers nearly froze off.   It is tough to work when your fingers fall off.  

mspart

I'm a fellow tool guy. Built my new house around the workshop. No frozen fingers for me.

[jross]

5 hours ago, Jason Bryant said:

Craft brewery stickers, inadvertently collecting wrestling t-shirts, but those are more rotated in and out. Hats.

I have a small collection of vintage pennants from defunct minor league and rogue sports league teams from both Minnesota and Virginia.

Still have my 25K baseball cards from the “worthless era” of collecting in the late 80s.

What about your shoes?

[Jason Bryant]

That’s not exactly something that’s going to grow anymore. 24 pairs of Jordans, Dunks and Air Force 1s was a COVID discovery more than anything - although I do buy shoes that match my gigs and for special occasions.

[Idaho]

19 hours ago, jross said:

Current Pinball Collection. 

 

Slugfest dispenses baseball cards... its a way to redistribute my 40K cards to my son and his teammates.  I also give out cards to my son's team at practice for effort and winning mini competitions.

I'm wanting Metallica but am not wanting to pay current Metallica pinball prices.

Very cool! I have always been a fan of the old KISS pinball, which is also very spendy. Nice collection! 

[Idaho]

15 hours ago, mspart said:

I collect  nuts and bolts just in case I need them some time.   Same with electrical wiring and doo dads.   I wouldn't say I collect them rather I hoard them.   That's probably a more fair summary. 

However I do have 2 guitar amps, 1 bass amp, 1 bass, 2 electric guitars (one is on the market), and 2 acoustic guitars.   None are high dollar units.   The 2 guitar amps are Marshall, Code 50 and Origin 20  head paired with a speaker cabinet I bought and upgraded.   One electric guitar is an Epiphone Les Paul (very nice I must say) but not high dollar.  

I also have an impressive amount of tools, most of which get used.   Table Saw, Mitre saw, a bunch of hand tools.   In fact, when it was below 20F on Saturday I was in the shed cutting boards for my wife with the mitre saw.   Fingers nearly froze off.   It is tough to work when your fingers fall off.  

mspart

haha... Yeah, I can relate. My dad just passed away in November. He was a collector of the same things. Has about 30 large metal coffee cans full of bolts and doo dads as well as about 4 large tool boxes. Sorting through what I will actually use and what can get sold or even thrown away has been a chore.   You haven't lived until you have at least 10 cans of bolts and screws in your shop. 

[mspart]

2 hours ago, Idaho said:

haha... Yeah, I can relate. My dad just passed away in November. He was a collector of the same things. Has about 30 large metal coffee cans full of bolts and doo dads as well as about 4 large tool boxes. Sorting through what I will actually use and what can get sold or even thrown away has been a chore.   You haven't lived until you have at least 10 cans of bolts and screws in your shop. 

There you go.   I have a few cans and boxes of bolts and nuts and nails etc.   My dad kept his dad's tool box with some really old tools from depression era Idaho.   I have those now.   My dad suggested donating them to a museum but I haven't gotten around to that.   My dad made a table saw in college.   Cast it out of aluminum.   I have that, but it is extremely dangerous to use.   We used it to finish the basement when I was a kid.   I have a much more up to date table saw that works well.   Tough to get rid of the old stuff I have to say.   But my wife keeps pushing for stuff to go so I'm thinking it might be time.   But dang, there's history there. 

mspart

[Idaho]

1 hour ago, mspart said:

There you go.   I have a few cans and boxes of bolts and nuts and nails etc.   My dad kept his dad's tool box with some really old tools from depression era Idaho.   I have those now.   My dad suggested donating them to a museum but I haven't gotten around to that.   My dad made a table saw in college.   Cast it out of aluminum.   I have that, but it is extremely dangerous to use.   We used it to finish the basement when I was a kid.   I have a much more up to date table saw that works well.   Tough to get rid of the old stuff I have to say.   But my wife keeps pushing for stuff to go so I'm thinking it might be time.   But dang, there's history there. 

mspart

Wow that's really cool... I understand completely... we have similar stories... found some of my grandpa's old wood working tools in my dad's stuff. may have to take the best stuff and just display it and the rest goes to the auction. Compromise. 

The older generation knew how to make their own tools, use them, and not care about safety, because they were't stupid (most of the time).