What do you collect?

[JanieB]

Dollshouse stuff, pretty china particularly demitasse, seeds, plants, elephant bells.

[Greenleaves]

5, 10, 20 and 50 pound notes

I am not a collector of things apart from on the allotment where I have a wheelbarrow for every day of the week!

[noviceveggrower]

At the moment I am collecting seeds
But I also like old gardening books and some cook books. Books are mainly by Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall and by John Seymour. Also like books on how the Victorians did their gardening and cooking, have the Victorian Kitchen Garden Companion which is quite good.
Trying to learn to crochet so have a collection of wool kicking about at the moment.

[bikermike]

Tovil manks - used in exorcism to drive out illness e.g. Maha Kola Mask (19 demons in one, some of them change depending on where they come from and can include "Bad Neighbours" - aka The Tamil Tigers),

Do any of them work on blackfly?

[Lumpy]

Not a collection as such but I have 15 different prayer beads.
I'm not religious in that sense but asked my son to try and get me a set where ever he went.
I have multi faith beads from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia etc. Essentially anywhere they might have been a conflict of ideas.
I love them to bits.

[Jay-ell]

Do any of them work on blackfly?

No but there's masks for headaches, blindness and gunshots so that's handy after a night out in East London.

[Nicos]

At the moment it feels like I'm collecting ironing.
Either that or it's breeding

I used to collect/find loads of different fossils. Got quite a collection hidden in a few boxes somewhere.
I should get them out and enjoy them again.

Some weekends I visit Car boot sales to search for craft materials, but often spot simple antiques like WW1 children's wooden clogs or old oil lamps with no glass for €1 (just to decorate the gardens.)
I like the thought that something was used regularly over 100 years ago and probably meant a lot more to them then (before our disposable society)
If I see a bargain of something like that I'll buy it....one day I'll do an antique fair in the uk and sell them, but at the moment I enjoy them cluttering my 400 year old home.

[Jimothy1275]

I collect beer bottle labels and beer mats. I started cataloguing them in a scrap book, but I'm a bit lax about it just recently, they're just loose in the middle of the book! I also collect sci fi stuff, especially Star Trek memorabilia.

[Two_Sheds]

Fabric: I’m a dressmaker and try to buy some cloth wherever I travel, which has stopped now I stay home

If I had the room, it would be pets: I’d really like alpacas