What do you collect? And what do poeple think you collect, but you don't really?

I love old cookbooks, especially historical cookbooks. My DH just bought me a cookbook with of 15th century English & French cooking.

I collect old books in general, Star Trek action figures, Micro Machine spaceships, blue glass and odd kitchen equipment. (I own two vegimatics...)

My mother-in-law gives me shot glasses from all the different places she visits. Blue glass shot glasses...

I seem to have ducks around my house but I do not collect them on purpose. Duck salt shakers, Baby ducks - don't know how it happend..

I like anything Mary Engelbreit, Willow Tree angels, vintage jewelry, Disney pins...everyone in our family collects stuff...oh, and Christmas things like Santas and ornaments.

Pocketbooks

I always get smiles and comments from people when I carry my Bustier purse around lol.

Hearts,

Anything with hearts on it that looks "countryish"

Raggedy Ann stuff.

VQ, I love old cook books, especially ones that Churches put together, they always have the best recipes.

Stuffed animals: Anyone that has been in my house will attest to that. I have at least 5 in every room. A small child would love my house. LOL!!

Anything Disney, I love all things Disney. My mom brings me shot glasses from all over the place, they love to travel. I also have magnets from all over the country. I love the magnets, but am running out of room for the shot glasses. I am also running out of room for the magnets, my fridge and portable dishwasher are both covered. I want a magnet that says something about the lapband~Mandy

I collect cows, stuffed teddy bears, basset hounds, black Lab stuff, and #88 Nascar driver Dale Jarrett. I also have over 300 music CD's and I love candles!

I collect vintage rhinestone jewelry. My mom had quite a collection that I have always been fascinated with. My mom was QUITE the looker back in the day and she worked as a secretary in a place that was all men. She got A LOT of presents from admirers. Good quality stuff.

I'm hell on eBay for 40's and 50's rhinestone stuff. I just LOVE it.

I also seem to have accidentally stumbled into a fridge magnet collection. I'm having to pull back on that as I too am running out of space.

oh... I hadn't even considered my music as a collection. I currently have over 3500 music tracks on my dell juke box, all from CDs I own.

I collect Angels

and baseball hats

I just figured out I collect rocks--big rocks. I was telling someone about the trickling waterfall my son built out of some of the rocks in our yard (just a tract house yard) and she asked where I got the rocks. About the time I answered I've been bringing home rocks from wherever I found interesting ones for the last 20 years I decided I'm a collector. It helps to have sons when you pull over on the way down from BIg Bear to load a great looking piece of granit in the back of the van!

(I'll try to attach a pic of the "waterfall")

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Great Dane statues and figurines.. I have 2 great danes.. Katye and Thor.. They are the best.......

I collect Anime and Manga (japanese animation and comics). I don't know if my bookshelf full of used up sketchbooks counts as a collection, but I like looking through my sketches and remembering what was going on in my life at the time (even though they have nothing to do with eachother). I've got a huge collections of too much clothes because I never threw out anything I was too big for because someday I was going to magically shrink back into them.. but wait! Now I am!! haha. Now I throw out stuff that is too big.

I also like getting notebooks and writing utensils. I always end up with more notebooks than I'll need, and then use them up and need to go get more. Unfortunately there's nothing important in them like a journal, I just use them for notepaper at work instead of sticky notes or steno pads. As for pens, I'm on the never ending Quest to find the perfect inking pen. I may have been close, but then it ran out of ink and I've been broke since then. maybe next month I can buy more

Angels, #24 Jeff Gordon stuff, and hummingbirds! I also have a good collection of Harley hats going.

I used to collect castles but got rid of them when we ran out of room.

Vines, This is SO neat! Great idea!

I collect catholic religious articles, angels and lots of dust . If you ever visited my house, you would think that I collected toys! LOL (my kids have many toys)

cook books - what a GREAT collection idea!

and at Christmas time, the older cousins exchange ornaments, so I have a collection of that as well. Mousecrazy - this is truly one of my favorite things to do. I have boo-koo's of christmas ornaments and each one has a story!