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 collect pens. Writing pens the crazier looking the better. I love anything purple so all of my friends if they see a purple fuzzy pen or some neat pen that maybe lights up or sing a song they get it for me! LOL I had a pen once that had a radio in it, unfortunately it "walked" away from me LOL. So if any of you have interested pens that you stumble upon PM me. Oh yeah and somehow I have this huge collection of PowerPuff Girl stuff. I love them!!!(at 36 who would have thunk it)

dust... it's all over the place, everytime I gather it together to store in my hefty waterproof protective sleeves... I find more! I think my house is a dust magnet!! I've started lots of collections for my kids... state quarters, pez, tiny jewelry boxes, and flattened pennies from those presses that leave a design in them... my boy started that one.

Hey Pam - we also collect those flattened pennies from whereever we go on vacation. That and we try to find a Christmas ornament.

Other than that, neither of us are collectors -- I grew up with a mom who refused to collect anything -- if it's not useful, there's no reason to have it! lol, no wonder her house looks so tidy and clean.

Tigger and Fairies and backyard suns (like the kind you get from Mexico that hang on the walls)

Howling coyote's and Elmer & Ellie horses. Oh and Old cowboy hats. They hang on one wall in my living room. I have about 100 coyote's and 25 hats. Just started the horse collection.