What else do you collect?

[4tified]

What else do you guys collect besides tapes/reels/vintage audio equipment? I'll go first...

Not sure how many there are, the rows are 3 cans deep on each shelf. I frequent the bathroom so much, I may just need to set up a stereo system in there too :-)

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What else do you guys collect besides tapes/reels/vintage audio equipment? I'll go first...

Not sure how many there are, the rows are 3 cans deep on each shelf. I frequent the bathroom so much, I may just need to set up a stereo system in there too :-)Credit Card Debt

[Scorpion8]

That's cool. I once started a foreighn beer can collection from all my deployments overseas, but never really stuck with it.

There are two major things I still collect. The first is SciFi books that I've read. I think I have every one since I was a teen in high school (~1974), and recently finished this bookcase to put them in. Only part of the collection is shown, as it's a never ending add-to-the-collection process. And yes, I've read every one and many of them more than once...

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p141/Scorpion008/FinishedBookcaseUpstairsII.jpg

The other thing is I like to do things with my hands. Mechanical things, to take my mind off work and do something physical. Like working on cars, but the garage is not for cars here and since it's usually rainy outside, that limits my time on that. I'm also a big hunter and shooter, so (this may seem odd) I got started building rifles. Specifically, semi-auto AK-47's and AK-74's from ex-Warsaw Pact armories that were cut up for "parts". Well, they can be reassembled. There are some legalities, but it IS all perfectly legal. Here's a set of two Romainian AK-47's (outboard ones) on either side of a Polish Tantal AK-74. I have quite a few more kits waiting to be assembled...

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p141/Scorpion008/P2250068.jpg

In short, if the jihad ever comes to Alaska, they better not bother me while I'm reading SciFi.....

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Credit Card Debt

mmmm same hobby

[niklasthedolphin]

Just a short comment from a peace lover in Denmark.

I think the weapon law in the US should be changed radically to the point where nobody is allowed to have weapons at all unless they have proof of being dedicated deerhunters with education in weapons and with passing tests and secure lock-up for the weapons when not in use.

Just my five cents.

Oh ............. and I collect tools, motorcycles, comic books, fountain pens, wrist watches, LP's, bills, music instruments, dart equipment, parking tickets and a lot more............ actualy I have a hard time throwing anything out.

*Spin*


"dolph"

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mmmm same hobby
yea,,EZ to get started

[Des-Lab]

Just a short comment from a peace lover in Denmark.

I think the weapon law in the US should be changed radically to the point where nobody is allowed to have weapons at all unless they have proof of being dedicated deerhunters with education in weapons and with passing tests and secure lock-up for the weapons when not in use.

Just my five cents.

*Spin*

"dolph"



Bro, no disrespect meant, but prepare yourself to get torched to a crisp for that. Frankly, I think the gun laws are ALREADY too restrictive. Here in the US, the government at all levels (from some hokey two-bit city mayor all the way up to Congress in DC) tends to REact in knee-jerk response to a single event as opposed to ACTing on a 'case-by-case' and/or proactive approach to everything. Gun laws included.

The right to bear arms is a sacred cherished right in this country. A few isolated high profile cases of people gone bad paint a picture as all of us as "rootin, tootin', shootin' cowboys. I suppose there are some pockets of people like that in Texas or elsewhere in the Midwest and South. But the nation as a whole just isn't like that. I like the idea of knowing that were a thug to try and harm me or my family by pointing a gun in our face that he can have one pointed right back at him. I think that overall we would be safer if everyone WERE allowed to carry concealed weapons. Most would think twice about trying to rob someone if they thought that there was a chance that bullets could end up coming right back at them. It's no accident or coincidence that the cities with the most restrictive gun laws (like Los Angeles and Washington DC) also happen to have the highest incidences of violent crimes. That's why criminals are criminals: only outlaws have guns. So the only people who get harmed with the passing of such laws are the law abiding citizens who get stripped of a means to defend themselves.

[vinyldavid]

Bro, no disrespect meant, but prepare yourself to get torched to a crisp for that. Frankly, I think the gun laws are ALREADY too restrictive. Here in the US, the government at all levels (from some hokey two-bit city mayor all the way up to Congress in DC) tends to REact in knee-jerk response to a single event as opposed to ACTing on a 'case-by-case' and/or proactive approach to everything. Gun laws included.

The right to bear arms is a sacred cherished right in this country. A few isolated high profile cases of people gone bad paint a picture as all of us as "rootin, tootin', shootin' cowboys. I suppose there are some pockets of people like that in Texas or elsewhere in the Midwest and South. But the nation as a whole just isn't like that. I like the idea of knowing that were a thug to try and harm me or my family by pointing a gun in our face that he can have one pointed right back at him. I think that overall we would be safer if everyone WERE allowed to carry concealed weapons. Most would think twice about trying to rob someone if they thought that there was a chance that bullets could end up coming right back at them. It's no accident or coincidence that the cities with the most restrictive gun laws (like Los Angeles and Washington DC) also happen to have the highest incidences of violent crimes. That's why criminals are criminals: only outlaws have guns. So the only people who get harmed with the passing of such laws are the law abiding citizens who get stripped of a means to defend themselves.

I have to second what Des said.



Back on topic...

I don't actively collect them, but I seem to acquire large amounts of books and movies....and they're all in boxes because I don't ahve enough money to get shelving (nor do Ihave the space for the shelving if I had it).

[Naknut]

Way too much. Comic books, (gold and silver age). Modern first edition books, LPs, Laser discs and laser disc players, I have 600 LDs and 9 working LD players. Playboy magazines, almost a complete run except for the first two years just too expensive and hard to find. Prerecorded reel to reels (60s & 70s rock),prerecorded cassettes and CDs. Also anything Science Fiction related, I've been hooked on science fiction ever since I first saw "The Day the Earth Stood Still" on Saturday Night at the Movies on TV. Scorpion8 I very much like your bookcase filled with the books you've read especially because they are science fiction. I also believe that you should display your collections and not keep them in boxes!

[vinyldavid]

Way too much. Comic books, (gold and silver age). Modern first edition books, LPs, Laser discs and laser disc players, I have 600 LDs and 9 working LD players. Playboy magazines, almost a complete run except for the first two years just too expensive and hard to find. Prerecorded reel to reels (60s & 70s rock),prerecorded cassettes and CDs. Also anything Science Fiction related, I've been hooked on science fiction ever since I first saw "The Day the Earth Stood Still" on Saturday Night at the Movies on TV. Scorpion8 I very much like your bookcase filled with the books you've read especially because they are science fiction. I also believe that you should display your collections and not keep them in boxes!

I live in a small apartment.....if you look at pictures that I have posted, you can probably figure outthat my room is filled, and I have the master bedroom.

[TheReeler]

I usually buy movies, but not any movie, just the ones I really like it and if there is available more than one edition, I prefer to buy the collector's.

However, my collection of movies isn't huge. About 350 in DVD.

[Scorpion8]

Just a short comment from a peace lover in Denmark.

Off topic, but: "The Idea of Gun Control is that a 110 pound woman should have to take on a 250 pound rapist with her fist."

I was avoiding this discussion, so back onto topic ....

[braxus]

The only thing I don't like about arms being available in the US is that it makes it easy for the bad guys to have access to them and bring them across the border in Canada. We have major gun problems here in Toronto and Vancouver because only the bad guys have them.

And I third or fourth the credit card debt. I think that is a big one on my list. Aside from tape decks and other stereo stuff, I have a small collection of cameras since I love photography. I think Im around 14 or so cameras at this time. Im currently without a digital camera, but have another one on order since I just sold my last one. Hope to get it by Christmas. And as others do aside from collecting music as most on here do, I also have a movie collection on VHS, S-VHS, laserdisc, DVD, and Blu Rays.

[Scorpion8]

We have major gun problems here in Toronto and Vancouver because only the bad guys have them.

Yea, big surprise there.

Please, let's try to stay on topic. If someone wants to start a separate thread on the right to keep and bear arms, then please do so. Otherwise, this thread is about hobbies and collecting.

[stuwee]

Hundreds of 1/18 and 1/43 scales metal cars, thousands of Hot Wheels, friends with questionable moral turpitude, boxs of magazines and of course NASCAR stuff.

[Scorpion8]

... thousands of Hot Wheels....

Hot Wheels! I have a bunch of them, but only classic muscle cars of the 70's. Omigawd, we have something in common!

[itlldue]

I tried collecting dollars. Doesn't work real well.

[stuwee]

I tried collecting dollars. Doesn't work real well.

You a very funny man! *btoast*

Jim do you have the '70 Olds 442 red-line? One sold last year for $700+, mine are for my retirement LOL! Folks pay crazy money for them, solid blue-chip investment and they don't take up much room. Everytime I think about culling the herd, I think about how much they go up every year, so they stay for now *hope*

[4tified]

I tried collecting dollars. Doesn't work real well.

I think alot of people suck at that (me included) :)

[braxus]

I think alot of people try suck at that (me included) :)

Me too. How can you collect dollars when your always in the minus?

[Scorpion8]

Jim do you have the '70 Olds 442 red-line?

No, but the ones I have been stocking away are unopened. Mostly Mach I's, Baracuda's, and the such...

I think alot of people suck at that (me included) :)

I try collecting money, but every time I save some up the stock market uses my retirement fund as if it was Monopoly Money, and about worth as much.