Money! Unfortunately I'm broke, but I do have a sizeable collection of foreign coins and bills. I don't remember how it started but at some point in my life people just started bringing me their foreign currency. "Hey, I heard you like collecting coins, I got this from Algeria" "Hey, I heard you collect money, I got this from Taiwan"

I think my favorites right now are the currency no longer printed or of nations that no longer exist. USSR, Nazi Germany, Mao Zedong bills, some Eire from Ireland. I also have several misprints that are very cool, a silver penny misprint, and I have a ridiculously old bronze coin from a Chinese dynasty.

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

What's your favourite bank note or coin in your collection? Personally, I really enjoy oddly shaped coins. I always carry an Australian 50 cent coin with me as it's just so great to fiddle with.

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[–] Pansexual_Pagan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don’t have too major of a collection as far as quality, but I have been holding on to all my old Nintendo games and consoles since I first got them back with the OG game boy and NES, and I occasionally expand it when I find other old games I like when I have the money and can find them out in the wild. I have most of the consoles except for the more obscure old handhelds. (Still working on getting an original game boy advance to fill out the collection, but they are fairly expensive considering the costs of the later SP variant, which I have floating around.

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, the prices some of these older consoles go for are just insane. Most first-party GameCube games, for instance, are really overpriced nowadays, let alone the more obscure acccessories (Wavebird, component cables etc.).

I'd love to have a GameBoy Micro but I probably don't have to tell you why I'm most likely never gonna get one... The SPs can be pretty expensive too if you want one with a backlit screen (AGS-101).

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Apparently guitars. One day I looked up and noticed I had like 12 of them.

I used to record a lot, so I always wanted one more guitar to "round out my available sounds". Now I don't really record anymore, and I just have a room full of guitars.

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wish I could play good enough to do that... What's your favourite type of guitar? I like Jaguars a lot

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 2 points 2 years ago

My SG has been my go-to guitar most of the time since I got it in 2008. It's such a classic.

Though for a few years, my Schecter was challenging my SG for the go-to position. I got the Schecter from the used section in Guitar Center for super cheap. Someone heavily modified it. Custom paint job, custom pick guard (looks like it was a custom cut!), custom tuning pegs, custom pickups. Basically everything was custom. Guitar Center values customized guitars lower, so I got it for under $300 for a guitar that probably should have been close to $1000. The action is amazing. It sounds incredible. It just feels so good to play. So it kinda became my go-to guitar for a few years.

But the SG just fits my play style better. It has more bass in its sound, which sounds really good for palm-muted power chords, which I use heavily when I play. I do a lot of alternating between palm-muted power chords and un-muted higher notes (I play a lot of hardcore music).

[–] FatTony@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Souls. Also stamps.

[–] SuperFola@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Apparently I collect keyboards (specifically split ones: you have 17-20 keys for each hands), I just love building them it feels like playing with Lego but you get a working tool after you're done! And you can program it however you like too, for "I need to find the perfect setup" people like me, this is the cherry on top.

I also have a few manga and a growing collection of Lord of the Rings related books, I just think this is really neat.

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I do like the obsession with mechanical keyboards some people have, there are some really nice models out there.

I don't know why but I only have two keyboards in mind when I read your description: those weird Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboards and the IBM Model M15, I think the latter is quite desirable nowadays.

I have a plain boring Model M myself, it's an absolute tank and I love it.

[–] SuperFola@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Model M sure looks really cool! I've 'ever used one, but it feel very retro (and I like retro stuff too) and the community generally agrees that they have really good switches. What do you use your Model M for?

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Everything pretty much, the missing n-key rollover doesn't even really hinder gaming as much as many people say. It's just great to type on.

[–] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Metal bottle caps. Like beer bottle caps. Started when Fallout 3 was out and never really stopped. I haven't counted in a long time but I'd say it's around 5000 or so now.

Different variants of Fight Club, mostly VHS, DVD and Blu-ray, not so much the book, although I do own a copy. I have one of the 500 Comi-Con 2014 Blu-rays they made. Have all the Fight Club 2 comics as well, even some rare cover variants.

Also Halo games and collectibles. All the legendary statues, limited edition versions, etc.

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

At least you're ready when the apocalypse comes around.... I assume Fight Club is also your favourite movie?

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[–] Ubettawerk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

I like to collect board games, trading cards, and vinyl records. I am very concerned about storage space so I try to collect only what I really enjoy or what I’ll realistically use.

[–] groucho@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Vinyl records and playing cards (Western, Hanafuda, and Tarot decks.) The vinyl collection started when I got my parent's old record player and started hitting thrift stores for bargains.

The card thing was sort of an accident; my wife (gf at the time) and I played a lot of Hwatu and cribbage and kept finding decks we liked.

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[–] yool_ooloo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Books, ephemera found in books, tree leaves, grass clippings, pencils.

Menus and matchbooks have been more challenging with changing times

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[–] oldGregg@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Animals, temperarily.

I just let two turtles go to make room for a newborn rattlesnake i found. Used to have a sugar glider i found in my backyard. I usually keep stuff a few week/months and alternate it out with new friends i find.

Im in the process of moving to a forest i bought so ill have more room for more tanks, and more time outdoors. I only keep as many as i can keep thriving instead of surviving, of course. But when i need to downsize i usually let stuff go in my forest.

It started when i found out my family and neighbors just shoot all the animals on sight so i started rehoming them

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'm kinda on the fence here, on one hand it's pretty cool to be able to care for all those animals and even potentially save them from being killed, on the other hand I kinda think that we, as humans, shouldn't disturb wild animals any more than we already do but I can see that your intentions are good.

Do you ever get like too emotionally attached to animals you find (to a point where you actually keep them as pets permanently)? Do you still have "normal" pets besides them?

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I immediately thought to myself "yep, they're Australian" :D

[–] oldGregg@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nah im in the american south.

And im not so worried about disturbing nature as its all land i own not public land. I have like 50 acres of hunting land, i live on 2 acres rn with acess to a like 300+ft wide river with a beach(just camped out there last night actually), and the forest i said im releasing them is 40 acres of untouched woods with a 15ft river through the center. Im building a house there starting like 2 months from now and it will be my permanant residence. I want it FOR the nature so im being much more low impact than everyone else. I could bulldose the trees and put in a cow pasture on the whole thing like my neighbors do. But i bought the forest as a nature preserve basically. So me playing with animals here and there is still significantly better than what others would do.

Yeah i have 2 big dogs that are super friendly. They go everywhere i go, they go grocery shopping with me. But yeah i do get attached to the animals i find, but my forest if fucking perfect for animals idk how to explain it without pictures and maps lol. They're happy out there. So it doesnt bother me to let em go

So actually now that i think about it i collect land

[–] BigMoe@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

Used to collect glass bottles and different paying card decks (had a set shaped like mummies).

Eventually got rid of both. No where to display the playing cards, and cats meant bottles were a bad plan.

Might start the playing card one again

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Used to collect beer bottles from my favorite brewery, Sam Adams. Had all 20.

But then something happened in beer and then there were just too many, so I threw them all away.

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