What do you Collect?

Originally Posted by sdakscrapper

I collect beer cans. I have been collecting them since I was in about the third grade back in the early eighties. I've got probably about 1500 different beer cans now. It has grown into a monster so I try to focus more on the older cans that aren't so easy to find any longer. I have a couple of nice cone tops that a buddy of mine found in the wall of a house that he was doing a demo on before a remodeling project.

Originally Posted by Pnutfarmer

I collect beer cans too. I have over 1000 and a few cone tops. Coins since I was a kid. Recently started an old bicycle collection that consists of what I find at the scrap yard.

Arrowheads, but only the ones I find in my fields and I don't sell them.

Guns, especially odd actions and antiques. Old ammo and boxes.

Old signs and car tags to decorate my shop.

I don't collect beer cans, but I ran across a box of beer cans at a garage sale and took a chance. I paid $1 for six cans. Three of them were Silver Bar Premium Ale cans. I could not find them on e-bay so I listed the best one for auction...





It sold for a bit more than my $1 investment ($285). The guy who bought it told me that I had probably found one of the best cans out there. The other two were in crappier shape, and they sold for $40 and $21. I had handed the lady a card at the garage sale and she called me back for work. When I got there I told her the story of the cans and she said she had another one that I bought for $10 (at that point the cans had not sold and the bids were only up to $50 at that point). The one I got then I wound up selling fo $110. So... although I do not collect, beer cans have been very good to me.